It's Saturday noon and the tire man has a phone interview. That usually means he's on a radio show. Lucky is beginning to pace around looking for more napping spots. I am looking for any way to put off Sat. chores.
Last night we had an all staff meeting to hear about the library bldg. expansion. It only amounts to 13,000 sq. ft. but it will mean a lot of books to move. I enjoyed being able to sit back and think about how I wouldn't have to move any of them since I'll be retired. The circulation people seemed pretty up in arms over a second drive up window and 1-person circ desk that is in the new plan. The Adult section will get a rather large chunk of that 13,000 sq. ft. with much of it devoted to audio-visual. The library world is really changing faster than a speeding bullet. Yesterday I also attended an audio teleconference on our new language learning database called Tell Me More. It is absolutely amazing!
Meanwhile, to add to my post about stuff in the Cool Springs area. Less than a mile down the main road from us, Carothers, is an amazing business district. There must be more than a dozen business buildings all about 6 stories tall. I have no idea what businesses are there other than the new Nissan headquarters. The traffic at the morning and evening rush hours never bothers us, and, once again, they must generate a lot of tax revenue. If all the workers got to live in all the nearby houses, they would have nice little 5 miles commutes like I do. Not to mention becoming COOL, if they aren't already.
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Bill and I had a wonderful time with Dave and Erin at Erin's parents, Roger and Muriel Pfaff, in Marietta, GA. We drove down on Sunday and spent 2 nights at a Drury Inns & Suites, but ate all our meals (except the free breakfast at the motel) with the Pfaff's. Erin has one sister, Alison, and her boyfriend, Mike, were also in attendance. Mike is a med student at MCV, where Bill's brother Jim went (a few year's ago!).
We got hooked on dominoes, which we played when we weren't eating one of Murierl's wonderful meals. Of course, when we played we ate homemade cookies and candy, made by Erin and her mom. Dinner Sunday night was a wonderful chicken dish over pasta; Christmas Eve was 2 kinds of hearty homemade soups and homemade rolls; and Christmas dinner was prime rib. Wow! Were we impressed. Best thing to me: sticky pecan rolls at Christmas breakfast. Super yum.
On Christmas Eve we went to a candlelight service at 11:00 p.m. at the Pfaff's Lutheran church. It felt very similar to our Methodist candlelight service. I think the big Christmas present was something called a Wee, an interactive games thingy played on your TV. Like all playstation things, it's beyond me.
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Favorite Quotes
Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life . . . PicassoBe who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind . . . . . . . Dr. SeussThe truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away . . . Robert M. Pirsig "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret . . . Henri-Fredric AmielWhat worries you, masters you . . . . Haddon W. RobinsonWhen we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience , so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape . . . Louise Erdrich in The Plague of Doves
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