Picnic

Gainesville

Here's a charming image:

This illustrious group is the Libraries' top management: The one in the middle, holding the basketball, is the Director, the woman on the right is my boss and Bill's former boss, the one who is leaving. And of course you recognize the maniac... see how svelt he looks! We are not big enthusiasts of the picnic event, but this year it's kind of a command performance for both.

Nice diary-type entries in the Baby Book. (Snow in Oakland!) And as long as we're into images, I found this nice poster from the world fair mentioned there. This is the one that gave us the still-existing Palace of Fine Arts. I wonder how many times "quite" often meant? Maybe Thea remembers going to it. It lasted for 10 months, and featured an exhibit of glass incubators with premature babies in them-- a new invention.

Had a nice lunch with Lee yesterday at Dinner. (The period is part of the name), a place in Thornebrook Village. We ate outside, which was pleasant, if a little on the warm side by the end of it. It was fun getting caught up. You might not recognize him: he's very thin, has completely shaved his head, three earrings in one ear. He was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and women's style cropped slacks. As eccentric as ever! Enjoying retirement, doing some architecture, but mostly making pots and traveling.

It's graduation weekend here in Gatorville, and the start of the two week period when we get our town back. Of course, that's also about the time we get our default weather pattern back too. So far, only the heat and sweat have returned-- we're still waiting on the daily thunder-boomers to cool things off. The poor plants in our yard continue to droop.

The new Library rennovation/addition is ALMOST finished-- so close we can almost taste it. It looks fabulous-- it is going to be one of the most spectacular spaces on campus. All the last minute details and headaches are giving Bill fits, but he continues to hold things together, and the end is definitely in sight.

I should be writing a few bills instead of sitting her prattling. I did get the towels changed/laundered yesterday, but didn't get the bathrooms & their floors cleaned, and it didn't happen tonight either. I'm planning to take the week after next off, and the week after that, an extra day to make Memorial Day a four day weekend. Looking forward to both of these, needless to say. It's less than five months to go now.

I'm into the third book of His Dark Materials now; it's longer than the others, so I probably won't be able to finish it over the weekend. I told Lee about it, and he is interested in reading it.