A quiet week

It's been almost a week since I have entered anything here.
Not much has been happening, I guess. I did have lunch with
Susan Wayland and we always have a good time with much
chatter and laughter.

On Friday Robert and I met the "Chervin Birthday Club." We
meet approximately once a month to celebrate any one's
birthday, if anyone has had a birthday since the last
luncheon. We went to Jill's at the st. Julien which was a
pleasant change from the Tsing Tao where we usually go.

Ruth and Buck were there and Ruth had just come from having
electroshock therapy. She was very talkative so I assume
they had given her something to make the experience less
painful. She suffers from depression and that must really
be awful. It was good to see her chatty and kind of up.
Sarah and Dennis, Suzanne, and Chervin completed the group.

Susan Solomon came in with a group while we were eating.
She and a bunch of others have received the Nobel Prize
for their work on Global Warming. I spoke with her
briefly. She was a postdoc back when I was at NCAR.

After lunch Robert went home and I went to Aspen Eye wear to
get my new eye glasses adjusted and then on to Louisville to
have my annual skin-check with Dr. Ho. He gave me some
salve for the sores on my left leg that haven't healed up
since I fell in the creek in September. He also spotted a
possible Basil cell cancer on the back of the same leg. That
seems an unlikely place for a skin cancer since it is almost
always covered up. I suppose there were times when I wore
shorts a lot and other times when I sun bathed. I'll hear
the results of the biopsy sometime next week. He took quite
a chunk out of my leg.

We had a call from Alyssum. She's coming on the train and is
schedule to arrive in Denver on the 20th at 8 PM. That's the
same schedule that Connie and family came in on. She'll
either take a bus to Boulder or we or Robyn will pick her up.
I don't think we should make her take the bus after coming all
that way on the train.

Robert continues to juggle the solar input trying to maximize
our use of it. He's also designing another rack for the last
of the panels to be mounted. He's hoping that while Alyssum,
Robyn and Janis are here he'll be able to get enough help to
move one of the racks to the roof of his study. It'll get
more sun there.