There are no pics this week.
We had an unusual day Tuesday. Just by coincidence, Danita and I both had doctors appointments early in the morning. Danita was off to see her dermatologist. I had lab work done. We met up at the house and went out to a big breakfast at Bob Evans. Then we drove up to Towson. It was way past time to move our wills from Baltimore to Howard County. It’s a good thing we were well fed. It took over an hour to retrieve the wills from Baltimore County. It took almost all day before we got home again. But the end result is we effectively had a 4-day weekend (since Monday was a holiday). Thanks to the internet, I already got my lab work back. Everything was in the “normal” column. Yea!
There’s both some progress and a setback on the computer front. I received a replacement WiFi board. The technician was supposed to come by and install it in my computer today. It looks like he wimped out due to sloppy weather. I guess I’ll have to get the installation rescheduled. I downloaded the service manual and decided I don’t have the skills to open the computer. The days of removing a few screws to open the case are long gone. And now for the setback. Unfortunately, I spilled a glass of water. Some water got into the computer and now my keyboard doesn’t work. Fortunately, Mark bought me a very nice keyboard with Cherry key switches. I’ll be using that until the WiFi board is replaced, so I can get the keyboard fixed. (The warranty doesn’t cover water spills.) It’s not so good that I have to go through the pain of carrying around an extra keyboard with my laptop, But I must say, it’s a very nice keyboard to type on.
We’ve had a consistent weather pattern lately. One sloppy weather day followed by one or two nice days, followed by another sloppy weather day … There were only two days when the roads were good enough to ride this week. One was Tuesday, which we spent driving around the area. The other was Friday. Given that I was only getting one ride in this week, I had a choose carefully. Should I ride to the grocery store, pick up a few things, and bring home a salad for lunch? Or ride out to Glenwood and have a healthy sandwich? Or ride by Woodstock and stop in for a pepperoni kolache and a cup of Hershey’s hand-dipped ice cream? It’s a good thing I remembered my lactate pill.
Sunday should be fun. It’s our neighborhood’s annual chili dinner. Danita had a very good chili recipe, but she tried a new recipe and it was even better. But by the time we signed up, there were already plenty of people bringing chili. So Danita is making a green bean and roasted onion salad. It sounds yummy, and as I say, “onions are good for your heart.” The Knights of Columbus at our church have a unique fund raiser. After church services they will be taking payments for Maryland crab soup, to be delivered after church on Superbowl weekend. I asked around while we were counting money last week. I heard the soup is very good, but needs some more Old Bay seasoning. Our check is written, and we’ve verified our stock of Old Bay.
I read an interesting book — Atul Gawande’s “Being Mortal”. The author started out with a romanticized story about his grandfather’s life in rural India. I thought he was going to be a “back to nature” nut, proposing we all go back to life as it never was in 1800. But I hung in there and he surprised me by becoming much more realistic. Then he started writing about the evils of nursing homes. It’s hard to disagree with him, but it’s irrelevant for most of us because there’s not much we can do about it. I thought the rest of the book was going to be “the world is awful”. But I hung in there again and he surprised me again. This is an excellent book covering all major end of life issues we face today. There’s a reason this is rated as a #1 best seller by Amazon. And why there’s such a long waiting list at our public library.
That’s all for now. I hope this finds everybody doing well.