laramie

This morning the sky was that heart-rending blue, between the flocks of little clouds. I just missed the #19 bus, but was alerted to the fact by the person I pass every morning who waits on the opposite corner. Thus warned, I was wary and avoided boarding the #52 to the University by the same mistake I made the other day. On the bus I was reading Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy Sayer. It was listed first among the titles of works in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, but I suspect that was an alphabetical not chronological list and I've got it out of order. Ah well; I'm hooked now and not about to stop to find the correct beginning of the series. During my lunch break yesterday I went to the Barnes and Noble and bought this book along with a couple other, fantasy, titles. I wanted to get Ombria in Shadow by McKillip, but it was twice the price of most paperbacks and I thought I'd better wait until I can get to Uncle Hugo's and check the used section. I can't really afford to be buying any books right now, but an addict's got to have her fix, doesn't she?

At the team meeting in the morning we gave Ken a sympathy card, noting the death of the cat he had kept for sixteen years. He's one of the best Team Leaders I've known - a real human being. I picked up the card the night before when I went to the Rainbow to get a few groceries and a couple lottery tickets. Before the meeting I got everyone to sign it (except for Mary H, who I didn't see). Most of the day was not notable: the usual mail problems and Sleeping DCA cases.

At home, when I'd watched Friends and played some computer games I went upstairs and spent some time with my mandolin, playing some of the songs I've been working on memorizing: Turning Toward the Morning, River, Bedlam Cats, The Mary Ellen Carter and John O Dreams. I also sang Rollin in My Sweet Baby's Arms before I was done.

I'm coming out of the post-convention fog enough to start remembering all the more practical things I need to catch up with this weekend. On one evening this week I made a master for some tags to put on my bookmarks; on another day I made a call to The Metaphysical Emporium where I've had some on consignment since early in the year – with no sales; I arranged to come in on Saturday and pick them up. I also want to get ready to bring some of them to M'OR Designs downtown, and for that I want to prepare a nice display. I feel that I should have done more during the week toward that, but it's been too hard to motivate myself after a full day's work on the day job. C'est la vie. I'll do what I can.

At the same time I'm committed to finalize the graphics for the Farview web site, and to finish making the new photo galleries and a new form for the KEEY site along with a few other tweaks, and now I've committed to do some graphics for Mike's gaming site. In the meanwhile there's housework and yard work that's been piling up. I don't think I'm going to get much rest this weekend, but in any event, I mean to attend the Rise Up Singing circle on Sunday evening.