There is one pic this week.
The high temperature in Columbia yesterday was 53. The high in West Palm Beach Tuesday will be 65. I know because I looked it up. I looked it up because that’s where we’re going to be. We have reservations at Hotel Mom. Our flight leaves 8:30 tomorrow morning. We’re returning Thursday evening. We’re checked in, and we’re TSA Pre-approved. The only thing we have left to do is drive to the airport before 8:30 tomorrow. Woo-Hoo!l
Checking in wasn’t as easy as usual. Southwest allows check-in 24 hours before the flight. That would be 8:30 AM today. From experience, I know that checking in 5 minutes late moves us from the end of the “B” boarding to the middle or end of the “C” boarding. That means the overhead bins will be full, and it may even mean we both sit in center seats on different rows. The mass we usually attend starts at 8:30. We decided to go to the Saturday afternoon mass. They have a music group. This music group is serious about their music. They do a nice job, but they sing every verse of every song. It was a long mass. On the positive side, we were at Panera for breakfast at 7. There’s a lot less people there early in the day. It was nice to have a quiet breakfast with no lines and plenty of empty booths.
Christmas Cactus (mostly buds)
Danita has the world’s most stubborn plant. She had her Christmas Cactus in her office at work. Just before the holiday, she saw that her plant was about to bloom. She brought it home so she could enjoy it during Christmas. It promptly stalled. It finally started blooming yesterday. but it’s still mostly buds. It won’t bloom until after we leave for our visit with Mom. Stubborn plant.
We saw the most amazing rainbow this week. Danita was in the basement watching TV and clipping coupons. I was upstairs working on playing with my computer. I happened to look up and there it was. It was very wide with the most vivid colors I’ve ever seen in a rainbow. I ran down to the basement and we looked at it from the back porch. Then we went upstairs to get a better view. Then we went outside and walked up to the guard shack so we could see it without the intervening trees. By then it had faded quite a bit. But it was still an unusually wide rainbow. Each color was still discernable.
The SOCA board approved the project to add resident login and a resident directory to our web site. I’m hard at work kind of working on it. (As you can see, I’m also working on being more honest.) I successfully transferred a half-dozen residents from our database to the website, along with all their related information (pass numbers, etc). That was a major milestone. I’m doing this on a test website loaded on my laptop. Of course, I went through several unsuccessful and partially successful attempts. Now my test website is full of junk. I need to delete it and rebuild it. While I’m doing that, I want to document all the settings, configurations, and whatnot so that the next webmaster will know what’s going on. (And also so I’ll know, when I come back from our trip and don’t remember anything I did.) It’s very boring work.
We have a neighborhood concert this evening. It’s a jazz group. They will have wine and desserts. The clubhouse is filled with chairs and tables, a sure sign of a full house this evening.
That’s the news for this week. I have to go back to church to help count money. I hope this finds everybody doing well.