This collection of entries is from November 23, 2003.
The sleeping situation hasn't gotten any better. I'm not getting any, and Carol isn't either, though we may have gotten a tad bit more last night than the night before.
Today's weather, though 61 degrees, is miserable due to rain. Today is my mother's 74th birthday, so Carol & I went to her house and picked her up to go to... the cemetery. It was time to lay Christmas wreaths on the family graves, so I piled 6 wreaths into the trunk and we went for a quick loop around the cemetery, pausing briefly to get out in the pouring rain, run through the grass dodging goose poop, plant the wreath and get back in the car.
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Then it was off to Diane's house. We're going to go out for dinner, but Diane's ulterior motive was to get me to look at her Sony Vaio PC and figure out what's going on with her CD burner, as well as some virus scanning issues (she doesn't seem to have any, though every once in a while she claims she does get a message saying she does) and disk space issues (had to move over 6 Gb of MP3's over to a different drive so she won't get that nagging XP out/low disk space messages). I had the other issues done and was still troubleshooting the CD burn issue when it was late enough to go to dinner.
We went to a restaurant not far from her house called Settimana Café. Pretty empty and quiet when we got there and no where near that by the time we left. There was a point during dinner that we were almost yelling across the table to each other to be able to be heard over the music and other conversations. (Oh, other than that, the dinner and wine were very good - I'd recommend the place).
I mentioned earlier that it was 61 degrees. When we got into Diane's car after dinner, the temperature was 48 degrees and it was raining harder. Back at her house I verified that the CD burner really doesn't work (oh, did I mention that it doesn't play any audio CD's either?). Diane had purchased a replacement burner that I was going to install. Well, after I finally got the case opened, there was no way I could figure out how to expose the drive bay that the CD drive was in. There were no screws, a couple of latches that didn't seem to do anything to the cage that was covering the drive bays. I can get to two of the screws holding the drive into the bay, but I couldn't get to the other side of the drive, and even then I didn't know if the IDE and power cables were long enough to stretch out the front of the machine. I didn't want to, but I had to give up.
Mom opened her presents. Diane got her a VCR/DVD combo unit so she can finally rent movies again... though I just can't wait to see her try to deal with a DVD for the first time...
By the time we left, the temperature was down to 38 degrees. by the time we dropped off Mom at her house, the rain stopped.
I can't wait to see the weather tomorrow...
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OK, here's my little contribution to the Blogosphere.
Last year, just for the hell of it, I decided to blog about my Thanksgiving Day Turkey preparation. It's boring, but it shows you how I barbecue my turkey. I do this every year and it always turns out really nice.
Now, yes, I realize that my blog gets virtually no traffic. Yes, there's nothing really here to draw you to visit on a regular basis. But to those out there that read this blog and have a blog yourself, how about telling us - OR EVEN BETTER, SHOW US - how your prepare your turkey - or whatever your main meal is - for Thanksgiving Day.
Call it a "Blog-A-Turkey" and - if you want - put a link in the comments to this post to show what you're doing.
Not only is Thanksgiving a time for giving thanks, it's also a time for sharing. Reach out and share your turkey with the blogosphere!
Pass the word!