I'm tired, plain and simple. Between things I had no control over and things I might should have thought through better I haven't been getting nearly enough rest and it's going to be at least another couple of days before I can start catching up.

It was nice getting to visit with my niece and her family over the weekend but having them around is definitely not conducive to getting a lot of extra sleep. Add in the trip to Evansville yesterday and I guess I have an excuse for being tired.

I don't think I mentioned earlier that my sister's mother in law finally lost her fight with cancer Sunday. I think I met her once about 38 years ago so I'm not really feeling a deep personal loss but her passing has added to the general state of confusion around here. It's resulted in my brother in law and nephew being home the last three days and placed some demands on my sister's time. Right now they're all at the funeral home for visitation and I'm missing a nap I could really use so there's someone here if Mom needs anything. The funeral's tomorrow afternoon, then I get one day when things should be fairly calm and quiet around here, then it's the weekend again and I'll be looking forward to Monday. Monday and Tuesday maybe I can get some extra rest, then Wednesday I have a medical appointment in Marion, which is about 2 and a half hours' drive from here.

I love the car I bought Saturday but right now I wish I hadn't spent the time it took to pick it out and buy it till things calmed down a little. It might have ended up taking a while to find anything else I liked as well if it had been gone by the time I was ready to go buy it but I'm sure I'd have found something eventually.

The computer I ordered Monday came today but I don't know when I'll get around to setting it up for the family to use. I'm not sorry I bought it but it isn't exactly what I was expecting and that's going to cost me some time. Specifically, there doesn't seem to be any way to install the extra hard drive out of the machine that died in it; there's room for it and there's an IDE connector on the motherboard but no IDE power cable. That's going to cost me some time copying a bunch of music and pictures from the F: drive on the machine that died last week to the external USB drive I bought last spring, then moving the F: drive to the current family machine before it moves to Scotty's room. In the long run everyone will end up with plenty of hard drive space but the whole process will end up taking some time. Throw in trying to schedule around times other people are likely to want time on the family machine and the whole process may stretch out a while.