Yup. We were out of town last week. In Las Vegas. At our timeshare. The Internet hookup this time was… unreliable. Frustrating. Practically useless. Dave had planned on getting work done while we were gone, as he’d been able to in the past, but it didn’t work out this time. More frustration. We did end up having a reasonably restful week, after all. Read. Watched a lot of movies. Knit. I have lots of knitting progress to show you, once I get the pictures taken, and out of my camera. There are other pictures in the camera that I’ll show you, too, but those will wait until another day.

Dave’s been working for the last several weeks toward moving all of our sites to a new server. The current server has a hard drive that’s dying, is old and slow, and otherwise just in need of being updated. It’s never as easy as it should be, and has been most frustrating. The first and (hopefully) most difficult site is now, finally, running on the new server. I’m telling you this now, because at some point, hopefully soon, my sites will all go away for a few hours or so. When they’re back online after that disappearance, they should be running from the new server. Keep your fingers crossed, hope for the best, pray even, if that’s your thing, that all goes well with this second huge part of the move.

Meanwhile…

This is our dear friend Rich, a few days before his mother died last month. The photographer wanted him to smile, but it just wasn’t in him to do so. When he sent us this photo I warned him that it was blog fodder. He just laughed. Can you believe that hair? Dave thinks it’s disgusting. Rich has way too much of it. In January he chopped it short, so that length is from less than a year of growth. Plus, no split ends. Now that’s disgusting. Isn’t he horrible? Smug. He started the beard too late for it to be long enough to make a decent Santa beard, so he’s since cut it off. He’ll grow another one later. After Christmas. In January the hair will be cut off again, and donated to an outfit that makes wigs for children who are sick. Our dear friend has had quite a year, from caring for his dying mother to finding his next door neighbor dead in her home. He has no blog, so please give him hugs and support by leaving a comment to this post.