I wasn’t able to finish the Upside Downer last night. 12:30 rolled around and I was still knitting and listening to the audiobook. I was at the most interesting part in the book but I had to get to bed. This was hardly the most exciting book I’ve ever read but I wanted to learn the outcome. I got up at 7:30 this morning and it was only 30º outside. We didn’t get the rain they predicted for today and the sun even came out for awhile. Today is Barbara’s birthday so I sent her an e-card.
I got a call from Deanna at ten this morning. She was just back from an emergency run to the doctor in Seattle. Yesterday she they discovered she discovered that about six inches of her incision was open and in bad shape. They called and it took three hours for them to finally get a hold of one of ten plus folks on the “team” to tell them what to do. She was told that she could come to ER and sit there for hours waiting to be seen or she could tape it up and come to clinic this morning. They opted to go to clinic today and were there when it first opened this morning. Someone in clinic fixed her up but now it will take an extra three weeks for her to heal up. Unbelievable! I gave her my cell phone number and told her to call me while I’m away if anything comes up.
I finished the knitting the vest just before five and then used the hand sewn method for binding it off. That was done by 5:30 and then I fixed dinner – lamb chops with angel hair pasta in an herb butter sauce. Yum yum! I also finished “The Year of the Fog.” I’ve downloaded a couple more library audiobooks to the MP3 player although I don’t know that I’m going to take it with me to Fort Worden. I can’t really think of anytime I might want to use it but who knows.
The phone repairman showed up here today. I mentioned a couple of weeks’ ago that we’ve been hearing other people’s conversations when we were on the phone. It is called cross-talk. I finally called CenturyTel last night only to discover it is now CenturyLink. I reported the problem to the Repair department. The customer service rep was not exactly Mr. Friendly. He told me this often happens with cordless phones. Never mind we’ve had the cordless phone for a number of years now with no problem. And I think Bill had it happen, too, and he uses the land line. The rep told us to unplug all the phones in the house and leave them unplugged for five minutes and see if that would reset them and solve the problem. He also told us to go out and do that thing with the interface box outside the house. But we weren’t going out in the dark to do that. He asked if we wanted a repair person. By then he had both of us thoroughly aggravated so we told him we’d do the unplugging thing and see what happened. And then, as I said, the repairman turned up this afternoon. He did the interface check and said it was not a problem at our house. I told him it never is. He said something was wrong in the lines between our house and the switch box. Since the lines are underground, I thought that should be interesting. I could tell he was doing something because the internet kept switching on and off over the next little while. Time will tell if he found the problem and fixed it.
I’m going to go watch my weekly “House” and “Castle.” I will have no internet access while I’m gone but I’ll get back home sometime Sunday afternoon. Hopefully I’ll get on long enough to at least let you know Barbara and I made it back safe and sound.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
Hi Diane. Was finally able to get out cyberwalking again and wanted to check on you and see what you were up to ... 
Hi Carol, I get a "lump in my chest" reading your thoughts that you share .. thanks for reminding us how life is a 
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