With apologies to Seinfeld – the “show about nothing.”
Well, a lot of people seemed to like the nothingness of that show, so I will list a few of the “nothing” things that I have done in my first month at my home base in Ft Myers:
- I got Rusty professionally groomed. He no longer looks like a ragamuffin.
- I finished scanning the (hopefully) last batch of Jett’s photos – the 1,500 photos that I discovered under the bed.
- I have tried (without much success so far) to get the truck’s rear quarter-panel damage repaired. Seems that finding parts for a 17-year-old truck is difficult.
- I have searched for a part-time job. Again, without success. I have applied for two and have received not even the courtesy of a response.
- I have tried to resurrect Jett’s old laptop. It seems mostly functional (though old) and pretty lightly-used, so if I can get it to work reliably (it is crashing) then I could donate it to a worthy cause. I hate to discard potentially useful electronics.
- I finished posting, to findagrave.com, the batch of about 100 headstone photos that I took in Athol MA before I headed south.
- I have given some serious consideration to going to OR for Thanksgiving and TX for Christmas. Right now OR looks unlikely but TX is likely.
- I am seriously thinking of going on a solo cruise in January. They are cheap – hard to resist.
- I have started another round of updates on my genealogical research, starting with Jett’s family tree (which is more interesting than mine). I am thinking of producing a series of PDFs documenting her immigrant ancestors. The PDF form is better than the original email form for including supplementary documents – photos, maps, etc. And the PDFs won’t get lost when the disk crashes, as was the fate of my email posts.
- I have tried to help my son through a rough patch. ‘Nuff said.
There is nothing in that list that, by itself, is blog-worthy. But I haven’t been sitting around eating bon-bons.
Just wanted you to know that.