Friday, August 29, 2014

2nd Week Back


The 2nd week of work and the honeymoon is over. It is very hot and muggy, not many people left to babble about our trip and the same old work problems rear their ugly head. There are the student workers who realize they like the paycheck but not the work part.  Professors who want us to come across campus to plug in their computers, network ports turned off during the summer and housekeeping that keep locking the lab during the day.  Mostly this job is fun but there are problems you have every start of the school year—I had forgotten. 
We head to Knoxville and Boomsday and the Utah State opener for the Vols.  But mostly we are excited to see Andy and Mary (and their girls) plus Elizabeth and Charley .  Rachel is 8 months pregnant and Abby is in LOVE so I can’t wait to meet their men and reconnect with the Leeton clan in Knoxville. Vanderbilt had the late game last night against Temple and lost badly--I hope this is not an omen.
  Our home for this fall is Rock Harbor Marina on our houseboat –Next Chapter.  It is slowly becoming home (however temporary) to a few Loopers—Roy and Elvy Short are still here- Roy is having shoulder replacement surgery at Vanderbilt and will need to recover before they head for Florida for the winter.  Tom and Patsy Conrad are here for the Fall and there  was a Bob Levine sighting earlier in the week so he and Anne must be here somewhere.  Yesterday  Liberty (a big Marlowe) was at the transient dock with owners Shorty and Roe.  We had met them at the Loopers Rendezvous and I had to extract Fitz from the engine room of Shorty’s boat.  They were at the Blue Moon when we went there to dinner and we reconnected.  Nice people –I hope we see more of them.    

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