I was woken up at 8:40AM by my mom and sister who made it back from Japan today. The good part is that they made it back and they had a great time. The bad part is that I was feeling pretty puny and had to go back to bed, or at least try. I know what hay fever feels like, and it usually doesn’t include lightheadedness. I guess staying up late all week was catching up to me, and I was hoping that I wasn’t getting the ‘flu-like symptoms that seem to be going around. Fortunately, the only thing I had scheduled this weekend was catching up on my TV backlog and trying to figure out what happened to the Batman. (Comic book geekery, in other words.) I also have a book to finish, but there are more where that came from.

It’s funny how moving stuff out of my dad’s room and then pulling up the floor all happened when I was here by myself. The demolition work is probably better to do when you’re the only one around, because it’s loud and dusty, but it would have been nice to have some help taking care of random errands.

Oh, and for those people who think I was going to get my sister fired by complaining about having to do her job: I was their backup plan all along. In fact, her boss was contacting me directly, so he already knows what’s going on. I’m supposed to bill them for my time, but I’d much rather just torture my sister instead. She got me some weird Japanese kits: a wire recorder and a sound synthesizer from Gakken Mook from their “Science for Adults” series to try to placate me. (It’s working.)