The pond filter is clean, the pond is running nicely, the fish are frolicking, and the weatherbunnies have backed off their dire predictions of A Vewwy Bad Fweeze and we're only going to the mid-30s. Everything should live. In the remainder of my afternoon off I finished the front of Bardot and started the back. Nothing like an afternoon of knitting to calm and refocus the mind. I think I can get the back done this weekend, so I may even make my Jan. 31 deadline, or at least not slide too far over it.

Last night was a bad insomnia night, and I'm hoping tonight will be better. It took almost a whole pot of Starbucks' leaded to get me out the door today, I nearly called Boss and said I wasn't going in at all - but I made it and was quite productive in my half day. Boss was on the mothership in South Florida today so I could actually get MY work done while alone on the outpost. I love Boss, I really do, we have a blast working together and I miss him when he's not in, but when he's in one of his slightly manic work modes I get sucked into the frenetic activity, and I'm not complaining, it's fun, but my plans go out the window. When he's gone I get to some of the other things that need doing. Rumor has it that people who matter are noticing our dire need of admin help -- not in a critical way, but in a "they'd be able to do much more if they had help" way -- it's just a rumor right now, but from their lips to God's ears. We really need somebody to be the command center in the office, so things don't go to hell if I actually get out to do what I do best. Right now I have to make the choice - go on the road to talk to witnesses the end of next week, or stay in the office and try to dig us out of administrative hell? Boss wants me to go with him and I of course want to go because I live for talking with construction good ole boys and building department clerks, but that just means the mess will only get worse.

So now that the pond is clean, the rest of the weekend stretches before me, relatively free. There is laundry, of course. There is always laundry. Tomorrow will be very chilly so I will not be doing yard work - maybe Sunday will be a yard day. I have a strong urge to go up to Renninger's sometime soon - no particular goal in mind, just to wander. But I think this will be a Home Depot weekend - Boss, who practically lives at HD on the weekends, says they have a kitchen cabinet sale going on until the end of the month. I think it's time to move forward on the kitchen and get it done, before the money gets drained away on something else. After I have a firm price on the kitchen remodel I can figure out what I have left to do the backyard.

But mostly this weekend belongs to Bardot. And maybe I'll start a tank for myself.