Thursday, December 4, 2014

Advent 2014 is here

We met Jim at Thanksgiving--here he is playing Carmen's guitar and he did a great job
I have not spent time learning to play yet so any time we get the chance we ask someone to play the guitar which has a fantastic sound.  It never fails as each person who has played it says they play an acoustical guitar and the fretboard on a classical is so much wider.  Well I measured this morning to see the difference and there is a BIG difference.  On a classical the fretboard on the third fret is 2 1/4 and on Terry's acoustical it is 1 7/8.  Even with the difference Jim did a great job playing for us after we had enjoyed a tasty Thanksgiving dinner last Thursday.
Things in Naples are going at a nice pace with super weather and actually some work is getting done.  This week the weather forecast is for 80/81 all week with no real chance of rain.  That kind of weather is perfect for tennis and I will be on the court 5 days this week.  I feel I have elevated my game a notch or two which is good.  BUT Terry and I sat down and watched a match after I finished playing yesterday AND I am pretty sure I could have returned the serves BUT I know there would be no rallies if I were playing.  It was fun to watch play at a level I will never be at and actually do not aspire to as the time commitment would be too great.  My guess would be if you evaluated tennis players on a scale of 1-20 my play yesterday would have been on about 9 and the match we watched for a bit would have been on a scale of maybe 14 or so.
Terry and I purchased a scanner called "Neat".  We have thought about getting it for some time but never pulled the trigger as in my world it is expensive.  We intend to scan receipts and papers into the computer and then get rid of much paper.  It was super easy to set up and work it so now we will see how faithful we are at using it.  Yesterday we were out and about and made 3 purchases.  I came home and scanned the receipts and then threw them away so we are off to a good start.  We feel it will help us be organized and for sure I need that.
Enough, the FP is near the bottom of the cup.

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