In which sarcasm overtakes any chance for a good mood this evening and I wish I had something to take my mind off the things that need to happen

Well, here we are at the end of another week. I am hoping for rain this weekend, even though I would also like a pretty weekend for Kate's return to Georgia. I am sure that a little rain won't dampen Kate's celebration of Cinco de Mayo. A long time ago, when Kate first got ready to travel to Central Europe, she told us her first meal back from Prague was going to have to be mexican food. I tried to gently talk her out of it, but she is sometimes impossible to convince to change her mind. Her mother would say she is just like her father. Her father would say that she is just like her mother. Perhaps she gets this stubbornness from both sides. I would gladly argue that point.

And I am trying to celebrate the first Saturday in May the appropriate way, by watching the Kentucky Derby and drinking a mint julep and eating barbecue. Little booger; come home and mess up my fun.

I get to drive to West Point tomorrow. Fun. I also get to mop the floor in the morning for Cindy's luncheon. More fun. We were going to go to Macon in the afternoon for a garden tour. Personally, I was originally looking forward to the trip, but as we got closer to Friday, I became less and less enamored with the concept of travelling to Macon for a short afternoon which may turn rainy and gloomy. And of course, I had already travelled to Macon this past Tuesday. I have travelled a bit too much lately.

And what about the price of gas? Is there no end to it? I wish I had a bike to ride which wouldn't leave me sweaty. I remember those first pictures of China back in the 70's when it seemed that there were no cars and that everyone in China seemed to ride bikes. Of course, now while China starts to get smoggy from all of the people driving cars with their newly powerful economy ( read: capitalism with a hammer and sickle on their trademark), we need to all start riding bikes, for our cardiovascular and pulmonary and economic health. I'm seeing prices over $3.00 a gallon already. Petrochemical Fun.

Well, the fun just gets more complete as we head into the nightime. I hope I can sleep tonight. I was sleeping through the early programs this evening. But I have been awake for several hours now and I don't really feel that sleepy. But I will trudge upstairs and give it a shot.

This has been a very unsatisfying writing. I'll work harder tomorrow. Maybe I'll find some muse which will cause me to amend this to make it interesting. If its uninteresting to me now, while I write it, I can imagine what someone reading this would think. Oh well.