After taking the heat as long as I could, I broke down and bought my mom a window unit A/C (which my brother-in-law installed; that her windows open sideways made it more of a challenge than it might otherwise have been), just in time for the cold front to move in and the temperature and humidity to drop.
Oh well; it's not yet August, and that tends to be the worst month of the summer around here, so she'll definitely get some use out of it.
This evening I took my nephew Jeremy to see The Simpsons Movie.
Short review: very funny.
I'll likely see it again, as my niece Jourdan had to work today for a period that precluded her from seeing any showing. We were going to hold off and see it tomorrow afternoon, as she would be free then, but then she got called in to work tomorrow as well. So if she's free Sunday, I'll probably take her.
On the topic of work, I got an e-mail from my boss telling me that I've been volunteered for something or other that he didn't get a chance to talk to me about before I left because it just came up this week, and that he'll explain to me when I get back.
I suspect I was selected simply because he knows I'm the only person who would be likely to actually show up for whatever meetings are involved.
I'm just hoping it will involve getting some regular OT.
I actually applied for another job a while back, but because I am qualified for it and am pretty much the perfect candidate I have naturally not been contacted about it, as that would make too much sense. Seriously, this is a job that has my name tattooed on it, and not with that new, easily removable ink that was just developed either.
You'd really have to be lacking some critical faculties to not at least consider me for the job.
But I'm not bitter.
I mean, it's not like I'm the only person of the people I started working with who hasn't gone on to something better, or like I've had to sit and watch other people with no discernible skills get promotions while I'm stuck in the same place I've been for nearly five years.
Oh, wait.
Still, I'm not bitter.
Tomorrow is the family reunion at which, apart from my immediate family, I will probably know a maximum of three people. Should be a blast.
I've actually got a very nice view out my window of the moon reflecting on the Portage Canal. I tried to take a picture, but I just can't get anything decent in the low light.
Not being quite as close to the middle of nowhere as I'd be if I were staying where I grew up rather than where my mom lives now, I'm not in a totally light pollution-free area, but it is possible to see at least some stars if I look up, which isn't really possible back in Leesburg.
I have to say that it's rather nice.
A Northern Lights sighting would be even better, but sadly it's not the right time of year for that.
In any case, that's about all that there is of note for right now.
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