... except for a little bit of blogging. Color this ol' dog still wore out.

I spent too many hours awake when I should have been sleeping, both getting that virus off my old machine and doing things on the family machine that I wanted to get done while no one else was wanting it, and it's catching up with me. I'll try to do a decent job on today's Politics and National Defense Roundup but except for that everything else can wait. The sound card for my old machine got here before I'd even finished my morning coffee but I don't even feel up to carrying the machine someplace where there's room to install it, let alone unhooking the machine I'm using now to hook that one up and make sure the sound works. Same for taking it to the other end of the house to finish setting up networking; it can read files on the family machine if I hook it up in here but I need to hook it up in place of the family machine to make sure it can read the shared partition on this one. If I was energetic I could also bring that old monitor in from the garage and find out if it works but that's going to have to wait too.

I guess the place my niece and her family are moving to is Gothan, Alabama. About twenty minutes north of Florida and about that much east of Georgia, pert near as far southeast as you can go and still be in Alabama. My sister did some online research and says it looks like a pretty nice place to live except for being so far from here. Low cost of living and close enough to the coast to not have any major temperature extremes. Sounds like the kind of place I wouldn't mind living if I just blew off any considerations of staying close to people I care about.

I guess with my daughter and her husband still talking about wanting to move to Washington or Oregon eventually I'll just plan on living out my remaining years in Lawrenceville and visiting them as often as I can manage, which should be a lot more often after I finally get my Social Security than it has been for the last four years.

I'm not sure if I'm just tired or coming down with something. My nephew's missing school today with at best a major cold and at worst strep throat; something that enough people in the area apparently have at once that my sister couldn't even get him in to see a doctor today; if it gets bad enough she'll take him to the emergency room but it hasn't yet.

I think it's time for my nap now.