Sunny Late February

Yes, the weather is lovely this week.

The Good Stuff:

- The weather is great, so I did manage to get some outdoor work done.  The flower beds by the house that have allowed a lot of vines go grow have finally been raked out and many vines pulled.  I plan to toss out some grass seed, rake it over with loose dirt, and sprinkle with water tomorrow afternoon (because rain is forecast for next week).
- I finished mowing the weeds
- I did get some Wii and recumbent bike work done this week
- I'm still working steadily on Polar Bear on the Loose.  I'm in a section where I'm doing almost a complete re-write I and the scene card for this one is orange, indicating it shouldn't have been quite that bad, but much has changed, and while I'm using many of the ideas from the first draft, they have to be expressed with completely different words.  This results in hand-writing a lot of words, but I'm comfortable with and enjoying the process.
- I changed the DirecTV account to the Central Texas address this week.  Then I ordered an HD box, not realizing that required a new antenna.  I scheduled the installation for this morning.  Hubby is in Dallas this weekend, and is not happy with what they did (even though they listened to his wishes and complied with most of them.  They indicated the existing antenna location would block satellite access, so they needed to put the antenna in a different place.  Hubby didn't want it in a different place, and he didn't want them to use concrete to secure the post.  As far as I can tell, the location of the new antenna doesn't interfere with anything he had planned (but he disagrees with me, so there's obviously something else I don't know about--mostly, I think it's his perfectionism shining through).  On the bright side, they arranged to get me a second HD receiver for the upstairs TV at no extra cost.  That leaves us with one standard receiver still in San Antonio, which will remain our travel receiver.  Hubby plans to use it at the shop when we get up here full-time, and of course, in the motor home when we get that in from the ranch and functional again.  We only have one true HD TV (with HDMI connector).  The upstairs TV doesn't have an HDMI input, so it doesn't get the full benefits of HD (but it looks better than the standard reception).
- Scrivener and Constitution 101 classes are going well -- the Scrivener class is awesome!  Well worth the $25 fee.  As several participants have said, it would be worth more than that to them.
- Caught up on scheduled reading and managed to get some reading for pleasure in. 

The Not So Good:

- I managed to lose almost half a pound this week, but I'm not pleased with my overall application of effort this week
- While my left thumb feels different, it still hurts.  Oh, well.  That's joints for ya.  At least, that's my joints.
- I'm tired in late afternoons.  Which means something isn't feeling right.  I'm not sure if something is haywire with my CPAP.  I know I'm fighting my mask a lot at night.  I'll probably have to make a trip to Belton to talk to someone in the Lincare office about what's going on.  That is the world's worst office to have to deal with (they're the ones that took a year to get me properly set up for regular supply replacements).  It's either that or I'm gonna die.  Not sure which.  I guess I'll plan the trip in conjunction with my next trip to Ft. Hood for prescription refills.

For the Next Week:

- I plan to re-read The Mouth Trap and, of course, see about getting more zero point foods
- Continue exercise
- Continue work on PBOTL and HTRYN
- Heading to SA at the end of the week for a few days. 
- Keep up with scheduled reading, and try to sneak in a little pleasure reading