A good day today. Woke up at 8:00, dragged my feet downstairs into the kitchen to pour myself a cup of freshly brewed coffee (thanks to Edith) and sat on the living room loveseat to absorb the warmth of the morning sun. When the weather gets warm, we like to sit out on the screen porch with our coffee and listen to the world wake up, but it was a little colder than I would have liked this morning.
Another cup of coffee, a little more puttering around in my pajamas, and then a little time trying to re-import the music library from the home server into Edith’s laptop so she can re-sync her iPod. By mid-day, I was out in the yard with the trimmer and lawnmower, with my own iPod playing “Here and There” for a few hours. All in all, the yard looks OK, although the front lawn is god-awful full of weeds and bare spots that need attention. For all of the work on the lawn it felt like a mid-Summer day, although it’s just under two months away until the first day of Summer.
By 5:00 I had cleaned up, took a quick shower, dressed and was back in the back yard tending to the grill with a cold Yuengling in my hand. Dinner, clean up, a little more playing with Edith’s laptop, and eventually by 8:30 Edith was getting Katie ready for bed and Will was reading in his room. It’s now almost 10:00 and I’m a bit tired, waiting for the pain relief from a couple of Advil to kick-in.
So, a few weeks ago (I Hate Coming Up With Post Titles) I mentioned that I received an email from Susan; I replied to her note, and then waited for a reply. Time went by, and I waited some more. Weeks went by, and by March 10 I had started to express my frustration in a blog post which I did not publish. The essence of the post was that although I do not have any expectation that I will ever hear from Susan at any time, I actually thought that this time she would reply to my note, and I just didn’t get it as to why she did not. As it turns out, she did.
I was tooling around with my account on YouTube the other night, when I incidentally clicked on my Inbox link. I was surprised to find a message from LucarioNinja92 titled “friends” which turned out to be a response from Susan to my note. Why she chose to contact me in that way, using her daughter’s YouTube account, I don’t understand, but the message was sent February 27, just 12 days after I had written to her. Anyway, the short of all of this is that we’ve exchanged phone numbers and agreed that we should talk. After over 25 years, this could be a very long conversation…