hmmm.

It occurred to me recently that I say that a lot. "hmmm." Don't know why.

So it's now 110am, and I can't sleep...which is why I'm typing away. Let's see. What am I going to write about?

Hmmm.

A bunch of my very lucky friends just came back from a Yosemite trip they took this weekend. I have yet to hear details, but from what I hear fun was had...not surprisingly...and everyone made it home safe and sound. I await the photos that I am sure are forthcoming, as I am certain they will be very, very good. Originally I had planned to go this coming weekend, Labor Day weekend, to make my pilgrimage to what my Mom always called "God's Country"...but a serious lack of reasonably priced accommodations anywhere near the park put the whammy on that. So now I have planned a trip three weeks hence...on the 19th-21st of September. I have already begun my preparations and cannot WAIT.

The 19th also marks an important day for me...the start of almost three weeks off from work. I SO need this time to recharge. Work has been a complete grind basically since I was transferred out of my old store in Berkeley in June 06 to Oakland. For different reasons, though. With that store, my manager and I never really saw eye-to-eye...which made things harder than perhaps they should have been. With this store, I like everything about it...except that I have to drive 42 miles to get there everyday. It basically costs me $300 a month EXTRA to work at my current store than it did to work at the Oakland store. And that's a pocketbook ouch that I don't get reimbursed for, either.

Now I'm trying to figure out what to do on my day off. Climbing and exercising is part of it. I just don't know what to do with the rest. Golf? Softball practice? Or maybe I'll just come home and rest. That might work too. Lord knows I could use it...not so much physically, but mentally. I'm fried, as they say. Never mind, I got it. I know what I'm doing today. I'll tell you when I get back home.