Happenings at Boller-haus

Well, here's the latest happenings from beautiful downtown Benicia. In the interest of microscopically improved frugalness, Bob has moved his office from downtown back to the spare bedroom at home. After 3 days of grunting and groaning, most everything is now is place except for the telephone service. They disconnected my office phone last Wednesday and I am still in that same state. Today they have dug up the sidewalk in two places on our street in an attempt to locate the problem. How long this will continue is anybody's guess. If and when they get it working, the number will be the same as before, (707) 747-1199.

As some of you may not know, Jan is now an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Nursing at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, CA. For those of you that are unfamiliar with CA geography, Pomona is one of the 100 or so small towns surrounding Los Angeles. It is located about 50 miles east of downtown LA along I-10. Originally, she was to be teaching primarily via Distance Learning (i.e., over the Internet) so she would work from home here in Benicia most of the time. However, she is also now director of a new program that will take nurses with AA degrees and move them directly to a Master's Degree. They expect to take their first students next fall. As a result, she expects to be down in the Pomona area about half time. To that end, she has rented a small, 1-bedroom apartment in the ever-lovely Rancho Cucamonga, CA. The current plan is for her to not get a telephone in the apartment, so continue to contact her on her cell phone - (707) 319-7299.

In conjunction with another of her recent projects, Jan is at a 2-day meeting in Sacramento which may be the pinnacle of bad timing. She spent most of last year as the lead author of a white paper that discusses way to redesign nursing education in CA. The current meeting in Sacramento is to develop strategy for getting the Governator to fund the project. With the current budget crises in CA (now projected to be a $7 billion deficit on top of an earlier $20 billion deficit), one might say "fat chance". But who knows. As Jan would say UDGWYDAF - You Don't Get What You Don't Ask For!

Well, that's enough ramling for today. More later.

SOB