Not a bad day, not at all.

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Bit by bit, the home is beginning to come into shape and form. Sweeping and then mopping the kitchen has been a huge step. I touched that up when I arrived home. The dishes, a bit of tidying in the living room, and a few other chores will render the place clean and neat... mostly. Come on! I am a guy, and a bachelor at that. I have to have messy areas here and there. Fine, I may eventually get to even these, if I will only smooth some of the rough.

I did call my friend. He was interested in shooting. So, a short drive, a quick stop at his place, a little business while in town, a couple of boxes of .45 ammunition, and into the hills we went. He suggested he would be bringing his .357/.38, and suggested I bring magnum ammunition if I was interested. Of course, I was interested and so meant to do so. Forgetting it, this time, was a non-issue, as I had to drive right by my place on the way to shoot. Bada-bing. The shoot was rather short, as daylight and for him temperature became insufficient. In town it was decided that dinner out would be good. He was going to have his usual, either a roast beef sandwich covered in gravy or simply roast beef with gravy, a bit of Texas toast under the beef being the only slight difference. I was thinking about liver. I was going to ask how it was cooked. I knew it came with gravy and onions, but unless it was cooked in the gravy liver is usually too dry for my tastes. It ended up that their special sounded better to both of us, so fried fish and shrimp if in slightly different takes. He went with lemon pepper, I went with cajun spiced.

I am hoping to get to bed early, and rise early, again. I still have not closed the windows, but as chill as it is getting, I will need to do so as well as turn on the furnace or waking will be quite a chore. I hope to finish the kitchen tomorrow. I have a few business projects which might require a run into town again. As well as I am doing, mostly, it still amazes me how long simple sounding chores take. You do not just sweep and mop. You need to move everything in order to sweep and mop. Then you get to sweep, an easy one. But mopping takes preparing hot sudsy water, getting things wet, treating tougher areas sometimes several times, then clearing the cleaning gunk out of the mop and bucket and mopping off the gunk that you used to clean the junk off the floor in the first place. Then, of course, you need to clear and clean the mop again, and the bucket, and set those things to dry. I was thinking a half hour to hour would see me done. Nope.

I am not sure how much I will get done tomorrow. I may get stuck cleaning and not be able to make it to town. So be it. I would rather have my home clean, especially now that I seem to be on some kind of a wave. Ride the wave as long as you can. More so if they are exceedingly rare. I think I will review my climbing gear tonight, then do more reading on the subject. Then it will be bedtime.

Good night, Jehoshaphat. May all walk your walk.