I still am not ready for tomorrow’s stockholders meeting, but I am a heck of a lot closer now than I was thirty-six hours ago. I have the meat, for one thing. Also, the notes are done. Someone mowed at least part of the lawn, but I do not know more than that because although they were working on it when I left the house on some imposed errands, it was dark and they were gone when I returned.

Yesterday’s schedule became even more shredded than it appeared when I wrote the Shred-and-Paste Scheduling blog entry about it, to the point that it was easily five in the morning when I got home, and it made perfect sense to stay up until six thirty to talk with our houseguest who is working on the car and make sure the youngest caught the bus. I was going to take the car through inspection, but I fell asleep and was chased to bed for a few hours. I’m coming to the end of tonight’s episode, I think, or at least I’m not going to be able to keep going too long.

Incidentally, the car went through inspection not exactly while I was asleep, but in the care of someone else. It failed, but I knew it would–someone had replaced a sideview mirror with a bit of reflective plastic, which is not legal in New Jersey. The engine light came on, too, and they won’t pass a car with the engine light lit. Then when it was being driven back from the inspection to its temporary home, it died. There is no word yet on why, although there has been some speculation that in fixing the top of the engine our mechanic managed to increase the oil pressure and knock out the pump. Anyway, he says to give him a few days to see what he can discover, which is fine by me since my alternatives are to pay to tow it fifteen miles to a mechanic who will charge me, or junk it. Then again, it’s not really my car so it’s not really my call.

I’ve a reminder note here that says I did some work on the martial arts web site. With the number of other things that are really pressing, I’m almost embarrassed to have done that; but it was something from which I could walk away at the drop of a hat, which is why I chose it. There’s still a lot of work to do for tomorrow–but I said that already, so I’m repeating myself and should stop doing so and turn my attention to what needs doing.

–M. J. Young