Redwood Asylum (emeritus)
...by the inmates...for the inmates...
Saturday, August 17, 2002
Registration, Birdseed, Notary, Moonstruck
Maria worked at the college in the morning for several hours, registering students for the upcoming fall classes. I watered the garden and hillside for over an hour, soaking many things completely as they were neglected for the last week or two.
Bill, our neighbor, said they buy 500 pounds of birdseed and 200 pounds of sunflower seeds per week for the various flying critters living in the redwood trees behind their deck. He was unloading another pile of 50-pound bags from his car at the time.
Beautiful day in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This was the view from the family room.
Notary came to the house to get signatures on all the loan papers, all 287 of them, or so it seemed. In this age of electronic interaction, why can't mortgage lenders, banks, title companies, and their ilk deploy an industry-standard set of integrated forms? Most of the forms contained duplicate information. One even needed to be filled out by hand, but contained only a repeat of basic information already available on all the other forms. Jeeeeeez, talk about inefficient.
After happy hour on the deck, Maria and I watched the Academy Award-winning 1987 movie Moonstruck with Cher and Nicolas Cage. That was the first time we'd seen it and thought it was quite good.
On Monday, Maria, Nate, and Crystal have appointments to sample multiple wedding cakes; six samples at one vendor, four at another.
...by the inmates...for the inmates...
Saturday, August 17, 2002Registration, Birdseed, Notary, Moonstruck
Maria worked at the college in the morning for several hours, registering students for the upcoming fall classes. I watered the garden and hillside for over an hour, soaking many things completely as they were neglected for the last week or two.
Bill, our neighbor, said they buy 500 pounds of birdseed and 200 pounds of sunflower seeds per week for the various flying critters living in the redwood trees behind their deck. He was unloading another pile of 50-pound bags from his car at the time.
Beautiful day in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This was the view from the family room. Notary came to the house to get signatures on all the loan papers, all 287 of them, or so it seemed. In this age of electronic interaction, why can't mortgage lenders, banks, title companies, and their ilk deploy an industry-standard set of integrated forms? Most of the forms contained duplicate information. One even needed to be filled out by hand, but contained only a repeat of basic information already available on all the other forms. Jeeeeeez, talk about inefficient.
After happy hour on the deck, Maria and I watched the Academy Award-winning 1987 movie Moonstruck with Cher and Nicolas Cage. That was the first time we'd seen it and thought it was quite good.
On Monday, Maria, Nate, and Crystal have appointments to sample multiple wedding cakes; six samples at one vendor, four at another.
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