December 11, 1997
Dear Everyone:
Last week, it rained.
And it rained. And
then, it rained some more.
On Saturday, it rained so hard that the roof over the carport
overflowed. It was like
driving through a car wash when I pulled out to do the weekly shopping.
And trying to get bags of groceries into the trunk without
getting drenched myself was no fun either.
My bird feeder, which I had left sitting on top of
something on the patio has sprouted.
It looks like a chia pet, long-haired variety.
“Jeannie” says it makes a statement and I should leave it that
way.
Luckily, the rains have stopped for now.
And the cold that I woke up with last Monday was gone by the
following Monday. I cannot
attribute this miraculous recovery to the flu shot I got last October.
“Jeannie” also woke up with a cold the same day I did and got
over it just as quickly, as have some other people; so it’s just a
fly-by-night cold that’s going around.
I have returned to my custom of leaving the furnace turned off at
night, even though the temperature is a shade below 60o in
the living room come morning.
“Jeannie” and I now have a new hairdresser in a new
salon in
Walnut Creek. Our
previous hairdresser moved to
Greece for a few
months to rest her wrists and back.
And we were displeased with the salon for reasons you don’t even
want to know about. The new
place is very nice and is almost exactly halfway between the two of us.
I drive about 10 miles and “Jeannie” does about eight.
We meet there every four weeks for the traditional “C&C” (color
and cut). Then we do lunch.
We got our hair done this Saturday, so there wasn’t
enough time left in the weekend for a movie.
Besides, we didn’t see anything interesting in the listings.
I guess we’re waiting for
Titanic.
Can’t wait to see how they’ve
changed the ending.
With no movie, I used the extra time on Sunday to
make up a huge batch of chicken bisque for the freezer.
This is a thick chicken soup which, when defrosted and reheated,
can be served over a bed of rice as
chicken ala king.
Finally, after over a month, there is something in my freezer
that is more nutritious than
Dove Bars and/or
hazelnut coffee (a gift, obviously).
In other news...
The
Ashland tickets have arrived.
Even ordering as early as I did, we still didn’t get all our
seats in the same row for some plays.
In some cases, they gave us a block of seats with a few seats in
the next row back. Since
this sometimes made the price of the tickets lower, I will have to put
together a spreadsheet to see who should get which seats.
(I’m thinking someone like “Jeannie” might prefer the cheaper
tickets.) I had charged the
tickets to my credit card in order to fax the order in.
So there’s about $1200 sitting on my account right now.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been getting little
refund checks from various utilities due to my closing accounts in
Concord
and starting new accounts in
San Ramon.
For example,
Pacific Bell sent me a check for $4.75 that had been “overcharged”
on my phone bill in Concord.
And the cable
company just couldn’t sleep nights until it refunded the $3.16 that
I had overpaid.
So when I saw an envelope from my old
mortgage
company, I figured, “Oh, boy!
Another $7.26 check.”
Instead, it was for over $1400.
This little windfall will nicely cover the credit card.
However, I would still like people to pay me back as soon as they
get the “bill” for their tickets.
Mother has even gone to the length of sending me a blank check.
Finally, the attached really, truly, started out on
the Records
Management
Listserve, an electronic bulletin board for records managers.
Sometimes someone will put something funny out and that will kick
off a new “thread” as it reminds people of another one and “that reminds
me of the time...” As
someone who does go to the
movies, I can attest to the accuracy of this list.
Love, as always,
Pete
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