Ben,

I'm truly sorry to hear about your grandmother, please be sure to give your family my sympathies. I can't imagine losing two people so close to me in the span of a year. You will survive, like always.

On a lighter note, I'm glad to read you saw the humour in the traffic problems near the Tappan Zee. That's getting a bit of attention around here. Sorry. I hope you had the biscuits at the B.E.