25 degrees this morning (feels like 16 degrees), no walk
Although it was generally forecast, I was surprised by the temperature this morning (especially the “feels like”). Although I normally walk in all kinds of temperature, I was caught short and not prepared for this! I will be ready by tomorrow though.
One forecast was even for a “winterly mix” sometime this week (I don’t walk in that and if I don’t have to drive I don’t do that either!).
Almost finished setting up the house for viewing for sale. It has been a lot of work, but it has helped us continue to get rid of things we don’t use or need. As I mentioned, Aliene is a genius at organizing.
Several months ago, we bought a “grill” (as in outside cooking grill). While we expected to put a few things together, we were stunned to find that there are about 50 pieces (including the actual grill to put together. Never again. Anyway, we are going to try to finish that up today.
What is so weird is there is a piece of paper giving a number you can call to have it assembled, but it was way under everything so that you didn’t see it until it was half assembled.
The way many businesses view customers as “targets” or “victims” to be scammed instead of customers, it wouldn’t surprise me if it was deliberate.
Went to the going away/retirement party of the Dance Instructor/School of Dance Director. He was actually the reason Aliene and I met, although we like to think we would have met another way if we hadn’t at the dance lessons.
He was a Dance Instructor who had a vision of a “School of Dance” (for all types of dance) and he made it happen.
When I started going to dance classes, the dance classes were in a non-profit building that rented facilities for different events.
The Dance Instructor simply made his vision of a “School of Dance” work through persuasion and hard work. He had volunteers do most of the work and money was contributed and raised in a variety of ways.
He also had the foresight to bring in instructors and set up a structure that will allow the School of Dance to continue after he leaves, which is probably just as important as building it.
Like anyone, he had some blind spots and flaws that sometimes jeopardized his vision, but he apparently managed to work through them.
He was more than patient with me in learning to dance because he needed men, since there were always more women than men! Eventually I feel I learned to become at least a competent dancer, thanks to him.
What surprised me about last night is that I recognized more of the men that the women. (Dance classes were set up so a man would dance with all of the women, so logically you met more of the women than the men, so I thought I would recognize more of the women.) I mentioned that to Aliene and she said it was because women changed their appearance more than men did. Thinking about it, that is probably true.
We record our favorite college football teams on Saturday and frequently don’t watch them until Sunday morning, so we try not to read any sports news Saturday night or early Sunday morning until we finish watching the games.
We did watch the K-State game last night (which was wonderful!!) and the two other games we wanted to watch were both last night, so we basically taped them and will watch them today (unless we accidentally see the scores!).
That’s it for now, Sunday, November 22, 2015.
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