In this year, wrote and
weblished
Chapter 25: "Whistle Against the
Din" of
Bolster, Not Molest Her
and began work on
Chapter 26: "Ditchen"
(from which Chapter 25 was split off)
revised BNMH Chapters 18 through 24
(the first seven of
Vicki in
Vanderlund: BNMH Book Two)
decided
Book Two
should conclude
with the end of junior
high, reserving senior high for a new Book Three: Thrown for a Look
created a full-volume eBook for
Wish Again
(BNMH Book One)
adapted the existing eBooks of
The Ups and Downs of Skeeter Kitefly,
Skeeter Kitefly's Sugardaddy Confessor,
and
13 Black Cats Under a Ladder to match
Wish Again's
format
overhauled the decade-old Skeeter Kitefly Books webpages, consolidating them to one
each
exchanged email correspondence with
Claudia Mills
and got a fine
figurine of
Death (Neal Gaiman version)
In this year, seeking
physical and emotional stress relief,
discovered
Sara Ivanhoe
beginning with her
Basic Yoga for Dummies and
Candlelight Yoga, built up a regular
schedule of nightly practices
pre-yoga,
dealt with "prostorrhoids":
adding extra cushions to
chair seats, and breaking old "straining" habits
added more fruit and vegetables to daily intake, along with curries; dined
at East
India Grill for the first time
resurrected the old minikettle (purchased for first apartment in 1978) to
brew
no-sugar-added
cocoa
got new glasses (in lightweight frames) with lens prisms to correct occasional
vertical double vision
returned from KCMO
with a sore toe (due to mother's Australian wine?); bought an
electric footbath to soothe it
paid two
experimental visits (neither rewarding) to a local Unitarian church
a big new squashed-spider
floater appeared
in the right eye, followed by cobwebby ones
when vision wasn't impaired,
didn't revisit
the
Family
Eye Clinic to have eyes checked out (until 2014...)
In this year, a
low-flow toilet and
carbon
monoxide detector were installed; the kitchen sink sprang a fresh leak
replaced bathtub caulk for the first time since 2008;
relegated the old bedroom floor lamp to the deck
pipe
problems in the apartment downstairs caused an overnight water cutoff (and improvised plumbing)
while a next-door neighbor tried to raise a puppy (which spent hours yipping
and thudding)
began
dusting with refillable Swiffer
the Des
Moines QFC on Marine View Drive closed
replaced the ragged old Route 66 denim jacket with a new multitaskworthy hooded Cathartt
and
marked 25 years living in Outer Seattle
In
this year,
hit the jackpot with contemporary Cincinnati Enquirer articles on
Elliott Burns and Emma Combs
leading to
Fine Lineage's
new
Chapter B-7: "Her
Smile Incensed Him" being split off from
Chapter B-6:
"Jacob, Margaret, and the Dixons"
visiting the Sainted Aunt Mellie Nash in Blue Springs MO, collected a large
batch of photocaps from her collections
wrote and weblished
Fine Lineage's
new
Chapter S-7: The Waterhouses
joined the Missouri
and Ohio
Historical Societies, the
Historic Kansas City Foundation, and (for
one year only) the
National Genealogical Society
and marked the 90th anniversary of the Ehrlich family's
arrival in America
In this year,
got a
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2
and
a BlackBerry Q10
made
first purchases of Kindle eBooks,
collecting many (and basically swearing off hardcopy editions)
reactivated the
Facebook account
emptied
the
old Maxtor external hard drive (too small for full backup purposes)
replaced 2GB flash drives with 8GB (one of which froze up); then
began using the Amazon Cloud Drive
downloaded Microsoft ExpressionWeb as alternative to old FrontPage
studied HTML5, converting most
Bolster, Not Molest Her chapters to
stripped-down-code format
signed up for access to
GoComics.com
discovered Phineas and Ferb; began collecting episodes on DVD and
Amazon Instant Video
got reacquainted with Doctor Who during its 50th anniversary (largely
due to
Clara Oswald's presence)
The Mountain (103.7 FM) shut down after 22 years (many listeners saying it
effectively did so two years ago)
and EarthLink DSL began having signal and connection problems, late in the
year...
In this year,
renewed driver's license (in person—online
renewal only being offered once per decade)
the Des Moines Post Office got "prowled," with boxes jimmied open
during one afternoon commute,
Kent-Des Moines Road was flooded by a deluge;
got soaked from knees down and new Nikes were engulfed
booked a cheap-rate
trip to KCMO
(costing only 40% of last year's rate) on Alaska Airlines
and while visiting KCMO, rented a Mazda with a balky lifthatch; made a
wrong turn on Ward Parkway and drive into (fortunately very thin) oncoming
traffic; then encountered a flash thunderstorm while returning the car to
Enterprise
In this year,
emptied the C250 office and left
Sand Point
after 13 years and 22 days
following
gloomy prospects for UW Medicine's Health Information Management in
a budget-shortfall era
turning to
dread of the future (was job security a thing of the past?) and a bout of shiver-shakes
one night
updated résumé, first time since 2010;
investigated employment listings, job agencies and
IOD
Incorporated
enhanced a rudimentary Linkedin profile and signed up with less-than-responsive WSHIMA
before leaving Sand Point,
improvised a stand-up work station (to spare "prostorrhoids");
ceased providing "U-Link" EMR access to outside providers; attended
final UPICC meeting;
had to deal with the discovery of three years of unassigned Service Desk tickets;
plus the wipeout of a decade's saved emails on pse@uw.edu,
thanks to a server crash
moved to the Room 3039 of the
Pat Steel Building and got set up in
Cubicle 55
just in time for the
state legislature to passed a
last-minute
budget (with
a 2% raise, despite everything)
and for Northwest Hospital to begin making use of the Epic system on a vast, not
always accurate scale
leading to recordbreaking weekly/monthly totals
of duplicate patient accounts
and their
cancel-merges...
