Sun-dried tomatoes. On the weekend we found jars of sun-dried tomatoes in olive oil at Costco. Today I had a bagel, cream cheese and these sun-dried tomatoes. Yum! Now I'll have to see if I can get fresh basil at the local store.

Quiet please. I made a plywood stand about 19 in. high yesterday and brought it to work. I set it up under my "desk" (actually it's more a wide shelf around the cubicle) in several places until I found a place I wouldn't accidentally kick it (often). Then I moved the Compaq behemoth horizontal-type PC there. Finally, after a year or two, I don't have the annoying whine of the processor fan "in my face" anymore. Now I'll be able to eavesdrop on my fellow cubicle dwellers' phone conversations more easily.

Applied for an internal vacany I had mentionned I was going to apply for a job vacancy in IT. Today I did it as the opening closes tomorrow. I think I wrote a pretty good essay on the application form on why I might be suitable even though I don't have all the acronymic qualifications listed. We'll see. It's probably the first time I've applied for a job in 25 years except for a downsizing episode in 1993 when we all had to apply for our own jobs. Even if I don't get selected I've still "declared my intent."

And finally this evening my wife and I watched a documentary on the Nathaniel Dett Chorale and its music director Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, an "afro-centric" professional 20 voice choir based in Toronto. The documentary was aired on Vision TV: well done with lots of singing and less talk. We know the director and one of the choir members and I had even considered auditioning last September — another thing to try upon early retirement.