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While I was at the computer this afternoon making sure the desk was clean and the wacom tablet worked properly, Pookie came into the kitchen, laid down on the floor, rolled over on her back and purred, loudly, twice. That meant one thing – I’d forgotten to top-off her bowl. In fact, I’d completely forgotten her bowl.

There wasn’t one single cat food pellet in Pookie’s bowl. But the cat litter was everywhere. And dolls and books from every one of Ellen’s shelves were on the floor. All the mess may have been a Pookie protest. But if so, it was of my making.

Sorry about that.

I slept in Ellen’s bed twice. I had to try those new sheets. Nice. Found some odd reading material under your pillows, Ellen. But every book seemed to be cursed, or charmed with some spell that prevented me opening the covers. So, disappointed, I was left to read National Geographic’s recount of the decline of Angkor Wat.

On the carport you’ll notice I left the program racks in a heap. The boxes are gone. I’ve no idea what to do yet.

On the kitchen table you’ll find parts to things I fixed or replaced. The shower head bugged me. So, I replaced that. The new one is no great improvement. The kitchen cabinet door above the stove bugged me. So, I replaced the broken magnet latch. The ZT mower blades were worn out. I was able to find two of the three, and replaced those. The third is on order, and will be delivered to the house.

The fridge gasket went on easily after I warmed it up on the shoe rack in the dryer. After it was installed the condensation in the fridge disappeared. That was a big success.

Ellen’s computer has a new and huge hard drive, and all the RAM it can hold. The RAM I bought at Best Buy.

The repairs I made to the Snapper here were all it needed. A couple of bolts had worked themselves lose and fallen off the machine. They were the bolts that held the top and starter cord on the mower. Unfortunately, after a half hour of use the same bolts had worked themselves lose again. So, I have it and expect to replace the bolts again using an adhesive called “lock-tight”.

The pool needs new filters. Can you get those? Home Depot? Online?

There was no cleaning toothbrush in the birdroom. So, I took the only one I found in the bathroom. It’s in the birdroom now. I used it to clean out the corners of the bird trays.

There were cockroaches all over the yard and a few in the birdroom but none in the house. Have you had the bug man over?

There were mouse droppings in the shed. I put poison in the shed and in the rat motel outside the shed door.

There was an egg in the first flight this morning. I’ll check the log again when I’m there Friday.

I’m concerned about the roof of the shed.

I see the doors on the utility areas of the duplex are gone.

The ZT mower is cutting too low. The height adjustment screw appears to be bent. I’ll try to find the replacement part. Grass cut too short can overheat, and it can also be over run by faster growing weeds.

Mowing uncovered alot of ant hills. I didn’t hit any with ant bait. Please try to do that ASAP.

There’s a big paper bag in the birdroom with some garbage inside. I thought you could fill it with the other garbage in the birdroom freezer and take it to the curb tomorrow.

I don’t think I left the place as neat as I found it. Really enjoyed the freezer full of bananas.

Saw the disk of Ellen’s camp photos. Hope one of you will put some on the blog – I haven’t looked at any yet.

The fridge gasket has a couple small gaps you’ll notice. If they bother you, read the instructions on the computer desk. They explain that the heat of a hair dryer can be used to correct some of that.

There’s an article for Ellen on the computer desk about Digital Puberty.

It all went by in a blur. I’m exhausted and I’m having trouble remembering all that I did. Mainly, I remember what I didn’t do. What I didn’t do was the only thing I intended to do – work on the flights. I was abled to start on what I thought would be a big success – food bowl holders. I used the wire-bender to make sixteen U-shapes of quarter inch round. They’re hanging on the drill press. In the process I broke one the bender dies. Repairing the die with the welder I discovered I didn’t have enough CarbonArgon to weld all I intended to make the bowl holders. And unfortunately AirGas was closed on the 3rd for the 4th of July (?). So, I’ll get gas this week. But getting the flights ready is going to take more time. There’s quite a bit to do yet.

The lawn and the mowers wore me out Saturday. And even with ten hours sleep I was miserable all morning today. So, I didn’t even try to work on the flights. Instead, I reinstalled system software on the main computer because I thought that would solve what I thought was a problem with Mail preferences. But that wasn’t the problem. The problem with Mail preferences was a little button in the upper right corner of the preferences window. It toggles the preferences window between a view of the suite of preferences and a view of a single preference. The single preference view fooled me into thinking something was wrong when nothing was. Anyway, nothing should go wrong as a result of the reinstall … I hope. And in the end, I did fix the Wacom tablet, clean the desk, and do my BIP homework for tomorrow.

I also learned that I don’t have chronic fatique; I have chronic fatique. That place wears me out. I’m going to need every minute between now and Friday to recover. And I am definitely talking to MJ Natishyn about appropriate self-care.

I would like to go to the beach with Ellen and watch goofy TV cartoons for several days and eat nothing but chocolate ice cream.