I’m on my own tonight. I’ll probably be on my own for every night this week. It’s the end of the quarter at Lin’s company, and well … they have a lot of work to get done by Friday. That wouldn’t effect Lin’s life all that much except that he has to babysit some of the construction crews. Seems that as soon as they feel one drop of rain, they declare it raining and take off for the rest of the day (and night). Tonight he’ll be cracking the whip on one group that has been particularly bad about that. He says he’s not letting them leave until all the lines are up (cell phone lines on a tower, about six really thick “wires”, I guess you would call them). He’s not a happy camper. Bosses shouldn’t have to be present to keep workers working. These guys will probably not be doing any more work for them, at least not if Lin has any say (and I think he does).

I could watch the last half of the mini-series that is on SciFi, but I get so sick of having to watch things twice and sometimes three times so Lin can see the whole thing. I’m going to record it later tonight or tomorrow night and not watch it until Lin is ready to sit and watch the whole thing without getting a hundred phone calls, having to leave, or falling asleep from fatigue.

What I think I’ll do tonight is work on that painting. That’s the only thing I’ve done all day … other than take loads of naps. I didn’t plan on napping so much, but the electricity was problematic while it was storming, and then it was just out for quite a while. On a dreary day with no electricity, it gets really dark in this house, and I can’t do much of anything. I look forward to a day when we have proper lighting in every room of the house.

You can see in the crappy little web cam pic that I made some more progress today. I have one, maybe three colors to add to the sun area yet. Then I am going to have to think about where I want to go with it next. The only reason I am sitting here writing as opposed to putting down the red (next color to go on) is that I am of two minds of what I want to do with the red … should it just be part of the sun … or should that mountain become a volcano? I’m having a lot of fun with this one. I think when it’s done, I might actually frame it and hang it in the kitchen.

Sigh. The last few months I grew accustomed to Lin getting home at a normal hour every day. It seems so strange now that he might not get home until after midnight or even later. I miss him. Not too much, mind you. He has been an annoying butt head this last week. I’ve been cutting him some slack since he’s been under a lot pf pressure at work, but yeah … annoying butt head all the same. I’m looking forward to the end of this quarter myself.

Ah well … think I’ll read some news and check up on what’s happening in the rest of the world, and then go smear some more paint around for a while.