I chanted tonight, and I was happy to get a lot of nice feedback.  The woman who was leading it when I came in is someone who'd called me in the interim, to ask me how it had gone for me.  So it was nice to meet her face-to-face.  She asked me to read one of the daily readings they have.  Before I did so, I said I'd have to inflict a funny story on ( Read more... )

I called Betty to ask about the results of her latest PETscan ( Read more... )

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I have a lot of music on my computer, and I've been using a small, battery-powered auxiliary speaker to listen to it.  It doesn't have much oomph, and we have a stand-alone speaker which runs on AC, through which Ray has played the music which is on his phone.  My computer didn't come with Bluetooth, which I could use to connect it to the larger ( Read more... )

That's what I had yesterday morning, before I went into work ( Read more... )

Tuesday morning, our overhead garage door malfunctioned.  It started to open, hiccupped, then the two parts of the trolley parted company and the only way to open it was manually.  Yesterday, I tried to troubleshoot it.  This wasn't easy, as it was Frickin' Hot out in the garage, plus to get a good look at things I needed to go up a ladder ( Read more... )

Ray and I chose the movie Brazil as our first date movie, back a bazillion years ago.  That should tell you a lot about us ( Read more... )

I just finished Paul Kalanithi's book, When Breath Becomes Air.  Extraordinary, very illuminating about death, dying, and living knowing one will die sooner that might be ordinarily expected.  Moving and yet not maudlin.  Remarkable.
Also, there's a coincidence: his daughter was born on the Fourth of July, 2014.

My brother has not been to our house in about two years, by my reckoning.  Maybe more.  I invited him to dinner tonight, and I insisted on cooking it rather than have him treat us to dinner out.  I made one of the most mediocre meals I have ever made.  Seriously, if I had my way, the two side dishes would go right in the garbage.  Be that as it may ( Read more... )

I emailed my boss today, about yesterday.  This is her response:

WOW Eleanor, this made my day as well.  Thank you for all that you do for your customers every day.  These examples and your caring is why we are here!!  Thank you for sharing JIs it any wonder we do so well in the market, when this is the norm for how management treats underlings ( Read more... )