Weekend
Not a bad weekend as weekends have been going lately. Saturday morning Monique and I went into her work to spend the day with her new programmer, Frank. I spent time showing him my methodologies and giving him overviews of the three projects I've done there so that he can take over on them.
The one that is currently in progress will be completed by the two of us in tandem and hopefully by the end of January I will have that monkey totally off my back, only giving occasional advice and consultation.
Saturday night, after dropping Monique off at home, I headed up to New Haven for the annual Fantasy of Lights to raise money for Easter Seals. I ended up getting there a little late. I hate being late for anything. On top of that my sinuses were bugging me a lot, so I started into it not feeling all that nifty. I suited up with the whole reindeer garb and the big gaudy Rudolph hat with the bright blinking nose and antlers. In spite of feeling a little under the weather, I quickly got into the spirit and was soon greeting people with my usual holiday flair. The interactions with the people are just loads of fun and I look forward to this every year. Unfortunately, by 8:30 I was totally wiped out and I left early. On the bright side, it was the busiest year I can remember to date in 7 or 8 years of doing this, so it was a good night for Easter Seals.
Sunday we spent most of the day working around the house, cleaning, decorating the tree, laundry, followed by a football game (Yay!) and a really good flute choir rehearsal. We had a new member last night. She hasn't played in two years, but she was enthusiastic and she has her own bass flute, which she thinks she'll skip playing for a while so she can get her C flute back in shape. We finished preparing all of our Christmas music for the Ronald McDonald House Trees of Hope fund raise that we'll be playing at next Saturday.
The one that is currently in progress will be completed by the two of us in tandem and hopefully by the end of January I will have that monkey totally off my back, only giving occasional advice and consultation.
Saturday night, after dropping Monique off at home, I headed up to New Haven for the annual Fantasy of Lights to raise money for Easter Seals. I ended up getting there a little late. I hate being late for anything. On top of that my sinuses were bugging me a lot, so I started into it not feeling all that nifty. I suited up with the whole reindeer garb and the big gaudy Rudolph hat with the bright blinking nose and antlers. In spite of feeling a little under the weather, I quickly got into the spirit and was soon greeting people with my usual holiday flair. The interactions with the people are just loads of fun and I look forward to this every year. Unfortunately, by 8:30 I was totally wiped out and I left early. On the bright side, it was the busiest year I can remember to date in 7 or 8 years of doing this, so it was a good night for Easter Seals.
Sunday we spent most of the day working around the house, cleaning, decorating the tree, laundry, followed by a football game (Yay!) and a really good flute choir rehearsal. We had a new member last night. She hasn't played in two years, but she was enthusiastic and she has her own bass flute, which she thinks she'll skip playing for a while so she can get her C flute back in shape. We finished preparing all of our Christmas music for the Ronald McDonald House Trees of Hope fund raise that we'll be playing at next Saturday.