The weather was better today, but still pretty warm. We didn't run the a/c all day long, but most of the day. Again, we know we're blessed to have air conditioning when so many others do not. (It's always good to count your blessings, and Marilyn and I do that every single day ( Read more... )

The homily during mass today was interesting. You can read about the saints for today HERE, if you're interested. The movie "Black Robe" is brutal, dealing with Father LaForgue -- and deals with the subject ( Read more... )

I was late getting to work today. Marilyn knew I was fighting off a bug, so she let me sleep in. I phoned sister Sue when I got up and she took me down town. I came in to Staff meeting about half-way through, but better late than not at all ( Read more... )

Well, today was quite busy. I (finally) colored my hair (!!!), one of the last things I needed to get done before we head to Denver ( Read more... )

We decided to stay down at our beach house to watch the Men's Finals of the U.S. Open. We cooked fried green tomatoes mid-day (quite a change for us!) to eat while we watched. Green tomatoes during U.S. Open tennis is a tradition -- but generally during evening matches... (Yes, it included zucchini and some red tomatoes, too ( Read more... )

Marilyn continues to be better, but needs some more time to totally recover. She has pain and so on (as anyone would from oral surgery where a tooth is pulled) -- and she still has the rash, although it's much better ( Read more... )

Marilyn got her broken (and badly infected) tooth pulled today, at long last. What a relief to have that done ( Read more... )

I can't really even go into all the details. But this was an IT day from hell. No doubt ( Read more... )

Losing a best friend -- and a peer? Very hard. We've been fighting not to sit around and feel sad. We've been fighting not to keep crying all the time ( Read more... )