Today was a little bit different. I didn't work out unless you count a relatively short dog walk winding through Rosedale, stopping to look at stuff and let a baby pat the dogs. I took a three hour class (CPR) and made 100 on the exam. (Let's face it these exams are very easy.) I felt inadequate to do CPR and hoped having taken the class would insure that I didn't have to do it. I had lunch with my dad at the club. Something different, we've never done that but we were taking the class there.

I drove the new router (I burned one up yesterday) to my friend in South Austin and her regular PC guy said he would do the installation of the router and wireless card. He's done the wireless and wired Internet at San Jose Motel and, you know, actually knows what he is doing.

So when I left there I felt a little useless. I thought of taking pictures on South Congress and boring you with those but I thought better of it. Then I thought I might go to Book People or a coffee shop and read. Then I thought I might go home, change and go to the club. Finally I went to an antique mall near our house and walked through it without buying anything and then went to Eckerd's and bought some Q-Tips and Jelly Bellys. I couldn't resist buying some candy for some reason. The Q-Tips I just needed.

I did go home then and the maid was still there (yeah, I was hiding from the maid, I guess) and FFP wanted me to take some packages to the FedEx box. Part way there I thought that I should have brought my clothes and gone to the club to work out. But I just took the packages and came home. It was cooler (a little front blew in) and I thought I might go for a dog walk. Tried to call SuRu but she wasn't in. Sent her an e-mail and we eventually did walk and then I wasn't into it, into going too far. Meanwhile, I'd been watching out the back door while an energetic guy from the garden places rehabed our ponds. I should have done that, dug out the gunk and all. [Ed. Note. We are looking for someone to irradicate poison ivy in our backyard and my excuse for not doing these things is that allergy.]

Felt a little adrift and unfocused. And another reason was, although I'm still right here in the same spot, my schedule was a little weird. I guess. I find that as a retired person I do a lot more self-examination of where the time went. As a worker, I gave myself a gold star for showing up, getting home and extra credit if I managed to forget about it for a few minutes. My life used to seem to be on hold. "When I retire..." I'd say, finishing with "I'll travel" or "I'll learn to ...." or "I'll read all these books" or "I'll get in shape."

That's now folks.

The other thing that cast me adrift, other than my laziness, was that this journal and other sites we host were down due to a denial of service attack at our host. It makes me feel weird when my content is on the WEB for anyone to see and even weirder when it disappears. And, of course, we have some client stuff there, too.