shrift, I'd be happy to collect keys for you if necessary.

Thanks, David. We should have wifi, so I may shoot you an email next week once the leasing office gets back to me.

Trying to move my desk away from the window has resulted in me scratching paint off the wall. Well, I guess Future Me gets to deal with that.

I think I'm done packing my suitcase!

minus t! For you:

Oooh, pretty! Thank you!

Have 5k'd. Mom came in first in her age group, Dad second in his, me 14th in mine (with a very slow time but it was hot and hilly, so whatever. But I need to get back to regular training runs). Fun time, pretty medals. Currently lying on the floor trying to stretch out my hip before driving home...

Apartment vacuumed, including the entryway and all the stairs that the maintenance guy gouged holes in with his ladder last week, spattered plaster bits all over, and then abandoned. But, in less choreful news, one of my San Diego college-era peeps just IM'd me to say that she's at Sox's books, beer and tacos event right now! Yay!

sj, hope all is well with kidney stuff!

Man, I'm so tired today I am sick to my stomach. But I have a world of stuff to do before bed. Blargh.

I got to tour the water filtration station! And it was just as awesome as I hoped. And we got to see a filter flush and it's somewhat mind boggling how the basic design is unchanged in a hundred years, that's just how well it was thought out. Sure, the mechanicals have been updated and capacity increased, but the process is just the same. I mean, they're still using white oak in the flocking tanks (switching it out to a fiberglass, but the wood does just as good a job.)

It was cool. And the fair part was as well. Two nature centers brought in birds (owls, Hawks, vultures) and turtles and snakes. Historical societies had cool stuff to go through, food trucks, good bands. Letitia VanSant was playing while I was there and commented humorously " I had no idea a party for a water filtration plant would be, well, this much of a party!" They had plenty of stuff for kids like face painting, a huge Lego station and various art tables. Also art vendors and stuff. Oh and the mayor dedicating the new historical marker.

Oh and free bikes to ride around the lake! I went to borrow one towards the end but there was already a waiting list, so I bailed.

Really nice event, the kind that makes you want to hug the city and its people. Everyone was so dang happy...about a water filtration plant.

And then I went to Hampdenfest, but I was hot and peopled out so didn't even last to see the toilet bowl races beyond the test runs.

Thanks, Kat. The dye test didn't show any blockages or kidney reflux. So we don't know why one of ltc' kidneys isn't fully emptying. She's on an antibiotic now, and we're hoping that solves the problem before her next ultrasound.

Poor noodle. Bodies are so complicated. It's a wonder how often we survive things.

So our rain barrel is 2/3rds full. But I'd like to water the lawn. Apparently the bricks aren't high enough and we need cinder blocks instead. I guess we'll work on draining it and lifting it tomorrow?

Very cool, sarameg!

I hope the antibiotics do the trick, sj.

I think my eyeballs got sunburned.

Certainly my shoulders are. Too much humidity for the sunscreen to hold up.

Ugh. I am feeling super depressed. I'm supposed to be having a fun weekend with my bestie, but instead am just feeling left out because everyone I'm seeing on this trip is married and most of them have kids. Last night we hung out with my aunt and uncle, cousins and their spouses, and baby. Tonight with a friend of BFF's, and tomorrow meeting that friend and her spouse and two kids. Tomorrow night, hanging out with an old coworker of ours and her husband. And I just feel shitty. I've been horribly cranky all day and I hate it.