Nothing to see here

Housework progress:
Cleaned bathroom sink, bag of clothes to charity (high time I gave away the dress I wore to johno's wedding in '95), boxes out of front hall, ironed 11 shirts, snow boots back into closet (optimist!), cloak into closet, heavy winter coat ditto, moth-holes in cashmere scarf darned, got tailor's estimate for mending green skirt (nevermind), dry cleaning dropped off, hanging basket for onions mended.

Short-term pending:
Pick up unmendable green skirt and dry cleaning, clean toilet chassis, bleach bathtub mat, vacuum bedroom, inventory box of Aunt Gail's Star Trek books, mop kitchen floor.

Not a power play

Really. Just because the seneschal's under the weather and needs one of her deputies to fill in (Brokk or Justin) and if Brokk comes Rozi can't because their baby's a little sick too, so she'll need a fill-in secretary....

I told Eleanor that it was OK to tell both Brokk and Rozi to stay home, and Justin & I would just handle the meeting. Councils have been kind of short, lackadaisical, and pointless lately anyway -- no "spirited debate" like we used to have in the Old Days when Steve and Cardinal Michael used to get going, so running the meeting should not be too difficult.