Yesterday, I was ready to announce the demise of this year's winter weather. I should have watched the weather forecast. It's 35 degrees right now and the forecast low for tonight is in the 20s. I've not been outside yet this morning, but I know it will feel very brisk when I finally get the nerve to walk out the door...I checked the online weather report and learned that, with the wind chill, it feels like 26 degrees outdoors.
I had almost convinced myself that I could shed the long-sleeved shirts I have been wearing to the office during the past few months and replace them with the short-sleeved, wash & wear shirts I use most of the year. When I do that, it will save me money; the long-sleeved shirts require ironing, which I just don't do unless 'pressed' into it. I prefer to pay the $0.89 per shirt to have them laundered, starched, ironed, and put on hangars. If I weren't so disagreeable about parting with my money, I'd do the same with the 'wash & wear' shirts; they really don't look good straight out of the dryer and, in some cases, they look positively awful...but I pretend they look the way they should and I wear them. People probably think I slept in them, but that's life.
I'm ready to go back to writing a bit about James Kneeblood and his odd kin, but I've decided to dramatically change the story and the characters. He'll still have daughters with bizarre names, but I think I went over the top when I decided they all had different mothers and were born just months apart. And his demise will be changed...the Wal-Mart truck just doesn't do it for me. I probably will not post the fiction on this blog, at least not for awhile. I may just wait until it's a complete short story...more satisfying to me that way.
My wife and I have a certificate that's good for one weekend night stay at a downtown Dallas hotel. It expires soon, so we're probably going to use it in the next week or two. I rather like turning a weekend into a mini-vacation. It will give us a base of operation as we explore some of the museums, etc., in downtown Dallas. Plus, I believe it includes a bottle of champagne and a breakfast, so it will be a nice little getaway. The certificate was a door prize at an event we attended sometime during the last year...probably close to a year ago, given that the certificate expires soon.
Tuesday night, the evening of Valentine's Day, my wife and I are going to a special dinner at a restaurant not far from our house. It's called Canary Cafe and its owner and chef is a guy by the name of Mansour Gorji, who delivers excellent food every time we've been there (not a lot, but enough to know we like it). The dinner that night is a prix fixe menu with a variety of options. Take a look at the menu options by scrolling down his home page.
Tomorrow afternoon between 2 and 5 pm, we'll drop by the home of some friends who recently bought a house nearby. They invited us over for a casual wine-tasting. The guy is wine director for a liquor store, so I imagine he must get specials on special wines. In fact, he sought out for me a particular New Zealand sauvignon blanc (whose name I now cannot remember) that I had in a restaurant and could not find anywhere...and gave me a 20% discount on a case. It was inexpensive wine to begin with, so a 20% discount made it a great deal. The woman is someone who worked for me years ago when I ran a large association in Dallas...before I ran afoul of the Board and was pushed out. She stayed on at that association for several years, before they downsized her out of a job...and then she went to work for an architectural firm, which decided after a year she was not the right person for their new marketing approach (she was marketing director and supervisor of proposal writers), so she is out of a job. Rotten luck.
My coffee needs refreshing, so I'll take the opportunity to sign off and write again another time.
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