Well, I guess I’m ready to go.

I’ve had my mail held, and I left the dog at Cowboy’s. I installed his satellite radio into my truck so I won’t be creeping over the Grapevine in silence. Laundry’s going, but I’m not leaving until noon or so tomorrow, so there’s no rush there.

So I’m having a shamefully comfortable day all to myself today. Cowboy’s working overtime on an emergency ditch repair, so there wasn’t any point in my staying over there. I did a little grocery shopping, bought some comfort food to see me over the day, and I’m lounging around in sweats playing the kids’ video games.

No kids, no spouse, no dog to worry about, and if I want to take a three hour nap, by god, I’m going to! It’s really quite nice.

I could have had the kids for the day today, but they have a Cub Scout snow trip, so they weren’t too interested in spending the day with ol’ Mom. John is going to be quite put out that I’ve passed him in the video game, but he’ll get over that. Since I’ve hogged it for the last couple of days, he can play until he catches up with me, as long as he shares with his brother.

What a nice day; if it weren’t for the lingering asthma symptoms and the sinus headache, I’d go to the gym. There’s always an excuse though!

It looks like the Diaryland server burp of ought five has been taken care of—Nanamama, I got your comment in triplicate! Thanks though, I forgot to test it after I uploaded the test entry. I hope you’re doing well—I miss talking to you. When are you going to start up a journal so we can keep up? I’ll help you if you need simple tech questions answered, but if it gets too complicated, we might have to run to Nance’s husband or Fred.

So I’ll be out next week. I’m sure I’ll be having major internet withdrawals; last time I could at least get my email on Grampa’s computer. I guess I should have tried a little harder to get my old laptop fixed, but at the time I deemed it not worth the money. And I guess I should make it for a week. If I were in the mountains, I wouldn’t miss it, but stuck in a hotel room with nothing but homework to do is going to get boring.

Someone online suggested I try Dim Sum while I’m down near a good Chinatown, and I think I will. Anyone have any suggestions on particularly good ones?