Looking good there, shrift!

We are going to the Winchester Apple Blossom Festival today

Pretty! Take pictures.

I just had the most heartwarming call from one of my office managers. This practice only treats children for speech and/or occupational therapy. Mostly autistic children. Their office is fun with toys and even has a sandbox. Definitely one of my more interesting practices. They bought a bunch of tablets for their therapists who go on home or school visits and Brendon went by to get them all set up for remote access. He was working at the lunchroom table when one of the children came through. She told me the child had been in therapy for ten years after being diagnosed with echolalia, which is where the child just parrots what is said to them. The therapist said to the child, "This is Brendon, he is fixing our computers". The child turned to Brendon said hi and stuck out his hand to shake. (he did it 3 times and of course, Brendon happily reciprocated) The therapist was overwhelmed and cried with the mother because he never initiates behavior, only mimics it. Of course, DH didn't know this wasn't his normal behavior and has always connected well with kids. So the office manager called me this morning to let me know what had happened, and she was choked up telling me about it. Me, I'm not surprised because children are always drawn to him. Also, filled with awwwww.

My upstairs neighbors are having an open house today. I’m intrigued to see how fast their place goes and for how much. I’m also debating going and taking a look myself - there are some slight differences in our floor plan that I’m curious about.

I’ll miss them as neighbors - hopefully we get someone good when they go. They’re having a baby this summer and moving to a larger place.

Laura, that's so sweet and also amazing.

Wishing you good new neighbors, Brenda.

Swim accomplished. Waiting for DH in the lobby now. I'm going to need some food before we venture forth. Well, and a shower.

Willie Mays is 92 today, and George Clooney is 62. Huh, I hadn't thought about Mr. Clooney being born on the 30th birthday of the Say Hey Kid.

Mr. Mays and I share a middle name, and I have every reason to believe it was deliberate; my parents were both big Giants fans.

Thanks for the birthday wishes, everybody. It's been a rough year, and it would have been so much rougher without you. I wish you all love and every good thing.

Happy birthday Karl. I’m glad you’re here with us and we with you.

Brenda you should definitely go check out the neighbors house!

Going to neighbors' open houses is absolutely a thing. All my neighbors showed up, and a number of people here mentioned they had seen my place at the open house.

I told DH about the call, and he said, "oh yeah, cool kid, we had fun messing around". He likely was oblivious to the kid's issues. eta: He noticed the child "repeated stuff a lot".

I went to a baseball game with family and friends last night. Oakland Athletics at the Kansas City Royals. Both teams are at the bottom of their divisions, which made for a lot of entertaining action on the field: 27 hits (including 3 home runs), 2 errors, and 3 plays I thought should have been scored as errors.

It was a good time.

Just thinking "every good thing" should keep Karl busy at the Wish Fulfillment Center for a while. I definitely feel that I missed a few things lately.(maybe not him, this time, though.) sounds kind of fun, dcp, though I still don't really understand baseball well...my dad trie d to teach me when I was eleven and the Cubs had an unexpectedly great season. Which is cool and all that, but whatever else my dad is, and sometimes as on King of The Hill, there's a lot of else, but he's something of a numerical and strategic *whiz* who tries to explain stuff for...about two minutes. But I'd be happy to hang out and eat hot dogs someday.

I might go tomorrow. I was about to go up today, but as soon as I stepped outside, our third-floor neighbor leaned over her balcony and started shouting at me questions about ‘could I hear voices when they talk’ and how she always can hear them walking around and hear them talking, and basically I got the eff out of there before she could do any more damage.