Catching Up

Funny; last night I fell asleep on the living room floor (again) and woke up at 4...then went to bed for real and could not sleep.  Joy.  More seriously, I guess I was tired and having not slept well lately, I should not be surprised that I crashed, though it was a bit ridiculous.  In the meantime, that is why I have not posted for two days.  Today I did some of the stuff I have been meaning to do -- including making an email draft for tomorrow morning (adulting is hard) and plowing through the piles of emails.  Work was super busy today and in consequence I did not hi t the gym.  Sigh.  Gonna hit it twice as hard tomorrow!

Sunday was Super Bowl Sunday, which I sort of watched while taking down the Christmas tree and putting away the Christmas decorations.  It really is the new saddest day of the year; I guess I didn't enjoy them as much as I usually do.  I also ran the boxes up the attic after the Super Bowl, and found a couple more things to pitch/go through.  Mind you, I have to yet to vacuum or put the living room back together; I am definitely doing it tomorrow after J!, come hell or high water, or both.  Hell, I didn't even take the tree to the compost pile; with the ice and all -- still hasn't fully melted -- I just rested it on the front steps, and in a couple of days, once the temperature rises (and the backyard is a sea of mud) I will take the tree and recycle it; such a thing of joy and beauty does NOT belong in the trash.  

Interesting news out of Columbus, where Mike Dewine has selected Jim Tressel to be his lieutenant governor.  Not sure how to take it.  My first thought is that if he wants run for governor, he will win the primary (and the general election), simply by running ads from 2002 and his record against UM.  If he does, well, a master stroke by Dewine in checking Vivek and his meteoric rise to...something.  Mind you, I don't think he wants to be governor, and will not run, so... what's the point?  Getting him a nice pension boost?  Giving him a real job before retirement?  Signaling he is ok with a free-for-all GOP primary?  I am not really sure what the plan or end game is here...  I guess the Lee Fisher to BW move makes sense to me -- not that I think he has any ability or such, but he can raise $$ from the locals, and that it appears is what BW needs now.

I have been making some progress on my current read -- a collection of essays about Civil War soldiers -- but we are well off the goal of a book a week.  Sigh.  I realize these are thicker tomes, and I do not exactly have plenty of time to cuddle up with a book for a day, but...this bodes poorly.