I did not get much done since yesterday, really. As mentioned, I made the trip to pick up my son from his brother’s house; he slept a good part of the way home, and is sleeping now, but apparently he has to come home to sleep well. I finished up the online work, and then crashed, falling asleep atop my bed in front of the television, with the quilt pulled over me.

My wife woke me when she came in; I do not know what time that was, but she went out again, and I dozed for a while fighting to awaken sufficiently to get changed for bed. Eventually I did so, somewhere close to three, and realized that I had forgotten to do the weekly computer maintenance. I set up the backup and went back to bed; it would be done inside a quarter of an hour, but I would not be awake for it.

When I got the boy off to school before seven this morning, I remembered the backup, and so stored the disk, and started running the maintenance programs–scan, clean, defrag. The defrag program takes a while, but once it was started I returned to bed to get the rest of my sleep, and when I rose, after I attended to getting coffee started, I found the computer awaiting me. I still got off to a somewhat groggy slow start, but I’m progressing.

At some point in that, I picked up a printout of the book Do You Trust Me? which, as I think I mentioned, I’d printed for comment. Someone had moved it to the bathroom, so I started reading through it. I realized that when I was discussing the sacrifices of Cain and Abel, I observed that some claim Abel’s sacrifice was better because it contained blood, and Cain’s did not. I explained why that did not fit, but did not mention (and feel silly now that it had not occurred to me) that blood is not mentioned at all in the text. That suddenly struck me as a significant point, so I added it to the text.

All of which means that I actually did some work on books, but that it was less altogether than it took for me to explain just now what it was I did.

I still have to visit my mother-in-law to take her shopping, and there’s talk of picking up a Christmas tree and something for her, but I’m not sure when any of this is going to happen, so I’m going to keep working until it does.

–M. J. Young