weather is breaking....

it may only be a few degrees warmer, but the wind seems to have subsided this morning, and I walked around in relative comfort. Sun is out fully now; I can see it from the large windows of the Amsterdam library, and that is leaving me an optimistic feeling. But first....
Disaster---missed a sub job last night, was contacted while I was riding the subway, then on my way to the party at La Flaca, forgot to check my phone---probably the only time during the day I did not check it...and of course, in the 35 minute window that I missed, someone else was called and accepted the job. I spent the rest of the party feeling upset, hoping, perhaps that I would get another call, but it did not happen. I remained at the party for about 2 hours, and in spite of my annoyance  had some good conversations and played a strange card game with a group of friendly people. Not much else to say.
  Because I am not working, I should have no trouble appearing at the BAN meeting this evening, and I am glad about that, really want to catch up, contribute, and see what plans are being made. Also, I have just written a short comment on the Times web site about "The Bitter Game" , expanding a little bit on the reviewer's positive but not very descriptive review. Sort of all I have to report now, the next blog should (hopefully) find me in better spirits, with some interesting descriptions of the past evening.