hiatus interuptus

Well it's been a while since I added anything to this blog; half a year, in fact. That came about because I got busy doing other things, and then set aside my journal and then lost track of it. I looked all over my office at work, to no avail; and looked all around my office at home, to an equal lack of avail, as it were. The one place I didn't look, alas, was on the floor of my closet in my home office. We had known for some time that there was a small leak out of the downstairs shower, that was causing damp in the office closet. So today I finally did something about it; I took everything out of the closet and found that the carpet was soaked; there was mold; and a box that had been on the bottom of a stack of them just fell apart when I tried to pick it up. Fortunately, it was just old office supplies from Becci's dad: pads of paper, a stapler, letter openers, envelopes. Some of it was ruined and had to be thrown away; other stuff was OK. Less fortunately, that was where I found my journal. I had obviously put it on top of the stack of boxes in that corner, and then just as obviously it had somehow gotten knocked off onto the floor, where it got damp and moldy. I'll post a picture of it when I get the photo downloaded off my camera; it's a sad sight indeed. I was able to salvage most of it but the bottom quarter or third in some places had gotten wet and stuck together, and is just...gone. I'll be able to recreate it, I'm confident, but it will be a chore. Ah Well! I should have been a better archivist at home with my own papers and made sure something like this didn't happen.

Oh Noes! My poor neglected journal

So I'll start typing it out; I might just do it in a word processing document although Blogger doesn't like importing things from Word, it brings the code along and moofs it all up. I'll finger something out.