August 12, 2006 (continued)

STAN Lombardo, not Steve Lombardo, is who along with Judy Roitman I have to thank for the flowers. I really did know that was his first name. It could have been worse – my spell checker tried to change his last name to “Lombard,” but I caught that. But I did not catch it when it changed John’s last name from Hinrichsen to Henrichsen. Sorry about that, Stan and John. I will make the corrections on the blog entry, but of course it's too late to do that for the emails that were sent out.

In the evening, Gary tried to make a dent in the mail we’ve received lately. Thanks to Kitty and T.Y. Tam for their card, and to Marilyn Foreman for hers. And thank you, little Laura, for the anniversary “Amelie” DVD.

Gary also got a most amazing card – it was from the person who was first at his side at the scene of the accident (she found out who he was when she read the article about him in the local paper a couple weeks ago). She said she was pumping gas at a nearby station and heard the accident, ran to Gary’s car and screamed at him to talk to her, then yelled at the gas station attendant to call 911. She said Gary just sat there and looked at her until the ambulance arrived. Gary remembers none of this, and reading her card made us both cry.

We were both still wiped out today, but our intentions to get the evening routine done a bit earlier so we could get a bit more rest were thwarted by more “maintenance issues.” We are still wondering when we get that 50% leisure time.

All for now, except to mention something I meant to say on the entry for Friday, namely that we both think Piotr Minc has very good taste in bedding and towels!