Danita volunteers at the Howard County food bank. Sometimes somebody will donate candy. They aren’t allowed to give the candy to clients, and they never say no to a donation. So they offer candy to volunteers. Danita will often come home with something like a few mini-Kit Kat bars. This time somebody donated entire boxes of Ferrero chocolates. Danita was invited to take an entire box of 24. I don’t claim to know which chocolates are the best. But Danita and I both think Ferrero chocolates are better than Godiva. Of course, at $1.25 per chocolate, they should be pretty good. We enjoyed ourselves tremendously.

We had a lot of activities this week. We started off with a concert from the most excellent Peabody Ragtime Ensemble. We ate OK food truck pizza with our neighbors. We had a neighborhood “Cultural Conversations” presentation from a Native American Artist. The woman was quite interesting. We wouldn’t have missed it for the world. But she obviously lives in a parallel that barely touches ours. Of course, hearing from somebody with a perspective that much different from ours is a good part of what makes it interesting. We had many days of warm sunny weather, allowing me to put plenty of miles on the bike.

The church counting session did not go well today. We had a lot of extra busy work this time. We couldn’t get the checks to reconcile. We were closing in on the answer when the computer suddenly stopped displaying our spreadsheet. When I got home, I was able to ascertain that the file was OK. The problem seems to be with the computer. After several months of having perfect counts, we ended up staying very late (4 hours), with two unreconciled checks, and leaving on somewhat of a downer.

I hope this finds everybody doing well.