I work until 6 PM Fridays now, then get up and get into work by 7 AM the next day.  This, at the age of 55, ain't easy, but I do it because I still can, and the work I do is interesting, and I make more money these days than I have recently, and it will help me qualify for medical insurance.  There is, however, a fair amount of mental gear slippage ( Read more... )

I don't often get headaches, in fact they're so rare for me, I don't know what works for one of mine, really.  Weird, I know.  So it was especially discomfitting that I woke up with one today.  Plus iffy stomach, just for fun.  Yuck.  I had trouble doing anything, but I kept trying.  My eyes were so light-sensitive I wore sunglasses until noon.  ( Read more... )

I've been knitting Cameron's hat.  He is Emily's boyfriend, someone of whom we've become absurdly fond.  If you've followed my posts, and Ray's, you know we gave him a laptop for Christmas.  Meanwhile, back at the ranch (as I like to say), I noticed his hair is kept very short, and somewhere in there I asked Emily or him if he'd like a hat.  A ( Read more... )

Emily was not expected to be home for dinner last night.  She and Cameron went over to a friend's house, and I thought it would just be Ray and me for dinner.  Ha.  At four-thirtyish, she an Cameron came trouping back in.  I guess the friend's boyfriend left for the day and the friend expected them to do likewise ( Read more... )

Here's the important part.   While working in the aisles today, conditioning things, as they call it, I turned on my cellphone.  Because I wanted to keep track of what time it was (register displays have a clock built into them - away from that, I'm screwed ( Read more... )

Emily emailed me last night to explain that when I called her (to tell her about our joy in making our waitress happy at dinner last night), she was distracted because Cameron was texting her.  She went on to say that she was afraid at the time that he was texting to break up with her, as she'd thought three weeks ago, just before she went to RIT ( Read more... )

It's nine in the morning and I'm honestly thinking of going back to bed.  I know, that sounds awful, but yesterday was too much.  On the plus side, Em printed out a map of the RIT campus, on which we found all the buildings her classes are in.  I reviewed the instructions for moving in, and it now doesn't sound quite as bad as it did before ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a pretty amazing day.  Despite the fact that I woke up feeling like I was coming down with something, I managed to do a lot.  Made a batch of bread, got Emily to dust a bit around here.  Took on a difficult task of patching a hole in the seat of one of Ray's pairs of dress slacks.  The fabric was tissue thin to begin with, then got ( Read more... )

Em and I didn't do much together yesterday, but we talked about some important stuff.  She mentioned that Cameron (her boyfriend) likes classical music.  She and I were watching Fantasia 2000 and while we were doing so, she texted him about it.  He responded that he thought he was the only one who did, and evidently was very excited about this ( Read more... )