Big Day Ahead
6 July

Our house is about to be Visited. Strange men are coming here today to fix various and sundry things.

First up is the cable company. We have had problems with cable and Internet for a couple of weeks, and after hemming and hawing and stalling, they are coming over today -- between 9 AM and noon -- to "squeeze us in" and see if there is something they can do about about our crappy reception and the fact that not all the channels we pay for are coming into the house.

About noon, the glass guy is coming to replace a pane in our library that was busted by a flying rock. That rock was chucked at our house by an industrial-strength riding lawn mower about fifty yards from our house.

Here's what happened: Most Patient Wife and I were trying to take a late-morning nap when a crash and giant THUD came from the adjacent room. Glass was everywhere, and the middle pane of our window had a softball-sized hole in it.

We figured out what happened, and talked to the place across the street that employed the lawn mower guy. They are paying for a new window. The rock (named Rocky) has a place of prominence on one of library bookshelves.

Later this afternoon, a computer repair guy is coming out to look at our system. We've had a ton of problems with our computer the past few months, and I can't wait until we can once again do things like use our printer, listen to audio, and use the CDR-W drive. I'm also looking forward to having the computer go more than a half an hour without crashing.

So it's a busy day here. I'm also writing up two of my stories for the paper, and working on a new writing project I might say something about here. It's nothing more than an idea at this point, and I haven't found a way to give it legs yet.

So...what's up with you?