I'm actually about caught up with my bookeeping. Luckily, I have "unwritten balances" so I don't have to worry about bouncing checks.

Got my grocery shopping done, but since I went in to N.O. only once last week I didn't need to gas up. I'll do that Wednesday, when I will be home.

All in all, it was a pretty lazy day. I ended up going to PJ's in the afternoon and started reading an Amelia Peabody novel. (AP is the protagonist.) Elizabeth Peters has written about this intrepid archaeologist and her family in at least a dozen books. In the first one she met and married her husband. Now she has grandchildren. But above all she is intrepid. Fantastic role model of how some women circa late 1890s refused to adhere to stereotypes of what a late Victorian "woman" should be and do.

Elizabeth Peters in real life has a Ph.D. in Egyptology. But her writing is what she will be remembered for. I really enjoy her books, and not just the ones about Amelia Peabody. I may add her to my "dinner party" list.

(The dinner party list has the people past and present who would make for very intersting conversation at a dinner party. Isaac Asimov is about at the top of the list. I guess maybe I should actually make that list and keep it an accessible file. Ray Bradbury would also be on it. And Mary Shelley and her mother Mary Wollstonecraft. Perhaps Hillary?)

No rain today, at least not yet. I looked at the forecast for the coming week and it is pretty uniform. Highs in the high 80s, lows in the mid 70s, scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon and/or evening. In other words, the standard forecast for the next three months.

Back to my book.