Nilknarf News

Nice day.

Last night before I went to bed, and after I'd written, I decided to take a shower. No big deal, right? Only....

There was no damned hot water. I was disappointed, and cold.

So first thing this morning, I called the desk. Well, no, I made coffee first, of course. How silly of me to think otherwise, heh. Anyhoo, the guy came right up and cleaned the valve out on the shower.

By that time, Karen and I were ready to go... it was about 10:30 or so when we got To Ric and Debs' house, everyone there was up and coffee'd already. The plan was: Karen and Chuck and Debbie were going to go over the rest home, after I ran Chuck around for some errands. We went to Walgreens, Chuck wanted to get some photos processed and get a card for Debbie's birthday and I picked up a CAT-5 cable for the laptop, thinking that I really should check some things on the web.

Anyway, the group left for the rest home, and I thought that I'd return to the hotel and try the swimming pool out. Bad idea... the pool was full of kids, so I passed on that, and the gym was full of people too, so I just went up to the room and read.

I went down to smoke a cigar, and I was sitting on a bench outside reading... I should mention that it was horrible hot and humid out... a few fluffy clouds, not even clumping together. And then, from nowhere, raindrops. I was amazed, even more so than yesterday, because I had a 360 view, and there were *no rain clouds*. Anywhere. Now, I've been studying weather, in an amateurish way, of course, the way I do almost everything, for fifty years, and I have now twice in the span of two days seen something that amazed me.

I think that the moisture is just forming in those big drops before they have a chance to form clouds, is what I think. Some sort of freakish inversion... the humidity goes up and meets something that turns it into droplets that are too heavy to be suspended.

What turns it into droplets? I have no idea.

There was an asian guy out smoking too, and he was looking up with his arms out and mumbling something that I couldn't understand. He, as I has done the minute before, scanned the horizon for the source of this rain. Baffled, I gave up on it, and it was over after about a minute. The asian gave up on it before I did, though. I don't know if he was foreign or not, but I'm sure that he thought that Kansas was one weird place.

Just strange

Anyways, the CAT-5 cord worked well... but what I though was a CAT-5 plug was just a modem plug, dammit. O'well. I can always use a CAT-5 cord, I guess.

So I went back and read some more, then I called Karen and she said that they were getting ready to go, so I went back to Ric and Debs and sat and read with Chucks' beautiful wife Judy. I finished reading DRACULA and I was going to start on something else, but my PDA ran out of juice after about 6 hours of constant use.

The group got back about two hours after I got there, they had a nice visit with Betty, she's doing about as well as can be expected.

And then Debbie had fixed an excellent supper, and I only had one helping, and then after we watched the K-state game, it was dessert time... Deb had made a poke cake and Ric had made some ice cream, and again, I restrained myself and only had one helping.

I'm beginning to figger this eating stuff out, I am.

I might not have mentioned it, but I did have a milestone last week... 220 pounds. That's down 30 pounds from January, or whenever it was that I was diagnosed with diabetes.

Nice thunderstorms here tonight, but nothing too bad in our neighborhood. Just a little rain. And I had a nice shower tonight.