Sunday, December 17, 2006
"Week Past 12/11-12/17"
Tue 12/12 I was finally able to donate blood for the Red Cross. The venue was our former church, St Michael's at Farmington. I have been receiving phone messages from the Red Cross reminding me of the locations and schedule of their blood drive since about a month ago. Finally Tue everything fell into place: my schedule, their schedule and the locale. I encourage those who are not queasy looking at their own blood filling a plastic bag or seeing somebody else's to donate. You save lives and your body replenishes the blood you just donated thereby giving you "fresh" blood in your system.
The weather this week became mild again. From Wed 12/13 through Fri 12/15 the temps were hitting the 40's and 50's. High numbers for December and there's not a trace of snow. But driving in the early morning is hazardous. With these high temps there's moisture in the air. Then condensation sets in as temp drops in the evening. With temps below freezing early in the morning the roads, because of condensation, will be covered with thin ice that's hard to discern. Sunrise doesn't start until 7:50 am this time of the year so it's still dark at 6:00 am when traffic starts to build up. There have been reports of vehicles going out of control because it "skated" on ice. So is it ever going to be a "White Christmas"? The weatherman said there's still no sign of it.
At the work front, Thu 12/14 was my last day at the Service Desk, Friday being my day off. Sat 12/16 started my one week training for the Optical Mgr position at Apple Valley for the operations side. There's a lot to learn especially on the technical aspect not to mention the business side of it. So I'll be away from our store for two weeks. I'll be back next year. A new challenge.
Sun 12/17 was my day off. Went to mass and finally registered our names at the church after mass. So we're now officially parishioners of the St Michael's church at Prior Lake, MN. It's quiet at the house by myself so I tinkered with the home theater system in our room. Program the AM/FM stations and played around with the different sound modes system to see what would be best. Then tried it out by watching the DVD "Rambo: First Blood" that I just bought at the Apple Valley store for $3.88. Like what those two loonie birds-Heckel and Jeckel- always say:"It's a steal".
Sidebar: Fri 12/15 at the Y one of the TV monitors was airing a program showing a close-up of a woman's face being injected by a formula that's suppose to make her skin look younger, On both sides of her cheek, near her jaw the syringe went in ... I think they did four injections. Now there were these two ladies on the exercise machine watching the show. One was African the other Asian. I was behind them stretching and was also watching the show albeit intermittently. I didn't hear what the Asian said to the African lady but she started shaking her head and started pointing her finger to her chest saying "What's inside you is what is important" and the Asian lady was nodding her head in agreement...How true but we lose sight of it with all those advertisement on TV and glossy magazine epitomizing what is supposedly beautiful.
