8/28/2016

August 28, 2016

Well, it's taken all summer, but the broken light pole has been removed, and the landscape project is compete. Even the dumpster issues have improved. It has divided the community - those who think all these things (and other areas of concern as well) dragged on much too long, and those who think that “things happen” and that the Board and Management did all they could to make things better here. I'm in the first group.

I didn't really have a very good start to the day on Wednesday. I spilled coffee on my phone, but luckily, it still works just fine. My laptop was blank, and I couldn't turn it on. I tried a few things with it, but what it needed was time; it mysteriously returned to the land of living later in the day. While I copied all my photos from past years onto a stick not long ago, and I generally make printed copies of documents in want to save, I have a lot of stuffed stored on the laptop that I really don't want to lose. As I dried my hair, my hairdryer died. It, also, came back, and this isn't a great loss as I have another dryer in the guest room bath. It just seemed as if all this happened suddenly, and I was left wondering what to have fixed first. I had a nice afternoon, however, as I met Connie for lunch, just us two. She showed my pictures of her visit to Maine to see Donna and told me of all the fun things they saw and did. It was really nice to have some time with her. 

 

Thursday, I attended a lecture at the Jepson. It seems like a very long time since I'd been there. This was on Gary Melchors, who was a prolific artist and artist head of the Telfair Art Museum from 1906-1916. The Telfair owns a few of Melchors works and others are borrowed and currently on display. It was informative and entertaining. 

 

Saturday, I went to see Jason Bourne at the movies. Since I like to see movies aimed at the pre-school audience, this was unusual for me. But I went with Tom, and he's seen all the other Bourne movies, and he likes them. He could fill me in on how this one fit in with the other ones, and this one left it wide open for yet another movie in the future.