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Talk About Lazy!

Talk About Lazy!

It’s been a while since I blogged, eh? Well, stuff happens.

This past weekend, we went out to Pennsylvania for our annual President’s Weekend trip with our friends from Bloomfield. It was great fun, as usual, and we decided to go snow tubing at Camelback. It was nice to have a hotel close by and a couple of adults who didn’t want to tube – as the kids dropped out, the hotel-bound adults picked them up and brought them back to swim in the pool. The hotel was icky – the Comfort Inn in Bartonsville – cigarette stench in the halls, more than enough bathroom mildew to go around, a minimalist free breakfast in a room large enough for about 8 people. However, it met the requirements. Rooms close together, near an activity, with an indoor pool. It won’t be next year’s choice, though.

And speaking of inadequate. . .I’ve spent enough time in the last week having to use public restrooms, and I want to know whose brilliant idea it was to manufacture gossamer-thin toilet paper in 30 pound rolls and put them in hermetically sealed dispensers? Even if you do manage to reach a hand up into the dispenser to move the entire roll, you’re still likely to get an inch-square piece of the stuff. There should be a special level of hell for all the people involved in this creation. . .

LaundryCam is Fixed.

LaundryCam is Fixed.

We took a break from shoveling snow and making a snow fort to get it up and working.  When the snow fort is done, I’m taking pictures.  Those plastic boxes from IKEA make great brick forms.

I’ve been busy trying to learn new stuff on the computer, too, and having a mighty frustrating time of it.  Don’t expect momentous news from me any time soon.  *sigh*

I Hate Weather

I Hate Weather

I’ve had a headache for days.  It’s interfered with my sleep, I haven’t enjoyed things I usually do, and it happens every time it’s going to snow or rain.  The worse it is, the worse the weather will be.  And if it’s a slow-moving system, the headache can last and last.  The weather forecast here is finally predicting snow, but I was predicting it days ago.  It feels as if someone is pressing his thumbs into my temples, and trying to pry my skull apart with fingers down the center of the top of my head.  Even with painkillers, the pressure is there, and I can feel my pulse pounding in my temples and ears.  This stupid snow isn’t supposed to start until tomorrow or Saturday.  The headache won’t fo away until it does.