We're on to the Slog

With the excitement of the first week out of the way, we're on to the Long Haul Slog.  It's not quite that bad yet, but, well, I think you know what I mean.

The Good Stuff:
- I've gotten my riding on the recumbent bike done according to plan.  I got about half the Wii stuff done.
- I've done terrible on WW this week, but I did manage to come in almost a pound down.  Not sure how.  I must do better.
- I purchased Life Balance and have enjoyed playing with it and getting the program configured.
- I'm staying caught up with reading and am still knocking out tasks around the house.
- We got a light rain this week, and it seems as if the modification the roofing people did has taken care of the problem.  We will reserve judgement until we have a more vigorous rain.
- Hubby had an unexpected trip up for the weekend, and we've unloaded nearly a hundred buckets of dirt and gravel in the yard and at the store building.
- I made good progress on "How To Revise Your Novel" and Polar Bear on the Loose. I finished Lesson 13 and pushed on through Lessons 14 and 15.  I'm now working on Lesson 16.  I found some potentially good changes during the "card" games in Lesson 15.  If I decide to use them, I have a different beginning and a different ending using scenes that were in the story but in their original location were kind of ho-hum.  Moving the cards to other places made them stand out.
- The box for the mower arrived from Black and Decker, but I'm still waiting for the shipping label to arrive.  The support person said the box would arrive first.  I'm just not sure when to expect the label.  I hope it arrives soon.
- I got the Bonus S spread.
- I got most of the document shredding completed.
- The pear tree is trimmed.
- Insurance company address changes were super easy and are done.

The Not So Good Stuff:
- Hubby is a devotee of Lotus Smartsuite, which, if you know what it is, you also know it is no longer supported by IBM.  It stopped working on his laptop, and he cannot get it to reinstall.  His databases and his newsletter are all done in Approach and WordPro.  If he can't get access, he's in deep do-do, and he's very angry right now.  So far, it all works on his desktop, and he'll be home Monday night, so this is a short term immediate problem, but it's symptomatic of what he ultimately has to deal with.  And, I think that may be why he's particularly grumpy at this moment.
- I'm not sure this fits here, but the changes are going slowly at FM -- probably because Zette has been ill.

Plan for Next Week:
- Once again, do a better job of staying on Plan
- Continue with the Wii and recumbent bike riding
- Continue reading
- Finish shredding documents
- Pack for trip to Wisconsin
- Prepare for the run to SA to get truck serviced, hair cut, new lenses for my glasses, and a couple of other things that I'm not thinking of right now.
- Finish reading El Narco and write my LibraryThing review.
- Continue work on Polar Bear on the Loose.  Try to get most of the way through Lesson 16 before I have to leave for Wisconsin on the 28th.  I won't work on the book specifically while I'm on the trip, but I may do some research.  (Yes, I'm getting ahead of next week.  Sorry.)