A busy day at the office -- both Marilyn and I felt it was productive ( Read more... )

This will be another difficult week for Marilyn, right before vacation. Dealing with the fallout of our staffing change. No one wants to take on the summer receptionist job, so she'll need to arrange that through an agency, I guess. Well, she'll figure it out -- she always does ( Read more... )

Today was a furnace outside, I kid you not! The high for Portland was 101' -- the hottest day of the year (so far). Portland, Oregon does NOT tend to have days in the hundreds as a rule ( Read more... )

I can't believe I'm having LEG CRAMPS around the clock now. I'm serious! I had them during the night last night and all day long today. And it's actually now after 2:00 a.m. and I'm still having them ( Read more... )

Marilyn and I actually got home by 12:30 a.m. tonight! (woo hoo ( Read more... )

The first day of June, 2016. Wow, time flies when you're having fun ( Read more... )

An early day, as Marilyn needed to go to her clinic BEFORE work to provide labs (blood and urine). We actually made good time heading out ( Read more... )

Marilyn went back to work today -- better, but far from normal. But I bet nobody even realized it. She's such a trooper. Seriously. She had a killer day -- things are SO HARD this year. Not sure why ( Read more... )

I'm NOT the only person that found today ridiculously HARD and totally crazy. I think pretty much the entire Staff would agree with that, actually ( Read more... )

Well, in light of the weather, Marilyn and I decided NOT to drive to the beach house today. But we did end up meeting with Jeff over in Vancouver for a drink (and Marilyn and I each had some of the chicken and corn chowder, too). So we were having Bloody Marys pretty early in the day. Oh well. We're on vacation, after all! (smile ( Read more... )