Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Nancy's addition

Good afternoon, dear family,
I've been away from home since Sunday and was thrilled to get back to Geneva and find so many new entries.
Mary Jo, you and Paul will be uppermost on my mind tomorrow. I have lots of confidence that everything will be just fine for him.
Suki, thanks for the photo tip. I got as far as the screen saying the photo was being loaded, but it didn't go any further. After several minutes, I gave up. What am I doing wrong? My computer lacks memory, so maybe that's the glitch.
I got to do something really fun today--go to the Lottery ceremony in Lincoln! We were having a special ed directors' meeting in the room next door at the Cornhusker this morning and just happened to have a break at 10:30 when the winners got their checks. We trooped into the ballroom (and I promptly hid from the cameras so I wouldn't show up on TV during the workday :) and enjoyed watching the winners answer questions. The young man from Viet Nam who bought the ticket (who was wearing the same Nebraska stocking hat he wore that day) answered his questions with Yes/No until CNN told him they had a simultaneous translater ready so he could talk in his native language and tell about his experience. It took quite awhile for him to understand what was happening, but then he started chattering in Vietnamese for several minutes. By the end, he had tears in his eyes--it was very touching.
The winners' attorney was chosen b/c they found his name in the yellow pages and he happened to be in his office at 3:00 on Sunday afternoon. He considered not answering the phone b/c he was walking out the door to go home, but did and this was the conversation: "Can some friends and I come to your office?" "Yes, but what for?" "Can't say." "Who is this?" "Can't say." He was thrilled, of course, and is getting quite a commission for happening to work on that Sunday.
The governor had just finished his speech to us, then went next door to say, with glee, that the Nebraska tax rolls grew by $9 million with this win.
Our pastor's son is out of the hospital in Texas and will stay for awhile for the drs to monitor him. What a relief!!
Time to unpack.....
Love, Nancy

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