Karen and I, simutaneously, while slipping into bed last night:"Damn, what a wonderful bed!"

We've slept in a waterbed ever since we got married, the same one that I got when I got divorced in 1979. We did buy a new mattress six or eight years ago. Anyway, it's wonderful. I can't really get a good nights' sleep anywhere else. We love it!

Last night while I was watching Lacee and everyone else was out eating, I decided to load up some branches that I'd piled up in the side yard. As I was putting them in the trailer, I got poked in the eye with a branch. It didn't hurt at the time, and I thought that I'd only hit my eyelid. I knew better when I woke up at 04:30 this morning in excruciating pain.. I've lacerated my cornea more than once, and I've treated a bunch of people who have, so I pretty well know the drill. I had thought about going to the Emergency Department, but I decided that I would wait for Med-assist to open at 09:00. I don't have to do the 30 minutes of paperwork at Medassist, and I would probably get treated just as soon there.

I forget how much this hurts until I do it again. My mind is my friend... it lets me forget unpleasant things. This only works sometimes, though.

Some of the things that I wanted to get done today won't get done, of course. Those things that require binocular vision. I am forced to do some driving (bank, grocery store) but otherwise I will just probably sit right here. Unfortunately, some of the stuff that I wanted to get done is stuff that I've been putting off for two years. JD and I had just finished the front deck floor two years ago when I had my last coronary. I still have not put up the railings/benches/etc. that I have envisioned. Well, I got inspired while in Wichita looking at what Ric had done with their deck. I have been turning the plans for what I want to do over and over in my mind for two years, and it seems that I am at the point where I can actually get to work on doing it. Of course, there is always tomorrow...

And I desperately need to do some yard work. The application of weed-be-gone didn't work very well, so I need to re-do that after I get the lawn mowed. And I need to get the rest of the brush on the trailer so I can take it out to the dump later this afternoon.

Well, I thought that I'd take a nap for a coupla hours, so I put the ointment in my eye and tried to put the patch on. It's a pretty easy job patching someone else's eye, but not very easy doing your own. But it stayed on and I got a nap. Karen and Lisa get home and we talk a while and I decide to mow the yard. I went out and uncovered the mower and was BSing with the guy next door and it starts raining. Raining! The damned radio said no rain in the forecast! Well, shit, I didn't want to mow anyways. And my eyeball still hurts, I took the crummy patch off after Karen got home.

Well, after the initial downburst, it quit raining, so I got started on the yard anyway. After I did the leaves, I never did go back over the yard and pick them back up, so that means a lot more work this time around. I've got the blade set really low, so as to pick up everything possible. I could only mow about 30 linear feet before emptying the bag. Anyways, I got about half-way done and my back started really bothering me; Lisa took over at that point. I finished loading up the brush on the trailer and moved it out of the yard onto the street. It's still hitched up to the Toyota so I won't forget to take it to the dump tomorrow. Karen's fixing spaghetti, so I'm gonna take a shower and take it easy the rest of the evening.