It's over, it's OVER, it's Ohhh-VeRRRRRR

Finally the pesky Member-Guest tournament has reached it's end. They do a great job of hauling food out of the kitchen and making it look tempting. Cudos to the chef and staff for a job well done. Our guests have flown back off to Dallas and it is quiet and nice not having a list of things that I must do in front of me. The dinnah/dahnze this year wqas Caribbean themed and we all could wear our Tommy Bahama whatevers instead of Real Clothes, a fun change in policy. I was certainly worried that the place wouldn't have the full Carribean atmosphere so I added to the decorations with some nice rubbery Palmetto bugs (that's a cockroach on steroids) on each butter dish in the dining room. I had a bag of lizards and put them into pockets peeking out of any guy who talked to me. Because to me, what says 'Caribbean' better than cockroaches and lizards?



Oh, of course, the Rastaman says 'Caribbean'. Hide your steel drums.


Kudos to ME for squiring around a guest for three days! Now, don't get me wrong, she was great and enthusiastic to see and do anything but it seems like I might just have a touch of a social disease, the kind where one 'vants to be alone' more than 'vants to be mit ANYone'.

Newburyport, MA

Yesterday's project was Newburyport, my also-ran choice du jour for showing an out-or-towner New Englandish stuff. First choice is always Marblehead but one cannot park in that friggin town of one way streets. One cannot even slow down there. One should avoid it all all costs. Well, Newburyp-ort has the architecture, though a different century, the harbor, though a river mouth instead of chi chi harbor, and loads of restaurants and shoppes. In short it was quite a nice day in spite of the heat and humidity. And the Red Stripe helps. Got back in time to see the bagpiper coming up the hill with the hundrreds of little kids around him- makes me weep every time. I do love kids at a great distance, it's just up close that I can't take it.

So the news here is that I have lost my entire Palm calendar somehow, damn them to hell. I have doctor and other appts all summer for one thing or another and have lost it all. I am going to the 'maul' and getting myself a Mac with iCal and hoping that I can keep it. This is the second time, and it sucks- it worked yesterday, it doesn't work today. Somehow, one of the only entries it retained is my mother's birthday, not info I need since she has been dead three years. Geesh.