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Things that have been on my mind lately:

• work. Hours have been cut back, three new people have been trained in the past month (two of them by me). The first Old Cranky Guy, who has been there longest and who is therefore the seniorest person went off on holidays for 3 weeks. The other Old Cranky Guy who yelled at me the first time we met before he'd even bothered to introduce himself to me has come down with a nasty case of cancer and is off work till December. Everything has been at sixes and sevens.




• vacation. We went up to Waskesiu for a week. The Empress & family were up there also camping for a couple of days, then my sister camped for a couple of days. Novel and I went up there by bus as always, and took Ozy with us which was ... interesting. Ozy is calmer these days, but there were still a couple of moments when it looked like things might come apart. Everyone survived and stayed sane, however, and I'd even do it again. Next year, tho, I'd like to rent a cabin and then family could just stay with us instead of camping, complete with pouring rain and soaked bedding.




• cats. When we got back, it was apparent that some one of our cats had become too lazy to go down stairs to the litter box. After some research, it was determined that it Roadkill who was the culprit. So now we have to figure out if he's actually sick, or retrainable. He's certainly asthmatic, and I suspect he has diabetes. I'm not sure if we're disciplined enough pet owners to nurse a chronically sick cat.




• the houses. We've made little to no progress on this moving business, although we gave the tenant a move out notice. Don't know if he is out or not, he is supposed to be out by the 20th, but he's being a bit of a dick about things.
  
  
  Current events which have caught my attention and shaped the summer:
  
  




• The Norway shooting: http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&q=norway%20shooting



• London riots: http://www.google.ca/search?aq=f&hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&btnmeta_news_search=1&q=london+riots+2011



• Amy Winehouse: http://www.google.ca/search?aq=f&hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&btnmeta_news_search=1&q=amy+winehouse+death



• the US debt crisis: http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&q=us%20debt
  

Seems I've got to have a change of scene'
Cause every night I have the strangest dreams
Imprisoned by the way it could have been
Left here on my own or so it seems
I've got to leave before I start to scream
But someone's locked the door and took the key.

--Joe Cocker, Feeling Alright