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mondays

• Having decided the discipline of writing down my thoughts as a matter of routine every Monday sounded good in practice.  I wanted to take the time to reflect on everything that had passed the previous week. What had happened however was a beautiful day.  I raked leaves.  It needed doing and has been raining.  My son once said he needed to shovel his yard to rake his leaves and I did not want to join that small and exclusive group.  It is December after all.  But the clean fresh FALL air has cleared my head out and I don't recall much of last week.
• I baked bread.  I had through I was doing it so my wife, Sally,  would have hot bread when she came home from work, but what had happened was a nap, for her.  I worked on a web site.  Ate a little bread with butter (I bet it would have taste better if I made my own butter.  Perhaps I can find someone with a milk cow they no longer need or want.  You can make using a no-knead method I learned online.  I adapted their recipe a bit, I'll post it later.  Along with a link to get the handy "tub" I mix the dough in (with a spoon I might add).
• I read the news.  It has been some days since I had bothered to find out what has been going on in the world at large, so I assumed my civic duties and read the news.  Who knew Scott Adams was still writing the Dilbert strip.  I digress.  It was a small diversion, don't worry, the world is fine - last I checked.
• I was supposed to run today.  My goal of a triathlon next fall seems distant enough to allow some procrastination still on the especially nice days.
• I found a ream of paper and loaded the printer.  it has been out for days.  I was hand feeding it odd pieces of paper and card stock prior to finding the ream of paper.  It was high time I used some of that stuff up and spared a few trees.
• I have more work to do on www.metuchenfirstbptist.com.  That is what I will be doing for the rest of the evening.  Either that or read some old Dilbert comics.