During the week I get up at 6 and leave for work ~7. My Concerta has kicked in by then and I feel pretty good the whole day. Usually I stay up very late on Friday night and sleep in on Saturday morning, but today I was awake at 8 (which is much earlier than usual) because when I sleep in too long I just feel kind of useless the whole day. This time I decided to adhere more closely to my daily schedule to see if I could get more work done at home.
And I did. Oh, there was much I didn't get to, but then that will always be the case. The one thing I really wanted to do was to make a proper dolly for moving heavy things around with at work. I have one dolly already, and under my bench there since we moved to the new hospital has been a rectangular frame with wheels on it, too good to discard (I think it was originally from some other piece of equipment), but without a platform. So I pulled it out and cleaned it up this week, then took it home and this morning found just the piece of wood to cut into shape (it was from the board you ran on underneath the belt on our old treadmill, long since defunct) and it worked perfectly.
Since I had my tools out anyway, I also decided to assemble a platform for our rabbit, that she can both sit upon and also lie underneath in her cage. I had promised to make one of these ages ago, but always either forgot or just didn't feel like it, but today I actually got around to it. To do it right took longer than I thought it would, so I had to set it aside and go to Target to pick up Dorothy's prescription before the pharmacy closed. Haley went along and we also stopped at Walmart for some black paint so she could repaint a table we got from our recently departed neighbors.
I also felt the need today to read Heinlein's Sixth Column, so during a few breaks I read some chapters of that. I was going to leave the bunny platform until tomorrow, but after 10 p.m. I got ambitious again and went into the garage and finished it.
On Facebook today another old friend joined up (Bob Aardema), and I also chatted with one of my former students from New Mexico, Jenny (Hicks) Smith. That was fun except that she told me that her younger brother Daniel, who was also a student of mine with a great sense of humor, had been in an accident when he was 21 and now was blind and brain-damaged enough so that his short-term memory is severely limited. He does still have his sense of humor though, and I told Jenny to tell him I said hello.
Guess that will do for today. Dorothy had to work this weekend, and she just finished up--she also is sick with a cold we think, and not feeling well at all. She just went to bed.
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