It’s Tuesday! Here we go:

1. The City of Pocatello has started a curbside recycling program. It costs $5 per month, no sorting, everything recyclable goes into the same container and they pick it up every other week. Our new pretty blue recycle can was delivered yesterday and the first pickup is a week from today. It’ll be full by then as we’ve been saving up!
2. We’re clearly still having spring weather as we’re bouncing between warm and cold, sun and snow. I drove the car out to Arbon for a speaking assignment Sunday and drove back through two big snow squalls. Today the foothills got a blanket of snow.
3. It looks like we’ve had a good water winter. The farmers in Arbon and happy with the amount of moisture in the soil. Now it needs to not have a hard freeze and for prices to remain fairly stable.
4. The Avalon is now finally completely undented. We returned the car to the shop yesterday morning for the final piece of work and picked it up that afternoon. It looks once again like new.
5. The drive to Heather’s house in North Salt Lake goes through the wetlands northwest of Brigham City and alongside Willard Bay just north of Ogden. We usually kill several million bugs, it seems, every time we drive that route from spring to fall. Last week thousands of small black bugs committed suicide by car as we drove past Willard Bay around 10:30 pm. They don’t want to unstick, either.
6. A good piece of today was spent relearning to do some things with a database that I was sure I would remember when I first figured it out several months ago. What isn’t practiced is forgotten! I even have a convenient way of writing those kinds of things down in my laptop. Suffice it to say that it’s now documented … and because of that, I’ll probably never have to refer to the documentation again. It seems that the very act of writing it down cements it in the brain!
7. The media always seems to have to have something sensational to latch onto. This week it’s swine flu. Certainly no fun for those in Mexico who have died from the flu, but it certainly isn’t a pandemic.
8. The city websites are definitely keeping me busy. I want to get these two pretty much done before taking on additional work. There’s most likely a market in small municipalities for web pages, but I’ve got to get it a lot more automated and need the ability to outsource some of the work. I need to figure out how best to package the work that would be outsourced (not necessarily overseas, though).
9. We went to the Symphony on Friday night and I wrote about it last Saturday. When I wanted to link the Symphony website, I found that the website had disappeared and what was displaying was not at all helpful … primarily links to dating sites. I called the President of the Symphony and told her about the problem. It appeared that the domain registration had expired. Calling her worked as the website is now fully functional, but rather out of date.
10. Last, but far from least, the Rotary Club that I joined last year finally got enough members to be chartered as an official Rotary Club. Tonight was the big event and I’ve now got a Rotary pin to wear on my lapel that says “Charter Member”. Most of the members of this club are quite a bit younger than I am as this is an afternoon club that meets at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday evening. Two of other three Rotary Clubs in Pocatello meet at noon and one meets at 7:30 a.m. I think the afternoon club will be quite popular. Rotary is definitely a worthwhile organization and a whole lot of fun!

And that’s the end for this Tuesday.