The Dog Days of Summer --- Feels a little like Fall

This has been an interesting week. Monday and Tuesday were blistering hot with temperature rising into the triple digits for the first time this summer. We got some badly need rain Tuesday and Wednesday (along with some thunder and lightening) and a cold front came through Wednesday night which dropped the high temperature down to the upper 80’s for the past couple of days.

Early this morning (about 7:20) when we headed out for our weekly grocery shopping there was a definite feel of coolness in the air – a real rarity for this time of the year!

Three weeks ago we lost three team members - one was fired for not attending a mandatory meeting, one who walked out and one who actually put her notice in. So everyone that’s left has a bunch of extra work to do. What fun (ha ha)!

I’ve been dealing with the stress of handling two jobs by reading. I try to spend some time each weekend reading in bed and listening to the Baroque Classical station on http://www.live365.com/index.live. That’s a lot of Bach, Vidaldi, and Handel. The older classical music is smoother and easier on the ear than other types of classical.

I made my hubby happy last week when I recorded 70 minutes of classical lute and guitar music from the 10-String Guitar station on Live365. I saved it as a .wav file and he burned an audio CD from him.

I had put off de-fragging my C drive, which is a 250mb drive since it takes such a long time to do it. Yesterday I bit the bullet and de-fragged it. It took about 6 hours to get it done (I’ve had this computer since March and had never defragged it and of course I’m always writing and deleting stuff). DiskKeeper (http://www.diskeeper.com/defrag.asp) said that I had 1689 fragmented files when I started and just 198 when it finished. I’ll have to start it before I head off to work Monday and let it do its thing while I’m at work.

I’ve been doing a little bit of stitching – I need to settle down and stitch since I have a bunch of stuff to do for Christmas (which is of course, just around the corner).

And on that cheery note, I’ll sign off for now…

Take care & enjoy,

Florence