life in the old lane

Woke up this morning. Glorious sunny fall morning. It is “Scone Day” in the building. Carlton went down got me a scone. I was enjoying my coffee and scone – I let myself off the diet leash until Nov 1. Punch up my widgets and I found the snow icon on tomorrow’s weather. WTF??? It isn’t Halloween yet.  Good news is – I don’t think it will cause any travel problems for us.

But, it sure means that anything that needs doing outside the building needed done today.

Usually when I travel I am prepared for every thing that I can imagine going wrong. What if my box of clothes isn’t at the hotel? What if the box I mailed doesn’t arrive? What if it rains? What if it doesn’t rain? What if we have to go to a funeral? What if we decide to go to a fancy dress ball? What if Martians invade? What if my camera breaks?

This year I decided on the less is more approach. I am taking one camera. I haven’t decided about taking my backup drive. If I get to Kona and my hotel box is missing – I can go up to Wal Mart and get shorts with elastic waists and granny panties. If the box I mailed doesn’t arrive – I can get a new wet suit. If my camera floods, and it might, Amazon will  send me a new one. If my sandals expire – Zappos is waiting. If we have to go to a funeral – there is a 50/50 chance that it will be a “local kine” funeral and shorts with clean t-shirt is what one wears. Fancy dress ball – we a talking Kona here – it isn’t gonna happen. Martians invasion – well, I hope my camera is still working!

 

If you are a vintage citizen – you really don’t want pictures of yourself that haven’t been “softenskin” and “glow” post processed! (Cell phone picture from today’s office party.)

First the volunteer job has be crazy this week. When I wanted to be working less, I have been working more.

Second, when I came home today – I found that our carpet was being reinstalled, the gas company came to check out a gas leak, repairs were made to the gas line into the water heater, a guy was working on my chair that got way too wet during one of our floods, and finally a wall got painted. And this was all after 1:30. Goodness knows what happened during the morning.

Not much got knocked off my going to Kona 2do list.

Detoured thru The Nature Conservancy’s “weed lot” to take in some nice fall colors on the way home from work today.

Carlton got stuck in traffic for an hour on the Beltway this afternoon. He was not a happy camper when he got home. His tennis partner wasn’t happy either. Carlton was supposed to be playing tennis – but he was stuck in traffic. His partner called the apartment and refused to believe that Mr C did not have a cell phone and I did not have a clue as to where he was.

Making some progress on my Kona 2Do List. Carlton being MIA helped – rather that worry about were the man was – I worked on the 2Do List.

Don’t think I’ll ever go to my own college homecoming. Been to Carlton’s once. That was more than enough. But, I never miss the Howard University Homecoming Parade.

There usually isn’t any reason to vote in Arlington – because only Democrats run. If you care you vote in the Democratic primary. But, the bastard Republican controlled state government gerrymandered our state legislative seats. So, we have to be sure to go vote or our Democratic State Senator will lose. And we need every possible Dem in the state legislature – otherwise it will get very ugly.

Speaking of ugly. Anarchy. I suspect that I will see good old fashioned anarchists gain a stronghold in the US. I don’t know when we last had anarchists in the US. I don’t mean intellectual wonky anarchists like Noam Chomsky. I mean fire breathing bomb tossing anarchists like Joe Hill and Emma Goldberg from early in the last century.