Ted came over to eat matzoh at Kornblatt's with us. While we were walking, Ted asked Tom if it felt weird to have stayed home on Friday. Tom said it had been like a three-day weekend so far and tomorrow would be the real test. They then launched into a 15-minute work discussion of something to do with printer lines, shields, and pins. The only thing I understood was "and then we could plug it into the floor." And maybe I didn't even understand that because in my world things are plugged into the wall. Listening to their discussion was like listening to "Holmes on Homes" on HGTV: "And we'll have to run a 4x8 laminate along the truss line and hollow out the core for an APC for the EVG through to the upstairs." Huh?
Tom illustrating a printer cable point. Tom and I talked about starting to work on our bedroom. That means packing stuff up, ripping up the old carpet, patching the cracks, and painting the walls. That's why so far it's just talk.
What else did Tom do? He ran, he carried the seedlings from the basement to the great outdoors, he moved chairs at the bookstore for an author signing, he cheered the Blazers on to victory in their first play-off game.
Tom cannot fathom that I want to blog his sabbatical. It will be so borrrrring, he says (see last paragraph). Have you thought about skydiving, I say. Ha, ha, he said. This is the last laugh which I am making: Hah! Just wait until he finds out I signed him up for a lesson on Thursday.
Sabbatical Useful Projects: Started-1, Completed-1, Contemplated-1
(P.S. Just joking about the skydiving lesson.)
