Updates

Updates on issues that have come in past blogs.

Michael got his license this past Saturday. He returned from DMV around 11 a.m. Before I could even congratulate him he asked for my keys so he could drive to his friend Tyler’s house to tell him he had his license. At around 7 p.m. that same night, he drove to the house of another friend who lives about a mile away. My wife and I spent some time that night with friends at a downtown bar/restaurant. I left early, partly to avoid the ear-splitting volume when the band went on and partly to go home to worry and wait for Michael’s safe return. He arrived around 10:30 p.m. I survived.
The next day he took the car to the Wallingford YMCA.
For some reason, I’m really worried about his plan to drive to basketball practice between 6 and 6:30 a.m. this coming Saturday. Lyman Hall is less than a mile from our house, but I worry that he won’t be awake enough to drive himself and also about slick morning roads this time of year.
When I mentioned it to him, he replied: “I think I can handle it.”

Thanks to my wife, I do have a steady supply of walnuts. Although, I need to put them on the shopping list each week or she will not buy them. I know this because one week I forgot to write them down and when I noticed they weren’t in any of the shopping bags, I asked why. She replied: “You didn’t put them on the list.”
While walnuts have to put on the list each week, I notice those really delicious but expensive Friendlies sun-daes are replenished even though they never appear on the list.
Earlier this week, I told a colleague she was buy-ing a cheaper brand of walnuts. I checked when I got home last night. Mary says they are actually a better, more expensive brand of “natural” walnuts. Is there any other kind?

I have resumed bringing my shirts to the dry cleaner each week. I didn’t mind the ironing. I did mind that after all that effort my shirts looked lousy. White Way does a great job and the employees are very nice.