I don't have the energy for much that is serious today. It has been an exhausting month. I am tired. Not tired in a sleepy kind of way that you can cure with a good night's sleep. But tired in a deep and lasting way that feels like it could be permanent. So forgive my not marking the day for what it is to the nation and the world, but only for the trivia of my exhausted existence.

Today my son turned 5.

In somewhat related news I spent a good deal of the morning in the downstairs bathroom with a plunger and a snake. I successfully extracted a pair of tweezers and a toothbrush. Yes. They were both thrown away instantly. The downside is, the toilet still doesn't flush properly. All further attempts have not yielded the source of the obstruction.

We bought one of those free-standing, adjustable-height, basketball hoops. After the unimaginable hell of putting this thing together the kid had better get a basketball scholarship to the school of his choice. He owes me that much.

Wednesday it will be one year since my father passed away. When he died my mother gave me his golf clubs. I haven't really played in years but she wanted me to have something that was important to him. There is a driving range just down the road from work. I will take his 5 iron and hit a bucket of balls at lunch.

Every day it gets harder day to not put OS X Tiger on the company laptop. At first it was just because the Widgets are cool. A great deal of fun and in many cases an utter waste of time. Great Stuff. But the RSS reader built into Safari. Damn that is sweet. I have played with RSS readers in the past but never found anything I liked. The Safari reader works they way I want it to. I can build a library of bookmarked feeds in a pull down menu and load each into a tab. I san also just hand select feeds that have been updated. I can read more blogs in less time. This is good.

Yesterday I was standing in the driveway about four feet behind the car. The boy was between the two cars tring to get something that had rolled under the Jetta. Out of nowhere two deer came charging through the neighbor's yard and over the three foot wire fence. They passed full speed between me and the cars and went over the five foot wooden fence surrounding our yard. They didn't make the jump cleanly and there is still fur on the fence. The dear escaped the yard - I over a lower section they cleared easily. No one was hurt though the dogs were wired about an hour. Deer do not belong in our neighborhood. This pair was clearly lost.

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