today

I ended up getting all the leaves raked and burnt. I'm a bit stiff now. My lower back isn't quite right, but I'm not sure what I did to it. Did a little bit of cleaning in the basement, and got some shelves partly installed into the office closet.

things to do

I'm getting these shelves finished up. Cyn helped me get the hard part set up, last night, and I've just finished them. Now I've got to fill them with stuff. The room smells like particle board. Kind of surprising, since they're about fifteen years old. They're vertical boards that use special hardware to connect the shelves, which hold the vertical pieces together. They fill up most of this closet. The closet used to have one shelf, with a lot of boxes stacked on it and the floor. I hope this will be a more efficient use of the space.

Yesterday was sixty and sunny. Not a cloud in the sky, even out over the lake. Today is forty and raining. And breezier than it was yesterday. Yuck.

the weather

Earlier today it was 40° and raining. With some wind, that's about my least favorite weather (excepting special events, like hurricanes). Then it worsened slightly, as the temp dropped. I hadn't looked outside in the last half hour or forty-five minutes, and was very surprised to see half an inch of snow/sleet on the ground. The only weather I was aware of was the thunderstorm.

I wish it would have started thundering *before* I fed the cat. Not only would it have kept her from bothering me, since she'd have fled for the basement, but now she's probably going to puke up her freshly swallowed dinner. Especially after that ten-second bit of thunder, just now.

Cyn's drive normally takes her 25 minutes or so. Longer on fridays. Longer in the rain. Longer in the snow. And even longer in the first snow of the year. I'll be a little surprised if she makes it home in 45 minutes.

Edit: 50 minutes