The day started out with Sheila have issues with Quickbooks -- yes, again. I can't make this stuff up (as we like to say). Donn jumped right in. I started consulting immediately with Donn. And Kris was right behind that, checking on things. Crazy morning spent on the phone, I have to tell you.

And my friend Rob was sending me text messages and nagging me about going to dinner Friday night. It's hard to make people understand how our schedules work right now. But then we talked for ages while we were both working at the same time. Finally we hung up so we could concentrate better. Hahaha.

Worked in there was texting to both Larry and Candy, trying to pin them down about wristbands. And to find out more about sister Sue and her new cell phone. That was a ton of text messages to find out that Sue has a new phone, the same number and still isn't answering calls. Nor does she have her voice mail set up.

Anyway, everybody wants wristbands, which is good (including Nicole, who also texted me). And it's possible Sue might want to go to the parade, too.

There are a number of IT concerns that need to be addressed and are wrapped around security issues. Annoying distraction considering how busy we are. I spent ages on it, anyway...

My fasting blood was again good this morning. And I was eating peanuts in the middle of the night. Hahaha. Which shows you that peanuts are, indeed, good for you. Marilyn used to eat them constantly, by the way.

Speaking of Marilyn, she just looks MARVELOUS right now! She's lost a LOT of weight and her hair looks great and she looks young and stylish.

She told me tonight this might have been one of her most intense days at work ever! She had a lengthy interview, some very important and intense meetings and a ton of other work to do. She was at the office until well past 10:00 p.m.

Meanwhile, I was working on website stuff for many hours today. I was sitting in front of my computer and working through a bunch of complicated things.

One page just wasn't displaying correctly! Calisa had told me about it after Carol had mentioned it to her. So I went through that code with a fine-toothed comb. Over and over and over again! I was remembering the days when one little piece of code could completely mess up how a page displayed. I cleaned up the code several times, but couldn't find anything. Finally I turned to David at Fish. And it was an issue at his end! So he fixed it for me. Those are hours I'm never getting back again. Hahaha. Oh well.

Carol provided the Copy for several pages and I updated it all as we went along. Today was not about Sanctioned Events. Well, I did make one change to a Sanctioned Event page, but it was pretty simple. The rest of it was all MAJOR pages of our site, so I was happy to work through it.

Marilyn called to tell me that tomorrow is lunch at Elmer's for the Court -- and she's planning to attend. So she wanted me to invite June to go. She also suggested inviting our sister Sue, but there was no getting in touch with either her or Larry. I tried calling and texting, but no luck.

We've done the Elmer's lunch before, and it's fun. Angel will be there as the Clown Prince. And the members of the Court have lunch, then help serve patrons, mingled with those there.

This is a great group of girls! I really enjoyed talking to them at the Board meeting. So I'm looking forward to this tomorrow.

Hopefully June will feel up to it. She's dealing with the aftermath of her own bursa injections (for her knees). She did what I did and did not take it easy yesterday after her shots! And she was paying for it today. So I guess we'll see how she's doing. If she doesn't go, Marilyn is planning to come and pick me up.

Adeena and I wrote back and forth today. She's working on the Starlight script and plugging away at it. It's not easy work, but you can punch it out in a few days if you need to (which most people who do it have had to do). She's on deadline, but right now we're ALL on deadlines! It's that time of year.

It was COLD again today. I was barely avoiding getting chilled.

My friend Mark and I texted back and forth for a bit in the afternoon. If he's not tied up tomorrow, he might come to Elmer's, too. (The lunch is at noon.) When patrons order the Rose Meal, it benefits the festival!

It was amusing this morning! They're doing something at the office with Marilyn and needed a photo of her with Colin! And he just hates having his picture taken. It wasn't that easy to get any decent pictures. Hahaha. But Marilyn was sure looking good!

I got the recycling out tonight, barely. I was just so worn out. I know it's not physical, as I didn't get any steps to mention today. But mentally I was exhausted. By around 10:00 p.m. I was really done...

My blood sugar was good all day long! Of course, I wasn't really hungry, so I barely ate anything until tonight. And then I had cheese and crackers and some peanuts. Earlier I had a slice of bread. Haha.

I can't think what else I'm forgetting, but I'm off to bed. I need to get up and wash my hair in the morning before going to the lunch at Elmer's.

I was just thinking about reading all that code today. You know, I really do enjoy it! I don't get much opportunity these days. I used to be looking at code every single day a couple of years ago...

I need to post about The Big Valley that I saw part of today. About blue for boys and pink for girls. Hahaha. More about that soon, I hope.

Tonight is garbage night -- thankfully not 'real' garbage!

And now, to bed!

Today was ANOTHER rough IT day for me. Only this time I was in the festival office. But I was dealing with corruption issues with my own Profile (ugh). And more CERTIFICATE issues, as well. I couldn't get on my computer. Then finally I could, but I couldn't get on the internet. Then I could, but I couldn't access the Server drives! On and on and on.

Marilyn needed access to the President's email. We create this account to use for official emails he sends out to the board -- but not for HIM to actually use. Marilyn would take something and post it as him, in other words.

Because he has his own email and needs to receive things there, I HIDE his 'official' email from showing up in the GAL (global address list). This means staff members won't accidentally send email to the wrong account...

But Marilyn had never been set up to have access to this account on her new machine! So first I have to 'un-hide' the account. Then it has to generate (which generally takes around 24 hours). Then we can set access and so on. Then I'll need to go back in and hide it again. All of this is complicated and time-consuming...

Marilyn was supposed to meet with Frank about his message. She'd thought it might go out today. Instead, we'll need to go in this weekend to send it out. (sigh)

The above are some of the IT issues from today. And I was on my feet a ton and up and down stairs a ton, as well... My legs and feet are killing me tonight.

Anyway, we were finally heading home, having not eaten (well, I ate something in the morning -- and Marilyn had some nuts, and that's ALL for the entire day). It's POURING down rain and very cold (well under 40'). We get home, bring stuff in the house and eat some cheese and green olives. Then we quickly head out to go across town to meet our nephew Larry and his son Levi to see the Star Wars movie!

It was such nasty driving -- and we were cutting it SO CLOSE -- that we were about to bag the whole thing and just not go. I'm SO VERY GLAD we didn't do that!

Larry had seats for us, thankfully! And we were able to get popcorn before the movie started. Levi is just the sweetest nine-year-old boy ever, by the way! He and his dad had their Build a Bear bears with them -- one was Darth Vader bear and the other was a Storm Trooper bear! Very cute!

Levi was very excited when he asked if we would be in town for Christmas and Marilyn said 'yes.' I'm not sure what he expects, but we clearly need to find a chance to see him again soon!

I won't spoil, but the movie was EXCELLENT. We all enjoyed it very much. Maybe more than we'd expected. (Everybody was nervous about what Disney would do with it.) We loved Finn and liked Rey and Poe (the new characters). I won't say any more, because you'll just have to see it for yourself.

Marilyn's oral surgery is early tomorrow morning, so we're off to bed!!!

I did get the compost and recycling out, in spite of the nasty weather. This rain is really pretty awful. I hope it's not pouring in the morning!

Good night!