As Sunday Winds Down...

It was a good weekend, not too frantic and just social enough to make it interesting.

I find that if I have planned meals for myself, I am much more upbeat than when simply grab a frozen meal from the freezer.  I guess it is the sense of accomplishment.  The other upbeat meal is when I am eating with someone.  That proves to be a very positive experience.

Thursday I signed the papers for the refi on the house.  I am taking out a 30 year fixed at a very favorable rate. This gets me out of the issue of doing a refi in 5 years on an adjustable for the simple reason that I am 63 and I may or may not be working in five year and therefore may or may not be able to refi the house then.  It is now fixed and will not change.  Fini.

Friday was the completion of a big push at work. We finished the BoD presentation at 3PM in the afternoon so we could "relax" which for me means firing up on the ET Conference which is the big event that will start in December with abstract submissions and end in May after the 8 city tour.  We then had a couple of BoD presentation issues that needed resolution that caused me to leave after 6PM. I had been hoping for an early departure but it didn't happen.

Saturday turned out to be a lazy day. I did drop off my dry cleaning but that was late in the afternoon as I headed to Erin's goodbye party.  Erin is the Habitat for Humanity executive who is going to take a year and earn her MBA in Madrid.  It was a very nice party and all in all was a very pleasant event on a beautifully blue sky day with warm temperatures and very mild breezes.  Erin promises she will post pictures from the party, but as of this writing they are not on her website www.erinbyer.com

Early Saturday, MaryR and I decided to go see a movie after the party for Erin.  A short time later, Thomas and Susan, co-workers from Germany, called to see if I was free for dinner--they were in town.  Because I had committed to Mary, I turned Susan and Thomas down.  Later in the afternoon, Mary then let me know she was going to cancel--she was whipped after her regatta trip to Canada and wanted to rest--so I connected with Thomas and Susan and we met at a pizza place in Mountain View.  The pizza place was one of Susan's favorites when she was a student at Stanford and it apparently hasn't changed in the years since then.  Because it was in Mountain View where Ingrid lives, I asked if she'd join us and she did.  Thomas and Susan had been regular readers of the blog about Mary's year with cancer and they wanted to meet Ingrid who had done so much.  It was also fun because Thomas and Ingrid are both from Munich and from time to time all three of them would describe the world through German eyes.  Lots of laughing.

Sunday morning I met MaryR at the Purple Onion.  Ingrid did not join us because she is getting ready for a trip to Munich to be at her parents 60th anniversary!  Mary and I had a nice chat and I learned all about her week at the Regatta.  She had multiple boats for which she performed her Coxswain duties--and one of them medaled!  Great trip.

I got my hair cut after the Onion and then back home to check up on and work on "other stuff" for the BoD meeting.  I certainly hope we've got it all covered.

The day is almost done. Maybe one TV show and then off to bed.

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