Today I exit August with only one lawn mowing for the month, due to less than an inch and a half of rain. ^

Today after attending the nearly 3 hour morning service at Grace Cathedral followed by 5 hours waiting in the car for the second service, followed by the evening service which ran a grueling 4 hours and 36 minutes, I then proceeded to drive us home trucking all through the night +

Today I made frustratingly little progress in my switchover to a newer version of Wordpress. ^

Today my mom and I attended the evening service at Grace Cathedral in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio which lasted nearly 4 hours +

Today was another 12-hour 500-mile Wausau-Sturgeon Bay day. ^

Today was spent driving 12 hours and covering the 681 miles to Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio +

Today I watched Barack Obama accept the Dem nomination on the 45th anniversary of MLK's Dream speech. ^

Today I ate a can of Beefaroni for dinner +

Today I started working ahead for Labor Day. ^

Today was one of the better days in the last few weeks +

Today I'm feeling the effects of two nights of little sleep. ^

Today I started downloading all the movies at benheck.com +

Today I had to conduct a mercy killing of a badly injured kitten +

Today I watched Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic Convention in Denver. ^

Today I bought a gadget that's supposed to broadcast my MP3 player to my van's FM receiver, but after a test run in my car, I'm skeptical. ^

Today I cooked chili for the first time in my life +

Today Danielle, Tien and Sophie attended Brendan's wedding at the Overture Center. ^

Today takes its place as the single worst day of my mom's illness so far +

Today I installed two software programs, Cobian backup software and Copernic Desktop Search +

Today I tried to sell Chris on yet another blog idea. ^

Today the cat who had kittens behind our furnace moved them to the creek +

Today some friends of Tien were visiting from California. ^

Today was so bad it definitely joins the top 10 worst days we've had yet +

Today I drove Java V to the Waukesha shop to drop off some heavy boxes with unassembled cabinets inside. ^

Today my mom had another eye doctor appointment where everything turned out fine +

Today, despite a supposed week-long major crackdown on speeders in effect on Hwy 151, I saw a total of one cop along that stretch. ^

Today Snickers had 7 kittens +

Today I replied to a fairly long email from my grandma with an even longer email, to which she then replied within half an hour. ^

Today I cooked some bacon on our long-neglected George foreman Grill +

Today I switched my old PC to a Linux operating system. ^

Today I came to appreciate how long it takes to transfer 420 gigs worth of data from one drive to another +

Today I was on call and had to go down to Janesville to fix a machine. ^

Today I restored my old computer to its original Windows ME glory, then upgraded to XP again. ^

Today my 750 gig hard drive arrived and even as I type this I'm formatting it to NTFS +

Today we thought one of our local wild cats had gone into labor but it was a false alarm +

Today I beat both Morgan and Tom back to the shop. ^

Today the 4-C building on Odana that used to be on my route burned down. ^

Today we called animal control to see about having them take these wild cats away but they said the shelter is full and can't accept any more animals +

Today marks 14 years since my last day as a computer programmer. ^

Today Beach Camera finally sent the email that my hard drive is on its way +

Today I had yet another opportunity to totally ignore the Olympics in Beijing, and I took full advantage of it. ^

Today I waited in vain for a confirmation email that my new hard drive had been shipped +

Today I had a California burger at Michael's Frozen Custard. ^

Today I finally got my mom to come walking with me at Runge +

Today I wish I had a laptop so I could sit in the backyard and work on GtB stuff. ^

Today started off not too badly but got worse as the day went on +

Today I wish I had a beer. ^

Today we capped an otherwise dismal day by getting chocolate ice cream cones at Cones and Coneys in Wardsville +

Today Diana stopped by and talked and prayed with my mom for an hour +

Today I heard Favre is going to play for the Jets, and I had to go to Green Bay for work. ^

Today in Cottage Grove I saw a tiny yellow bird with black wings and black beak and black around its eyes. ^

Today I ordered a 750 gig hard drive from Amazon +

Today I took Hwy 251 instead of the interstate from South Beloit to Rockford. ^

Today was another one of those bad days +

Today the heat index was either 112 or 116 depending on which weather site you choose to believe +

Today I gave a minivan in Janesville a little love tap that resulted in a little love dent. ^

Today the heat index was a ridiculous 108 degrees +

Today we still have not hit 90 degrees yet this summer. ^

Today I bought Danielle some soup from Sa-Bai Thong and got some spring rolls for myself. ^

Today my mom and I ate at Sonic in California, MO +

Today I drove 500 miles for work and my van hit 150,000. ^

Today I started the upload of the pictures from my sister's visit here +