Indexing, Post Office, Temple, Phone Calls, Transcribing--Full P day. 15 December 2016

 I started out the day indexing one batch from Germany while waiting for a phone call from my Sweetheart.  I downloaded 10 batches on Sunday, and had only done five of them so far. Two of the remaining ones were sequential, which is really nice, because the surnames tend to be the same--this cuts down on the puzzlement factor.

After a nice talk, I ate breakfast and then took off for the post office where I had just a few items to mail.  While I was in line, my youngest daughter called from Disney World. Free parking at the post office is limited to 30 minutes, so I drove to the nearby market, and picked up some apples while talking with her.

Once I got back to the apartment it was time to leave for the noon session at the temple. That went well, and then back to the apartment where I made more phone calls, mostly back to Missouri.  Several people had sent me Christmas greetings, so I called to thank them and to catch up a bit.

I had decided that since I have not heard back from the person who was transcribing the last 2016 FairMormon Conference talk that I should probably get that started.  Transcribing is interesting to me, but it is fairly slow going.  In an hour I got about six minutes completed--with a little over half an hour to go. If I can discipline myself to do an hour each day, I will have it done before Christmas! That would be a very good thing.

Very late in the afternoon I got to talk with my Arizona daughter. Then I cooked a batch of wheat, and some red lentils.

I worked on sorting out clothing to put back in the Swap Shop. The sudden departure of my Cuban sister reminded me that putting off decisions is not a very good idea, and I now have an over-abundance of clothes, with no need to take the extras back to Missouri with me.

I also figured out what fruit I need to buy next week in order to make a nice fruit salad as my contribution to the Christmas Eve dinner for the branch. I keep thinking that I want to put in avocados, but maybe that should be saved for another occasion.  I suspect that even though most young men will eat just about anything, avocado in the fruit salad might be pushing the limit.

I will enjoy one more phone call tonight from my Sweetheart.  Then it will be time to get ready for an early morning at the Library, including an in-service lesson at 7:45.