A low-key birthday weekend

[msmemory_archive]

Friday - Covering for G on the reception desk. Spent a lot of time finding out who was going to be in the office on Monday (12 out of 40). Out to dinner at Papa Razzi (competent risotto with chicken, and a mediocre Valpolicella).

Saturday - Spent time looking for my Daystars meeting notes, unsuccessfully, not for the first time either. I know they're on a yellow legal pad, and I can visualize them in my mind's eye but not read them thus. Went to Costco for my birthday present, none in stock so got it at the Apple store instead. Pretty iPod :) Shiny black with silver trim, not that you can see that through the bright red jacket. Ripped a handful of CDs to get started. New toy!!
I'm a little sorry we didn't trek out to Glenn Linn for the Pelican elevation, but I have no fond memories of that event/site, so no motivation.

Sunday - Actual birthday. Still no luck finding Daystars notes. Went out to Nashoba Winery for some of their new mead and reisling and several other things. Picked up yet another small load of random stuff from storage. I think we ought to just clear out the big storage unit at the risk of making a holy mess of our family room, and cancel that expensive payment. Very strange not to get a present or phone call from Mother: I am coming to understand why holidays are weird right after a death. Dinner at Gargoyles on the Square, as recommended by goldsquare and nudgeprincess. I had the tuna tartare appetizer and the duck confit, which were both terrific. We'll be back.

Monday - Moomba party in the afternoon, featuring hot tub. Conversations are just a little weird when everyone present has read everyone else's LJ and several other common friends' journals as well. Then baronial council (count them: 18 people!). jdulac can't find Daystars notes either. Council was so brief we had time to go to a movie afterward: The Devil Wears Prada. Streep was fabulous as ever, and Anne Hathaway is just beautiful.

Tuesday - actual Independence Day. Did some LibraryThing data entry while watching the World Cup - oh I am a librarian through and through: I do cataloging for recreation!! Also a little yard work til it started to rain, but at least I proved the extension cords will let me get the string trimmer down to the untended "back 40." Went to elizabear and dsr's annual party, where we saw most of the usual suspects. Dorothy asked me if I'll be a reference for her and Jim on their application for local senior housing. From there we headed downtown to the Pops and fireworks concert. This year, instead of staking out a sitting spot, we decided to walk all the way around the loop, down Mem Drive on the Cambridge side, across the Salt-and-Pepper bridge, back up Storrow to the Mass Ave bridge where we had a splendid vantage point for the fireworks.
At home, found email from E, who took her usual obsessively detailed notes at the Daystars meeting and has bailed me out [grovel]! I hadn't realized how stressy I was about screwing up on that poll, til this morning when I know I can rip through that puppy this afternoon, whew!

Comments

[citrine-moon.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

::hugs::

[silme.livejournal.com]

Happy belated birthday! Sorry for being behind -- I especially shouldn't forget a fellow (sister?) Cancer.

And yes, I think any sort of holiday right after a death is particularly difficult.

[redsquirrel.livejournal.com]

Happy belated birthday to you and also far too overdue consolations on your mother's passing. I guess the two so close together is weird.

Glad you managed to have a fun birthday weekend.

[jdulac.livejournal.com]

happy belated birthday!

[wench33.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!!!


Nashoba is making mead?? Was it any good?

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's brand-new, and good. They call it "semi-dry" which is fairly sweet but not as gooey sweet as the stuff I make myself.

[wench33.livejournal.com]

you make mead ? Have you brought any to Pennsic?

looove mead I does!!!

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

I brought half a case of beer bottles full last year, and took most of it home again :( Maybe next year, eh?

[wench33.livejournal.com]

you mean this year ? I totally volunteer to help you not have to bring mead home :)

[jducoeur]

Ah -- you haven't yet sampled Caitlin's Meady-Pop. It's a favorite among those of us who like our mead sweet and fizzy. She's got a magic touch with the stuff -- it's consistently good, and rather inexplicably keeps for years longer than is supposed to be possible with sweet mead...

[wench33.livejournal.com]

We drove past you today!!

I LOVE sweet fizzy mead. What does she like to be bribed with ???

[ealdthryth.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

oh I am a librarian through and through: I do cataloging for recreation!!

Me too! I bought Readerware (all 3 modules). I have had a great time scanning barcodes. I have manually entered stuff too. My husband just doesn't get why I am so excited about cataloging stuff!

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Do you use a CueCat scanner, or what?

[ealdthryth.livejournal.com]

It's an unmodified CueCat that came free with the software. It takes me a few tries to get most barcodes until I get on a roll, but it works pretty well. I discovered that I can also just open a text file and scan into that, then cut and paste the list into Readerware. Some of my books have ISBNs but not barcodes. I just typed the ISBNs into a text file, one per line, then pasted the list into the software. It looks up the info online from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and some others. Pretty nifty!

I have just gotten started with the books. I did the video and audio first because there are far fewer of those than the books!

[katherine-barr.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday!

[ohsusana.livejournal.com]

Belated, yet sincere.

Here's to many more!!!!!!