WHAT AM I DOING AWAKE AT THIS HOUR...

The problem with days off is your free to what you want to do, so yesterday being my day off, I decided I needed to nap from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. That I slept until after noon didn't matter to me. The downside is I wake up way too early for my own good, so that's why there's a post at an hour I rarely see.

Mornings lend me to see the little neighborhood I live in a whole different light. As the sun rises in the East, fog off the wooded area off my deck becomes more and more visible until this moment now, where it starts to burn off exposing the trees in various states of autumn. It's not the Blue Ridge Parkway, but it's nice. I took a few photos with my digital camera the other day of it. Maybe I'll post them on the web site. It's a lot noisier too. My upstairs neighbors are pretty loud, but since I'm asleep, I hardly notice them moving about. Today I did, but it's not big deal. The stairs are quite loud too. No dogs wailing, which is good.

Now for some news: My mom is coming to town. My dad is leaving the country on business and since he doesn't want her to stay in Texas alone, so she is coming to visit me for about two weeks. Most of my free time will be spent a) waiting for my XBOX to arrive (is it here yet?) and b) cleaning up this mess of a home to prepare for the grand tour. I haven't seen my mom in months so I'm looking forward to her visit. On the other hand, I'll probably be crazy soon after her arrival. Parents do that to us sometime.

For those readers who know Casey. She has found a stem cell donor (hooray!) so hopefully she will get to whip cancer's butt one more time. Good luck to you Casey, we Anderson people miss you too and hope that you'll do fine.

Oh yeah... the novel is DEAD, so leave me alone already....