Between trips

Sunday evening Carl, Martha and Ariel came for
supper. Robert latched on to Carl immediately
to ask his advice about our dead laptop. Carl
was able to restore the system for us, but was
dragged away after dinner before he could get
all the network connections made.

While the two geeks were geeking, Martha and I
made lists and plans for the 4 days we'll be
spending in Gothic, Colorado with Robyn.

Yesterday was another catch-up day, paying bills
updating the check register and making the final
lists for our trip. Not exciting, but needed
doing.

I also traded a couple of e-mails with Jared Polis,
our Democratic contender for the 2nd Congressional
district, our district.

Today, I went to get my hair cut. It has been
awhile and was getting pretty hard to deal with.
My hair is so limp and fine that as soon as it
gets any length to it, well..it just lies there.

While in town I shopped for the groceries to
take with us. The food boxes are now packed and
the cold and frozen stuff will go in on Thursday.
In the meantime Robert has built a couple of boxes
into the bed of the pick-up to hold the batteries
we'll be bringing back from RMBL.

Robyn has called a couple of times to answer
questions and to say she has turned the heat on
in the cabin that has heat and will start a
fire in the fireplace in the other cabin so
that the chill will be off of it when we arrive.
Wow, a heated cabin. That's more than we have
at home. The temperatures there are ranging
from the 30s to the 60s. Gothic is at 10 or
11 thousand feet. We are only at 7000 and our
temperature range is 40s to the 70s (except today
it didn't make it to 70).We are hoping to avoid
turning on the heat until we get back from Gothic,
but that is playing it kind of risky. We could
get really cold weather any day now.

My hair dresser brought up the question of what is
happening to the economy. She admitted she hadn't
removed all her savings from the bank, but most of
it. Not the CDs. It is scary. I'm hoping the
FDIC will come through, if necessary. But how
can they if this 700 billion bail out goes forward
and Galveston is crying for help as is New Orleans
from the recent hurricanes.