I don’t know about you all, but weekends sure do seem to take a lot out of me. But it’s a lot better than going to work, which is why I’m glad I have today off. Especially since I neglected to cut the grass (though it’s kind of wet out there, so I’m not sure if I’ll get to it today, either). I also have a new $11 plastic mailbox to install. Kind of decided that since the snowplow’s just gonna take it sooner or later anyway, there’s no point in getting anything but the cheapest shit available.

Not that I didn’t manage to spend more money than I’d have liked to this weekend. When I went to buy a window to stick in my office, it of course turned out that they didn’t have what I wanted in the size that I wanted, so I was forced to spend more on something better. So my cheap little $120 air conditioner will probably wind up costing me close to $500 (of course, some of that’s paint and screws and stuff I can use for other things down the road) when all’s said and done. But, what the hell, I’ll never have to buy another one. And it improved my view greatly, for where once when I was sitting in my chair facing north, I was looking at a wall, I now see this:

So now I see trees on two sides of me, which helps compensate for the total lack of a view in my windowless workplace. Now I just need to finish finishing it.

Which I suppose I better get started on (easier said than done, because I seem to be surrounded by about 240 pounds of dog, and there aint a lot of room to move).