After Cyndi sat for the bar, I packed her off to see her family in Louisville and let her bounce off the walls there. After re-arranging everything in her mother's house (we'll get calls for months asking "Cyndi, where did you put the extra table settings?") she has returned to Pacifica for a few days and then we head off to Hawaii to placate Pele. Avoiding Kona and Maui this time, we'll end up in Hilo for an orgy of fun at Hilo Hattie's and to view orchids and waterfalls and maybe even snorkel with the lava.
Last Friday I bid farewell ... or really just a temporary adios ... to my fellows at CNET and the two best iced coffee wranglers in SOMA. I'm now suffering from email DTs as I would get 500 to 1,000 work related emails per day (most of them automated messages that only need be noted and deleted) and to keep up with it all, whenever I was at home I would check my email every hour or so, delete 40 or 50 messages and return to the TV or the cats or Cyndi. Now I get bored, start towards the computer to delete email then pull up short. What do all those retired folks do with all their time?
Speaking of which, I just heard from my friends in Lancaster than the first of them just retired herself just last week. 30 years of library science was enough for her.
While waiting for the jet to take me off to Hilo tomorrow I'm filling my time watching "inside google" videos from video.google.com. Good content, low production values.