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Barbara Fritchman Thompson Diary

Week of 2 September 2000 (Week 36)

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Saturday, 2 September 2000

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We are getting our share of rain. This big weather system that has been sitting off the coast and just spinning has created a week of off and on showers and thunderstorms. Last night several just blew up out of nowhere and flooded some areas just to the north and east of us.

Today is more of the same, so no outside work. This morning before I head over to my parents' house I am going to start working on the downstairs. Once I get the furniture down there arranged, I can move the boxes from up here that I have packed. We also need to get the downstairs kitchen and bathroom neat and clean looking. 

When I get back this afternoon, I will work more on the downstairs. Once we get the finished side organized I can start on the unfinished side. 

One week from today I leave for my annual fall bus trip to Canada. This year we are off to Montreal, Quebec, and Toronto with a stop over at Niagara Falls. This will be a very busy week for me to get things ready for me to be gone for a week and doing some more work on the house. 

I guess I will watch some tennis this afternoon and tonight if it is not raining up there. It rained out the men's match last night. And of course tomorrow is race day.

Sunday, 3 September 2000

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I have a new issue of Cyber Hound News up. I decided to share my favorite links to books and magazine resources.  Speaking of books, we have had very encouraging pre-publication sales on our book PC Hardware in a Nutshell due out later this month. 

I worked most of yesterday on the downstairs. Today, we are going down and try to finish packing up that area and give it one good final cleaning. I will go down periodically and dust the furniture and run the water to keep it fresh looking and smelling. 

We have gone from drought to flood. In two days our rain levels have gone from being almost five inches below normal for the year to about two and a half. We are under flash flood watch for today. 

The NASCAR race today, the Southern 500 is from Darlington, SC.  All of the rain we are getting drenched with is due to a weather system that is just sitting and spinning off the East Coast. The moisture is coming up from the south heading north. It comes in bands similar to the outside edge of a hurricane coming on shore, so that rather than having a continuous rain, it comes in fits and starts. Hopefully, there will be a break in the rain long enough for them to get the race in. It looks like more of the same for tomorrow and Tuesday if they do not get it run today.

Guess I better get to work.

Monday, 4 September 2000

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A happy Labor Day to one and all. I hope everyone has a great day celebrating the end of summer.

I am going to work this morning on the downstairs and then watch tennis this afternoon, if it does not rain it out again.

The race yesterday hardly got started before it went into rain delay. The tennis was in rain delay, so I worked at my PC. I was a little bit tired yesterday and decided to work on something I could do while sitting.

I created the pages for the first two generations of my mother's side of the family, Callahan, to put up on my genealogy pages. As I explained on the introduction page, this has been a very hard line to get information on. I only have three generations that go back to my great, great, grandfather. I have a lot of work to do and am hoping that by putting it up I will get some Callahan researchers stumble across my page and e-mail me like my Fritchman ancestors have.

Guess that's all for today.

Tuesday, 5 September 2000

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Not much going on right now for me to post. I am packing and cleaning and moving stuff around the house until I am completely exhausted.  

At least I was not the only one who spent all day yesterday laboring. Marcia posted a long list of things she intended to get done yesterday and it appears she was very successful.

I spent all day working up/downstairs. I finished most of the downstairs and in doing so created more work upstairs. There was still a lot of Lenore's stuff to haul upstairs which we can use now rather than be packed away. That meant hauling it up here and then putting it away. 

Also, there was still some of her stuff in the dresser drawers that I need to bring up that she may need. In order make room in the guest bedroom dresser, I had to clean out several more drawers. I packed up stuff I was not using or did not need handy for awhile to make more room for her. 

Today I will clean house real good since I will be gone next week. 

We got rid of the humidity and now we have rain and cool temperatures. I am desperately trying to get all this inside work done early this week to leave me the end of the week to get the outside mowing and stuff done before I leave on my trip. I need to spend most of tomorrow running errands.

Wednesday, 6 September 2000

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I cannot remember if I mentioned last week that we have a new member, Lynne Walder, to NetWidows so I will go ahead and say "welcome aboard". 

I am off to get a haircut and go to the grocery store. It has turned windy and rather cool here not that the rain is gone. This morning it is 55 with 15 to 20 mph winds. A bit chilly for early September, but I like the change. 

If it stays cloudy but no rain I will mow this afternoon after I get back from helping my dad. 

Gotta go.

Thursday, 7 September 2000

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If you did not notice, I now have a picture of myself atop the diary page. Bob needed a picture for something for the book promo so I dug one out that I had taken a couple of years ago at a studio. Okay Lynne, I did not use one of me when I was seven mainly because when I was seven they had not invented color film yet!

I will, however, be glad to post a picture of me when I was seven if anyone is interested. 

Bob now has his own recipe page on the NetWidows recipe site. I want to state up front that I am in no way responsible for the culinary actions of my husband. He comes up with this stuff by himself and yes, I do feed him regularly with good meals.

Bob and Lenore have a stock of frozen dinners in the freezer and hopefully he will remember to feed the dogs. 

Today is just going to be spent tying up loose ends and getting all my little projects to an organized stopping point. I will pack tomorrow but today I start thinking about things not to forget. As soon as I think of one of those I immediately go and grab it and place it in the "trip pile" rather than wait and possibly forget again.

And, the sun is shinning this morning for the first time in about a week. It is one of those clear, cool mornings that is so much like fall weather here in the Carolina's.

Friday, 8 September 2000

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Well, today is packing day. I will haul the suitcase down out of the attic and get started this morning. I have all day so there is no hurry. I will work on packing and getting last minute things done around the house plus making sure everyone here has what they need while I am gone.

The NASCAR race this weekend is at the Richmond International  Raceway in Richmond, VA. Qualifying is this afternoon followed by the Busch race tonight at 7:30. This is another on of my favorite race tracks to watch. I will watch the race tonight and then head over to my sister's house to spend the night since we leave very early tomorrow morning.

I will have Bob tape the race tomorrow night for me. The previous two years, like this year, the race has been the same Saturday that we have left on a trip. We are usually in our rooms by the time it starts and the hardest thing is trying to stay up until the end since we have been up since 4:00 that morning and riding all day.

This year, as you will read tomorrow, we have entertainment scheduled for tomorrow night, so I will miss at least the early first half or so. Even if we do get back, I will most likely not be able to stay away to watch the end anyway. 

I am sure the Daynotes Gang and Netwidows  will all keep an eye on things while I am gone. I will miss reading everyone's page while I am gone. Marcia  maybe you or Brian  could remind Bob to take his vitamins and give water to the dogs. I don't worry much about food because they will not eat real good the first few days I am gone anyway. 

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