October temps

It's an incredibly lovely Sunday morning.  The weather has settled into it's Texas Fall mode with mornings in the low 60s and high temps in the mid-80s.  Perfect temperatures.  Now if we would just get a little more frequent rain, it would be ideal.  The rain last weekend wasn't enough to break the drought of course, but much of Dallas looks green again.  That's a nice plus.  My sister in the high country in Colorado got about 10 inches of snow last weekend when I was getting rain.  I'm glad I'm not there, although the Fall colors are gorgeous, from the pictures she's sent me.

Today is a beautiful day here.  It's still cool right now, totally blue sky, bright sun.  I'm taking advantage of not having to be anywhere today to do a bunch of puttering.  Plus Sunday's my watering day, so I've been out watering the lawn and starting to cut back some of the dead shrubbery.  Amazingly, a bunch of green is showing in the interiors of those shrubs.  Looks like most of them will make it. 

My car is fixed.  It spent 3 days in the shop and is all back together now.  I'm happy about that.  The rental I had was a BRIGHT red Chevy Cobalt.  Not a bad car, but it doesn't handle like my Subaru.  I was glad to have my car back. 

Friday at work I might as well not have gone in.  Computer issues made the day less than productive, although I did attend three meetings I really needed to be at.  Given I had three meetings I suppose my day would have been fairly disrupted anyway.  The computer issues revolved around missing files.  I've spent this last week working on several PowerPoint presentations that I have coming up, and like a good girl, I saved and closed them before I left Thursday evening.  Friday morning they were gone.  Along with two excel files I had saved and four file folders full of files I had created recently.   After a minor panic attack and major ranting, an Information Systems guy came to my office to tell me that they were migrating things to a new server.  My stuff wasn't gone, I just couldn't access it.   They predicted I'd be able to access it again in, oh, eight hours or so.  *laughing*  Talk about your mixed emotions.  Vast relief that I wouldn't be required to recreate files from scratch, relief that I didn't need any of those PowerPoints on Friday, vast irritation that I couldn't work on anything current.    Life on a computer network, ne?

Anyway, not much going on.  Just thought I'd put in a picture of my pretty red roses.  The yellows are blooming too right now, but aren't as big and full as the reds.  This may be my shortest blog post ever, but that's it for today.