Shortly after my previous post, we started to have power outages again. First it was for only 15 minutes. The power was back on for an hour and then off again for three and a half hours. All of this was at night, except for the tail end of the last one that ended about a half hour after daybreak.

I don't remember which day it was, but Gerry (a relative) came over and jump started my car again. After the outage, I and my son Jon went o the Freeport zone to pick up some stuff we needed, driving through the rain the entire time. Other than cooking and watching a couple of old movies, I don't remember the rest of Saturday. There were more brownouts involved, so one movie took more than eight hours to finish.

Yesterday, my wife called via the IM and wanted to see her relatives as part of the call. So there was like a ton of people crowded around my laptop for a couple of hours. Most were uninvited and tagged along with the invited anyway. Again, watching movies and cooking are about all else I remember along with more brownouts.

I did manage to answer a couple of comments and email messages along the way. I didn't bother to try to write anything for the blog because of all the interruptions and I didn't even mention all of them — I don't even remember all of them.

Except for the ants! The rain of the past few days has been driving the ants indoors and away from the flooding. Well, I remember getting out a can of a local bug spray and spraying all the areas where the ants could come in and especially the baseboard areas in the kitchen. This technique works quite well for awhile. The lemon whatever ingredient repels the ants, so the downstairs part of my house is free of ants right now. I don't like using pesticides and only use them as a last resort, like getting overrun by ants, which is exactly what happened.

Of course, my son is off to school this morning and I'm all alone in the house again. The next 12 hours should provide me with the time to do the things I used to do on a regular basis. I don't think I have completely recovered, mentally, from the things that occurred starting in June. I still suffer from a lower left leg that swells up, goes back down, swells up again, etc. I have no idea what's going on with that, but the injuries are healed (a lot of dead skin is flaking off, so I have to wash the leg frequently).

There are no apologies here. Everyone has off-days, off-weeks, and even off-months. Hopefully, my off-days are either over or will soon be over.