I swear, just one paragraph about dirty dishes, and then I’ll move on. I got home yesterday, and the previous night’s dirty dishes were still in the sink. I washed them. The Professor was annoyed, and said I should have saved them for him. I told him I had saved them for him, and they…
Two pieces of news from a single phone call just now. My mother’s estate has finally been settled. I’ll be receiving a check for a little more than $82,000 this weekend. Damn, I didn’t want this money. I wanted her to spend it on herself. She refused to touch the principle on any of her…
Maybe it’s just me, but I like to clean the dishes off the table when a meal is done. Even if we were just going to sit around talking for a while, I’d rather do that without being surrounded by greasy plates with bits of gristle and breadcrumbs on them. I’m not talking about washing…
Jamisinc: In the beginning, the deal was that we’d split everything 50/50 chore-wise. That (for obvious reasons) didn’t last too long. The Professor hates cooking. In fact, I’d take it a step further and say he’s intimidated by it. When he lived alone, he ate every meal out, or had take-away. He at first said…
This morning I slept in until about 9:00. I might have even slept later, except that was when The Professor decided he was tired and came in to bed. He’s still in asleep now, and it’s given me the whole day to myself. I’ve wasted the entire day. I played Snood (rather disinterestedly – it…
I added the Professor to my AAA membership last night in anticipation of our trip to Oregon on August. The car rental is far less expensive if we’re both on AAA, and I’ll feel better if he’s on it anyhow. The idea was originally to get him his own Triple A membership, but it was…
I found a half brown/half white hair on my desk just now. No, that isn’t the odd part. I’m of an age where the white hair is starting to make in-roads on my scalp. One more white hair taking over a brown hair is hardly a surprise. The surprise came when I investigated a bit…
The Professor and I saw “AI” yesterday afternoon. I wanted to see it before there was a lot in print about the movie. I’d heard there were some interesting plot twists to it, and indeed there were. The Prof and I spent a fair amount of time last night finding flaws, inconsistencies and unexplained jumps…
I co-administer a message board out in cyberspace. Recently, the group of us who meet regularly on the board have gotten caught up with our own affairs and the message board has become very slow. One of the Europeans was feeling particularly left out of things, because there was seldom anyone around when he visited…
Well, last night The Professor gave the final exam to his summer session class. I can’t believe that first session is now over. (Neither can he.) This means that he won’t be working again until September. A contact of his at the college did mention the possibility of a counseling position for the remainder of…