The Ring

Andy has been in town this week on business. He was supposed to arrive late Sunday night and we were going to meet him at his hotel to get the ring and the wedding proofs from him. As his luck with American Airlines goes, his flight was canceled and it was the last one leaving Reagan Airport that night. So he didn't arrive in St. Louis until Monday around 11 in the morning and had to head straight to meetings. Jim and I met up with him Monday night and got the items from him. What that meant, then, is that someone had to take Megan's ring to the jewelers on Tuesday when he opened at 10. I had to get Katie out to a photo shoot at a horse farm in Wentzville by 8 Tuesday morning, so there was no way I could take care of the ring. Awwwww... Fortunately Jim's schedule was such that he was able to take it in. John again said he used the wrong technique on the wedding band and got a poor result. Jim reminded him that the ring needs to be completed by today so Andy can take it home with him tomorrow morning. John, of course, went into all of his excuses about why that wouldn't be possible, but Jim held firm with him. It will be interesting to see if he meets this timetable when he didn't meet any of the others.