The day is approaching. We’re going to Italy! We leave August 26 and return September 17. As usual, I will be blogging our experiences. My plan is to limit Emails to one or two pics. If you want to see more pics, visit the website. Our task for this week is to get everything we need packed in a carry-on bag. Rick Steves, European travel guru assures us it is possible. We’ll see. 

Should you need to contact us, we will be as available as our WiFi. Just Email deichenlaub@gmail.com, or call or text 410-417-8854. Any of these will send an Email. I will see your Email, voicemail, or text the next time I check my Email. If there is an emergency, we will be on the cruise ship Sept 3 – Sept 11. While we are aboard, you can call Oceania’s emergency contact number at 866-242-7447. 

My physical therapy went well. I still have a little discomfort in my right shoulder, and I can’t sleep on my right side. But I have full range of motion and don’t experience discomfort during the day. They told me to go home and don’t come back until after we return from Italy.

We had what felt like an unusual experience last night. We ate at home. We went to Tino’s Wednesday for our weekly dinner out. Thursday was a financial seminar  which included a dinner at Season’s 52 (excellent food, mediocre financial advice). Tonight we have a neighborhood bull roast. Sunday we’ll have breakfast at the Silver Diner to get Danita’s free birthday entree. Monday our condo is having dinner at Timbuktu, a seafood place that is supposed to have good crab cakes. Then we eat at home for a nearly a week until our next neighborhood party next Saturday, a Caribbean dinner.

Our last big news is the new printer. I like it a lot. It keen surprising me with practical features I didn’t expect to get. When scanning, it scans both sides of the page in one pass. It skips the back of the page if it is blank. Copying includes all the duplex options (single sided to double sided, etc.) Scanners used to just create pictures of text. I scanned a document and decided I wanted to copy some text. That’s when I realized this scanner can actually convert a scanned page to text. Plus good printing in color or B & W.

This is an amazing amount of excitement. I better quit before I get over excited. I hope this finds everybody doing well.