Barbara J. Hamby

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Sunday Trivia

Yesterday afternoon we did the semi-annual attic inspection. We got a couple of Christmas items stowed up there that didn’t make it in December. We brought the umbrella for the deck table down and installed it. And, we removed a bunch of empty boxes that were probably a fire hazard. Also, we inventoried other miscellaneous stuff so now we know what’s up there. With any luck, we won’t need another trip up there for six or eight months.

Earlier in the day I wrote the first few pages of a chapter on brief encounters that may become part of my memoirs. It’s fun to remember people who popped in and out of my life briefly and influenced it (or not) in some way. Probably no encounter is without an effect on a life, be it positive or negative.

In late afternoon:

Barb: “I wish I didn’t have to waste so much energy every day talking myself into going swimming.”

Floyd: “It’s good for you; you should go.”

Barb: (Under her breath, while grabbing swim bag), Then why don’t you go?

And so I went to the pool and cavorted in the bath-temperature water and decided I probably felt better afterwards.

Monday:

The DVD player on our larger television set has been repaired and it was returned to us today. I’m still hanging around the house, however, waiting for a maintenance person to install a new light fixture in the closet where this desktop computer lives. We also need a new bulb in the outdoor light in the shrubs by the front door, but I don’t have to stay here for that.

I’ll get some more writing done while I wait and maybe even listen to more of Stephen King’s DVD On Writing. In my humble opinion it should be titled Stephen King on Stephen King and Writing. The long autobiographical sections of the book at least explain to me why he writes what he does, most of which I don’t read. So far, the writing advice portion is pretty good.

Moving on?