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Upcoming holiday
I think I may well bypass the full cold that has been passing through the family. I had all the signs of getting one, right down to the scratchy throat, tiredness and the achiness that sometimes accompanies a cold. But it doesn’t seem to be going any further than that. I hope it’s not saving itself for the week after next when we are leaving for a three-day holiday down south (between Albany and Denmark).
I think we are just about set for our departure. I have gotten the cat vaccinated and organised boarding with the vet service. Our weekly paper delivery will be delayed until we return because there is nobody to take it over. The supervisor was going to just cancel the order for our area as he does for others on holiday but we decided that we’d deliver them after our return rather than have some of the residents miss out.
I’m going to have the boys plan out our travel route next week and see how they do. I suspect the Scientist and I will have to help out a bit but I think they should be able to plan most of it.
It’s kind of funny to think that our planned trip to Sri Lanka for two weeks in February was cancelled and this is the replacement. It’s not quite the same but it will be nice to just be away from home for a short time.
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Wet days
Today was yet another very wet day in our neck of the woods. It started in the latter part of the morning and rained steadily all afternoon. The weekly newspaper deliveries have been delayed until tomorrow in homes of a break. I believe we will have an early and rough allergy season ahead of us in the spring.
I went on a search to find a dvd of To Kill a Mockingbird but have had little success. It seems it will be necessary to purchase this one online. I will note that I found a two-disc set that seemed like a brilliant deal until I realised the dvd was in 4:3 rather than widescreen. The slightly older release has fewer features but I can live without them if it means I get the widescreen version instead.
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New ways
Tuesday is the day we deliver the community paper to about seven or eight streets in our area. It’s 252 papers although we usually have half a dozen or more remaining when we finish. The paper route is mostly a job for the games fanatic but I almost always help out and sometimes his dad helps out too. Last week, he simply didn’t want to do it so he will miss out on the money. It took me nearly two and a half hours to finish, even with the scientist coming out to help towards the end for about a dozen papers or so. If it weren’t for the money GF would have given it up ages ago. I still suspect it will be gone in the not-too-distant future, especially if another means of earning money presents itself. I think most of the problem has been his anxiety. He gets really worked up if people are around and the stress he endures seems to be worse now than when he started. Anyway, he puts in the bare minimum, if even that, to get paid.