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Barbara Fritchman Thompson Diary Week of 17 May 2004 Latest Update: Saturday, 22 May 2004 15:06 |
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Monday, 17 May 2004 [Last Week] [Monday] [Tuesday] [Wednesday] [Thursday] [Friday] [Saturday] [Sunday] [Next Week] |
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Over the weekend I read one of the books I picked up on our trip to Cape May, NJ, Cape Island by I. Yevish, a novel set during the late 1800's on the island. If I recall correctly it was a series but I only bought the first one to see how I would like it. The book is one of those local, small publisher deals that will require I order the others either from that book store or if I make a return trip. Last night I started another new author I picked up for Bob, Ayelet Waldman. In the first book of the series, Nursery Crimes, we meet former attorney/public defender now stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum. According to the jacket blurb, Waldman's books are somewhat autobiographical since she herself is a former lawyer now stay-at-mom. Her husband as well as the characters husband is a writer. In the books he is a screen writer, in real life she is married to author Michael Chabon. I was only able to stay awake long enough to read the first few chapters but I can tell I am going to love the series. Two weeks and counting...until Memorial Day weekend. Yes, I need a vacation. Since starting last July 1 full time with Womble I have not been used to working three/fours months without a long weekend break. By this time of the year when I was with the County we had already had MLK day and Easter since the first of the year. Plus I was up to almost four weeks/year when I left. Then, when I worked at home and subsequently part time I was still free to take a day off for a long weekend since I was only working part time anyway. Now, I must conserve my vacation days being back to square one with only two weeks. While we did get MLK back in January I have not had a long weekend since. We did have the weekend away at Fancy Gap in March but I worked that Friday. I am starting to feel the need to have more that a two day break from the daily grind of the job plus all the other activities I have going on. As a matter of fact, I took a break tonight and did not go to the gym. We had a nice little garden variety thunderstorm blow up just as I got home. I decided to take the night off and just relax instead. [Top] |
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Tuesday, 18 May 2004 [Last Week] [Monday] [Tuesday] [Wednesday] [Thursday] [Friday] [Saturday] [Sunday] [Next Week] |
| Back to the old routine today. Work, store, home, gym for
spinning class. No rain or storms for today. I need to do a quick mail
check then take some time to play ball with The Guys.
Sorry for the short post. Not much in the way of the news. Have a good one. [Top] |
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Wednesday, 19 May 2004 [Last Week] [Monday] [Tuesday] [Wednesday] [Thursday] [Friday] [Saturday] [Sunday] [Next Week] |
| I left an hour early today in order to get a couple of
errands run. We have FAS meeting tonight with library and dinner stops
first. It is now rumbling in the distance and looks very much like it may
pour rain any minute.
Last night I finished Nursery Crimes and started the second book in the antique print mysteries, Shadows on the Coast of Maine by Lea Wait. Again, sorry for the short post. Yahoo, it is Wednesday!
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Thursday, 20 May 2004 [Last Week] [Monday] [Tuesday] [Wednesday] [Thursday] [Friday] [Saturday] [Sunday] [Next Week] |
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After we met Paul and his dad for dinner last night we decided to bag going to the FAS meeting. We were not all that interested in the speaker's topic nor the business portion of the meeting. By the time we got home the skies had cleared with no storms coming in for the night. I scurried outside to quickly put my weed and feed down with the grass nice and wet from the rain. It is supposed to be down 24 hours before it gets wet. While it did sprinkle lightly on the way home it will not be enough to bother it with the three or four hour difference in time. I had enough left over to put out another application in mid-summer. Tonight we are going over to my boss's house for a cookout. He is the Chief Knowledge Officer for the firm heading up our six person InterAction team. With spouses/significant others we should have around 9 or 10 people all together. Turns out he lives about ten minutes away from us. [Top] |
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Friday, 21 May 2004 [Last Week] [Monday] [Tuesday] [Wednesday] [Thursday] [Friday] [Saturday] [Sunday] [Next Week] |
| Yea!. The end of a long day of a long week. We have been
covered up in data base changes as more attorneys are moving their
contacts over. Each time we get a new attorney's contacts we get anywhere
from 500 to 2000 database changes to check ranging from names and phone
numbers, to e-mail and snail mail addresses, company changes, etc. Each
change has to be looked at and checked for accuracy, compared with the
data on file already, and/or verified on the web.
I worked through lunch like I used to do both yesterday and today allowing me to leave at 3 instead of 4. By leaving an hour early I was able to run some errands and get back home by 4 before the afternoon traffic jams started. It is hot for this time of year. I took the dogs out for five minutes of play time. I did not want them on the lawn for too long with the stuff down plus after five minutes their tongues were already hanging out about a mile. With Duncan's age I need to watch him in the heat. No plans for me this evening other than reading and relaxing. I hope you have a great weekend. No serious rain in sight for the next few days just the scattered thunderstorm variety. [Top] |
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| Who needs one of those weather alert machines when you can
have a dog instead. Last night we did an early last time out, about 8:15,
then I went off to bed to read and relax. I finished reading Shadows on
the Coast of Maine about 10:15 and turned off the light. At 2:15
this morning Malcolm barked, once, very loudly. I jumped out of bed to see
some kids were in the front of the house messing around or something. The
only thing I saw were shadows of the trees swaying then a bright flash of
light. At first I thought perhaps an emergency vehicle had gone down the
street. As I turned back to head for bed there was another bright flash
followed by a crack of thunder. Duncan levitated onto the bed while
Malcolm started growling. Apparently, Malcolm had heard the first crack of
thunder alerting us to the approaching storm.
Duncan lay beside me or actually on my pillow, trembling while Malcolm lay at my feet against my legs. I comforted Duncan as several storms rolled through for about half an hour. He finally stretched out beside me during the last one when I finally fell back to sleep. This morning I was at dads by 8:15 to get started on trimming back his bushes. We lopped them back to about two feet high to let them grow out from the middle again. He has twelve down the front and four along the back side of the house. I cut while he piled the stuff in the wheel barrow then I hauled it across the street to pile it up for the brush crews. We finished those up around 10:45 cooled off a little and went inside to eat lunch. After lunch we did the rhododendron and azaleas along the back fence along with a bush that had become way over grown in the corner. After getting that stuff hauled to the front I called it a day about 2pm. There was not a dry stitch of clothing on my body. I jumped in the shower as soon as I got home the sat at my desk to read e-mail while resting and cooling off with a nice glass of ice water. The afternoon and evening will be rest and relaxing other than giving the dogs some play time.
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Sunday, 23 May 2004 [Last Week] [Monday] [Tuesday] [Wednesday] [Thursday] [Friday] [Saturday] [Sunday] [Next Week] |
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