RUSH: It’s Thursday today, but this is essentially Friday for me since tomorrow — gee, I gotta get up — you know, folks, this going on vacation is fun, but I have to tell you, the two days that lead up to it is just a pain. I have the barber coming over here this afternoon. I gotta go home and tell the staff what to pack. I do have somebody to pack for me, but it’s not as simple as you think. I gotta stand there, because of my weight fluctuations, I have different sizes of everything in the closet in there. I can’t tell the staff person, ‘Okay, get me ten golf shirts and shorts.’ I have to pick each one and throw ’em on the floor and she comes in and does the packing. I still have to go up there and do that. I did the bills yesterday. I had a psychological counseling session with Punkin, my cat. She’s ten years old now and she misses me when I’m gone for an extended period of time. They tell me that she prowls every nook and cranny in the house looking for me, hangs around in the kitchen by the garage door the last three days or so just waiting, hoping I’ll walk in. Thank God she can’t call me.