~Friday~ Once again I drove to the Food Lion Park & Ride and caught a Wolfline bus. At first I got on the #1 Avent Ferry bus, which was in front of the #9 Greek Village, but after a minute or so, the bus driver looked up from her clipboard and into the rear view … Read more
~Thursday~ Joe picked me up at 7:00 this morning and took me to his doctor’s office, where I was to have a “Fun-with-people-coming-out-of-anesthesia Day.” The waiting room had free wi-fi in it, so I actually got some work done, mostly [still] refining my presentation for 1:00 today. Several people—around four of them—came in after Joe, … Read more
~Saturday~ I spent some time at work today working on a digital scrapbook for my boss’ retirement gathering, which will be on Thursday of this week. I made good progress on it. At around 5:30, I took a walk up and down Hillsborough Street, where this was going on: Hillsborough Street Grand Re-opening FestivalAs I … Read more
~Thursday~ I was out of bread this morning, so I skipped my morning ritual of fixing a breakfast sandwich, which usually consists of a bagel thin, a turkey sausage patty, and hard-boiled egg whites. Nor did I brew my usual four cups of coffee to take to work in my thermos. Since, once I got … Read more
~Saturday~ I slept in this morning, and once up enjoyed a leisurely breakfast and took care of several to-do items online, including some calendaring for Salon, writing Thursday and part of Friday’s blog entry, and playing some Scrabble. Mid-afternoon, I finally got my ass to the gym, where I did 40 minutes on the elliptical … Read more
~Saturday~ We were up around 9:30, and Robert put on coffee for us, while I made us each a couple of “sausage biscuits,” which consisted of slicing four King’s Hawaiian rolls, microwaving four Jimmy Dean turkey sausage patties, and sticking them into the rolls when they were cooked. Simple, but delicious. We rode downtown to Lump Gallery … Read more
~Thursday~ I assumed Xolani and I were catching the 7:15 bus this morning, but when the kitchen clock read 7:18 and I heard the shower in the upstairs guest bathroom just turning on, I realized that wasn’t the case. I jotted him a short note, and I caught the 7:15 bus, since I was up … Read more
~Tuesday~ As I waited for the #9 Greek Village Wolfline bus this morning, a dump truck, towing a tractor on a short flatbed came speeding down Gorman street. It took the driver quite a while to realize that there was a State Trooper in an SUV behind it with its lights flashing for him to … Read more
~Saturday~ I met Patrick Barclay for lunch at noon at The Diner. We had good conversation, and a good brunch once our ham and cheese omelets were whisked away and our actual-ordered three-cheese omelets arrived. They had a shortage of pens there, and to that end they grabbed ours just as soon as we finished … Read more
~Thursday~ After putting the coffee on this morning, I thought, “What time is that damn student e-mail meeting today? I hope it’s not at 9:00.” Checking my work e-mail and calendar remotely, I saw that it was and then grumbled an expletive remembering that I hadn’t done two things that really should be done before … Read more