Got a call from a classmate we haven't seen in 28 years. He went USAF right out of USNA so we didn't exactly overlap through the decades. We finally happened to be in the same time zone again (he's working contractor support for a PACOM exercise) so he checked in. I've been searching Google and Facebook and TogetherWeServed.com for news & photos but haven't been able to find anything. Luckily none of us have changed a bit.
We're having him over to the house for dinner tomorrow night. Of course that meant today was grocery-shopping morning and food-prep afternoon. Tomorrow will be dessert-baking morning and grilling afternoon.
I've been transferring the contents of the
recommended reading thread over to the blog. The first thing I've (re-)learned is that formatting HTML still sucks. The second thing I've learned is that putting links in a hardcopy book is a waste of time-- perhaps even for an e-reader version. Half of the websites have either reformatted their URLs or gone dark, requiring me to laboriously reconstruct the resource's updated location or find a replacement resource. The publisher says they're done with the book's editing and starting the typesetting so I'm not sure whether or not to raise my newbie-author's hand and ask them to replace those few pages with something a little less perishable.
Spouse is back from her Mainland trip and boy did she have a lot on her mind. She's been involved with two different non-profit organizations who both have their hearts in the right place but who could hardly be more different in execution. She's learned enough from one that the other is beginning to resemble a
"candy-striper my ass" situation. After this six-day trip (her sixth trip off the island this year) she's spending the rest of this afternoon/evening at a board meeting and then tomorrow she'll be doing another 7-8 hours volunteering. I'm beginning to detect subtle symptoms of self-imposed burnout.
I've been listening to live Christian rock for the last couple hours. The house across our cul-de-sac has a church's youth-group leader living there for a few months and he hosts the practices for their garage band. They're actually pretty good.