Dec. 29

We had slept well in a splendid bed in my niece Tina's basement. I awoke well before the creeking footsteps above told me that the coffee was ready. I had not smelled it as I usually do at home. So I concluded that the smell of coffee rises. To be awakened by the smell of coffee one must sleep upstairs. You also have to have an automatic pot with timer or a very kind person to get up and make it.  I emphasize these truths because my nephew, Ron Schwarz not only made my coffee but he later rid my computer of all sorts of evils and showed me very simply how to update this website!  Ron's company, Sunlight Software has created this very easy to use template for setting up and editing one's own website.  Even I can login to it and add and edit things in seconds. So the morning (which ended at 2:00)spent working at learning how to do this was a great gift and Ron's instruction was easy to understand and very useful. 

Ron 

We left the Schwarzes at about 2:30p.m. and headed south toward Charlotte and Charleston.  It was too late to drive all the way through and anyway we just had to pick up some new technological toys Ron had shown us at the very first computer store we passed! But we made it to Columbia, SC, checked in to a cheap hotel and Heather found that the all-in-one printer, scanner and copier we had purchased came with no power cord! So much for playing with our new toy.

Dreams of pulling away from shore on New Year's Eve with a few first strokes sent me off to sleep.