Pop: Chapter 23a

    Addie and her family left early this morning for St. Louis.  The airport wasn't too badly affected by the storm, so they were back up to their regular schedule.  Before she left, Addie left my a suitcase full of some of her essentials that she wanted to make sure got here safely.  I wanted to be with her more, but with the storm and her family, we barely had time to kiss before she went back to the hotel.  I woke up a few times on my back overnight because of it.  Hey, it needed the extra room.

    A special delivery from Addie came this morning just before Sam and I went to UK.  A large number of boxes of some more of Addie's things.  It was lucky that Sam's appointment got delayed, or we wouldn't have been here for it.  I'm not sure the neighbors would have liked having to sign for so many things.  As it was, it took Sam and I a few minutes to haul everything up to the spare bedroom.  That place is going to get awfully crowded soon. I can't wait until The new master suite gets delivered, so we can store more of these things.  Addie will be sending one last large shipment over, with all the really big things, just before the wedding.  I am not sure what will be left.

    Dad and his aide made it back to Richmond well-enough.  There had been some wrecks along the way, but far more than what Pete saw on his way back to Morehead.  It looks like he'll be taking the job at Berea, so there's going to be another waves of moving going on soon.  At least I don't have that much to move down from New York.  Sam will probably have to split his stuff between my house and Dad's.  That is going to be a headache to plan.

    Sam hadn't thought that much about going to UK before declaring, so he never got the chance for a full in-person tour and interview.  Yes, we had been on campus, unofficially, to look around, but never as part of the official athletic department's program.  Sam had been so sure of going to Dad's school, he never gave UK the full treatment.  I basically forced him to look the campus the few times we came down for games and holidays.  Since classes weren't in session most of the time, he never got the full experience, but I hope this helps make up for it.  Even if classes still aren't is session.

    One of the things he had to do was have a physical examination.  Nothing out-of-the-ordinary. However, I was right.  Sam is now six-foot five, and a quarter inch!  I knew he was in the middle of a late growth spurt.  Sam is also about twenty pounds underweight for an athletic young man of his stature.  He's going to have to check with his regular doctor to see if there's anything wrong with him.  Sure, his growth spurt could be normal, and that could explain why he's underweight, when added to his constant swim practice, but there's also a chance that he could have a medical condition.  With all the history on Dad's side of the family, and all of the unknowns on his biological mother's side,  Sam could have any sort of issues to come up.