But of course.

Of course, I'm awake, waaaay too early. Still feeling sickish although not as bad as before. I'm hoping this is one of those 24- or 48-hour things.

Last night I went to bed right after supper as I could hardly keep my eyes open. So, naturally I woke up at 2:30 am and couldn't fall back asleep no matter what. I guess I'm up for a while. I may or may not take a nap this afternoon, depending. Naps often make me feel worse, not better, but I may not have a choice if my body decides to conk out.

Anyway, we got some good news yesterday that I didn't post about because by the time it was confirmed I was too sleepy and went straight to bed. It seems that the government's response to the last set of paperwork hoops we jumped through was 'that seems adequate', and so some of our problems have been resolved. Certainly they are no longer threatening Dire Consequences at us. Of course, the government being slow of processing, we're not going to see any of the money they owe us for some time yet, but at least some weight has been lifted off our shoulders.

Now it looks like the plans for the day involve visiting the local bank manager to renew our mortgage (they said there were special deals they could give us if we went in person, so we're looking into that). After that ...

... WTF? taxlady's alarm clock just went off. Why on earth did she set it to wake her at 4:00 am? That's insanely early. I'll have to ask her when she stops hitting snooze and actually gets up...

As I was saying, after the banking we'll be heading down to Costco (possibly with kalkuly in tow) to purchase all sorts of groceries ("grocery all-sorts" that sounds like it should involve chicken soup and licorice.), so that we have food in the house again.

By the time we've finished with that I suspect that I may well want to call it an early night, if I'm still feeling under the weather. If not then I really need to sit down and come up with a 'study plan'.

My headhunter asked me -- several months ago -- to become an expert in C++ so she could get me a job. I put her on hold two months ago because of the gig I got with my client. At the time it seemed to make more sense to do something that would pay now rather than might possibly pay somewhere down the line. Well, my client seems to have fallen off the face of the Earth, and I've informed my headhunter that I'm back on the market. She still wants me to bone up on C++ so that's the plan. I've done about as much of the theoretical reading as is likely to help at this point, so now I need to come up with a project to code in C++ that will both get me back used to writing while stretching my knowledge of Boost and the STL. I have half-a-dozen project ideas that might do the job, but I've yet to settle on any one in particular, and I really should ASAP.

The Reason.

You know, there's a reason there are no seeing-eye cats.

( click to find out why. )

That thing that happens.

You know that thing that always happens? You're starting off bright and early Monday morning with a whole bunch of ambitious plans for the week and before you can even get started, the cat spontaneously combusts. You're in the middle that when the corn bread holds a coup and beheads the broccoli and it all just goes downhill from there. The next thing you know its Friday evening, the week is shot, and you never did get around to dousing the cat, so its sort of laying there smouldering sullenly at you.

That's sort of how I feel about the last 3 years, and I have a terrible suspicion that by the time I'm sixty I'll be able to look back on whole decades that went that wrong in just that manner.