April 30, 2010 11:15 PM

A fine two days!

Yesterday was the last of my docent classes. We had a quiz which I did OK on(I guess) because it wasn't graded during the class. It will be funny not having anything to do on Thursday morning anymore. I did sign up to shadow one more tour during May.

In the afternoon, I shadowed a tour to get a feel for how others do the tour. From what I witnessed, I came away with a high level of confidence that I could do better. We'll see how the second shadow goes. They are having a graduation party for us on my actual birthday - the 15th - at the Zimmerman house. It should be a lot of fun. This whole experience has been a pleasure and I look forward to giving my own tours in the near future. I know that I'll be a little nervous but I'm sure that the butterflies will quickly disappear.

What else over the past two days? Oh, I continued with my electrical work swapping two switches to make their use more obvious. What a bear to snake the wires. But, in the end, I prevailed. This has been on the to do list from day one when we moved in.

Oh yes, we completed our bridge matches for the season today as well. For the first time all year we came away with a loss. I don't think that it will affect our overall final positioning but we won't know until the 14th. By the way the fellow that we played against today had aplastic anemia 50 years ago and survived. That's a true miracle because they didn't do bone marrow transplants back then and there was no real way to fight the disease other than by repeated blood transfusions - which, miraculously, worked for him. In my case, I have seen a couple of obituaries in the paper this week of people dying from leukemia at the ages of 24 and 45 - so I certainly feel more than blessed that I have come this far. We take miracles wherever we can find them.

That about wraps up the two days other than to say that today was a beautiful day and the next two days are supposed to be in the 80's - summer is back!

As the weather gets better and better, I feel more and more grateful to be here to enjoy it...

Bob