Should old acquaintance be forgot...

...It's been great to reconnect with people this past year or so. I've been having strange dreams lately. The other night included a good friend from college. She was very good at staying in touch, me, not so much. Since she appeared in my dream, I thought maybe I should try to track her down. She's now in Colorado. We chatted the other night and she told me she tried to track me down several years ago. I'm grateful we're back in touch. You can't have enough good friends.

In other news, Angela and I didn't make it to Titusville for shuttle Endeavor's launch. she had to test a student for one of her graduate classes and didn't get home until 6. I had heard on the radio early in the afternoon that you really needed to get there early and with a full tank of gas. I didn't want to make the drive by myself, so we'll try again next year.

The scene from my backyard:
Ignore my neighbor's RV, lol. It actually looked better than this, but a shot is a shot. Before you could see it, there was a huge red glow closer to the horizon which I imagine was from the fuel burning at liftoff. The really cool thing was there was a football game at the high school which is across the main road from my subdivision. Everyone cheered when it went up. I heard an announcer mention the shuttle so I knew that the cheers weren't for a touchdown, but for Endeavor. Very cool. Now this is what it looked like if you were really close to the Cape, not 70 miles or so away like me.



I've been keeping relatively busy these days. I trained for my volunteer work on Monday. I'll work one afternoon a week in the Resource Center at the Cancer Institute. I'm going to a meeting at the local GOP office this week and I'm going to start attending another support group. I've been walking the dogs every day and I'm really making progress in the yard. I haven't painted inside the house for weeks, so that is on my list, too.

Hard to believe that Thanksgiving is fast approaching. And Christmas! I was in Wal-Mart last week and they were already playing Christmas music. I would prefer not to get bombarded till after Thanksgiving, but that is quite unlikely.

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