"The war for rationality will never be over as long as they're still printing horoscopes in the papers..." paraphrased from a statement by some guy in an atheist forum on about.com.
It looks like autumn here... leaves all over the ground. It doesn't feel like autumn, though... that south wind is mean hot, blowing those leaves around.
The trees are stressed by the heat, especially the poplars, losing their leaves by the basketful with each wind gust. The maples are faring somewhat better, but not a whole lot.
And I'm not faring very well... I wanted to be asleep now. I was up, again, at 05:00, having stayed up until 01:00 last night so that I could sleep late. Why do I even bother?
Getting excited about our trip to North Carolina. 1140 miles, it is, 21+ hours driving time, according to Mapquest.com.
I just spent an hour cleaning out the sewer... not one of my favorite jobs. I have a 50-foot tape, and it was clogged at about the 40-foot mark. The sewer line is made of orangeberg pipe, which is essentially oil and paper, and it's been here since the house was built in the early 50s. It's needed replacing for a long, long time, but we keep getting by. Two or three thousand bucks to replace it is why...
Anyway, I went down to the basement to see about the AC, it doesn't seem to be keeping up very well. It's 105F right now, that's probably part of it. Additionally, the hose that carries away the condensation was plugged, so I unplugged that after I got the sewer unplugged. Maybe that'll help the AC, maybe not. At any rate, I have to take a shower now and not when I get up, which means that I can get up later...
Well, shit.
I must be one of those people who don't need to sleep. I don't wanna be, but I think that I am. Four hours wasted trying, though.
I decided to just give up on it, the planning, the failures... too much for my little head, I'll just go with the flow and keep the bitching to a minimum. I find that I get very little sympathy anyway... and why else would one be bitching except for sympathy? Pah! I don't need your sympathy!
Actually, the medications that I'm taking now are probably to blame. The medications that are going to help me quit smoking. Which I am looking forward to, incidentally.
One more week. I have to be stupid for one more week, then I can quit.
More in the morning...