Ugh. Didn’t sleep great last night, although dosed with Nyquil and nasal spray. Slow and weak today. It took me about 15 minutes to gear myself up to stand long enough to take a shower.

Had a fabulous time celebrating Freedom of Expression Night last night with Sarah. Basically we sat on the phone and watched videos and laughed a lot. We also plotted at least half of our Blaze novel, so I theoretically can write the whole thing off on taxes.

Ken got another boatload of stuff done today; I’m beginning to wonder if some of my tiredness is from watching him have so much energy getting stuff done! Yesterday he and Dennis took Dennis’s truck to get smogged. Then he rotated the tyres on my car, got the alignment and brakes looked at, and got the oil changed. He fixed his bike (it was a loose spark plug connection, thankfully, and not something major) and took pictures of the bags from the totalled BMW from the UK so that he could scan them and send them to someone interested in buying the bags. He got three rolls of film developed. He brought me Carl’s Jr. for dinner. While I was on the phone with Sarah, he downloaded the newly released drivers for The Contraption (so now it scans and prints as well as copies! Whee!), made a CD of the drivers for Sarah’s scanner, and did a whole bunch of other computer work. Whee. Today he installed a new sensor light over the garage, a new light in the sewing room, and new bulbs in the bedroom lights. When his mom came over, he fixed a file cabinet drawer for her before we all sat down to watch the home movies again (which she hadn’t seen in, oh, 20 years, because his dad had taken them all when he moved out). A few minutes ago, he fixed the black serger. We have to put flea treatment on the cats, and then I think we can finally go to bed.

Well, no writing today. My brain just couldn’t handle it. Come hell or high water (where does that phrase come from?), I have to pull myself together tomorrow, both with writing and copy editing. Ken leaves horribly early for the airport, and all I have scheduled is chiro in the a.m. and folks coming over for sewing in the p.m. (although I may not join them, so I don’t infect them). In general, it’ll be a quiet week, with a Costumer’s Guild meeting on Wednesday and leaving for Baltimore on Friday (and I can write on the plane, easily).

And with that, good night.