Well…hey, made it all the way to 5:14 this morning….at least that’s a half hour more than yesterday and I’ll take any little victory I can get…and I slept well enough to have really weird dreams that took me back to my college days and a final exam that the professor didn’t give us any study materials for except for some half blank pages…why that would come up now after being done with college for so many years is a little puzzling…I had an okay day yesterday and got my car insurance sorted out after the company didn’t send me any renewal paperwork…and it only went up about 50 bucks so that is cool…have that paid for another year so I don’t have to think about it until next August….I got the railing built at the house yesterday using some barnwood that was in the garage but I did get my first hammer injury when I whacked my left thumb and split it open like a tomato with blood everywhere…but I made a bandage out of paper towel and painter’s tape and was able to finish it up…looks kind of ugly this morning but doesn’t hurt much so I’ll be back there today to put up the handrail on the attic stairs…making some good progress and should have everything done by the end of next week…I hope…but I do need to wedge in my Lake Michigan swim next week so maybe it will take until after labor day…I am happy with the new battery and spark plugs that I put in the car…it starts really well and has not missed at all since I did it…I may have to put a new set of plug wires on it, too, since the ones on it have been on it since I bought the car almost 7 years ago and I’ve been holding them together with blue silicone…we’ll see…more later….