synergy

Better Days Have Returned

After my post last week, K did make it in the office on Thursday and Friday. Saturday, she promptly slept until 1 pm again. But in the end, we had a busy and productive weekend.

While, I'm gone, K's going to have to handle a few things. She's already working on having the tires on the car replaced. I've known for some time that we needed new ones, but I wasn't able to deal with the logistics. Then, we got a flat tire, and suddenly no longer even had a spare. Yesterday, K took the initiative and went to a garage around the corner. Actually, it's an auto sales hut with rudimentary garage facilities. He repaired our spare and removed three, yes three!, nails. There's been a number of contractors parking in our alley and they are careless with their nails and screws.

As it turns out, K can purchase the tires online and have them shipped to the garage. They will mount and balance them for $15/tire. In all it works out to be a savings of $200 over what we would have paid to go to Goodyear. Additionally, I don't have to do anything or wait for the car to be serviced. Needless to say, I'm very pleased.

A few weeks ago, I was elected to the Vice President position in our neighborhood association. The neighborhood association is not a homeowner's association. It is not mandatory and it is a place to bring the residents together to work towards solutions of common problems. The big annual outreach event occurs during the week I'm in Germany. I spent part of the weekend putting together flyers and a program. K will have to finalize that material after I leave.

I know that K will miss me while I'm gone for a week. But she's handling more of the chores around the house and fully able to deal with the neighborhood work. Despite missing me and wanting to come, there's no fear in her eyes at the thought of my absence. She plans to get up and go to work every day, just as she does when I am at home.

I am starting to get excited about my trip. I've been doing a lot of preparation and running around. After the doctor this afternoon, we are going to the AAA travel store to pickup plug adaptors for my cell phone and iPod. Yes, I have to visit the GI Specialist in an hour. K finally convinced me that I had to take the pain in my stomach seriously rather than writing it off to stress. Naturally, my stomach hasn't hurt in several weeks, so it will be difficult to describe the pain.

Things are good.

posted by synergy @ 12:53 PM