Fine

Have I ever suggested that people should eat a balanced diet? Or read a balanced library? Well, we should do both. There is nothing better than finding a gem in a genre that you don't often read. Fine Just The Way It Is is a gem. Some may know Annie Proulx from Shipping News. I wasn't a huge fan of that book; it was just okay. Others may know her as the author of Brokeback Mountain. Actually, she was the author of Wyoming Tales. Brokeback was one of the short stories in this anthology. Fine is also known as Wyoming Tales, Part 3. This, too, is a compilation of short stories. They are as varied as my reading list. A couple are about the devil. Verry funny. And there is a lot of bleak sadness, because Wyoming gets to be like that. This was a wonderful book to read between my Civil War trek.

They did it. Tribune Company decided to pull the plug on my dear friends in India. I know I should be gleeful that, for the second time, these people saw the error of their ways and in-sourced work. But they didn't. The consolidated Helpdesk is now in Orlando. I see little difference in Orlando and Bangalore. I have friends in both places. As much as I have wished that the move to India would succeed, I wish the same for Orlando. But it still doesn't put us where we were. Instead of highly competent people who know our users well and know their issues well, we have people in other time zones determining our needs. Sorry for the we and our references. It's just easier. One of the problems with the tribune company is that they are really eight newspapers. Each set up their computer systems differently. They are trying to standardize, but maybe that project should have been completed before doing this. Where is the picture of me hiding my eyes and shaking my head?

We got a Wii! I have started to do the Wii Fit module. The most fun is the step aerobics. It is supposed to help you with your rhythm. For all of you who have seen me dance, this is quite a task. I promise that I will do that every day and may someday have better rhythm. In the mean time, I will be having a lot of fun with this system. Maybe some day I won't run over 75% of the flags in the downhill skiing. When that day comes, I may actually allow other people into the room while I do this. This is a picture of the hula hoop game. I am okay at this, but you need to move in a certain way to capture a floating hula hoop. This gives you a better score. Walking and chewing gum. Swiveling and moving your body to catch a hoop. Some of us are just not co-ordinated enough to do this.

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