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Dull day
I've had plumbers in the house all day. This is what happens when you live in a 100-year-old building with very old pipes. It's no emergency; they're just dealing with a variety of issues all at once, and, of course, finding things more complex than originally thought. But, of course, this means I'm sitting around the apartment instead of doing more exciting things, like grocery shopping. ;-)
We had major storms and wind yesterday. We lost power at the office a couple of times, just briefly, in the late afternoon. It was probably not the best day for the IT people to tell us to leave our computers on at the log-on page so they could do some stuff over the weekend! Because I did that, but I know the power went out after I left, because some of us were hanging around the parking garage watching the storm and the lights dimmed. There were actually people taking the elevator in the garage! Got home to find that some of my plants did not fare so well. I had a small marjoram plant on my kitchen window sill, and had left that window open, as I generally do. No rain got in, but the wind had blown it onto the floor, so out came the vacuum cleaner to suck up all the dirt. My basil has been growing like Jack's beanstalk, and the very tallest bit got blown over and the stem broken. So I cut it off the rest of the way and will make pesto!
Other than that, it's been a rather full week. On Monday, Teatro Vista board/ensemble members got together to get a mailing out, and drink margaritas and eat nachos. Tuesday was the last Italian class of the session, and I have decided not to take classes this summer. The various road construction projects have made getting up there after work sheer hell, particularly when there's a Cubs game going on. Wednesday I went to hear Mary Beth Raycraft talk about her book, A Parisienne in Chicago: Impressions of the World's Columbian Exposition. And Thursday after work there was a going away party for one of my colleagues who has taken a job as chief Public Defender in one of the downstate counties.
So it's been busy, and I can use the rest!
We had major storms and wind yesterday. We lost power at the office a couple of times, just briefly, in the late afternoon. It was probably not the best day for the IT people to tell us to leave our computers on at the log-on page so they could do some stuff over the weekend! Because I did that, but I know the power went out after I left, because some of us were hanging around the parking garage watching the storm and the lights dimmed. There were actually people taking the elevator in the garage! Got home to find that some of my plants did not fare so well. I had a small marjoram plant on my kitchen window sill, and had left that window open, as I generally do. No rain got in, but the wind had blown it onto the floor, so out came the vacuum cleaner to suck up all the dirt. My basil has been growing like Jack's beanstalk, and the very tallest bit got blown over and the stem broken. So I cut it off the rest of the way and will make pesto!
Other than that, it's been a rather full week. On Monday, Teatro Vista board/ensemble members got together to get a mailing out, and drink margaritas and eat nachos. Tuesday was the last Italian class of the session, and I have decided not to take classes this summer. The various road construction projects have made getting up there after work sheer hell, particularly when there's a Cubs game going on. Wednesday I went to hear Mary Beth Raycraft talk about her book, A Parisienne in Chicago: Impressions of the World's Columbian Exposition. And Thursday after work there was a going away party for one of my colleagues who has taken a job as chief Public Defender in one of the downstate counties.
So it's been busy, and I can use the rest!