January 4, 2006
Dear Everyone:
Happy New Year!
When “Jeannie” and I drove home last Thursday, we
couldn’t have picked a better day for it.
The storm that had ripped through central
Of course, we didn’t pick the date based on the weather. We needed to take Mother to a doctor’s appointment on Wednesday. All things considered, Mother seems to be doing quite well. There’s just a little concern about her weight, which could be more than it is.
Arriving home just before 8:00 Thursday evening, I checked the front porch, as I always do, just in case someone had left something there. (At least every other month, an envelope appears with the property management’s report for the upcoming Homeowners Association Board meeting.)
I discovered a package from “Alice” that was my
Christmas present
this year. It was a DVD
collection of a TV series from 1995 called
American
Gothic. This was a
kind of horror/thriller set in Trinity,
I liked the quirky show, but the network wasn’t so thrilled and cut it off short. So I was delighted to discover that all 21 original episodes were now available on DVD. I sent the “hint” off to “Alice” for Christmas.
So naturally I spent the long New Year’s weekend
wallowing in the evil (or not?) that lurked in the heart of Trinity (as
portrayed by
This did not prevent me from going to the movies with “Jeannie”. We saw Rumor Has It, with Kevin Costner, Jennifer Aniston, and Shirley MacLaine. It’s a pleasant bit of fluff about a young woman who suspects that her family is the basis for the book that became the movie, The Graduate. “Rumor has it” that both her grandmother and her late mother had had an affair with the same man, a college roommate of someone in the family.
In the middle of her sister’s wedding, she sends her own fiancé out to find the movie so she can try and figure out what really happened. At 50, Kevin Costner looks middle-aged and attractive. At 71, MacLaine looks fabulous and gets most of the best lines. The producers evidently couldn’t decide if they wanted to make a romantic comedy or something a little more serious and settled for something in between.
However, considering that even “Alice’s” girls were bored with King Kong, this would be better.
By the way, I did get some studying done after all. Yesterday I reported to radiology for a routine mammogram at the appointed time of 9:45. An hour later, I was still in the waiting room. The office has just switched from their old, familiar computer system to a completely new one. Naturally, they were on tumble dry for the entire morning.
I had finished Chapter 9, Electronic Recordkeeping Systems, a snap when you consider for how many of these systems I’ve been the System Administrator. And I was well into Chapter 10, Microfilming, when my name was finally called.
Add to that the fact that the next meeting of our Certified Records Manager (CRM) Study Group, which was supposed to be yesterday afternoon, was cancelled as half the attendees were still out on 2005 vacation, and all’s well with the world.
Love, as always,
Pete
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