I was up and at ’em early this morning, as I had to make a grocery store run before catching the bus. Normally, I would have parked at the Food Lion and caught the Wolfline bus in from there, but the university buses were not running today, due to the Easter break. I committed to … Read more
I walked down to the post office this morning to mail Jeanie-baby’s final taxes to her daughter, Phyllis, in Boca Raton. Two things to note; call them post officecapades if you want to: The first thing I noticed is this sign hanging on the door through which you enter the post office: Box Up at 11:00 … Read more
In a reverse of yesterday, today all three of my meetings were in the afternoon instead of the morning. I had lunch at Sadlack’s Heroes, and was once again served their delicious veggie wrap by my friend David. While there, sitting outside in the glorious sun on one of their picnic tables waiting for the … Read more
I had a full morning of meetings today, starting off with our weekly staff meeting from 9:00-10:00. After a half-hour break, I attended my weekly Service Planning meeting from 10:30-11:30. Another half-hour later, I attended a lunch seminar put on by the Campus Writing and Speaking Program from 12:00-1:00, for which lunch was provided—a delicious … Read more
It’s official. I have lost my small Totes umbrella. Damnit. We had the weirdest weather today—hence the focus on the umbrella. We’ve had several days in the 70s and 80s, and all of a sudden, today, we had in succession: a tornado watch, a severe thunderstorm watch, and then a freeze warning. And in between … Read more
We were up at 9:00, after a full eight hours sleep. Robert put coffee on, and I made breakfast, which consisted of turkey sausage patties on Hawaiian rolls with sliced hard-boiled eggs on them. We enjoyed it all out on my deck sitting at my bar patio set. We enjoyed the fruits—well mostly vegetables, really—of … Read more
This would be a classic example of the rhetorical device known as the double entendre. Go Wilkinson blades! I hope I don’t have another dream about Oprah’s carpet after seeing this. I’m just saying… I finally got around to doing a good cleaning of my kitchen floor after its run-in with my washing machine overflow, … Read more
Today’s buscapades are about emptiness, opaqueness, decisiveness, and succinctness. Emptiness: The bus was completely empty when I got on this morning. That’s so highly unusual that I checked my watch to make sure my power hadn’t gone out or something making it much later in the day than it actually was. “8:25,” it said. Thanks … Read more
This morning’s buscapade is about time—doing it, that is. Two seats up and to my right sat a rider I’ve seen before. She’s a little unkempt usually—not drastically so, but a little bit. And she’s loud. And she likes to talk. Not a good combination in my book, especially not being a morning person. She … Read more
Today’s buscapades are about problems. I have no idea how the different (physical) buses are assigned to each route, but every once in a while we get a bus that has something wrong with it. A case in point was the one yesterday with the broken stop cord. Today’s problems included what I guess would … Read more