Friday -- We attended a potluck equinox party at Greystone Nature Preserve.  Our dish was cheese and hummus stuffed jalepeno peppers from Farm to Table.  Crashed at my mother's house in Buffalo

Saturday -- Spent all day with mother.  Took her out for brunch, drove her around the park a few times before she got tired and wanted to go back to the ( Read more... )

I used to post on LJ nearly every day.  Then I got a Facebook account because every one on the church board of directors had one but me and I was missing all the messages.  I said I would post long philosophical posts on LJ and memes and quick posts on FB.  So, a mid-year review of my life including my new year resolutions.
My Mother's House
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Thursday, Jan 14th -- For what I did Thurs, read the previous entry.  The big declutter task of the day was plastic food storage containers.  Our recycle bin is now overflowing.

Friday, Jan 15th -- After work, we finally went to see the new Star Wars movie.  I won't post any spoilers here, but it was essentially a rewrite of the first movie with ( Read more... )

Thurs. Dec. 17th -- Went to Shire meeting.  Mummer's play rehearsal for Twelfth Night.  I'm in charge of building all props.  Portions of the play have to be re-written.  He followed period example and included a few dirty jokes.  We pointed out that shire twelfth night is family friendly and small children will be present ( Read more... )

Thursday -- Back in late March, the COO tipped me off that the CFO would be asking for data for his annual cost report soon.  I started collecting the needed data.  On April 1st, he made his request, on April 2nd, I answered all the parts I could with a list of people to go to for the other parts. He thanked me and I replied that if he needed ( Read more... )

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Fri, Dec 12 -- I have to use up my personal days before the end of the year, so this was a day off for me.  I had hoped to make contact with a friend with a pick-up truck to pick up a snow plow and generator in Buffalo.  We had each other's home phones, but not cell phones, so we kept leaving messages for each other all day.  Finally ran into him ( Read more... )

Wed. Nov 26th -- The SNI 5K Turkey Trot was that morning.  I can't run anymore, my knees aren't up to it.  My boss gave me an "I don't know if you can do this" assignment.  I could have done it, if people bothered to enter the correct data.  I figured out what I needed to get the numbers I wanted, but I don't know the formulas.  So Tuesday I'm ( Read more... )

Tuesday, October 21st -- Third Tuesday Table Talk with the UU's.  We had an excellent turn-out ( Read more... )

Friday, October 3rdIt was so hot in the office, I had to have the fan on.  In October?  After work, we went out for a fish fry to Sheridan VFW Post.  Their fish and shrimp platter is huge.  SNI had a rabies clinic earlier this week.  It was run by folks I work with.  We brought in Gandalf for her shots, apparently not everybody can catch a LoTR ( Read more... )