Near blizzard conditions

This was a tiring week. First, I actually had to work a full five days! Then I had a meeting of our Social Justice group on Monday night, then I packed food boxes on Wednesday night, and then I attended a dinner sponsored by the Fenn Foundation on Thursday night. Every year I go to the dinner, which honors our Co-op students, but it just came at a busy time. Consequently, I was looking forward to resting up this weekend. I suppose I will be able to at some point, but today, Sunday, is our packing and delivery day for Christmas angel presents and food. Of course they are predicting near blizzard condition for the afternoon, just to make it more interesting.

Fortunately, I got caught up on everything at work: database updates, web page updates, read and dealt with all the office email, set up appointments next week for candidates’ interviews and did miscellaneous stuff around the office.

Also fortunately, I got some great antibiotics which finally kicked whatever I’ve had since Thanksgiving right out of my head. I feel better now than I have for weeks, Justin time for the big day.

My children will be shocked to learn that I have declared this to be the last year for a real tree. After Christmas, Kathy and I will shop for an artificial one. Of course, we will argue over what size it should be. I want one taller than me, and Kathy wants one shorter than her. I told her I don’t want a Christmas “shrub”. We’ll see what happens.

We have not seen Max for a while. He developed pneumonia, but seems to be coming along. The last time he was here he was having a little problem with diarrhea. He said to his father, “I seem to have dropped something in my pants. Can you help me?”

Back in October we had an event that ran on a Friday and a Saturday. Our director decided the easiest way to handle everyone’s comp time was to give us all the same day off. Consequently, we have closed the office for Monday, December 17. I plan to do some Christmas shopping and malling, as long as the weather cooperates. If not, I might do my shopping on line, though that’s not nearly as much fun.