It's weird. Tuesday was A Day Of Insanity but Wednesday and Thursday were…noticeably not. Today, I'm all alone in the world. DiamondGirl is on vacation and Bernie is "working from home" (as he usually does on Fridays), so I don't anticipate The Crazy showing up today, either.

I do intend to work today, too. I have a lot of things I want to get done that I haven't been able to get to with those two underfoot and me having incipient meltdown moments.

I'm not doing those things yet, though. I'm taking advantage of the sweet peace to clean out my e-mail and go through the papers on my desk, to see what critically important stuff I might have dropped the ball on this week. (I'm the kind of person who has to stop being "productive" and organize myself fairly often.)

Still basking in the New Laptop Love, although wincing at the idea of the credit card bill that's going to arrive. Still haven't had the strength to fight through the wireless router problem, although that's top of my list for the weekend.

I'm also discovering why buying a "fully configured" laptop is a good idea. There are things I've taken for granted in the past. Things like anti-virus software. A DVD decoder. An unzipping program. Etc., etc., etc. Turns out, if you buy an off-the-shelf laptop at a minimal price, it doesn't come with those things. Last night I squandered $14.99 on a DVD program, so I can watch DVDs on it. The anti-virus software was about $50 or $70 (can't remember). And, yes, I had to buy Microsoft Office when I bought the laptop. I have no idea what else I might wind up needing. (Who pays attention to which programs they habitually reach for ten times a week?) I need to reload my PSP, but that's just a matter of taking the time to get it done.

(Things may have been less stressful Wednesday and Thursday this week, but being tensed up all day just in case there's a disaster takes it out of you as well.)

I set up Dr. Who to tape tonight. We're going to the theatre and I'm not sure what time we'll be home, since the performance doesn't start until 7:30.

Not the big, glamorous theatre. A small, sort of neighborhoodish kind of theatre, but I'm looking forward to it. We're seeing one of the R.C.'s coworkers in Chess, which just happens to be one of my favorite stage plays. It's had decent reviews, which is a relief. It's not one of the easier plays to stage well.

I didn't really have anything to say this morning. I just thought, you know, you might like it if I blogged occasionally when I'm not oozing insanity.