catching up

So I guess I need to catch up on the last week or so. I'll remember it in fragments, bullet points, and flashbacks, which is the way my brain seems to work these days.
- I spent most of last week in Savannah learning advanced CMS techniques using ColdFusion. Pretty much over my head.
- Savannah is not really hotter than Atlanta, but it is much more humid.
- A guy asked me for a smoke, I said no. He said Please, come on. I said I don't even have any cigarettes. He walked away. I guess I look like a smoker, based on his persistence.
- I ate at Molly McPherson's, good fish and chips. Vinnie's too, and Vinnie's is Vinnie's.
- Visited with the folks, saw Scott, Heather and family's new house, shared a bed with my nephew, who fell asleep watching a show about large construction equipment.
- My 5 year old nephew's brand recognition is uncanny. Yay TV and John Deere's marketing department.
- I rode around with him in the truck. I've never had a child seat in the vehicle before.
- My parents keep calling him Jason. Which is weird, but apparently he looks exactly like I did at his age, and has nearly the same personality. "Don't tell your brother," says my mom.
- Parenting seems difficult.
- Turns out I was riding around in the truck with the tires only half-inflated. Yikes.
- Ate lunch with the e-Learning folks, who questioned my maturity when I ordered a Mountain Dew at lunch. "How old are you?!" It was fun to catch up.
- As usual, my dad came up with a chore for me before I left. Why do these always come up at the last minute? But it was a good excuse to spend a few more minutes with Evan. We rode down to the house at the river and pulled the plugs out of the boat.
- The river was high and beautiful.
- Evan used the word "analog" and told me how it's different from "digital." Analog goes on the fireplace mantel, you see, and digital goes by your bed.
- Brought home the 1985 version of Deities and Demigods, a D&D book. Allison was less excited than I was about it.
- Whacked the hell out of the ivy in the back yard last weekend. Looks much better now.
- Bought new deck planks.
- Learned to fit 16 foot planks into an 8 foot truck bed. Something I never want to do again.
- Tore out remaining old deck planks and discovered scabbed boards, barely holding deck together near house. Great. I guess that's another carpentry skill I'll have to figure out.
- Only hit thumb once while nailing in new tree boxes in deck. And one hammer bang to the knee in a freak nail-pulling accident. That one hurt.
- One cat has very strange and ugly open wound on ass, but doesn't act like it. Probably not looking forward to the stitches and Elizabethan collar she'll likely get today.
- Same cat caught a small bird yesterday. While I don't really care if she catches animals, and actually want her too, I couldn't watch her torture this creature. So I congratulated her on her hunting prowess, caught the bird and let it go. It fluttered off, probably to die somewhere else.
- Told some incredibly bad smelling homeless kid that I didn't need to know him when he said "Sir! Sir! Sir!" and tried to shake my hand on the sidewalk. When he didn't give me his immediate pitch I said nevermind, thanks anyway. No! No! No! followed me. I felt slightly guilty about the don't need to know you comment, but I don't. And I'd just frammed myself in the knee with a hammer and was in no mood for beggars that don't get to the point immediately.
- Got emails from two people I figured I'd never hear from again. Gotta love the Internet.
- Ate cake and ice cream nearly every night.

I think that pretty much sums up my last 10 days on this planet. Exciting, no?