There is really not much to say today. I am told that the truck might be ready tomorrow morning, and that the car will also be done by the afternoon, so here’s hoping at least one of them is right; we had to return the borrowed van this morning and borrow a houseguest’s car for an hour, but now I’m piloting a rental boat–seriously, I’ve been driving minivans for the past several years, and this thing feels huge. Actually, it’s as if it’s bigger on the outside than it is on the inside, to reverse the famed comment about a more flexible vehicle. When I’m standing next to it, I feel as if it’s really huge, but when I’m inside it I don’t really have the sense of roominess inside.

I was thinking that I really had nothing to report here. I fell asleep early last night, awoke in the middle of the night and saw to a few things, then went back to bed, got up to roust the schoolboy, then went back to bed. I think I’m well rested, although my body seems to be fighting something. I didn’t watch anything I needed to watch, but then I’ve not yet moved the DVD player back to the bedroom. I did take my mother-in-law shopping, which took up a fair chunk of the evening. I’ve got a dinner date after work tonight, to celebrate our thirty-first anniversary (I hope I’ve done the math aright), and she expects to be out on time so I really don’t have much time to finish what’s on my plate as it is. So it’s a day with little to report.

However, when I arrived to write this blog, the site software informed me that there was an incoming link to the site from a source with a rather disturbingly vulgar name–at least, to me. It turns out to be a blog by one of our gamers, linking to his game thread here at Gaming Outpost–one of Scott’s people, not mine, although that doesn’t really make a difference. I’m not sure I understand the logic of the vulgarity, although perhaps it is his first blog entry and he’s hoping it will show up in search engines and get him some readers. Probably if it works, they won’t be back.

Anyway, as mentioned, I don’t have a lot of time. I’d better use it well.

–M. J. Young