The law office is open, though officially the "opening" will be July 30. The past few weeks found me buying furniture, building walls and hanging doors, making lists and, despite checking them more than twice, making numerous trips to office supply and general supply stores. The business cards came. The phone lines, fax line and DSL line are working fine. The sign will be up Monday. The client list is up to five. I am holding three attorneys back - three attorneys who want to send me more business than I need or want right now. I will take it, of course, but that’s for next week.

I love my new computer. I paid more to get what I wanted, and that always makes a difference. I refuse to buy a bundled bunch of crap I don’t need, so I designed this one with only the bells and whistles I wanted to hear and see. I need a copier and two more file cabinets, but everything else is fine. As I indicated before, I am in a wonderfully Bohemian little town and am the only attorney here. The owner of the coffeeshop plays drums in a folk band. The biologist with the environmental company one door down plays guitar in a blues band. The president of the Chamber of Commerce plays guitar in the folk band. They want to form another group "just for fun" and play on the square this fall. They’ve asked me to play the keyboards, maybe because I walked in the coffeeshop last week and sat at the piano and played for half an hour.
When things are meant to be, it doesn’t take much work for them to fall into place….