So, another Labor Day has come and gone, and summer vacation is officially over. Laurel starts 9th grade at John F. Kennedy, Jr. High School tomorrow morning, and I go back to work at the library "for real". I actually started yesterday, but used the morning to catch up on my saved e-mail and my stuffed in-box.
Sacramento Public has just unrolled a new subscription to Overdrive, which features downloadable e-books and audiobooks. (Hawaii libraries' Overdrive subscription is here.) So Laurel and I went shopping at Fry's this afternoon - she got an i-Pod for her music, and I bought a Creative Zen Nano MP-3 player. (Overdrive doesn't work with i-Pods.) We were competing for use of the laptop this afternoon as a result, since the computer I normally use is still running Windows98, and most new software is no longer compatible. Besides, the book downloads take too long on our slow dial-up connection; stealing the neighbor's fast wireless signal is more time-effective.
I've been using the Labor Day weekend to recover from the great send-off from Hawaii and the great homecoming in Sacramento. I lost 8 lbs during the time I was in Hawaii, and gained 3 lbs back due to pizzas and Portuguese sausage. So I've started walking again in the mornings, and also swimming laps for a half hour in the evenings. I'm hoping to negate the gain by my next weigh-in on Wednesday.
I've talked to Mom on the phone every day since I returned, and she sounds very good. In fact, the last time I talked to her, her enunciation was very clear, and she sounded in very good spirits. I'm sending her a "noodle" for the day she will be able to get into the swimming pool again. It was a gift from a neighbor who moved from our townhome complex to a duplex without a pool. No one here uses it, and Mom and Mary might get some fun out of it.
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