What made you smile today?

I'm smiling because my cousins just pulled into town..

When I got back from a 2.5 hour, 4 mile hike a guy in the parking lot asked for advice about where in the Fells to trail run. He was handsome and fit and yummy. And young. Anyway, I gave my best advice, gave him my old map (it's in a few pieces), and pointed him West. I went a different direction (South) to check out a part of the Fells I'd been meaning to get to. We crossed paths again 45 minutes later. We looked at the map again, and I sent him off again in the right direction. I hope he had a good run and found his way back to his car.

You let him get away???!!!!!


You wally...he was probably tracking you because he thought you were yummy, and became discouraged when you kept sending him in the opposite direction!!!

No, we came to meet from opposite directions. I saw him first. But, I should have started a conversation.

A facebook friend had a post within the last week about speaking up to someone you keep running into. We did chat a bit. Not enough to have any way of chatting again in the future.

there's something to make me smile, miles away

I do hope your name and number was on the map!

Name and number were not on the map.

I am just happy I had a small chat with him and had a chance to do something nice for a random stranger.

What's so good about young?

Great! How many cousins, where will they stay, and for how long?

I dunno about Beth, but I wasn't saying it was good.

I'm expecting a meteorite to land on my head any second because I just got TWO pieces of very very good news in the space of about 15 minutes! (Both having to do with this huge event that's been a monkey on my back for the last several months. It's turned into more of a gorilla in the past week.)

Two free tickets to the Celtics pre-season game tonight.

Sorry, I thought you said he was yummy partly because he was young. That's probably an understandable error for a jealous old-timer like me.

Got to see my former assistant today (hadn't seen her in months). We had a nice lunch.

They're here now (fem cousin and her husband) and pretty much of their non sleeping time is taken by having a booth at a trade show that is very important for his business, with both of them needed for all the set up, the dealing with potential customers, dealing with their very recently problematic rv, buying groceries for the continuing rv trip (they loved Ranch market, as do I), and then breaking down the booth, etc., so I didn't see them a lot, but I did last evening. And that was great. We went to a favorite restaurant of mine (and some other a2k people) in Corrales and sat out on the terrace for a long while, talking a blue streak into the night. I enjoyed the grandchildren stories, and lots of other stories.. it renews my sense of connection.

These are the same people I went to California with last year around this time, so it was more of a delayed continuing conversation than a situation of getting acquainted again.

Good to read that, Soz. Those gorillas can be so annoying.

I smiled at winning the week in rjb's NFL Pick-Um game.

Actually truth to tell it was more of a smirk that a smile.

....aaaand the meteorite hit after all.

Goddammit all to hell.

(Shortest version I can muster -- the place where I'm having the party double-booked. They tried to sweet-talk me into showing me a different place that would be "a better fit." I said it was awfully late to change locations, there's been a lot of publicity about where it will be. This went on for a while, then it became obvious that they'd booked a bigger, more expensive party for the place I wanted. I have everything in writing, can easily sue if I wanted to. Question remains what my immediate actions should be. Cancel? Go with the other location? Threaten to sue if they don't give me the first location? Argghhhhhh....)

Damn.
No advice..

Bugger!!!!