“The RoseBouquet”

I’d picked up a new mouse on Friday, and it seemed to work on Saturday, but Sunday night - no go! I tired over and over again, and changed settings in Yast, and tried the old mouse again, and no-how would Suse recognize that I even had a mouse attached! I had to get a certain Sunday night email out, so by trying various keys and combinations, I was able to write it up and go post it online - all without a mouse. Since I’d planned to give up Monday to celebrate Dad’s birthday I packed up the computer and dropped it off at CBit for repairs, to what I was sure was a problem in the box. Turns out I had a wrong setting for it, and it works fine again. A $25 fix.

I’ve been doing more reno(vational) work in my sites, and make progress by a few pages a day, when not in the city, etc., but I’ll hold off major announcements until some sections are new and ready to go.

Last night I got to work on the next novel after weeks of giving up my Tuesday nights for other priorities. It felt so good. I sure do enjoy writing that story!

I hope you don’t feel you are getting too much on my Dad, but I’ve written a tribute to him for his 90th birthday, as that IS a special milestone. I wrote one for his 86th birthday, but have expanded and updated it for this issue. You’ll find it under Ruthe’s Roses.