Another month gone out of my life... and your life, too, I must add. I hope that you had more fun with this month than I did. But wait! I'm really not bitching about my month, I just want for you to have had a wonderful one? Is that so hard to imagine? Gimme a break here! Doing the housekeeping on this site for the next month is a chore that I've got down to about ten minutes now... make the directory, copy the index and template files over, change the calander in the index, copy the template file with each days filename and then I'm done. Then when I'm ready to upload the entry for the last day of the month I also upload the whole directory (folder) for the next month in one swell foop. Every day I overwrite the daily file with the daily part of the "j.shtml" file, move up to the main directory and overwrite the "j.shtml" file and everything's hunky-dory. Not much of a deal, really, and it's become second nature to me after all of these years of doing it. It did take me a coupla years to get it right, though. Today has been spent in a quandry: how to fix the damned cabinets. My head just isn't really working right on this problem. I got out a coupla clamps, thinking that I could pull the sides of the cabinet back, but that was a no-go... no place to clamp the clamps to make it work. Unless I want to take the cabinet down, of course... which I really don't want to do. I'm really glad that I discovered the problem before it *fell* down. I'll sleep on it another night, anyway, maybe I'll come up with something.... Anyhoo, that project kinda stopped me in my tracks with my other weekend plans... I do wish that I wasn't that way, but I am. It's kinda like when I lose something, I worry and worry about it until I find it. And that happens a lot. And I'm damned if I'm gonna buy something if I already have one. This is especially true of tools. Although a recent example isn't really a tool, and it really wasn't lost. I knew that I had a tripod. I have used the damned tripod, but I couldn't remember seeing it for a year or so. But I remember exactly where it was and how it was laying. So... I must have moved it. But I really wanted to use it when I got my new camera, so I looked and looked and looked. And looked some more. And then I remembered that I had given it to JD when he got his digital camera. I don't know how I forgot that, but I did, and I spent several weeks *knowing* that I just had to look harder for it and there it would be, in plain sight all of the time.... I have found a lot of things that I've lost just laying in plain sight over the years. Speaking of finding things that have been lost for years... how 'bout that N. Carolina bomber guy that they caught? Do you think that they might find the anthrax guy next? Then Ben Laden? Then Saddam? O'wait, I talked about all this stuff yesterday, didn't I? I slept until 10:30 today, off and on from about the time the sun came up. I really miss my blacked-out windows sometimes.... I think that I'll sleep late again tomorrow, then I'll have thought of how to solve the cabinet problem in my dreams, heh. About six weeks ago, I joined the portal of 3WA (threewayaction.com) thereby signaling the end of that institution. They will close up shop on June 10th. I seem to jinx places, things, and conversations. Quite a while ago I noted the nilknarf phenomena on diary-l... whenever I would make a statement in a thread, the thread would die. Kinda like, "Well, Doug has spoken, so we don't need to talk about *that* anymore..." I'm afraid that I did that once too often, dairy-l has become a, um, unforce in the world of online dairies now. I'm afraid to find out what the present force *is*, for fear that my simple knowledge will cause that whatever-it-is to die. Anyhoo, you folks that have been hitting this site through 3WA might want to join my reminder list... no pressure, I never look at the list membership and I never will, so you can come and go with no associated guilt whatsoever.