Yesterday was a somewhat busy
day, complicated by both computer problems and a transformer outage in the
neighborhood, which kept turning the power on and off, the wi fi on
and off, and the TV on and off. I didn't want to risk keeping the
computer plugged in so I just decided not to post an entry for yesterday.
The computer had other problems -- I tried rebooting, which I had not done
in literally years, and discovered I could not remember my password.
That was a half hour panic until I finally remembered it, but then Front
Page, the program I create these pages in, seems to have disappeared.
I was going to worry about that after everyone went to bed, when I could fall
to pieces alone and unobserved, but then the electricity in the whole house
started being wonky, so I just decided to skip an entry and write one today.
(I still have to find Front Page on my laptop)
Alice Nan went off to Tom's
at 3:45 a.m. to get him and the family to the Santa Barbara Airport for the
first leg of their trip to Hawaii. They were the first to leave this
family weekend. When they posted this photo to Facebook, we knew they
had arrived safely.
Everyone still left in town came to Alice Nan and Joe's for brunch. I had
made an "egg run" to Albertsons when they opened, so we had lots of eggs.
We sat around and chatted for awhile before Joe and Norm took off for the
golf course to have their usual game.
Jeri and Phil were the
next to leave the nest and fly home to Boston. After packing up some
leftover picnic food, they left mid afternoon for their 10 p.m. flight out
of LAX and by the time we all woke up in the morning we all had text
messages saying they had arrived safely.
We didn't do much
after the golfers came home until approaching dinner time. We had a
butt load of food...plus all the clams we had forgotten to bring to the BBQ.
Joe set up Tom's big cooker (he made fried turkey in it one year) and
proceeded to steam the clams.
We said our goodbyes to Ned and Marta who were leaving this morning to
return to Davis, and we all went to bed.
I
had a terrible night, possibly one of the weirdest I've spent. I
collapsed early, while everyone was still sitting around talking, and woke
up for the first time around midnight. For some reason I do not
understand at all, I woke up thinking of Lisa Brodoff from
The Righteous Mothers, and her
wife, Lynn. I've met each woman once and other than seeing their posts
on Facebook, have had nothing to do with them. Ever. But after
midnight, I woke up every single hour and every. time. I woke up thinking of
Lisa and Lynn. They never DID anything or said anything in the
dreams, they would just be there in my mind when I woke up.
This morning it was business as usual, with Joe heading off to work and Walt
and I leaving for Davis while Alice Nan, Norm and Olivia were going into
town to meet someone for lunch. It was good to be back home again, but
those all-family-all-the-time days are fun too.
The dogs were very happy to see us again.
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