five thousand shades of blue
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
the closing of the yearIt's hard to believe that it's that time of year again. I did not get out many paper cards nor did I do an electronic card here, and I feel kinda bad about it, but I hope everyone understands. You were all in some way in my thoughts, friends and family alike.
Been so busy. Wish I had more time to help get the café closed down. Will spend time on Friday helping to scrub it down (note to self: bring cleaning gloves on Friday).
We don't celebrate Christmas as the Christian religious holiday, but we did spend the day in the company of good friends and great food (I think that the concept of a Morrocan feast for Christmas dinner is one of the best ever had). Being that it fell on Sunday meant I had to work the next day, even though it was dead as a doornail at work. (The people who did call in pretty much unanimously said, "Why are you there today??") We don't do big ticket present items amongst friends, but it was a good gift exchange nonetheless. I think the gifts we gave were well-received. I am still waiting for my new (mega-discounted!) iPod Shuffle to arrive. (Hee!) The leather Palm Zire case I bought for An was clearly designed by people who had never actually seen one in person, and has yet to be returned, possibly next week after things die down. :P
...because this week has been dress rehearsal and last minute craziness, as this weekend is
The Barber of Seville with the Eugene Opera, for which An is wardrobe mistress. We will likely get comp tickets (must remember opera glasses this time). All I will be able to think about is Bugs Bunny. Then the yearly cookie party for New Year's. We are going to try to make low carb chocolate chip cookies.
I have been finding some time to get creative, and that's good.
It's frightening to think my 20 year reunion is in 2.5 years. Eeeek. How did I get to be this old?
Thursday, December 15, 2005
end of an eraAfter much thought and many years of effort, it saddens me to say that tomorrow is the last day
the café will be open; today was the last full day of business. It was a lot of work with very little pay; we weren't making fistfuls of money, so it wasn't completely unexpected, but the people are marvelous (customer and co-worker alike) and I'll miss it being there.
I spent today helping around the place, evaluating what to sell the computers for and canceling utilities. Tomorrow we're having a party / wake for all of the regular customers from noon to 5 or 6. I must remember to bring the camera.
Does anyone know of a place one might be able to get a low-cost web hosting (or a domain redirector/alias/whatever it's called) so we park the café domain? Once the DSL goes off, the site will go down (we hosted the site on our server), and I'd like to see it stay up if only to announce we're closed.. :P
is
this just not enough…?
