Sorry I have been away so long, but we've been busy, busy, busy! My opening at the library and all the work leading up to it (printing, framing, support work), Radhika's Disney Marathon (26.2 miles in a little over 6 hours and 2 foot blisters!), friends and family visiting from out of town, last minute purchases to take back to Amsterdam, 2 days of movers at the house, renter moving in, Steve McCurry at DBC, visiting with friends, and details, details, details to address!!! Radhika is in NY this weekend visiting her awesome Mom and crazy sister, Dolly...not to mention still mentally stable John (Frenchy 2) after all these years of "exposure" to Dolly. They are setting up a device called a sling box at thier house in Seaford Harbor that will enable us to watch American TV while in Amsterdam. Cool, huh? Then she will continue on to NL on Sunday. I will leave Orlando on the 24th and get to NL on the 25th via Memphis.
My opening went well. I am quite happy with the way the images tell the story of our visit to China. There are more pictures in this show, however many are 8X10 and not the large 16X20 size as in the Windows To The World show 18 months ago. I had hoped for a better turnout. It seems the library didn't market and promote this event nearly as well as the previous one I had.
The moving of our stuff was a new experience for us, as was the empty house when all was done. I was okay with that, but what felt odd was someone else's belongings coming into the house. But 24 hours later, I'm over it. The person who we have renting the top floor is someone we have confidence in, or else he wouldn't be there.
Radhika (for the 2nd or 3rd time) met her girlie friends for a farewell lunch and enjoyed herself, as usual. I have been getting as much tennis in as I can, and even bought a new Prince O3 racket!!! It's light as air and sounds sweet when it smacks that ball! I am hopefully getting over to Tampa tonight to see our friend Vince and his band play at a place called the Sad Tiger, or is it Proud Lion? Either way, I hope to be there to support him in the way he knows I can (by yelling "You suck!" or "Pick a key!"). Joe figured out I need to replace or fix a pump on my RA-4 processer. I'm following up on that before I leave Orlando. Perhaps I'll get to Daytona one more time and have lunch with either him or Alexis. I sent Alexis an email, but received no response. What's up with that?! Perhaps Campus Cupcake is mad at me? Lunch with Jim would be nice too, but not getting a response there, either. Hmmmmmm...think people have finally said this guy's too much trouble? Perhaps I will eliminate one more by really giving Vince the business at his gig tonight (he's so damned resilient though, and can give as good as he gets). A damn fine tennis player too, once he gets all his vertibrae unfused! All of those years in solitary lock-up have taken their toll. Clark, Clide, Steven, and I got some good tennis in yesterday. Good seeing those guys. Steven has grown every time I see him! And his voice is getting more like Barry White and less like Michael Jackson. Steven is Clide's grandson, who is 12 or 13, is playing in the 16 age bracket, is highly ranked in the state, and is capable of taking his tennis game to a high, on the world's stage, level. Watch for Steven Watson in the coming years from the US. If it's his desire, he can enjoy a high level of tennis as a career. Clark has improved his game a lot in the 5 weeks + that I haven't played them.
Gotta go. Many things to do. Will try to add some images soon. Thanks for reading, and thanks to all who have remarked how much they enjoy reading what I put down. Happy MLK!
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