An Actual Breeze!!

I know. My life seems to revolve around the weather these days, but this is just awesome. An actual breeze is filling my bedroom! There isn’t a single fan on in the entire house right now.

It’s only 69 degrees Fahrenheit out there, and only expected to go as high as 77 today!! Yay!!! With light rain all day!!

And it’s supposed to stay pretty cool until later next week. (Including on my birthday, when I should be out galivanting in town with my Q-following friend!)

And all these cooler temperatures, just in time for me to have that new AC unit and then not use it, but I don’t mind. I feel like a human being again.

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I don’t really have a whole lot to post about today.

Yesterday, I got nothing done on the novel. I chatted for a while with Valerie. But mostly, I made whatever phone calls I could to try to find contractors to bid on the work I need done to the house, for my home improvement loan application.

It’s coming together, gang. It would be so nice if this all works out. I just need to “nail down” a carpenter (!!) and I should be ready to send in all my paperwork.

And today I’m getting a new iPhone!!

I hate upgrading phones. I always put it off as long as I can, but now some of my apps are telling me that really, really, really SOON, the app won’t work on my system anymore. So I gave in.

I have an 8+ and will be getting a 16e. But the cool thing — I lowered my monthly data usage plan and the monthly charge for the new iPhone will end up costing me exactly the same as what I’ve been paying every month with the higher data plan.

So, if you look at it my way — I’m getting an upgrade for “free”!! Yay!!

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On other happy fronts —

Wow, I don’t know what it is about Lucca, Italy, gang, but Nick Cave looked SO HAPPY yesterday!! He’s not, generally, the kind of guy who goes around looking “happy.”

Here are a few shots from the show yesterday:

Maybe he’s really happy because today is the day that the Grinderman re-issues are officially released??? Hmmm. Not sure.

Regardless. It is so cool to see him so happy!!

Over the next several days, he and Colin Greenwood continue to play shows in Italy, but all of them are sold out.

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Okay. Today I go back to see my favorite 94-year-old Japanese client, and we will be going here for our usual sushi/sashimi lunch!!

And next week, if the weather is as beautiful as they are predicting, we will go back to that incredible clubhouse at the golf course that has that incredible view!!!

Oh, and here’s something I forgot to mention — about that other favorite client of mine, the woman who is back from Florida now; the retired Chaplain who has all those Theology Degrees from Yale.

It turns out that when all her lady freinds were still alive (she has outlived all of them, heavy sigh), they used to meet for lunch at the same clubhouse at the golf course!! It was their favorite restaurant!

AND…

When I was talking to her about going to NYC to rehearse the play, and I mentioned to her that Sandra lives in Rhinebeck…

It turns out she LOVES Rhinebeck! Not only does she love Rhinebeck, but at one point in her life, she was planning to move there but something else came up!

So weird. I mean, that’s exactly like me. I love it there and I was, indeed, planning to move there and something else came up.

What are the odds, gang? I don’t know a soul out here who has ever even heard of Rhinebeck, let alone been there and fallen in love with it.