Field Notes - Dispatch 1.a – Palm
Desert
Hello Fellow Adventures!
MR and I just returned from cycling to
the gym for a session in which MR once again out bench pressed me. I
suppose I should get used to it. After all, 70 pounds is a dangerous
amount of weight to have above your head. I am too smart to risk it
even if I could.
The weather here is astonishingly nice
but you don't want to hear about it or the humming birds that arrived
at our patio about fifteen minutes after I put up the feeder. We
drink coffee out there and watch the Bird War while we read the
paper. Not bad for January 3.
We finally got all of our safari
equipment removed from the Outback and installed in our winter
quarters. Honestly, we brought almost everything we own. The
Normandy invasion was accomplished with less stuff. I brought three
computers and four tablets and that does not include speakers,
printer, tools, and roku box. When I turn it all on the lights dim
in the neighborhood. I am not even going to bring up the number of
shoes MR brought!
I have been here about forty eight
hours and already I am hard at work doing computer consulting for
some Canadian pals we met last year. They button hole me at the gym
and suddenly I am doing an impromptu lecture on Apple operating
systems. Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about Apple operating
systems. Oh, well, as long as no fees are paid I cannot be sued.
That is true isn't it?
Not sure what today's activities are
going to be. MR has not given me my marching orders yet. She has
been on-line signing us up for cooking classes and a book club. All
I want to do is lay around the pool and have drinks with little
umbrellas in them. Guess who will get her way.
