Happy birthday, FCM!! 
Today’s weather is more of the same: mostly cloudy, and in the low 40s. There’s more wind today, which always makes it feel a little colder. It was raining when I woke up, but happily it stopped before I was ready to take Bailey out.
Yesterday’s memorial service was as good as something like that can be. Many of us wore t-shirts that Chris had designed, and the place was like a mini Converse/Chuck Taylor convention (also in his honor). Heh. I cried more than I thought I would. Chris’s brother also used to work at the same company, and he gave a touching eulogy. I knew him fairly well, as we played poker together every week for over a year. I hate crying: my tears tend to be triggered by empathy – vs my own emotion – and most of yesterday’s were because of him and the others who were were visibly struggling. It was nice to catch up with a bunch of people who somehow still feel like family but, in most cases, I hadn’t seen in 15+ years. A few of us went out to dinner afterwards (I’m looking forward to having leftover chicken enchilada for lunch), and I’ve reconnected with a couple of folks on FB.
This will be a somewhat busy week, with long-ish volunteer-related meetings both tomorrow night (6-9pm, in person) and Thursday night (7-9pm, virtual). And, at some point I need to take my car for its annual safety inspection; that’s due by the end of the month. Usually I would have done it by now, because inspection places get slammed at the end of every month, but it completely slipped my mind until a few days ago. Oh well. Better to go sometime this week than this weekend – or next Monday/Tuesday.
One callback to last week’s thread:
That was nice of you!
It’s something I try to do, as well: if I’m dealing with a cashier, server, etc., who is clearly still training and has fumbled something and apologized, I always smile and tell them we were all new once and they’re doing just fine. Customer-facing jobs are challenging enough on a good day. 
I’m about to help our admin with something which should just take a few minutes ( 
), then it’s leftover chicken enchilada time! 
Have a good day/week, everyone!!