Friday: Wanted to get out of the office by the proper 4-hour-Friday time — 10. Instead, ran out the door at 1 to go pick up Kitten to take her to a birthday party. She had a blast. I ended up spending my afternoon … doing something or another. Ah — got the comments RSS working on the blog. Played a bit of CoH in the evening with Margie.
Saturday: A somewhat lazy, somewhat hazy day. Got the climbing rose tied to the trellis in back, figured out what we’re going to do with the bird feeder (not what I’d planned), a few other virtuous things.
Comcast came out yet again for our Internet drop problems and replaced the cable in the back yard — meaning they draped a cable from the box in the far back left corner, across the lawn to the hook-up under the kitchen window. I could just imagine the lawn mowing service coming in …
So I draped the cable into the bushes and flagged it for the brief patch it crosses the lawn so that hopefully it won’t get destroyed. They’re supposed to come out in a couple of weeks (while we’re away) to bury it — I shudder to think of what they’ll do to the yard, the sprinkler system, etc. Joy.
Ended up spending a lot more time than expected expanding the cellar wine racks. Katherine actually helped a lot with the assembly, which was fun.
Ran off to the neighborhood pool for a dip for an hour, then went out to grab a bite, and had another quiet evening.
Sunday: Church in the morning, grocery shopping, parish picnic (Kitten won the sack race, Margie and I did quite well on the water balloon toss, and I ended up volunteering ad hoc for a number of the activities, aided by my booming voice), then off to Doyce’s for gaming. Got home, got Kitten to bed, etc.
This week: More business travel zaniness — though a scosh less than last week. Fly out to California Tuesday afternoon, fly back late Wednesday night. Joy. Aside from that … still have a ton of action items from last week’s meetings, have various crises hanging fire, etc.
On the other hand, end of next week we’re off to KOA, with a Santa Fe vacation to follow that. Should be very nice.