Hey, I'm ba-a-a-ack! Yes, in case you didn't miss me I spent three whole days away from the rattle-and-hum of the toymaking sphere, the cat and the computer and the 12x70 tin enclosure I call home.
The cat, doleful as ever, seems to have eaten less than she does when we're around. I swear she eats more when we're home because she thinks we're competition for her bowlful of fishy kibbles and bits.
A short absence like that always means a boxful of mostly worthless emails upon returning, of course. Amazing how many varieties of come-ons and schemes show up on a daily basis. What a waste of time and energy. Multiplied by the thousands, nay, millions of times it goes on, day after day... Tsk, tsk. How better all that could be spent. But, hey, who are we kidding? Where the bottom line is concerned is anybody seriously thinking this particular shell game is going away anytime soon? No.
But I digress! It was a very, very nice three days spent in the company of family and friends. Thousands of them, literally. Got to explore scenic Reading PA just a little bit. Directed by one new acquaintance the first night to a great Chinese buffet. You know that was a real highlight for moi! I likes my coconut shrimps, Forrest. Too bad its over sixty miles from home, just a smidge too far for casual dining on any given weekend.
Only fifteen, maybe twenty miles from my part-time workplace though... hmmm....
Greeted plenty of old friends, indoor picnicking lunch, pitched in off and on for some crowd control- meaning standing by answering questions like 'Where's the ladies' room?' and 'Do these stairs go up?'("No, but you can go up on them...") -and cleaning duties too. ( Reminding me why I gave up that line of work but, hey, anything for a good cause... ugh...!)
All with a close-to-home-friend-in-tow, a recent foot surgery patient with a few weeks of convalescence remaining, she enlisted our assistance with her wheelchair for the duration. We got the better of the deal, I think, with handicapped seating on the floor of the venue where the air conditioned air- heavier than the warm air rising from those five thousand and some odd souls respiring repeatedly -gathered in bunches, making the requisite coat and tie not only endurable but welcome.
Circumstances beyond our control made it possible to spend the two nights in a nice economical hotel rather than drive back and forth as I previously expected to do. Saved plenty of wear on the car... and us, that extra hour and a half of sleep in the AM we would have spent driving made a big difference in wakefulness throughout the day, lemme tell ya.
Even so, recuperating from three days out of town will take another two days at least. So it was a sleepy, sleeping in sort of day today.
Which, no doubt, is why I'm still goofing off here at three in the morning! Yaaahhhh!
Good night already!
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