It was a rather mediocre day, better than yesterday but only slightly more productive.
I went to bed fairly early last night, and so did Karen. I was 99.9% asleep... and there was a cat fight on the front porch. It has been beautiful lately here, and the front window was open. I got the full audible benefit of the caterwauling. I got up and got Cowboy and Trouble inside and tried to go back to sleep.
But once I'm past about 90% gone and get woke up, I'm up. No matter how tired I am.
And, to make matters worse, I had set the computer to do the three-hour maintenance thing... so my only recourse was... the TV.
And I happened upon the history channel. I watched a very good documentary about the prison at Leavenworth, and following that was a documentary on how the Bay Bridge (Oakland-San francisco) was built. Pretty cool stuff. Didn't put me to sleep at all, though.
Tyler got home about 01:30 or so and watched with me. Shortly, the computer was done with what it was doing and I could get online, but there was nothing going on... so about 04:00 I finally went back to bed and got to sleep.
I woke up around 10:00 and realized that it was payday, I had to go make a deposit. Before I left, I called Karen... she's checking on getting Tyler medical insurance, I guess that he got too old for his mom's to cover him anymore.
I decided to go to the hospital and pay Karen's bill for her allergic reaction, they've called on it twice now. And I stopped by and talked to Doug for a while. He told me that there were some outside candidates for the job but nobody that really appeared to be qualified. It'll be a coupla weeks before a decision is made and, since Doug is friends with both me and the other guy that wants the job, he's going to rely a lot on input from the other supervisors... I don't know if this is good or bad for my chances. I don't really think that I've stepped on any toes, though, and I know the other guy has a few times...
I still thinking that I really really want that job, though.
When I got home, I woke Tyler up and we took back the windows that we'd bought yesterday and exchanged them for larger ones. I'm still relatively confused on putting these windows in, though. Bob brought me some books, but everything that I've read still hasn't taken away that feeling that there is still some important step that I don't know about!
What I need to do is just press on, everything will turn out all right... usually my attitude, I donno what's the matter here. I hate feeling incompetent.
Tyler and I got the wall built today, though, suffering through some technical difficulties such as why the hell did I put the anchor bolts where the studs are going??
It started raining shortly after we got the last stud in place, so I didn't have to think any more about the window tonight. But I went right to the books anyway, thinking that I could find a clue... we'll see what happens tomorrow.
I did, however, while I was contemplating the window problem, come up with an answer to another problem, that being the indirect lighting that I want to install.
The roof of the garage slopes about 35 degrees, and my original thought was to put in a cathedral ceiling. That was going to present some thorny problems, though. The south end of the garage roof had a "stopper" I guess you'd call it... where the attic space over the house started... kind of a wall, 
but not really. Anyhoo, I'm gonna set in recessed lights, the bullet ones, horizontally in that wall. When they're turned on, they will shine directly on the sloped finished ceiling. I'll have two sets, controlled by rheostats, one for the kitchen area, one for the dining area.
And now I need to be thinking about where I want the electric and phone lines and whether or not I want to run the TV cable out there, for future use. I need to get everything in place now... once I get the windows in, I'll start insulating and then the dry wall will go up and we'll be getting really close to the end...
Well, except for we haven't yet decided exactly where to put the bar yet...
More tomorrow...