July 16, 2009
Dear Everyone:
My back is still killing me, but it is s-l-o-w-l-y
getting better. Using a Cold
Pack from the freezer definitely helps.
I have one at home and one at the office.
I originally got them for the muscles in my thigh, but seem to
use them for my back more.
They’re also very popular during heat waves, which we’re having right
now (a high of 100 degrees today.)
What was once a cozy, little two-bedroom
townhouse,
and which has turned into a monster that voraciously consumes every
precious scrap of free personal time that I have, is t-h-i-s c-l-o-s-e
to being finished. We did
some finishing touches last Saturday.
The interior decorator delivered the furniture on Wednesday and
completed her staging today.
“Jeannie” has already called me twice this evening with updates.
My realtor is busy with other things today and through the
weekend, so we’re meeting after work on Monday.
In fact, it is so close to being finished that a
minor miracle happened last Saturday:
“Jeannie” announced that she didn’t want to work on the townhouse
on Sunday. She wanted to go
to a movie.
Things at work are progressing.
I spent this morning doing
SharePoint training again, with a
co-worker “observing”. She
will begin presenting training next week.
Another co-worker and she are going to do a “dry run” next
Tuesday, which I will attend as the “mentor”.
Tomorrow is the deadline for a group of people in
my decommissioning-servers-around-the-world project to complete the
first phase of identifying what kinds of data they have and what they
should do with it. Next
week, I’ll be reviewing their work and advising if it looks complete
enough. Everyone seems to be
getting on the “decommissioning bandwagon”, so we may be getting even
more work out of it.
So “Jeannie” wanted to see a movie, but the only
one we felt up to watching was
Ice
Age 3 (opting for the non-3D version.)
If you saw
Ice Age
and/or Ice Age 2, The Meltdown, you pretty much know what to expect.
Manny and
Ellie, the wooly mammoths, are expecting their first
child.
Diego, the
saber-tooth lion, is beginning to feel his age (aren’t we all?)
And
Sid, the sloth, is feeling left out.
Sid decides to get a family of his own when he
discovers three “abandoned” (and very large) eggs.
Of course they hatch into cute little
dinosaurs.
(Never mind that the dinosaurs went extinct millions of years
before the last Ice Age.
This is a fantasy, after all.)
There’s also a one-eyed weasel named Buck with an unfortunate
choice in quasi-Australian accents.
Whatever. It was very
pleasant to sit in the cool darkness and contemplate something that had
nothing to do with remodeling or painting.
It was my turn to pay for the movie, but we were
running a little late so “Jeannie” jumped out and bought tickets while I
parked the car. I paid for
the popcorn and drink. So
it’s my turn to pay for the movie the next two times.
Love, as always,
Pete
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