Back from SLC

This past Friday I drove to my friend Floyd's in Salt Lake. After dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant, we went and saw a good film, The Brothers Bloom.

After coffee on Saturday, we went to Sam Weller's bookstore where I purchased Robert Frost's complete collection in paperback for $3.00 and an Aikido Exercises for Teaching and Training by C. M. Shifflett. Later that afternoon, Floyd and I worked in his backyard to prepare for a small gathering of the "Dark side", a number of my former male colleagues at the Marriott Library. Micheal showed up first, followed by Leonard, Ray, and later Mike. Robert was ill and unable to come, so we missed him. As the good red wine flowed and we ate salad, grilled chicken, and hamburgers, various war stories about the dysfunctional, ethically dubious, and near-or-at criminality of the Marriott library's administration and some senior librarians has not changed much since my tenure-track time at that library. Just a note, if you restructure an organization, laying off over 15 staff positions, but fail to eliminate one middle-management position, the reasons for the reorganization is likely more political and not as much for economical or efficiency reasons.

On Sunday I attended the meeting at the Murray Quaker Meetinghouse. I saw a few people I knew but there wasn't that many people in attendance. Floyd and I then ate lunch at a Chinese restaurant in the Suger-house neighborhood before spending a great afternoon of live music and chess with our mutual friend Ron. We had a left-overs with a sparkling wine from France and then watched Hitchcock's Vertigo, as Ray had given Floyd an original Vertigo movie poster. I have never seen Vertigo from start to finish and I am now a Kim Novack fan.

Monday, Floyd and I went for coffee and spend the day driving back from Salt Lake. The total trip back to Gunnison is over 410 miles making for a longer day of driving. I had a great time in Salt Lake and I look forward to seeing Floyd again.