Retiring Guy

Great day.  It's almost as though I were single, but of course, if I were single, I wouldn't be contemplating yard work.  I'd...

I laze around this afternoon, not getting much done as I drift into a deep reverie listening to Getz-Gilberto and reading the liner notes ...

I meet with Donovan at his office in the morning.  With 2 1/2 months to go until our workshop, it appears to be in good shape as far as p...

I wake up to Eddie's cooing.  Such a sweetheart.  JoAnna's caught some kind of bug, so she's out of commission for most of th...

I count the days off.  One, two, three, four.  Yesterday marked the halfway point of my Christmas vacation.  I wonder if there is anything...

I finish up my Christmas shopping, my top priority for the day.  At first, I encourage Andy to accompany me, but after he declines the in...

How wonderful to wake up on a weekend morning without Barb's family-circle intrusions, her constant presence.  She spent 11 months wit...

Country taping and the drive to Kohl's to buy more blank tapes and Land's End to see if any of the merchandise screams "wife...

I'm up early enough to be on time for a 9:30 meeting but the chance to squeeze in a little taping keeps me tethered to my home worksp...

I go to work at the regular time.  I need to finish preparing the board packet.  I do take the afternoon off, though, and spend the time ...

Shouldn't we wash the sheets today?" I asked JoAnna as we're about the make the bed. "No, let's wait til tomorrow...

LINK is one big happy family now that Pete Hamon has volunteered to be Sugar Daddy, at least for 1992.  Jo Zipsie is euphoric and even ...

Workshop preparation is delayed until the early afternoon.  I spend the morning with the latest issues of Booklist and Library Journal ....

Andy's not interested in going to the library with me.  He's not fully awake by the time I leave and would rather watch TV anyway...

Staff meeting at 8. We have only routine business to discuss. In fact, we're done at quarter to nine, which gives the circ desk sta...

I discover ants in the cupboard.  Lot of ants.  The little critters found the uncapped honey jar.  At least one had drowned in its pursui...

JoAnna takes only one day off this week -- yesterday.  I go back to what I did on Monday, taping tunes from 1968, and make a concerted ef...

The heat wave continues into my first official day of vacation.  Already I've having mixed feelings. Shouldn't I have more exciti...

I think I'm going to get some work done before the Advisory Committee meeting, but JoAnna calls to inform me she forgot her purpose an...

I decide to meet with the Timeline Planning Subcommittee of the Automation Task Force after originally planning to skip it.  We have a ver...