Ed and Lynne hosted Thanksgiving dinner this year. It was a small dinner — Bud, Danita and I, Pete and the girls, and the hosts. We had delicious meal and a good time. I didn’t take any pictures because everybody looks just abut the same as they did a few weeks ago at the sour beef dinner.

Eichenlaub Hotel Columbia, located at 8800 Endless Ocean Way, is proud to announce upgraded rooms. We changed the standard beds to queen size. Now visitors can relax in the commodious style of queens around the world! We accidentally went to the mattress store on the second to last day of the month, and found our mattresses delivered the very next day. It had something to do with a monthly sales quota, or so they said. I knew one bed frame was capable of adjusting to queen size. I checked the other bed frame and saw it was also adjustable. It turns out the second frame could adjust down to twin, but couldn’t adjust up to queen. Fortunately, the store is right down the street and had plenty of frames in stock. I had to drill new holes in the headboards. The wood where I drilled the holes is thicker, so I also had to go to Lowe’s to get longer bolts. So in other words, it was a typical project.

I’ve also been doing upgrades to our neighborhood computers. I installed disk cloning software to create a full disk backup. If a computer crashes or is hit with malware, we can quickly restore all the software in one go. We also added an air gap backup to protect against ransomware. There’s lots more to do, but I’ll work on in in bits and pieces here and there. The most urgent things are done.

Tony and Donna are friends from Circle. Donna’s dad moved to hospice care last week and died a few days later. He was 98, a true WW II veteran. I recon’ he did good enough. We’ll be at his funeral Tuesday.

That’s it for this week. I hope this finds everybody doing well.