Missing in action

Too scattered and too much going on for a real post. Bits and pieces of life...

• I think I just killed a saucepan by letting the water boil off.
• The distraction was due to trying out some new software - Rosetta Stone, French version.
• Lost big bucks on the rummage, though it helped out some friends. Lather rinse and repeat at a different location next week.
• These are the busiest weeks of the year at work - while I'm only putting in about ten and a half hours a day, it's a full day of mental concentration, as well as concentrating on not going mental. I'm not fit for anything when I get home.
• Home, where the atmosphere is much like a sauna. Ninety and humid forecast for Tuesday. How on earth do people who live in places where it is like this all summer long ever survive?
• In spite of the rain/threat of rain on Saturday, I managed to get a sunburn - only on the bridge of my nose and my forehead. No idea how that happened.
• Saw more of my neighbors yesterday than in the last several years. Lots of catching up, but lots of new prayer requests.
• Fantastic God thing - while our rummage was advertised on Craigslist, and through a sign on a nearby lamppost, the biggest boost in buyers came from the church across the street. Unbeknownst to me before that day,they were having their annual gigantic rummage at the same time as ours.
• It's been a month since I've sewn anything. When I've had time, it's been too hot; when it's cool, I've had other priorities.
• Lots of other little things to worry and pray over, too distracted to concentrate on anything (except work) for very long.
• The bus ride to and from work has been interesting - lots of people who work for the county or the court system ride this particular line. I think I'm going to be thankful that I've struck up an acquaintance with the psychiatric nurse for the jail.
• Speaking of interesting, we had a fun cross section of people visit the rummage. African-American, Hispanic, Asian, old, young, male (we had a box of working power tools), female, hunters of specific items and browsers. Appearances can be deceiving; the buff, amply tattooed, ponytail hanging out of the do-rag, biker-looking dude was looking for ... bookcases. And he drove up in a Honda.
• Better get to bed. Couldn't sleep last night - I was falling asleep in front of a movie at 8 p.m., so I went to bed as soon as it finished half an hour later. As soon as my head hit the pillow, I was wide awake. After an hour of tossing, I finally got up - which I never do - and surfed and read for an hour and a half. I'm trying to avoid a repeat performance by simply staying up later. We'll see.