End of 2008; begining of 2009...

… and so it was that 2008 came to an end. The Temperellis (Mike, Nancy, Jesse and Rocky) left early Tuesday morning heading back down to Florida. We had a great time. They made it down uneventfully, except for a small glitch (a 2-hour traffic jam caused by a wreck) around Orlando.

Paul Bradley, a VP of Sales for PayCargo who works out of Nashville, came to work with me; we had a very productive day in which we exchanged ideas and agreed on PayCargo critical success factors…

Pat Ross invited us to come over to her house (about ¾ mile away – closest neighbor) for end of year celebrations; we will be there.

The elevator doors were installed (no more falling through shafts!) along with some of the railing on the stairs, and the replacement of some exterior fixtures that had been damage by staining; and, in the typical fashion of two steps forwards and one step backwards, as we were leaving for Pat’s, I dropped a frozen roast beef in the sink to defrost for the New Year’s day dinner and the sink fell off; I mean, it became completely unglued and unhinged from underneath the granite slab. Jimmy will be here today to fix it…

At any rate, we went to Pat’s and had a great time; I don’t know yet most people’s last names but Danny & Donna and DJ, Sammy & Nancy, Hank & Terry, Fireman Dan and Claudette were there, along with us and Pat. We made some Glühwein (spiced wine – German style) and took it to Pat’s; people experienced the sensation of warming up from within!

On January 1st we called my mother (her 80th birthday); we also hung drapes in the basement, built a standing coat rack, assembled a bench for mud room, installed a dead bolt on an outside door, built a fire pit.

We are starting to plan the return to South Florida… and so begins 2009!