Fun and Games at the Bollers

Well, its been kind of a hectic couple of months here in the environs of Bagdad-By-The-Sea (San Francisco). What with birthdays, tax day, kidney stones and dog sitting for Rudi (photo), we've been pretty busy.

Jan continues being unable to say NO to anyone (except me of course -AW!), so she is working night and day to keep up with her students. A normal teaching load at the graduate level is 2 classes, but she has 3 because her boss, the Dean, talked her into taking a class that she was supposed to teach. Distance learning has many advantages, but studies show that it requires about 20% more time for the instructor.

Regarding the kidney stone, I had the first episode on March 9th and finally passed the damn thing on April 8th. In between there were 4 or 5 (I lost count) episodes, including 2 trips to the emergency room. Gotta love that morphine! Everything seems to be OK now, except that I am taking a course of antibiotic to treat the mother of all kidney infections. With this antibiotic, I can't eat anything and it can make your arms fall off! (I'm exaggerating, of course, but I have lost 12 pounds!)

The photo is of Rudi, the 100 pound standard poodle that lives across the street. We've had him for just over a week. He is supposed to go home this evening. Rudi is a real sweetheart, but you'll never convince Lizzie (our Yorkie) of that. She finds the whole situation to be very annoying. So far, Rudi has only broken one ceramic pot trying to jump through the window to get at the squirrels.

Jan and I are planning to spend next weekend in Morro Bay which is on the coast south of here. This will be our joint birthday celebrations. (I'm an official old geezer now!) Jan made the reservations when she was down in that area last month with Wayne and Shirley for the pinot noir festival (yes, that's as in the wine).

That's all for now.

Love to all,

Bob