“Diane, did you know there’s a dinner reception tomorrow at Curry College so staff and students can meet one another?†It was Saturday and I was prepared to begin my writing course on Monday, not Sunday. “Isn’t that what it says on the schedule? The one they sent you weeks ago?†I filled my plate […]
Carrying a bottle of Dasani, my ticket, Friday’s USA Today, and my suitcase, I trailed Diane, thinking here we go again – seats at the very back of the plane. Matt always sits on the wing and when we fly without him, we usually back up against the bathroom wall. But not this time. Diane […]
Team BCD with one M from 3M Matt devouring The Da Vinci Code; Charlie contemplating poking Matt in the eye.
Susan is right, I don’t have time to add to the blog. I sit in class most of the day and then I come home and try to write. Looking back on my last entry I’d say the writing course has hurt more than it has helped. Maybe it takes time for all this knowledge […]
CATCHING UP The BMW cost $330.00 for various estimates and to fix the oil pump problem that had left Matt’s instructor scratching his head. We whittled down various Alpha Cars recommended to-do’s and gave them only the go ahead to fix the clutch and drive shaft. That came to about $1400.00. I use the past […]
“I used to hate cats. Now I have one.†I thought to myself, you are my age and all of a sudden you can accept something you previously hated? “If you can change, maybe I can. I was talking to a friend this morning and I asked her if she thought memory inhibited change. Instead […]
“I trust the next blog entry will tell the tale of the removal from the Minuteman School to the shop of the BMW. †Hopefully, you will post before you leave your computer for four days, thus abandoning all your loyal readers.†S I’ve been up since 5 am and I have to get up earlier […]
MORE TILES Hung returned Tuesday to tile most of the kitchen. I say most because the pattern is more complex. The grout lines have to match those in the sunroom, and given the shape of the kitchen there are far more cuts to make. He’ll finish the tile today but will he have time to […]
Click for full screen version Dan’s outdoor wireless office. The nearby waiting room
BMW UPDATE This is the last week of auto mechanics class and on Friday we have to drive the car back home. Without an inspection sticker. Dan and I believe creative story telling will suffice if we’re stopped, Diane claims she’ll take Matt to the Vineyard as planned, whether I’m in jail or not. This […]
I stopped at Home Depot to buy thinset and when I arrived at 8:15, Adam and Hung were already discussing Adam’s complex, precisely random, tile pattern. I walked over to where they were standing, ready to join the conversation, when a mosquito landed on my arm. I swatted it, then glanced at Hung, worried that […]
After the pounding din, the silence was riveting. Hung had just walked in and was standing in the kitchen, his face bearing an expression frozen between the hopeless smile one might give an implacable predator, and utter shock teetering on anger. Michael and I were on our knees in the sunroom, more than halfway through […]