This and That from Here and There

Mom is doing much better. She forgot to take one of her steroid doses Saturday, so was feverish Sunday, but got it back under control after that. It's nice to know that it can be controlled, but we all just wished they could figure out what's causing the fevers in the first place.

I feel like we've been in reverse hibernation with this heat. After a gorgeous spring, we've had a long string of 100 degree days, with no rain and no relief in sight. Every once in a while, a front will come through to cool things off a little, but these drought conditions are horrible. I thought it was going to rain Sunday, especially since we had the laundry out on the line, but it evaporated before it hit the ground. Shouldn't have bought that rain gauge, I guess. It hasn't rained since then. At any rate, we've been feeling sluggish about doing things, and haven't done anything on the house since they finished switching over the electrical. The next step is the wall anchors, but there's no way we should be doing any digging in this weather.

We did get the spare bedroom cleaned up some, so that one can at least walk in there, or it won't take a herculean effort to get the bed cleaned off if someone wanted to stay with us. We are running out of room for comic books, though. Basement storage is still an undetermined length of time away.

I'm trying to decide what to get Joe for his 30th birthday. I've got a couple ideas, at least, and three more weeks to procrastinate.

Joe's PS3 decided to take a dump. He's pretty sure he can fix it, so we're on hold with Lego Harry Potter Part 2. We were so close to finishing, too. We'll have plenty of time to finish it before Lego Lord of the Rings comes out in October.

We've been talking about trying to go camping with the new gear we got, but it's just too uncomfortable out there. Rain, please come!