Can I just say how tired I am?

I'm whupped! This weekend, though seemingly without drama or excess work, still left me worn out. I've already mentioned my acrobatic pratfall in the movie theater at the beginning of the weekend and most of my injuries from that episode have cleared up although I still have a sore kneecap. The rest of the weekend was spent pretty close to home but I'm still tired.

First, son Noah did not get all moved out over the weekend. It seems the rental storage place office is closed on Saturdays and we hadn't gotten them the information required to get into a unit before then. So- no moving on Saturday. We did load up the borrowed trailer on Sunday and haul all of the GF's stuff back to Logan and then into her shared apartment. That girl has too much stuff! Good grief! Never the less, we got it done and then had dinner at one of Logan's institutional restaurants, Angies.

Sunday I spent some time tinkering on the scooter trying to sort out a small carburetion glitch that causes it to stall at traffic lights occasionally and less often even backfire upon restarting. I cleaned the filter, checked for air leaks and upjetted just one size on the main and pilot jets. But a test ride afterwards revealed a too-frequent miss that had not been present before I tinkered. So- I put it back to the way it was. I didn't get a chance to take a test ride so I can't vouch for the problem being fixed. Maybe a new sparkplug is called for about now…

I had one guy come to look at the Suzuki but he was a young fellow and not a serious customer for the bike. Too bad since I think the Morphous is still for sale down in SLC.

The rest of Sunday was spent in laundry washing and drying and piling and some housecleaning got done in anticipation of Brother Tim's arrival on Monday.

Of course he and the GF showed up at the house while I was operating the vacuum cleaner on Monday afternoon! I knew I put that off too late… So they showed up safe from their trip from Florida and we spent a pleasant afternoon visiting and then going to dinner at the brand new, just opened at 4PM today, Texas Roadhouse restaurant. We actually got in for the first seating and the place filled up very quickly. Dinner was pretty good overall but there was a number of first-night jitters by the staff that kept dinner from being perfect. We ordered a Cactus Blossom onion appetizer that didn't arrive until our dinners showed up. The manager was working the tables diligently and he made apologies and comped us for our late arriving appetizer. Overall it was pretty good and once the crowds retreat a little bit I suppose we will eat there regularly.

Oh yeah! I changed out 7 non-working, plugged up, haven't been able to use them for 3 years, sprinklers in my front yard's watering system on Friday! That one line of pop-up sprinklers had been out of operation for a while now, so badly that the grass had overgrown most of them and I had to cap off the ones I could find so I could force water to leak out into the grass just to find the heads. Then I dug them up, down to the service line and replaced everything including new saddle clamps, risers and pop-ups. This will really simplify my watering by reducing the hose and sprinkler dragging that I have been doing to keep my grass green. I still have 4 more, on another line that should be replaced and if I do that, my front yard watering system will be as good as it can be until I get ready to dig up the entire yard.

Finally, I bought a new guitar songbook yesterday with some tunes I really would like to learn so there's lots more guitar practice in my future.

No wonder I'm tired!