Good evening, Kibitzers! I’ve been away for a while, for a reason that most of you probably heard about. I’ll write about my dad sometime, but right now it still makes me too sad. I miss him.
And I was perhaps unwise to come back to KTK this week. I thought the long weekend would give me time to sort things out, but I plainly needed a longer weekend, because I still have a big stack of stuff to do. Plus, I’m back at work now, having run out of reason to take unpaid FMLA leave. Of course, they cannot fire you for taking your federally mandated FMLA leave, but they can be rather cranky that you have been so unproductive, as indeed I have been. If I like having a paycheck and excellent medical benefits, I need to pay attention, and I need to spend two days a week, not just one, driving to my office in Connecticut.
Today is one of those office days, so this is going up in haste Monday night. I’d like to think I’ll be back in time tomorrow to schedule it, and that last Tuesday it was just a Thanksgiving fluke when I didn’t get home until 10 pm. But just in case, I’m scheduling now and I’ll hope very hard to be here and see you all in the thread!
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share part of the evening around a virtual kitchen table with kossacks who are caring and supportive of one another. So bring your stories, jokes, photos, funny pics, music, and interesting videos, as well as links—including quotations—to diaries, news stories, and books that you think this community would appreciate. Readers may notice that most who post diaries and comments in this series already know one another to some degree, but newcomers should not feel excluded. We welcome guests at our kitchen table, and hope to make some new friends as well.