I’m here in the Lone Star State for a librarians’ conference – actually just the tail end of a librarians’ conference. I signed up for a half-day post-conference workshop, and went to one session + the closing keynote – and then the workshop. I got in about 2:30 on Tuesday, and decided to take the […]
I made the $75 donation for three people, and Mark and I and our visiting Japanese student went off to the Hilldale shopping mall on Friday evening for this fund-raiser event. It was a little disappointing. The only food that there was really enough of was platters of gado-gado – Indonesian peanut sauce, served […]
Today’s the no-fun time change, when we lose an hour, and, even though it may be staying lighter later in the evening, it’s darker in the morning. To make it even better, it’s a dreary, rainy, wet day – all the snow is melting and the basement is leaking in three places. I should feel […]
Much. John’s been here since Monday night, awaiting his surgery for his new ankle. I can’t quite remember the order of everything – one night I made the kale potato gratin, and somehow we didn’t eat until 8:00. I’m sure it was a little too kale-y, greens-y for Mark. I test-drove my new mandoline, and […]
So we’re in the recovery room after John’s surgery to fix the break in his ankle. Even laid up in bed, his photo of the photo of the pins in his leg is better than mine. Can’t wait to take him home.
I’m waiting at the vet to see if the white cat’s hundreds of $$ of treatments & meds worked. Evidently I am getting yet one more thing – a $30 squirt bottle of ear cleaning fluid – to torment her with when I go home. Sigh. John’s broken ankle still has been cheaper than the […]
Trying to remember my week. Monday I worked at home, and spent a lot of time going back & forth between my desktop computer – for personal stuff – and my laptop – for work stuff – and being hopelessly intermingled most of the time. I took a break and did a little grocery […]
I’m in Minneapolis to take Al to probably the 2nd to last of his appointments to fill in his full sleeve. We’re staying at the Aloft Hotel again, (tho we didn’t have as magic a room no. and I couldn’t get the room heat to go on – it was 66° and dropped to 62 […]
Instead of a romantic dinner for 2, we had a family dinner – another couple, old friends, also empty nesters with grown children, and our Japanese exchange student. We ate Costco salmon with the maple syrup, soy sauce, and butter glaze that I first made by scrounging through the cabinets at our airbnb lodgings for […]
On Monday at 5:30, I had to do an online lecture for my organization of info class – 33 slides introducing library cataloging rules and record format…. We had an hour, up to an hour 15 allotted, and I planned to burn thru the slides, leaving 15 mins. at the end for a demo of […]