week is over

 I DID finish sorting all the samples from the April sampling; probably next week I have to go out and get the next set (sigh). 

All the microscope work - I have to have fairly bright light to see the things - gives me eyestrain headaches, and I remember now when I was a kid, my dad was doing some work with mineralogical thin-sections and he developed migraines and blamed it on the bright light. (And was able to get his doctor to write a "prescription" for a window mount air conditioner, so it could be purchased with the "flex medical account" dollars - I guess those existed even back in the 70s). I also remember that on the relatively few really hot nights in the summer (in NE Ohio, in the 1970s), our parents would let my brother and me camp out on the floor in their bedroom (we had camping mattresses) so we could sleep in AC.

(This will be the seventh Father's Day without him, and even though I'm mostly - well, not OVER it, you never really get OVER losing  a loved one - still, occasionally seeing the ads for Father's Day stuff hits a little hard).

I'm not sure whether to go do something tomorrow, or whether to go in and work on the talk for early July, or more slide-deck revisions (though I burn out on those fairly fast).

I do know tomorrow is Juneteenth so some things may not be open, and I'm pretty sure both Sherman and Denison will have parades (My town, given our, uh, history.....we don't. We're still pretty insular in the not-good way). But I am also kind of tired. Then again - being extremely alone, as I am a lot in the summer, is not great for my mood, I recognize that.

So doing something like sitting down and trying to get a bunch done on the yellow "British School Slipover" (which I pulled back out and did a little on tonight) all day might not be the best of ideas.

There's also a chance it rains - we need the rain but that would make going somewhere outdoors less appealing.