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The really nice waiter's corkscrew that vonbeck gave me has disappeared. Damn. I love that wine opener. If I lost it at work, I'm never going to see it again -- it's not that people who work in food service are particularly kleptomaniac, but nobody who works with wine would even CONSIDER giving that back if they got their hands on it. . .

I got a brand-new gym membership, and it's great, and I went to work out tonight, and they close at six on Saturdays. I got there at six to discover this. They're open nine to five on Sundays, so I'll go tomorrow.

My Auntie Debbie has moved into an assisted living facility. It sucks that she has to, and she's not hugely pleased about having to move out of her apartment, but that's the way it is. The upside of this is that we now have furniture for our downstairs: we got a dining room set -- table and six chairs; a sideboard, an eight-and-a-half-foot-long couch, a four foot long couch, and a chair that all match, a granite-top end table (55 inches by 32 inches) that we're using as a coffee table, because it's actually designed to go between the two couches so that they go together in an L shape, with the table as the corner, but if we did that, we'd block off the drawers in the table, and a 26" television set. Auntie Debbie is very pleased that 1. her nice furniture is being used by family -- she likes handing stuff down to us, which is why she was so pleased that Uncle Mel's old tux fits me, 2. someone was able to take the entire set and keep it together. Because it looks good. I'm hoping that she'll feel enough better soon that she'll want to visit and see how we set everything up, but she may not. She's getting ready to die, and I don't mean that in a morbid way, nor does she; I've blogged about this before.

The television set is really nice when it works. You have to hit it to get the picture to show up -- sound shows up immediately, and the on-screen computer displays come up immediately, but you need to whack it to get a television picture. We're starting to figure out the best ways to whack it.

We rented and watched Lilo and Stitch, the good 1991 Robin Hood -- the one with Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman, and the complete The Storyteller series (9 episodes).

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Isn't Lilo and Stitch fabulous?

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(who read the rest of this as well, and is thinking of you, and of your auntie.)

[gilana]

So for those of us who are about to start buying presents for folks... what was the corkscrew? I bet there's somebody on my list who would appreciate one.