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It's been an interesting week. But probably not for anybody who doesn't live my life.
My boss will be back in the office from his vacation tomorrow. We make every effort to avoid being out of the office at the same time unless it's a legal holiday.
I need to get a lot of things done before I take off for the airport at stupid o'clock Tuesday morning. My daughter's taking me and picking me up, which does make getting there much easier than it was before I had my car, and cheaper than it was before my kid moved to town.
I needed to get subjects scheduled for several weeks ahead for a study we have going. Fortunately, the current need is normal controls. It was more or less easy. I'm not going to worry about getting the study into the new system until I get back. I did have to study up on what needed to be done.
We had to revise a budget for the new year's funding on a grant. The easiest way to do it was add to the salary for a couple of people. We had had a decrease in the allowed budget from what had been asked for, but one of the people on the grant is leaving the university, so we did have the money to add.
I didn't get the paper we tried to submit done - the particular journal wants the copyright transfer submitted along with the first try for the manuscript.
I spent a couple of days listening to the audio version of Lady Knight, which is my favorite of Tamora Pierce's books. I do have it in hard copy, along with pretty much everything else the woman ever wrote, but I do like audiobooks in the office.
And ramara and I managed to get the program for the Interfaith Service finished! This is our fourth year doing this, and it never gets much easier - but I do think it's worth it.
My chiropractor informed me that the reason I've been achy recently is that a mild summer cold has settled in my joints rather than my sinuses. I felt a good deal better when I left her office than when I arrived.
A local Chinese restaurant closed a while back. Salvador Molly's has a location there now. I found out about it when my daughter needed me to babysit because she was meeting some friends from her job there for a dinner. My buddy downbuilding (who's been there several times already - the staff called him by name) and I went for an early dinner on Saturday. The food was as good as I remember from having gone to a location that closed several years back. I ate off the appetizer menu - a Thai fish cake with mango salsa, and a half order of onion rings. I can't remember the last time I had onion rings. That was my dinner. I had a pint of stout with it, and a ginger beer after we moved briefly to the bar. I didn't even have to pay for it - my friend said he would buy, even though I was right about it being a joint decision to go. I said "Thank you."
My granddaughter is halfway through a two-week set of swimming lessons. When they're done, she might know how to swim (it took me three sets of swimming lessons before they took). She then has a week with nothing to do and then cooking lessons at Sur la Table.