There are no pics this week.

We are having unbelievably warm weather. The high today was 70. It’s more than 20 degrees warmer than usual. This isn’t a one-day fluke. We’re in the middle of a solid week of this. I’m riding my bike in shorts and with no jacket. In mid-December. Remarkable.

I’m not doing anything “special” this week. After all, I pretty much do whatever I want every day of the year. Houlihan’s offered me a free entree. So we went to Houlihan’s for our Thursday dinner out night, and I got free meatloaf. They put a lot of food on the plate. I always bring enough meatloaf home for a nice sandwich. It’s still in the fridge, patiently waiting for me.

Danita told both of her bosses she is retiring April 1. They’re trying to figure out what to do. This is the first time in many years that Danita hasn’t given them the answer. We also visited our financial guy. Danita’s UMBC savings plan is with TIAA-CREF. They offer free financial advice. Our guy is pretty good. Basically, we’re not likely to have financial troubles in retirement.

Friday we had a neighborhood party. Today Danita made sweet Italian sausage sandwiches for lunch. Then we went to hear a Christmas concert given by the Army’s Jazz Ambassador band. I’m not sure exactly what’s for dinner, but Danita’s cooking. I saw garlic and onions. What more does one need to know?

I’m looking forward to presenting a proposal to give everybody in our neighborhood the ability to sign into our web site. If we do that, we can have a neighborhood directory, and allow board members to search our resident data, and replace our silly pool book, and manage weekly and monthly Emails from our website. The demo is working. I don’t want to break it by changing things. So I decided to write a program that pulls data from our existing database. That will let us automatically populate the database in our website. It was a fun little project.

That’s it for this week. Dinner should be ready soon. I hope this finds everybody doing well.