Remember the wacky professor who taught my first stats class? He used to say, at least once a week, "Ring ring! clue phone!" He'd answer the imaginary phone and explain the folly of whatever idea he was critiquing. I woke up this morning to the ringing clue phone: when I am as tired and discouraged as I was last night, the only thing to do is go to bed. Weeping may endure for a night, and all that. Blogging the discouragement doesn't get me any further forward. Ergo, poof!
This weekend I am going away with Alex and Marty for a family event, leaving the younger guys here with Elwood. Early next week we are having some work done on our basement which is supposed to dry out the leaking. Then we'll move the Legos downstairs, which we hope will end the hassles over getting them picked up so that no one sprains an ankle walking through the middle boys' room.
I am drinking a positively foul cup of coffee. I do not like black coffee -- I can drink it but it's more penance than pleasure. I did not discover until after my pot of coffee was brewed that we are out of cream, out of milk, out of canned evaporated milk. I considered putting yogurt or Alfredo sauce in the coffee, but then I discovered, way at the back of the fridge, a can of sprayable whipped cream from our Mardi Gras sundae party. It wasn't that it had gone bad (which makes a person wonder -- what are they adding to cream to keep it stable for more than a month?), but nonetheless I think I might have been better off with the yogurt.
Maybe Pete and I will take a walk downtown and get a replacement. It's been warm here for a few days, which makes me wonder if there will be crocuses and hyacinths peeking out. Perhaps even some brave forsythia? Blooming forsythia, I do believe, is good for the soul.
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