A Surge of Productivity

Funny (sort of); I started work earlier to handle a request from my boss, worked hard core until 7:20 PM, watched J!, went back to work, finished a project (review tomorrow), ate dinner, drank some coffee, and then plowed into some OC stuff -- updated budget, new agenda, coordinated some help for a client with a difficult ask, and reformatted our Prayer-Only-List... and sent out ALL of the stuff.  Also read some stuff for next week.  Oi.  And, I finished book seven (the one about the Scopes trial).  I will be going to bed, but not right away, as I want to start book 8 (I have an immense library pile).  Dishes and cleaning the kitchen will wait until tomorrow.

I note that today was the J! Invitational Tournament.  As always, I am torn -- I welcome the harder questions (sort of) and I like seeing old favorites again, but I think of all the people in the pool whose dreams are being put off by this trip down Memory Lane...  well, I am not quite a fan of that.  

One decision I made today... I am not moving the couch back or re-hanging the drapes until the picture window is actually in, as both are sort of a pain to move.  OK, just the drapes, but you get it.  I hope the lack of the intervening Christmas holiday will move up the schedule a bit, but save for J! and Duke hoops, I do not use the living room that much.  Sigh.  Also:  I think I will cook two dishes this weekend.  One is a mushroom risotto I found online (I have had a taste for it) and two is a recipe for cheesy grits, supposedly a favorite of John Wayne, so it will be a favorite of mine.  I think I will reduce the cheese (I don't like too much cheese) and add some thawed frozen shrimp.  Crazy stuff, I know. 

Claudia Sahm: 'I don't have a good feeling' about labor, Fed, at present | Fortune
Interesting.  Not sure how much I agree -- to some extent yes, in others, not so much.  I wonder if the tax refund season will jolt the economy; Lord knows POTUS needs it if there is any hope of keeping the House, or the Senate.