Sort of down

Hi, I just wanted to do an update.

For as dry as it was all spring and summer here, the rain has finally gotten around to our area. We have had some good soakings in the last couple weeks, and more rain is predicted for later today and tonight.

If you wanted to see the pretty leaves around here, well, better wait till next year. Last week's rain and wind blew most of the leaves down, and the branches are mostly bare.

I'll be honest, I've been kind of down ever since I hit that f---ing deer. It's not that I hit the deer. It's just dealing with getting the car fixed up yet again. I have a long drive to my game this Friday, and the car won't be ready by then. (At least the smashed headlight still works. It points in a crazy direction, but it works.) Don't even know yet when I can take it in. I talked to the insurance gal on Monday, and she seemed totally oblivious to the fact that I had taken it in to their designated repair shop last Thursday for an estimate.

I'm down about other things, too. The sale of my mom's house is taking longer than I thought (or the guy thought) because his VA loan application is still in limbo somewhere in South Carolina. He's getting upset, too. VA loans are cheaper (lower interest rate) than standard bank loans, but he and I both know that the snow will be flying around here before long, and that's hardly ideal weather for moving. Also, the house insurance bill is now due. Didn't want to pay it and didn't think I would have to. But I do. Now I've got to worry about the property taxes. Those are due in January. God, I hope it doesn't last that long! I'm still paying for the expenses of running two houses.

Then there are still other things. At home. I started writing a separate post about that--but if it ever gets posted, it would be "friends only." I mean, we get along well, but ... we're totally different in certain ways, and I wish I had someone to, well, have fun with. So I'm hurting a little inside. Back at the old efx2, I wrote some partial posts about the same situation. Those were never posted and now have vanished into cyberoblivion.

There is some good news. Remember that post about my dad's guns from a month ago? Two of them have sold, and I have received checks for them. Two others are still being advertised.

I have some "end of summer" photos that I want to post, and I will when I get the chance. Some time fairly soon. But I'm having a problem with motivation right now.

That's as much as you're getting out of me right now. Maybe next time I'll be more excited about something.