I am a bad journaler

I keep meaning to write about my days & my thoughts, but then I end up doing something else entirely for no particular reason. But I will journal again, I will I will!

So anyway, a briefish entry about today. First of all: I have had very few thoughts today because I'm still tired and recovering (I hope) from a cold. It's been a mild cold as colds go, but it's still not been conducive to deep thinking. And I realize I'm babbling enough that what was going to be a short post may not be all that short after all even if I don't end up saying very much, but y'all will just have to deal with it.

Second: I still need to clean this keyboard. I need to do something to get all the keys working again, because having to pound certain keys (and then hit "Backspace" because I pounded one too many times) is really getting old.

Third: For several months, I've been having problems with the wasps (yellowjackets) nesting under the eaves outside my room. Now, I don't have a problem with wasps living outside the house--they're generally beneficial critters, preying on some of the real pests in the area. What I do have a problem with is that quite a few of them end up wandering into my bedroom somehow, someway, and generally being a nuisance. They haven't stung me, no matter how clumsy I've been in my attempts to smush them with minimal fuss. As I've had reason to learn, these wasps in a house or other enclosed space do not tend to attack; they just fly at the windows in a desperate attempt to get out (or, if it's a dark, gloomy day, they fly around your lightbulb in a confused attempt to escape this human-built hell they've wandered into). But they are potentially stinging insects in my bedroom and I do not want them here. Recently, finally, my landlord thought he'd figured out how they were getting in, and he set up an experiment to find out if he was right. Unfortunately, he didn't tell me what his experiment was so I ruined it the next morning. Anyway, after a weekend when I was getting up to five in the room per morning, I re-established his experiment and it seemed to be working. Until this morning, that is, when two more wasps somehow found their way into my bedroom. The experimental fortifications have been refortified, so we'll see what happens tomorrow morning.

Fourth: I really did expect this entry to be much shorter.

Fifth: Farmers market today!! Many area farmers markets quit at the end of October, but one good one is still going till mid-November. Even when I don't have enough cash to buy much or I'm tired because I'm recovering from a cold, it's fun to admire the apples and breads and meats, listen to music, listen to conversations, take part in a few, be amazed by the enthusiasm of the market coordinator, and all that.

Sixth: There was a brief rain shower today. Wasn't out in the rain much myself, but after it was over there was a rainbow standing out against a backdrop of dark cloud. Gorgeous.

Seventh: Did have enough cash to splurge on a little something for supper at the market, and I must say that a pastry filled with potatoes, greens, cabbage, caramelized onions, hot peppers, cilantro, cheese, and smoked chicken really hit the spot. Later in the month I may be able to eat nothing but beans & rice to make up for this indulgence. But oh, it was indeed worth it.