Tuesday, August 23, 2005

V's spinach pie

Monday: MB headed out to work, but I barely was able to hold my eyes open long enough to say goodbye. Mind you, if a tiger had suddenly materialized in the room, I would have woken up quick enough, I suppose. But I needed sleep... so I did until 10 AM. Slowly up, and ignored my 'no web in the morning rule'... and so of course, the morning was squandered. Very brief sitting and morning practices. Cleaned up the remains of a broken light-bulb on the back porch. Laundry. Returned a call to V (who's had a baking dish of ours for about a year). Headed over to KKC.

Jf found some little towels for me, which had been incorrectly filed. He and and Hm were talking about how hard it is to go back and forth between religious traditions. Filled water bowls, swept up the teaching room, threw out old flowers, etc. We were back to lovely weather today.

In at work, Mk did a lot of talking to B today. Switch over to new SCC system not quite complete. I did a lot of thinking and scribbling, trying to understand how to automatically tune my new data transfer system, given the speed of the system. It's complicated, because there are several variables that interact with each other, and also depend on values that are hardware dependant, and somewhat difficult to measure. Did some actual coding in the late afternoon. In down time, I continued to fuss with the new cell phone. MB had made me a gargantuan sandwich, which I had decimated into many smaller sandwiches. Headed home around 8:15.

Back at the ranch, V had called and set up a meeting with MB to give us back our baking dish. We headed to a parking lot at the other end of town where they had decided to meet. We waited a little while, and then she arrived. The pan had a lovely spinach pie in it. Interest! We had a good conversation about the state of the nation, and her kids, while standing about the parking lot.

Home again, MB and I ate some of the spinach pie while watching about half of "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind." Peaches and ice cream. Then, MB had packing and whatnot to do. I went down basement for completion of practices. She watered plants. After I came back up, a little guitar. She continues to pack upstairs. Not sure when bed will be. It's 2 AM now, and she needs to leave at 5 AM for a business related trip to California, followed by a trip to see her friends in Arizona.

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