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Week of 12 November 2007

Latest Update: Saturday, 18 November 2007 3:10 p.m.


Monday, 12 November 2007

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One of the CBCR volunteers posted a link to this ad for a Border Collie DVD made in England. It's pretty cool. Having lived with BC's I saw both Malcolm and Duncan behavior's in several of the dogs who are in the movie.





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Tuesday, 13 November 2007

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Yesterday I worked from 8:15am to 5 without a lunch break to get a head start on making up my hours for today. I had to leave at 1pm for my follow up visit to the orthopedic. He wanted to do an MRI but my insurance requires permission before I can have it done. Now, I have to go back for the MRI but hopefully will not have to pay another copay. How stupid is that? Once the MRI is done I will see where things stand.

From the doctor's office I ran a couple of errands before getting home in time to change and get Malcolm for his yearly checkup. He is a very healthy specimen of a dog. Between getting home and leaving for the vet it started to sprinkle rain. The pavement and grass is wet but we have not had enough rain to register in either of the rain gages. The radar shows some green still west of us so perhaps we will get a little more this evening.


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Wednesday, 14 November 2007

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Thursday, 15 November 2007

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The new job continues to go well. I am very, very busy. My old job was about 50% each of brains and brawn. The new job is about 80% brains and 20% brawn though I do get in a lot walking during the day. My office, right now, it pretty far away from the file room where we keep the files I am working on and the office of the secretary I work under. I spend a lot of time back and forth looking for files, filing, etc. I may be moving offices. I am in a secretary office which they will need at some point when they hire a new secretary for one of the attorneys.

I have almost finished the Anne Perry, Half Moon Street. What an interesting "offshoot" of her Pitt novels. It is one of the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series books but does not feature Charlotte, her sister Emily, or much of Pitt. Instead, Perry features Charlotte's mother Caroline, her actor husband, and Caroline's cantankerous mother-in-law who is staying with Carolina while Emily and Charlotte are away in Paris. Charlotte and Thomas' children have gone to the seaside with the housemaid.

Pitt finds himself investigating the murder of a photographer while at the same time trying to locate a missing French ambassador. While Perry brings Pitt in and out of the story line to keep us update on the investigation, the major storyline rests on the sudden appearance of a long lost brother-in-law of Caroline's from America. Things quickly go sour for Carolina when her mother-in-law tries to prevent Caroline from learning the truth about her half brother. Instead of having Charlotte available to help solve Pitt's Caroline makes a contribution to his case which helps to solve the murder which has close ties to Caroline's actor husband.

We got somewhere around half an inch of rain over night. It has now turned cold and windy.



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Friday, 16 November 2007

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Saturday, 17 November 2007

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Last night after work I grabbed a bite to eat before meeting my friend Nancy and her husband at a Fiddle and Bow concert. I have been a member of F & B for 25 years. They started out as an organization support local Celtic music groups. They played in the a small room at one of the local restaurants. As they grew in membership they started sponsoring Folk Fest's by bringing in national and international Celtic groups for a one day event. Over the years I have seen some very good well know and obscure individuals and groups by attending their concerts. F & B has had to move around a lot to find venues for their concerts. The original place had to close when they tore down the buildings in that area to expand I-40. From their they have moved to several different small restaurants which, when closed due to lack of business, F & B lost their home.

Now they have a really nice place in a renovated old building used to sponsor other non-profit groups who wish to hold workshops and meetings of social and cultural nature. F & B holds concerts in the building every Friday and/or Saturday night. It will hold 50 or so people, which is about the size of the crowd. Last night, Gerry O'Beirne from Ireland was featured. I first saw Gerry at a F & B concert five or six years ago. I have his first CD, Half Moon Bay. He is currently working on another solo album and a joint venture CD with Rosie Shipley. He played a few new tunes and some from his CD.

It has been a very busy morning. First I wrestled my 70 pound gorillas (dogs) in the shower for their fall bath then took off for Wal-Mart. Even at 10:15 the place was already packed with people. On the way home I made a quick library stop to pick up some books.

I finished reading the Anne Perry and started a new Cynthia Riggs which are set on Martha's Vineyard.

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Sunday, 18 November 2007

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Another beautiful day in the Triad. Instead of playing golf dad wanted me to help him plant some bulbs. I went over around 10am after it warmed up into the mid 40's for dad to be outside. He had 80 tulips and daffodils to plant. Before you groan, I did not plant them individually. Instead we picked spots where he wanted them to go and dug six inch deep trenches or holes to hold 5 or 6 bulbs each. It did not take all that long. Then I used his electric blower to blow the leaves off his driveway to the curb. After we ate lunch I came on home to start my yard.

A lot of leaves fell this week with those couple of very windy days. I used the vacuum to get the drive, lawn, and natural areas instead of blowing them off first. I still have leaves on the trees which means at least one or maybe two more times before I am finished for the season plus I need to mow at least one more time. I was too tired to mow today.

We have been watching another season of Midsomer Murders. The first one we watched last night was the first time I had watched an episode of the show I thought was not very good. The second one was much better.


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