Look what somebody sent me!
(The ducks, not the sticker. That came from someone else, but I couldn’t resist putting it into the picture.)
So, do you think she’s trying to tell me I need sweetening up? Or that I should be trying to get my ducks in a row? What do you suppose the meaning is, here…?
Some days, all you really need is to wake up late, eat a large breakfast, goof off, putter around the house, do some cleaning, play games, eat a hot dinner and laze around until bedtime.
I think everyone should get to enjoy a day like this, fairly regularly. Heck yeah.
Shortly after 6pm, from the east side of town, looking west towards downtown Portland and the West Hills, I was treated to an outstanding sunset. A beautifully layered cloud cover filled most of the sky, and through the gap to the west came all the gorgeously red sunlight you could want to light up the underneath of those clouds.
On the way home, fellow pedestrians were commenting on it. During the walk all I could think was, “Of all the days to leave my camera at home.”
Please, somebody, tell me you got that splendid vista on film or memory card…
So let’s see…
Not bad for a day’s haul, eh? Now I get to assemble a working (I hope) computer for Wendi, since I’ve had half of one at my place for a couple of months now…
Maybe having more money can’t fix all, or even half, of my problems… but having the tax refund money in the bank certainly makes certain worries far less pressing.
And now, for a weekend of peace and quiet and geekery.
One last present arrived late yesterday afternoon, in the form of Mt. St. Helens blowing her top for a while. Sure, years from now nobody will remember the exact date of this eruption or think of it as anything but part of “that string of eruptions that took place between 2004 and 20??,” but I think of it as a touching display of affection from Mother Nature nonetheless. An old chat buddy of mine sent me a pic of it, no less:
If I can’t have fireworks, I might as well have a volcanic eruption, I always say.
