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It runs in the family.

Getting right to the point: drinking has become a problem for me. So today I poured out $10 worth of whisky, and that's the end of that.

I wish that quitting cigars were so easy.

Well, I guess that it would be, but only with the proper resolve.

I did quit drinking for 18 years, after all. And no, it wasn't easy. But I was much further down the road the first time, and it took about five years to mostly recover psychologically. I don't have all that baggage this time, thankfully.

Of course, I quit smoking for two years too. And that was hard then, and dammit, it's been almost a year since I started again, and time to quit that too.

But one thing at a time here.

If they would get my shop built, I would certainly keep myself so busy working on it that nothing would bother me... but they're still having troubles getting the permit. Also, I paid them up front, which was pretty stupid, come to think of it. No incentive.

We did get a parking space poured, though, and that's nice. No more parking in the mud with the truck!

Hot in this house today, but cool and breezy outside. I'd open up the windows in the computer room, but the screens are in tatters and I don't want the flies in, but I continue to complain anyway. Maybe tomorrow I'll get the screens replaced in the windows, that would be a good idea... I've been meaning to do that for the last four or five years.

And this week is my early week, so I'll certainly have time to get the screens out and take them down to the hardware store, assuming that they still do them. I did them myself last time with the fabric screen, and I didn't do it very well or maybe the fabric just didn't hold up, either way, they didn't last too long. So I'll get real screen wire on have someone do it that knows what they're doing this time.

Big thunderstorms rolling this way, 80 miles away according to the radar, and I can see the tops out of my window.

And I can actually see the sky out of my window now, we had some overhanging limbs cut off, I was afraid that it would be impossible after the shop got built. They were both about 30 feet long and nearly horizontal, and they provided a lot of shade for the house, and I'm really surprised that they lasted as long as they had without falling on the deck.

So anyway, wish me luck. Only it isn't luck that necessary here....