I'm getting ready to head out for brunch with my good friend Ted and good buddies Bill and Greg meaning there is no time for trivia today. The answer to yesterday's Who Am I is writer Flannery O'Connor.
Your prayers, good vibes, and good thoughts sent Kaye's direction worked. While they did put her Mom on some preventative medicine she got a pretty good medical report. Now we need to send even stronger vibes in Dona and Dr's direction. Dona hasn't yet fully recovered from bronchitis and Dr hasn't fully recovered yet from a recent medical procedure.
Just a review of my week. Sis will be here Tuesday or Wednesday. The appraisal of their house came back several grand more than they paid for it. Their new neighbors are delighted that they are going to have them living next door. While I am struggling with giving up control I am getting there. And things just seem to fall into place. The caregiver may have to quit to take care of some family issues. Before I'd be stuck with the added responsibility and now between Sis, nephew, and myself the burden isn't going to be that great. I had a rough week as the date of dad's death came up but I am back to normal or at least back to as abnormal as I was before. I have three things on my plate before I can concentrate on health and writing. The three things are a tax return, a tax appeal, and a cousin letter. I hope to be done with those three things by Tuesday. I am feeling freer each day.
Onto the entertainment updates. On Dancing With The Stars the creepy dude, Aaron, got sent packing. Len actually gave Mia a ten. Miracles do happen. Final four are Mia, Kelly, Joanna, and Donny. My guess is Kelly is headed home this week and the finals will be between Donny and Mia. On The Amazing Race I gained a ton of respect for the father in the father and son team. Despite being last and there being a good chance his team would be eliminated he hung in there and completed the extremely difficult task of finding a clue among a hundred rolls of hay. Lesser men would have quit. He was rewarded at the check-in when he found out this was a non-elimination round. They will have more obstacles to overcome this week than the other teams but at least they are still in it. Top Chef was actually interesting this week, one of the better segments of the season. The Quickfire Challenge was breakfast in bed won by the young Eli. The Elimination Challenge was to cook casino themed dinners. The top three were Kevin (Mirage), Bryan (Mandalay Bay), and Michael (New York, New York). The bottom three were Robin (Bellagio), Jennifer (Excalibur), and Eli (Circus, Circus). We learned this week that cooking is an art but you can't cook art and Robin was finally sent packing. Jennifer is still way off her game and if she doesn't get her stuff together she is going home this week. I'm rooting for her because I really don't want an all male final. The winner of the elimination challenge was Michael. By the way I learned how the Bravo HD Channel works this week. The HD Channel is on Eastern Time and doesn't adjust its schedule like the main networks do. The normal time for Top Chef is 10 PM, on the HD channel that is 7 PM Pacific, 9 PM Mountain, etc. Central time it is on at a at 7 PM if my calculations are correct.
A couple of good stories. Short ones but good ones.
http://news.aol.com/article/overdue-library-books-returned-half/767523?icid=main|htmlws-sb-n|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Foverdue-library-books-returned-half%2F767523
http://www.asylum.com/2009/11/12/angelo-pericolo-loses-wedding-ring-garbage-men-find-it/?icid=main|htmlws-sb-n|dl5|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.asylum.com%2F2009%2F11%2F12%2Fangelo-pericolo-loses-wedding-ring-garbage-men-find-it%2F
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So funny about the library books! Most libraries only charge fines up to a certain amount and after that you are required to pay for replacing the book (or replace it yourself if you can do it cheaper). No trying to replace a hardcover with a paperback, I learned to my dismay after losing a book.
The garbagemen story is also a good one. Personally, I think I'd let the ring go rather than do that, but maybe if it was only limited to a few (tied) bags... {g}
Nothing much to report here. I was sick on Friday, and didn't go visit mom because I thought I might be contagious. The facility worried when I didn't show up and called to see if I was all right. If I ever do cut down my visits, as I keep threatening to do, I'll have to put up a sign or they'll think I've kicked the bucket.
It was a very strange illness. Three completely unrelated things hit me all at once on the same day: sore throat & congestion; almost incapacitating back problem; and my bad eye got worse suddenly. So go figure. Were the gods punishing me for something? Throat and back are much better, almost well again. Eye? We'll see (pardon the pun).
Hi Pat
I hope your eyesight gets better fast. I'm sorry you were sick but I really like that the facility called and checked on you. And I hope you fully recover from the tri-fecta a.s.a.p.
I think it was neat that the guy sent that much money, with the economy the library no doubt could use the money.
And I am with you. Before going through the garbage I would have purchased a new wedding ring!
Bill
Neat stories, Bill. How incredible someone would return books after so many years, with a generous MO attached.
Not a lot to report here. The good vibes worked, finally. Got the stitches out Tuesday and the swelling finally started to go down Thursday. I even ate with a big person's fork tonight (g). Feeling human and much easier to get along with and more productive and positive the last few days. Bandages come off for good on Tuesday, far as I know. Setting up the new computer and discovering two of my favorite programs won't run on Win7. Problems with no longer supported drivers on one and the other won't run on a 64 bit machine. Worse, one is no longer being sold and the other was bought out by a new company and the reviews on new versions are Very Mixed. The concern is a new (different) type of either program may not import the data from the old ones - templates of the photo placemats I made, all of my recipes, many of which are only in the computer database. Ain't progress wonderful? Not sure which way to jump, especially on the recipe thing.
Pat, glad you're feeling better.
Dona, I sure do hope you're back on the front burner again soonest. Are you taking care of yourself or pushing yourself, rather than resting and recuperating? (nag, nag,nag)
Kaye, great news on your mom!
Bill, you're sounding much more positive and it's a delight to "hear" the happiness and sense of freedom and wellbeing in your comments and message.
Hi DR
Glad you are slowly getting back to abnormal! I am keeping the prayers going until the bandages come off for good!
That just is extremely annoying that W-7 won't allow some things to work on the new computer. I am not a computer nerd by any means but I think I read some where you can run two versions of Windows on a computer, using the older version for the older programs. Just a thought.
Bill
Lord help me - I have enough trouble running one version of a program on a computer and I've got an in-house guru. No, I'm going to look at this as a chance to get rid of old programs I haven't used in years and start with a relatively clean disk (after I uninstall some of their arbitrary contributions!) and an opportunity to explore new software options and find some smart enough to import old data. Surely, with all the stuff that won't run on Win7, software companies who're geared to run on 64 bit and Win7 will figure out importing capabilities (she says hopefully). It will be an adventure (koff).
Hi DR
Running a secod version really isn't that hard, I had to do it when my tax program wouldn't work on Vista. All in the way you start the computer.
Now the program works on Vista but not on the XP so I keep an older computer around just in case.
Bill
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