Musings

Had a great weekend in Beantown with my daughter, son, daughter-in-law and my precious granddaughter who turned four last Monday.

They had a birthday party at a place called "My Gym". It's an indoor playground with lots of things to jump or slide on, room for running around, etc. The kids loved it.

When their energy flagged, they were served cake and juice. Sugar is AMAZING! In no time, they were running around like banshees!

Things are quiet here. Cathy felt lousy when we got home on Monday so she's been either working or in bed since. Well, she had to finish the budget so it could be presented at the board meeting Tuesday night and she had to do the payroll today.... But she's taking it easy now and I hope she'll feel better soon.

I did some computer work for a neighbor yesterday. Poor guy lives alone and is wheelchair bound (he has no legs, he told me and the fake ones fall off if he falls down), and I guess he's a little starved for company. Anyway, I got to hear about what he did as a top mechanical design engineer for a Fortune 500 company and how they keep bringing him back as a consultant even though he trained his replacement for 6 years -- she's a woman and they don't trust her. My friend says he depends on her to be his eyes and legs, and then he asks her opinion before he presents to manangement. He said he's never deviated from what she suggested but "if they want to pay me to say the words, I'm not going to complain!" Interesting guy. He apparently has more money than he knows what to do with, but he's clearly not a well person.

Are the Red Sox settling back to playing mediocre baseball? I hope not. They got a break today when their number 5 starting pitcher was rained out, but I keep holding my breath. They came back from 5-0 in the last of the 9th the other day and my son's friend asked why I wasn't cheering when it was over. I guess we don't want to tempt the fates when we get lucky!