Today: Work happens. Lunch with Q-; she notes that her
biological clock has developed an uncomfortably loud tick. Play a little
MM8. My sisters and their families and I take Dad out for dinner for his 60th birthday:
The Crow's Nest on Rt. 17,
Hasbrouck Heights. Each sister's family gets a promise of some computer hardware work: internal modem replacement for the Goetzls, RAM add for the Marosys. Watched some
Olympics nonsense at my eldest sister's house, spent some
quality time playing trucks with my nephew. The Goetzls have a
new kitten, Annie, striped and spotted like a wee tame tigerleopard. A search for an mp3 of Heart's
Barracuda is fruitless.
The week past: Brake
master cylinder replacement and
thermostat installation on the
Sundance. Laundry (black and dark blues). Bought some
flannel sheets in preparation for winter. Slowly catching up with
rejected material lot
dispositions, and brought some
traceability documentation up to date. Called my aunt and uncle in
Albany to OK a few days' stay with them later in the month - I haven't seen my grandmother (also in Albany) in years, she doesn't travel anymore, so if I want to see her I have to make the trip. While I'm there I hope to visit
Howe Caverns and maybe survey the
job market. Started a character for Charles' upcoming
D&D 3E campaign. (Human thief/wizard, "
Willie l'Golemme" - a pun on "wooly" + "leg o' lamb". I have a bet with myself on how long it takes my fellow players to figure that out.) Monday, my
cousin once-removed gave me two sixes of
Killian's Irish Red to install a replacement floppy drive, which turned out defective. I sold her my spare
FDD; in the course of the evening I met her daughter. Such are my
family relations that in 7 years living within
walking distance, I never met this
blood relative.