Cold weather, but a good week

There were several highlights of the week

The first was a phone call from Robyn in Antarctica. It is always
good to hear from her, but quite thrilling when she is so very far
away. She has settled in to life in Antarctic and exciting it is
not. They are pretty much kept on base; no snow shoeing off to
explore..and that sort of thing. I'm sure she's happy that it
isn't a life time commitment.

The second event was that Robert's computer blew up, not quite
literally, but it wouldn't boot and the fan sounded like a jet
ready for take off.

Thanks to a tip from Carl we learned of a place in south Denver
called MicroCenter. Robert ordered a computer on-line and we
made the 100- mile round trip to the store to pick it up. Since
then he has it up and running and we, together, got it on our
network. We do it together because we each remember pieces
of the process and neither one of us seems to remember the
whole deal. In any case it is up and running and has XP installed.
That was asurprise because Robert thought the one he ordered
had Vista and he wasn't happy about that, but apparently there
was a switch made somewhere and he is happy with it. The
drive plus $500.00 is a good deal, so far.

The Salina Literary and Roasted Sweet Potato Society met for a
Thanksgiving eve party at Julie's. She made a fantastic almond
cake, using almond flour so that it was gluten free. It was
really delicious. I brought Sushi from the Sushi bar at Table Mesa
KingSoopers. I just discovered that Sushi Bar. They seem more
uptown than the one at 30th Street. And not much further and
the knit shop is close by; perhaps I'll go there from time-to-time.