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Week of 5 November 2007

Latest Update: Sunday, 11 November 2007 3:30 p.m


Monday, 5 November 2007

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We only played nine holes yesterday afternoon but it was good to get out. The advantages to teeing off later in the morning are not only the warmer weather but the dew has dried and the rising sun is not right in our faces playing the holes facing due east. I time yesterday afternoon to finish up a couple computer projects and get my desk cleared off. 

Last night Bob and I watched the last Inspector Lynley. Very surprising ending. I will not give it away just in case you plan to watch them.

I had a very busy day at work today. It is a good thing I am comfortable working with spreadsheets. I am entering a lot data in a couple of spreadsheets I set up. By last this afternoon I was almost cross eyed. I went to the gym from work. It was good to get a good physical workout after frying my brain during the day.

Guess I better go. I have some bills to pay before settling down to rest and get in some playtime with the dogs.


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Tuesday, 6 November 2007

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Yesterday was Guy Fawks Day which is celebrated In England on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. How fitting that I started reading Carola Dunn's 2006 book Gunpowder Plot. Daisy, now very pregnant, has gone to an old school friends home for the 1924 celebration of Guy Fawks Day. Daisy intends to write an article about the history of the celebration. "Lord" of the Manor, Sir Harold Tyndall tries to control his children and his wife much to the consternation of his three daughters and one son. All three daughters lost finance's/husbands in the war. Son Jack, instead of taking on the ancestral home prefers to go into aeronautical engineering.

The big day arrives bringing celebration, fireworks, and murder. Daisy's Scotland Yard husband Alec is called in to investigate which naturally gets Daisy right in the middle of things. It took the library system forever to get this and the most recent book in her series which I why I am just now getting around to reading this one.

Yesterday UPS delivered our author copies of Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders. Allow me to brag on my husbands efforts. Of all the books he has written and the ones I have helped with, this is by far the best one he has ever done. I say that not just because he is my husband, but also because it really is the best guide you can buy for beginning astronomers. If you or someone you know  is interested in astronomy as a hobby you need a copy of this book.

When I was just starting to learn astronomy we bought and used a wide variety of books to assist us in locating double stars, deep sky objects, binocular objects, etc. All of them were helpful in guiding me to the objects I needed to find. But, being able to use one book to pinpoint the all those objects for each constellation would have made things much easier and less frustrating. 

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Wednesday, 7 November 2007

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Ah. Middle of the week. Not much in the news. Gym after work. On the weather front, tonight is to be the coldest of the season so far getting down to 30 and maybe even dipping into the high 20's in some places.

Bob and I are watching the third and last season of Veronica Mars. Great show. Very Buffy like.



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Thursday, 8 November 2007

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Friday, 9 November 2007

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I had Friends meeting last night followed by the weekly grocery shopping. I decided to step down from the Board next year. I have been on for six or more years and feel it is time for someone else to serve. Since we elect our new Board in January they are now looking for volunteers to replace myself and a few others who are going off. I wanted to give them time to find someone to take secretary as well as filling my position on the Board.

We are still in the middle of our Veronica Marsathon.

When I got home tonight Bob had just finished up a telephone interview with an editor. I guess Malcolm took exception to Bob having the gate up to his office and/or just got bored with life. Bob came out of office into the den while I was coming in the downstairs door. The floor and couch were covered with something that had been shredded. Turns out Malcolm, the thief, stole an empty plastic Dent Stix wrapper from the trashcan by the couch where I sit. The bags are pretty touch plastic so hopefully he just shredded it and did not try to eat any of it.  


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Saturday, 10 November 2007

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I didn't get to the weekly house cleaning last week so I tackled that first thing this morning. By the time I finished up it was around 10am. I hauled out the blower and leave vacuum to start a a major leave cleanup. I blew the leaves from the natural area by the house and along the drive onto the driveway then blew all those leaves to the street. There was half a bushel of leaves on the driveway alone. After clearing the natural areas I cranked up the vacuum having it nice and clean by noon. After my lunch break I mowed the front then started all over again in the back.

Blew the leaves from the lower part of the drive and off the natural area in front of the deck, vacuumed, then mowed. All done by 2pm. With a couple of rest breaks between the vacuuming and mowing it still only tool a total of about 4 hours which was not bad for as many leaves as I had down. There are still a lot left to fall. And, with the temperatures to back up in the low 70's the grass will still need mowing by a couple of times.

I finished the Daisy last night and started another Anne Perry, Half Moon Street.



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Sunday, 11 November 2007

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Last night I went out to dinner with Frances and Marcie. We went to a very nice, casual dinning Italian restaurant. Pizza, stromboli, pasta, etc. I had a very good eggplant with mozzarella on penne pasta dish.

I caught up on my ironing this morning before leaving around 11 to pick up dad for nine holes. It is a beautiful day. Temperatures in the mid 50's with light winds. I stayed to visit a little when we got back to the house.

Now to tackle the usual Sunday pile of junk on my desk, read websites, etc. Tonight we are having dinner with Paul and Mary at the Mexican restaurant. Hum, a no cooking weekend. Nice.



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