A nice night's sleep, although at one point I spotted a possum headed for the bag of dry food. Good little possum--a firm "NO" and he(?) went back outside.

And the morning went by quickly as I did dumb little household stuff, including dumping papers and yard trash. Tomorrow I'll try to fill up the yard trash barrel at least once.

(Actually I'll try to fill up both yard trash barrels once each.)

I spent the afternoon at PJ's reading an extremely interesting book about the evolution (some might say devolution) of polytheistic, two-gender deity religious thought into monotheistic masculine doctrines.

At the moment, the setting is ancient Mesopotamia, and I am finding the in-depth treatment of Mesopotamian history quite refreshing. Western Civ essentially ignores it, and there is SO much to cover in World Civ that it gets passed over far too quickly.

I like ancient history and prehistory because I want to know how things came about.

I'm going to see what else this author (a specialist in Mesopotamian history) has written.

Yesterday was a Friday work-week-wise, so today has been a bonus. I think I may try to get grocery shopping done early tomorrow. IF my body doesn't betray me and sleep late.

When I was outside doing stupid yard stuff CC managed to catch a big grasshopper. She was quite proud of it, but learned the hard way that if you put in down it quickly disappears. It's the capture that's important, though.

The wind is blowing a bit, and I hear scraping noises. Guess I'd better add "trim stuff" to the never-ending list of to-dos.

I'm much more likely to get yard stuff done now that I don't sweat off a gallon of water every ten minutes (or at least it seems that way.) If I get to WalMart soon after it opens I should be able (in theory) to get a bunch done in the yard AND keep on reading (geek books) in the afternoon.

Don't I have an intersting life?