Milestone 40

Since I can't spend all of my time dwelling on the disaster at work, I invited my neighbors and their friends to come over for dinner and games next Friday to celebrate my birthday. I spent most of Thursday morning getting some of my backlog of dishes cleaned and put away, then worked in the yard for a while in the afternoon.

On Friday, I spent the morning running a bunch of errands. I'm hoping to put together a Mexican meal, so I stopped at the nearby Mexican grocery store to pick up the necessary ingredients for making tamales and various other things. I also have several artichokes ready to be picked in the front yard, so I'll probably make something with those.