I’ve got the rest of this week, and all of next week off. Today was my first day of “freedom,” and boy was it nice. Had some stuff to take care of, but for the most part, I think I had a pretty relaxing and productive day. Took Mobius to the beach, went to the ‘rents place to water the plants, cleared out my mail inbox (literally more than a year worth of accumulated crap that I wasn’t interested in opening), started tilling the front yard, and pulling all the rocks out (got about 1/4 the way done), played some games (Tiger 06 and Marvel Nemesis – Tiger’s fun but sort of nondescript, and Marvel Nemesis is *terrible*), and watched some Lost Season 1 on DVD. Tomorrow’s likely more or less the same, but with cooking. Gonna try to make Alton Brown’s shallow-fried chicken, and potentially invite some friends over for dinner. I have this weird notion that I want to make fried chicken, with cornmeal waffles. I don’t know whether I will or not, but it seems like an interesting idea.

Man – it’s been a while since I’ve really labored with my hands, and though the electric tiller’s a hell of a lot easier to use than the manual tiller, which blistered my palms last week, my hands are sort of perpetually on the verge of cramping this evening, just ’cause they’re worn out from the work today. It’s satisfying – I basically sorted the rocks that I’d pulled out of the front – the *rocks* were separated from the broken bits of concrete. I took the rocks, then lined the one section of front lawn that’s more or less actually “done,” and removed the concrete bits that we *had* used to line them. Looks a lot better, IMO, but took a pretty damn long while. Whoo.

Tomorrow I have to run by the bank to make a deposit (a few more people have sent checks for Hurricane relief donations, and I’ve gotta get them submitted), run by the ‘rents again, get ingredients for the evening, and see what EB will give me for a tradein for Marvel Nemesis. Probably won’t trade it in there, as it’s better to trade at a place like cheapassgamer.com, but you never know. Been looking forward to a game called Indigo Prophecy for a while now, but it keeps getting shipped later and later. Bleah.

Well, yeah. That’s pretty much that. About as unexciting a vacation day as you can get, but sure beats working. 😀