Our couch & our bed have seen the better parts of their useful lifetimes. Our chest of drawers is hors de combat. Elizabeth & I decided that while we're turning the apartment upside down & selecting the things we want to have in the new place, the furniture shouldn't be left out of the selection process ( Read more... )

I want to thank everyone who took some precious weekend hours to help Elizabeth & I to move: Lee, Liz, Heather, Shaune, & Sigrid (who aided us not just on Saturday but today as well). We owe you all at last one move, if not three ( Read more... )

To the day, in fact. I've come a long way. I've been back at work since January. I've been walking a mile regularly as the weather permits, and the weather has been suitable for weeks, if not months ( Read more... )

Elizabeth & I would really, really appreciate it if people could drop in a week from today at Belcrest to give us a hand in packing the place up. We reserved a storage space not far from either apartment, which is where a lot of the library & some of the furniture are going to stay for a bit. We'll rent a truck. Please let me know if you will need ( Read more... )

After nearly twenty years, Elizabeth and I are leaving our apartment on Belcrest Road for new digs in the Arts District. The building is called the Palette-they've got a website at http://www.bozzuto.com/apartments/communities/292-palette-at-arts-district. We just signed the lease, and we will start to move over in two weeks. Our lease at Belcrest ( Read more... )

Frday night's planetarium show went all right. I didn't flub my lines. The timing between myself & Russ-the planetarium operator while Patty is in Italy-worked out well. Graphics came up on time, aside from one brief moment at the start, & the planets & constellations moved around in the right order ( Read more... )

I think I've said in ths forum that the library at NASA HQ will be relocated to a spot elsewhere on the ground floor of the building. Over the last few months I've tagged books that didn't meet the criteria we drew up for the collection, & over the last few days alone, about a book-cart's worth of books have been removed from the shelves. Now, ( Read more... )

The last couple of weeks after my relase from Suburban haven't been empty. At work, I've completed marking up books to be pulled from the main stacks & gotten some distance along on doing the same thing for the project management stacks. Also, I'm setting aside books which we'll take to our temporary quarters while the former security office is ( Read more... )

This picks up from “Ow, ow, & ow”, for which you can find a link on my page ( Read more... )

I seem to have discovered another lingering aftereffect of my surgery: A sore spot in the lining around my right lung, which shows up as amazing agony in my right chest muscles, my right shoulder, & the muscles along my right shoulder blade when I am under stress. The pain drives my heart rate & my BP upwards into insane territory, about as bad as ( Read more... )