Hello, again

Dang, it's been a long week.

First was being tired and needing to catch up on sleep and housework on Sunday.

Then the family thing on Monday. Put the flag out, cooperated with the dear husband to put the pork on the grill and the food on the picnic table. A rare day in Kansas of about 80 degrees, light breeze instead of the steady wind, and clear...we fed the 18 year-old daughter, mom and dad, and niece and new (30 days) husband with food and conversation and raspberry lemonade. Somehow a fudge pie showed up, enabling us to finish the meal with a fine flourish.

Tuesday began the laborious project of selecting a new Dean at my school - actually my new boss. We concluded efforts today. My number 2 pick was selected, and it should work out fine. But I will truly miss my old boss, and haven't done grieving for that yet... she is just retiring! But it's still a loss. It would be hard for anyone to turn my job into a nightmare, it's so perfect right now. I expect all will be well, but it makes me a tad nervous.

And now I have to spend hours trying to figure out just exactly how much money I have left to spend in the next week or so, using very non-sophisticated reporting tools, matching with my figures and record of expenses, with the aim of spending every penny or maybe a few dollars over. Humph. I don't like to be pressed at the end like this. There's gotta be a better way to track expenses for my purposes. Trouble is I don't have the experience with other systems. In fact this one is better than my last institution, and the personnel are much more helpful. I need to do a bit of research with my peers next month to see how the tracking they do day to day helps with the final spending.

Finally, got my tetunus shot today, as well as Hepetitus A, in preparation for my trip to Mexico (Tecate) next month. Anyone been to that area? Any recommendations?

Singing...