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So the day after my last post, I continued with cat care and neighborly activities - since both my traveling neighbor and my evacuated neighbor were not around on garbage morning, I put their trash bins and recycle bins out when I did mine.   I'm not sure how Leah was going to carry hers - looked like she had cut up cardboard from cleaning out her basement - and it was heavy, so I felt good about that.  I left a sudoku puzzle out for Leah, I knew she had come over to use my living room…

Note to myself, start writing every day!   At any rate I wasn't sure of a gift for yesterday.   While at the gym in the a.m. there were several news stories about the slew of storms and tornadoes.    The clip they repeated several times was a picture of the tornado coming directly at the building and a woman's voice praying and asking God to let it go by.   Then the news team set out to find her. During the day I may work on employees pc's and someone invariably has the MSN website up - and…

Let's see if I can write something readable here!  I know my weekends are ahead of me when I am mentally making lists somewhere between 2 and 4 a.m., which I was doing yesterday.   I wanted to fit in yoga, work, laundry, groceries, the basketball game, and unfortunately a wake - where I would be paying respects on behalf of my family - my brother in Oregon, my mom in CA.  Originally I thought of taking the wife some piece of writing - but anything seemed inadequate.  A great couple going…

Yesterday I was on the phone with support people ALL day - literally.   My ear hurt - especially when I have the headset cradled so I can use two hands to type.   I am still up to my ears in the proverbial alligators sorting the new system out and devising adequate recovery plans.   And definitely out of sorts about the whole thing because it is one of the reasons we hired our consulting company.   At any rate by the end of the day I was mentally exhausted, should have gone to yoga but chose…