The last couple of months have been pretty lean on entries from me. Nothing major going on, just a normally busy life. I thought I would refocus a bit here in the month of September and see if I can't write a little more. I enjoy writing, I just don't always make it a priority. August was filled with work related stuff and with the beauties of late summer in California.
I went up to the Highland Games with Tony on Saturday and had a good time, eating food, wandering the fairgrounds and listening to music. The music was a mixed bag this year - there were some good acts and there were some acts that mistook "loud with bagpipes and drums" for quality. One of my favorite acts is "The Browne Sisters and George Cavanaugh" and though they were good, their sound mixer was not particularly on the ball and oft times during their show the music was being drowned out by the crowd noise. I think that is always a risk at any festival.
Yesterday was almost entirely a restful day. I had breakfast with Tyrone at the Hickory Pit and then wandered home. Something I ate didn't sit right and my stomach was churning (I suspect the fruit), so after getting home and watching a movie, I settled in for a two hour afternoon nap. For there, I spent a lazy afternoon watching assorted movies on the DVR and on cable, and then went to bed early.
I laid down at about 7:00 PM to read for a while (Dean Koontz's "The City") and fell asleep by 8:00 PM, which led to my waking up, wide awake, at about 3:00 AM. I managed to fall back asleep after about an hour and then woke up at about 6:00 AM. I haven't done anything today either, mostly just reading, surfing the web, and watching incidental television. I am going to make a couple of family calls this afternoon and then meet Tony & Bob for dinner at El Burro at 4:00 PM.
I am going to take a run at house cleaning and incidental crap sorting today. I took tomorrow off from work because I could and because I needed it - and as a side benefit it will also give me a two day work week next week, which is going to be nice as well.
August was a pleasant month. In August I focused on just making sure that I spent some of my time off as true time off - doing nothing. (Hence the need to devote some hours today to house cleaning.) I think I am going to carry that trend on through September. A few restful weekends makes me hungry for a few more restful weekends. It the fast paced sweep of modern life is it easy to lose track of the need to take time to yourself.
T.R. is on her extended vacation right now, which is something I have always envied. She should be wrapping it up shortly soon and I am looking forward to spending some quality time with her and catching up. I have undertaken a small personal project that during that time frame that I will share when it is complete, for now I am enjoying it and curious as to where it will go.
Well, with that, I am going to slide back into the rest of the day.
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