Had to go to the dentist this morning for a check up, and a session with the hygienist. Made an appointment for some fillings in January. Was also warned that the work that needs to be done involving crowns and bridges, really can't be put off much longer. That's going to be about $5000. Are dentists still seeing NHS patients in Britain, it would be cheaper to come home? Told myself to calm down, it won't look so bad once I've put it through the currency converter.
It was a lovely bright day for bowling along Highway 9 to Norman. I didn't make my customary stop though at Barnes & Noble, and the Starbucks in the middle. Got too much to do getting ready to go away on Friday.
Yesterday morning I was out early, and while I was scraping the ice off the windscreen a police car pulls up opposite. My next door neighbour, Donna - the self appointed sheriff of this neighbourhood - called him out because 'a big black man' jumped over the fence at the back (and actually into my garden) Now, call me a bleeding heart liberal, but my first thought was to wonder if she would have bothered if he had been white. I suggested he was probably taking a short cut, and she walked off when she saw we were just not on the same page over this.
Chaplain Bill roared with laughter when I told him about my neighbour, racially profiling. Said she was giving a description.
Going out this afternoon I thought I'd see if the local computer shop downtown could give my laptop a little tune up, and install Skype, and I was surprised to see it had gone out of business. I never saw its going. Perhaps too many people, like me, started going to Staples.
Memo to my loved ones - perhaps one of you on Skype can talk me through setting up Skype on my laptop. I am pretty sure I have an inbuilt webcam.
This evening was the joint Christmas party of the Shawnee Peace Fellowship, and Sustainable Shawnee. Last year it was tapas in the Art Gallery and quite nice. Tonight it was in a rather drab sandwich shop downtown. Talk about sublime to the gor blimey. I didn't bother. I might have done if I didn't still have 101 things to do.
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