Still here!

Still here--but first I went elsewhere! Spent a wonderfully restful weekend in the mountains with friends and friendly folks. The journey west had been a little odd when we spotted a line of Asplundh trucks (they're the tree trimmers who provide emergency tree removal after storms have done their damage), then a long line of ambulances, and then some more of the tree trucks, all traveling to the east. While it's good that governments and utilities and suchlike on the coast were proactive in getting ready for the storm, that line of ambulances was still a wee bit creepy.

Anyway, very good weekend for me. My friends even took me to a farmers' market on Sunday! And then there were visits to antique stores. While in one section of a store that had old records for sale, I fell back into my old record store habit of looking for albums or singles by some of my favorite musicians of my high school years. Guess what? They did have a copy of Nik Kershaw's Human Racing! The first album I ever bought! That still didn't thrill me as much as the little goniatite I ended up buying, which has a pattern of dark and light that makes it look somewhat like a taijitu in fossil form. If you're going to look at antiques, you may as well go for the truly old things! I've also got a bit of chalcopyrite with a lovely purple tarnish, which helped fill my quota of nifty nonessentials in my life.

You might think from the above that I'm adding to the clutter in my room, but not so! I've thrown away a great deal recently and I'll probably undoubtedly toss out some more before I'm through. I'm afraid I didn't do much cleaning today (by which I mean Wednesday, August 31) because my regularly scheduled migraine picked today to intensify. Here's hoping that I can get more done tomorrow (by which I suppose I mean later today, hopefully after several hours of sleep).

Right then, my brain is starting to shut down for the night. Good night and good day to all!