Bummer.

I got home last night, and everything was fine... Brian was here, but he was going over to Matt's place. Matt came over and started playing Tyler's drum set. He got tired of that long after I did, and he took Brian and left.

Soon after, I needed something from the basement, and found that the place was a shambles. Brian, or Brian and Patrick and Lacee, had been having a blast.

I've told the kids frequently to stay out of the basement, and told everyone else to keep them out of the basement. They have no regard for other people's property, and don't have sense enough to know what's dangerous and what isn't. As an example, several months ago I found them spraying insect killer at each other.

But what hacks me off is the adults that are involved in this... the parents and the grandmother seem to be oblivious to the kid's behavior and to the danger that they might be in.

I calmly(!) explained my feelings to Karen, and she didn't speak to me the rest of the night. Or much this morning, either. She left rather early, shortly after Matt had brought Brian back, and didn't get home until after 17:00.

However, we had a long talk, and not everything is much better... at least until next time.

I spent the afternoon trying to get the power washer to work, but I couldn't do it. It's leaking somewhere before it gets to the trigger valve... I took it apart, hoping to find the remnants of an o-ring somewhere that had broken, but it must have just disentegrated or something. So I need to go out to Sears and buy another handle.

I've got several projects for tomorrow... the carpet people should be here at 08:30, then I'll move all of the stuff back to the kitchen when they get done. And I've got to call the cardiologist's office and get set up for a Holter monitor. And I want to get started on the sheetrock for the south side of the bar. And I need to get the computer room organized. I got a start on that today, getting all of the grandkid's clothes out and putting them on the couch for Karen of Kim to go through. There are some dresses for Lacee that don't even have the tags taken off of them yet.

I also have to build a small table to put the Linux machine on... I've got all of the stuff, I just need to put it together.

Karen and I went to the store after she got home and we got some catfish filets for supper and then made some potato salad. Excellent meal... we grilled the catfish, which probably wasn't a real good idea... the skinny parts got done well before the fat parts, but it was good nonetheless.

O'yeah, the entry for May 6 is up now... in fact, I got everything fixed so you can now see al of the previous entries... thatnx to all who pointed this omission out to me...

More tomorrow...