What a week!

I've been busier than a one-armed wallpaper hanger all week! Of course I was trying to play catch-up from missing the prior week and I just about succeeded in spite of the demands of the current week. Its been ugly, I can tell you that! Overall, I think I got about 80% of everything accomplished that needed to be done and the remainder was left undone because I couldn't get though to my boss to get a meeting on his calendar.

I did get to go and sit down and explain to the Colonel what was happening with my biggest programs and why the Lieutenant back in Ohio was going in a direction that seems like a good plan but may not be technically possible or legal. That meting wasn't totally unpleasant for me, the lieutenant may find his meeting less so.

School continues apace and I even got a decent grade on my first accounting test in spite of missing a week's worth of class notes. The online economics course seems to be working out ok. I rather like the flexibility of working at my own times but it does take some discipline to ensure I get everything accomplished during the week.

I got to play plumber this week, the handle broke off on our bathroom faucet and I decided it would be easier to replace the entire thing than to fuss with geting the handle screw out and the cause of the sticking valve fixed. So, with the help of a $100 bill and the missus to choose the style, Home Depot got a little richer and I didn't. Replacing it wasn't too terrible really, except that both the hoses had to be replaced and I didn't get them during the initial faucet purchase trip. (Note to self: just buy the new hoses at the same time, next time!)

And the job wouldn't have been 1/2 bad except that I've hurt my back, again and even before crawling under the vanity to do the faucet replacement. I'm hurting and I've been hurting since Wednesday. Its so bad that I bailed out of a planned trip to the desert to go shooting with my bud and fellow blogger Kenny. So you know it must be pretty lousy or I would not be blogging right now. I'm taking Kenny's advise, I'm overmedicating and resting today.

Yesterday was my regular day off and of course that was a day of rest- right? Yeah... I went first to see if a guy about an exhaust pipe for my scooter. CPI Racing is run by Mark Hare and he was very interested in helping squeeze more power from my Vento Phantom scooter.

Then it was a trip to the barber shop, Home Depot for the first sink supply hose, to the grocery store with the spouse for the big cupboard filling shopping extravagana, back to the Schlotzskys where we had lunch to recover my hat that I left behind and a stop at Radio Shack for a new hands-free headset because my cell phone won't work without one now and my last one died.

So, yeah, I was tired last night... And homework today instead fo tramping through the sagebrush. Rats!