Got a good days' sleep, feeling great! Wonderful weather, it should be like this forever, at least! Cool evening, slightly chilly night. Perfect. Not that it really makes much difference to me on my weeks on... I just get occasional glimpses of the weather anyway. But it's nice to know that it's out there...

I did up the camcorder pix from the Texas trip and I was really disappointed with the quality... I think I must've had something set wrong on the camera. The only ones that really turned out were of Tyler and Lisa, where I had an abundance of light available and a close distance. I think that there just plain wasn't enough light to get good stills off of the rest of it. Even playing around with paintshop didn't improve them much. I might try again, I just got another idea.

This might be a really long entry... so far it's pretty boring around here.

Oops. Shouldn't've said that! It got unboring really quick there. This job is a lot like being in a war... long periods of boredom punctuated with flurries of activity during which people sometimes die. I love it! Not the people dying part, but the activity... sometimes.

Hmmmm... some interesting stastitics... drug use is reported to be up; violent crime is reported to be down. Coincidence? Bears some thinking about. The republicans really jumped on the former stat, saying that Clinton is soft on drugs. They didn't mention the latter at all. Soft on drugs... hard on crime? maybe something really is going right here.

I was planning on writing some more about atheism, but I just can't get in the mood for it right now. I have to be a little bit angry when writing antixian stuff, and I'm just too mellow lately, I don't want to spoil my mood by getting upset.

I've also been neglecting Nilky lately too.

And I'm kinda upset (well, maybe just sad) about a fellow journalers' decision to quit keeping an online journal, even though I understand her motives. But I really enjoyed reading about her life, and I will miss her.

I haven't been keeping up very well with the journals that I enjoy lately, either. Oh, I still read the ones that I Have to read, but the ones that I read every several days... I just haven't had the time or been in the mood. I've got to do some rearranging of my time or something.

Speaking of rearranging, I still haven't completely finished my move to the basement. I haven't even hooked up my printer yet, it's still upstairs. And about a million other things. I just took all of the stuff off of my desk and piled it on the floor, and it's still there, except where the cats have rearranged it. I need to move the storage cabinets across from my desk and put something a little more attractive there. Right now, I'm looking at pots and pans and future garage sale stuff... not very motivational. I want to put JD's self-portrait on the wall, and Tylers 3rd grade paper-mache mask. I have some cabinets to move downstairs, 'cause I need some drawers to keep stuff in. My desk now looks a lot like it did upstairs... junk all over it.

The trouble with doing nothing is that it's hard to stop once you get started. It's called inertia. Inertia is a curse! Avoid it at all costs!

And I'll leave it at that for today...

Thanx a whole bunch for being here!