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But nothing, really, compared to the night before.

I just couldn't get to sleep, and I stubbornly kept trying. Until about 03:30... and I kept awakening until I finally got up at 08:30.

But... I did accomplish some things today!

Yes, I did.

Two loads of laundry, for a start.

Then about 17:30 I took Mom some Kentucky Fried and we had a little picnic... but neither of us was that hungry, so she'll have some leftovers. Which, of course, was my intention.

She's getting around better now, eschewing the walker for a very slow pace. Her foot looks really painful, but she says that it's better.

Messing around with computers tonight. I finally took the two 80GB HDs out of a computer that I couldn't get running and put them in the old music machine, which I now use mostly for soulseek sharing.

And I couldn't get the damned things to work there, either! They came with a controller card, so I searched for and DLed the driver for the damned thing... ran it....

And it told me that I didn't have an Intel chipset, and it wasn't gonna work with that AMD trash.

So I just ran the drives (Maxtor) using the motherboard controller. Only get 100 MBsec thruput instead of 133, but I'm not gonna worry about that. It'll work just fine for what I'm using it for, just file storage and retrieval.

Full moon tonight.

Now the moon, it is a simple thing, a chunk of rock orbiting the earth. There's no mystery associated with it any more... hell, we've been there.

But it is still a wonderful sight. Kinda grabs your gonads, if you know what I mean.

Why would you know, though? I don't even, not really.

When Karen and I went to the grand canyon a few years ago, the first sight of it was literally breath-taking. And that never went away. The next sight of it was just as moving, and the next and the next and the next.

The only way that I could breathe was to come back to Kansas, heh.

The moon is kinda like that for me. Yeah, it's a common sight, people all over the world can see it.

But it still does things to me.

And a clear, cloudless night sky, far from city lights... same thing.

I'm just really a softie, I guess.

So... I'm hoping for some sleep tonight, and a relatively early wake-up... next week will be a hard one, I think.