1. Today Debbie called me from a Wegmans parking lot in Montvale, NJ and I suddenly had fun memories of when I used to drive south from Greenbelt, MD to Lanham, MD or drive north to Columbia, MD and go to Wegmans just for the fun of it. Wegmans is grocery chain with stores in nine eastern states and the District of Columbia. I enjoyed wandering around in Wegmans, sometimes eating lunch or a snack there, and just taking in the smells and sights.
Debbie called to catch me up a bit on things and I extended my full support when she told me she has no timetable for when she'll return to Kellogg.
Copper, Gibbs, and I will continue to hold down the fort while Debbie is away.
2. My longtime and close Whitworth and beyond friend, Deborah, wrote me an email today that uplifted me, that gave me food for thought that I thoroughly enjoyed, and that described how she and Scott had enjoyed a stir fry dinner very similar to our family dinner Sunday out of the wok.
3. Today was a good day for correspondence with longtime friends. Not only did I hear from Debbie and Deborah, but I also heard from Jeff, my longtime and close friend in Eugene (and host of Deadish).
Because the Troxstar's retirement party is on July 11th, I'd planned to attend it in Eugene.
But, because of the closer monitoring of my new kidney these days and because Debbie will be in New York indefinitely, I canceled those plans.
I wrote an email to Jeff telling him I wouldn't be down.
Dang it!
I'd told Jeff earlier in the spring that my hope was to come to Eugene, go to the retirement party, and, for the first time since 1993, head out to the Oregon Country Fair.
Jeff snagged me a VIP pass for the fair and now I won't be using it.
Sometimes kidneys and family obligations just get in the way of other stuff, but I'm going to hold out hope, the good Lord willing, that maybe next year I can wander down to Eugene, join Jeff at the fair, and be admitted as a Very Important Person -- after all, that's what it says on the pass!
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