Occasionally lazy, mostly crazy.
FRIDAY: A “long” Friday for me, to make up for this coming Friday being off. Still a fairly placid day, very little e-mail, little activity — until about mid-day, when I got a note from one of my key directs giving their two weeks notice. Which … is extremely unfortunate, and will probably mean a surge of work for me as I (a) endeavor to replace the individual, and (b) backfill for them on project and staff whilst doing so. Oh, and, yeah, (c) my day job.
SATURDAY: Got an e-mail a few weeks back from Dave Bunker, who was visiting family out here for a couple of weeks. Ended up having him and his and Dave Sutherland and his down to the house for semi-BBQ and fun. A very nice time, especially watching the Sutherland and Bunker kids expressing aghastment that there were two other Daves as nuts as their own dads.
As a side note, this was an excellent opportunity to do some major house cleaning, preparatory for my folks visiting next weekend.
SUNDAY: Got up way too early. Napped on the sofa, before a call reminded me of a commitment I’d made to go over with some other folks and sing for a gent from church who’s on his last legs fighting cancer. This was the fellow who was the impetus behind our doing the Cotton Patch Gospel last year, so we did some numbers from that, from the church song book, and a few others. Bittersweet fun.
Played CoH for most of the afternoon, with one brief break to do some weeding, then watched some bad TV and an old Doctor Who video tape I had (“Pyramids of Mars,” with Tom Baker), just to give Margie some context as to how the current Doctor Who is scads better, but still related to, the old stuff.