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Thursday night I attended the taping of Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me at the Tennessee Performance Arts Center. It was memorable for a number of reasons. It was my first time at TPAC and it will not be my last. The only thing I did not like about the theater is that it does notContinue reading “Wait, Wait”

I started volunteering at Nashville Tools for Schools in December of 2021. This group of retired guys meet Monday-Thursday mornings in a very nice workshop. My first day there, they had labeled one of the two bathrooms for Ladies. They have had a woman or two volunteer for short times in the past, but IContinue reading “Nashville Tools for Schools”

While I wrote the letters to Allegiant and Princess yesterday, I needed to mail them today. There is not a mail box on this property. People just put the letters on top of the locked mail boxes which makes me a bit uncomfortable even though when I have done it, the letters seemed to arriveContinue reading “You gotta laugh….”

Pain: I have been putting off writing my letters to Customer Relations regarding my cruise suitcase not making it to San Francisco and the bad Customer Service that led to us almost not getting on the cruise. I find complaining pretty painful and I am not sure I expect anything to come from either letterContinue reading “Pain and Joy”

Friday I found out that my daughter-in-law’s (DIL) band was going to be playing in Nashville Saturday morning at the Finish Line of the Rock ‘n Roll Marathon in Nashville – a 90 minute set starting at about 1030 AM. I hadn’t seen them play since last June when they just added a new member.Continue reading “Perfect Weekend”

When I was young I couldn’t understand why my mom wore socks with sandals. In fact, it used to drive me crazy. It didn’t make sense. It seemed pretty easy to just take the socks off if you were going to put on sandals. Now I understand. Why bother to take the socks off toContinue reading “Socks and Sandals”

At my visit with the dentist last November, they had this cool new camera that they used in my mouth to create a video imaging of my teeth. They then showed it to me and noted that my bite was off and it was causing me to bite down on my fillings. There was oneContinue reading “Bitter disappointment”

Yesterday was my first day of Habitat build since the cruise. This is half of the crew I had. While it is hard to appreciate from the photo, these are high schoolers. I had a crew of nine of them which is way too many to keep engaged. We are building wall panels for theContinue reading “My most challenging day at Habitat”

To the right is a picture of me at the Cedar Rapids airport yesterday, Sitting outside on a patio near the gate with fire pit in the background. Carli was very happy to see me last night. Because the temperature in my condo was over 80 to help the paint dry, I slept at myContinue reading “Re-entry to Nashville”

At this moment “unleashed” means off-duty. Aunt Carol just dropped me off at the Cedar Rapids airport for my flight to Nashville. As I sit looking at the Allegiant desk, I think back to nearly 3 weeks ago with a sense of wonder. I could NEVER have predicted all that was to be be managedContinue reading “Almost home”