Monday

I tried going to sleep with the fan off, but Mr Mosquito buzzed his song of hunger in my ear, so I switched it on. I fell asleep, then woke up around midnight to an epiphany, work related, sigh. It took over an hour to get back to sleep.

My vibrating phone woke me up at quarter past five – Mewthos was practically sitting on it, puzzled by this moving phone. I got dressed – and frankly, whoever designed these work clothes can’t be familiar with the human shape. I’m not impressed. They feel and sit just like chunky jeans, designed for the toilet-sign man who always stands with feet apart – as that’s the only way to keep them up. I’ve had to use a belt! I have worn work pants – overall, in fact – before, and really, they don’t have to look and feel so uncomfortable! Ah, well …

Work was … busy for me, though we don’t have enough orders to keep all workers producing, so I left them to see if they’ll do housekeeping without special instructions. Ha Ha, they didn’t. I’ll address that in tomorrow’s morning meeting again. When I woke up last night, I had a great idea for a new way of monitoring work-in-progress, which I implemented today. It was useful, but the interruption to my sleep caught up with me in the afternoon – I couldn’t wait to get home.

Around half five it started to rain in Rosslyn, so the drive home was firstly in rain and secondly bumper-to-bumper down the old road – I have no idea what caused the traffic jam. Where I turn off, the road was fairly covered in water, with several deep puddles and little rivulets running on the shoulder of the road – fortunately the car in front of me clued me in on the depth of each puddle, so I didn’t get stuck. Where I turn onto the dirt road for the last 500m, there were also rivulets and puddles – but none very deep.

My landlord had thoughtfully left the gate on the latch, so I didn’t have to unlock the padlock – it would have been faster for me to get through, if I had come across this before and knew where the hook was. Next time I’ll know. They had also, equally thoughtfully, opened my gate for me, so I could just drive in and only had to lock it!

It had clearly been raining hard and heavy for quite a while before I got home, the lawn was swimming and looked almost like one big pool! Inside, my landlord had also come to check and on finding that water had come through the minute gap at the bottom of the door, had put a towel down to stop it! They didn’t even use my own towel, which was lying there, but got one of theirs!

Unfortunately some water had already got in. I’ll have to check whether there’s any damage to the bottom of my wooden box, which stands near the door. But two boxes got wet – they are far apart from each other, and the boxes next to either of them are dry! Don’t ask – I can’t explain it. Well, I had to unpack those two boxes, fast, since both contained paper – one had all my technical books in (none of them got wet) and the other had mostly comics, but some of my mums travel books got wet, as they were at the bottom. I looked around to check if any other boxes got wet – none that I could see. I just hope that none in that tower under and around the desk got wet. If my landlord hadn’t come to check, and put the towel down, it would have been a lot worse!

Since it was thunder and lightning, the power flickered off every now and again, so I didn’t bother to switch on the PC. First thing I did was to sit down with the left over pasta from last night, munching happily while watching the rain outside, with my mippies mipping about their day. Then I gave them their treat – they hadn’t used the litter box during the day, it seems they go mostly at night. Then I checked the lounge and unpacked the two boxes and by the time I was finished, the storm seemed to have passed and I decided to take a chance and shower.

By the time I was done, I figured the power was now on for good and I switched on the PC. I’ve been for two smokes since, and both times Mewthos mewls the entire ‘Orphan Annie’ concert at the top of his voice! How is it that he still has any voice left?

Oh, and this weekend, I found my bathroom scale in one of the boxes. Of course I had to try it out! It seems that I have lost five kg somewhere along the way. I found one of them, when I picked up Mewthos, the scale went up by seven kg – so he collected one of the kg I lost. Ha ha, he is such a greedy chops, it’s no wonder! Would you believe he is sitting right next to me and mewling and yawning at the same time?

At least the rain made it unnecessary for me to decide whether to let mippies out when I get home, during the week. On the whole, I think it best not to, since I get home so close to dark, that it would be more of a tease than a treat for them. I’m also not up to playing catch on a weekday, yet.

This weekend I must get more bread, and especially something to put onto bread. If I don’t get that done on Friday, then I must go on Saturday – that should motivate me to go on Friday!

Sigh, it feels like I only just got home, yet it’s already twenty past eight. I’ve done what needed doing, so I better get to bed and hope I can sleep without interruption.