What did you do today?

I don't think it got past 32 F here in southern Maine today.

Later tonight I'm going to listen to some modern dance music on the radio. It is Saturday night here, after all.

I'm sorry about the loss of your neighbor, Cuchculan.

Today I've been at home due to snowy weather all day. But I'm doing good.

I'm glad you went to the funeral, Chuchculan. That was nice of you.

Today started bright and early with my kooky daughter dragging me out of bed to take her to school early. I'm glad she likes high school so much - all previous grades too - it certainly wasn't my bag. My wife is out of town presenting at a conference, and she works near my daughter's school so she usually takes her. On the way I phoned into the first meeting of the day, which I was just at so my boss would have some support if he needed it. Normally we don't meet that early, but we were conferencing with a site in Lithuania. Anyway, it got me into work earlier which was kind of nice. I had time to take care of some routine chores before meeting preps. The project managers had some kind of training going on in all the conference rooms during the time when my mediation group usually meets which was a bit of a bummer. My final meeting was with another team scattered across the world, a couple cities in California and a manufacturing plant in Singapore. Most of the participants are super new to the topic, so I was unexpectedly the most prepared and got to talk a lot. Picked my daughter up at the train station and beat rush hour traffic by having a passenger in the carpool lane. My son (5th grader) was working on homework when we got home, which is a good sign. He has ADHD and dyslexia/dysgraphia, so school doesn't come easy for him. I took him to his martial arts class, then headed home and made dinner. Walked the dog, and now I'm catching up with you fine folks. Bed momentarily, as I'm pretty sure my daughter has her clock set for O-dark-thirty again tomorrow.

I was busy with a number of things this morning.

However, I got that all done. So for the rest of the day, I can make comments here as well as on other online forums.

I'm somewhat worn out right now because I helped my parents bring in some new furniture for their living room. We got it done about an hour ago. But I'm happy that we got it over with.

Weather is very cold here. I went to the gym, did light house work and now going to make lunch. I am looking forward to reading a good novel tonight.

Cool, Cuchculan!

Maybe you'll find that one missing piece.

Just finished putting in a good couple hours on a software project (side project) for a friend. Now it's 2am, so maybe I'll go to bed.

Today I got up before dawn with my wife and daughter and traveled 60 miles to a lacrosse tournament for my daughter's club. It rained constantly, with some good wind gusts too. She would play for an hour, wait for an hour, then play another game. Her team lost all 3, but she had a great time. Winning is fun, but the pure joy of just competing and working hard, and doing skills that you're good at make it worth it even when your team doesn't win. We were done in early afternoon and found a burger place for lunch. My wife had a peanut butter burger and insisted it was delicious. Since she is not an adventurous eater at all, I'm inclined to believe her, but it wouldn't have been the first thing I'd think of as a burger condiment. We were soaked through from the wind and rain, so the drive back was kind of soggy and uncomfortable. It was nice to change into dry things once we got home. I worked on CBT exercises, am checking in here, and soon I'll do a brief journal entry and head to bed.

I haven't done much today so far. But later on I'm going to watch the New England Patriots face the Kansas City Chiefs.