Monday morning grump

I heard a bird this morning. Chirping. As if it were spring.

*looks at date*

WTH?

Granted, this has been an incredibly mild and weird winter. Reminds me of the winter in Chicago when I was living there (mildest in 150 years).

Too bad for me, 'cause I like the snow. Except when it makes 6 foot high snow dikes... Which are really hard to see over in my low-rider (Camry).

We're supposed to get another 2 inches of snow tonight, but then it will warm up again, and only the shadiest places will have patches of ice remaining. Just like last time.

Bleh. If it's going to be winter, I want snow, dammit! Otherwise, I want the green to return so we don't have the muddy brown blahs to look at.


And now I should go do my homework. And then paint, though from home today. Page is home sick (he had a four hour nap yesterday evening, then went right to sleep after dinner!), so I shall be keeping the outings to a bare minimum today. Which means I won't be restarting the photo meme as I planned. Bummer.

Gotta go. :-(

Good things vs grumps

Grump: I had to cook yesterday.

Good: I ate my nine cups of fruits and veggies.  Granted, about six of them were kale, but, hey, I got in other good things, too!  Like a good quarter squash (failed squash chips are still pretty yummy) and blueberries.  And lettuce.  Mustn't forget the lettuce.

Grump: Page was "ill". That is, he said he was ill, had a sore throat and doidn't want to go to school. He also napped for long enough yesterday that I allowed him to stay home, sacrificing my painting day.

Good: He felt enough better to go out with Geoff on a much-longer-than-expected errand.

Grump: He came home with a rash all over his torso. He is asleep now (probably due to the dose of benadryl I gave him to rule out allergies for the cause of the rash) so I can't check his throat for strep. *wibbles* (Please don't be scarlet fever!)

Good: The errand, while fruitless on one hand, ultimately turned out to be successful!

Which brings me to the biggest grump: The computer was acting up, as in, the fan was running on high under no stress whatsoever. I decided that the only thing other than a virus (which kept coming up a no) that could possibly be a cause was dust. So, I watched a video on how to clean the CPU fan and turned off the computer. That was at about noon.

Good news - I was right about the dust. Oh. My. Lord, was there dust. It was packed onto the heat sink, fan blades, and then there were the dust jackals just lounging around randomly. So, I did as the video instructed, pushed up my sleeves and got everything clean.

( Cut for the expected, or at least tedious, story of a computer ignoramous at work )

And that is why the good things win.

Oh, that and I made another batch of pumpkin gingerbread.