Just as I was finishing my eggs, sausage and biscuits with coffee, I was getting organized for the day when the phone rang. A mother in Lakeland who had tried to see Margaret was calling to get services for her son who is a senior. She asked about the website, and related she had been up there, but could not tell whether there was still a Guide available for her son.
Well, that changed the plans for the day. I gave the mother Debbie's phone number and assured her that the website would continue to be available to her. Got a quick email off to Debbie and sat down -- for most of the rest of the day -- at the computer and the website.
Did a lot of editing of the "public pages" to reflect the fact that Margaret is no longer available, indicated she is the author of the content on the site, and included some of the emails and other publicity about Margaret's death. Of course to do that, I had to review that material -- haven't really looked at it for a while. Found out that it still had the very profound impact on me as I relived some of the sadness, loss, and pain that came from the words of others extolling Margaret's deep caring and love for her students. Could only think of the times I had just taken that caring and love for granted, and even now, realize I only have that in memory that can never be refreshed.
Debbie did respond to the referral, and again offered to be of any help that she can on the website. Tomorrow, I plan to update the testing dates and then email Lee, Marcia and Debbie to look over the changes and give me some feedback about appropriateness, taste and anything left out. I think my editing skill got very overwhelmed by some of the content. Still have not heard from Web Full Circle -- maybe a response to me email requesting a backup copy will show up the first of next week.
Also while I was keeping a lot of pages open to work with the website, I think I messed up Lee's work on my backup system. Maybe he'll be by sometime next week and can figure out what i did, and we an make it right.
Did get some pickles to Betty and John. Had hoped to spend some time with John to see how he is doing -- he looked awfully tired at Couples Club. I got in a time bind, and could only drop the pickles off at the front desk. Will put them on the agenda for next week, along with Shirley and Bob.
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