Week half over

 * also, I am half done with sorting the samples from June. I have 18 vials left to go. It's tiring work and I have to be careful not to burn myself out on it.

I have the second set of loss-on-ignition samples in the muffle furnace; I will turn that on tomorrow morning.

* I may have to scrub going to Fort Washita on Friday; it was a heat index of 107 today and apparently will be as bad then. It's mostly outdoors and I don't want to risk heat injury - or just be really uncomfortable. 
So I'm back to searching online for "attractions near me" and womp womp, they list the casino and the sports complex (which I think is only open when there's a game) and the.... "medspas" (these are places where they do cosmetic procedures and also things like IVs of vitamins which probably have very little actual benefit, and I would be slightly nervous about some of the places I've driven past.

So I have to conclude: I really DON'T fit in here. The things normal people like to do aren't what I like to do.

I'll keep searching, but man. I can't drive an hour or more given it may be after noon when I'm free to do stuff. I don't want to just "go shopping" again (and anyway, where?).

Back in 2020 I used to go on drives out on country roads, mainly so I wouldn't forget how to drive (because I was only going out to the grocery maybe once every 10 days, and that was just right in town). But it made me feel *worse* to get in the car and waste gas just driving around and not go anywhere. 

But even now, there aren't that many places TO go when it's too hot to be outside. Ugh, I hate it. I wish summers here were more like summers further north - cooler, and also occasionally rain would break on through (it looks like we're in our long dry spell now).

I'm not sure going to a movie would be good. They're expensive now, and sitting in a dark room alone with a bunch of strangers doesn't really appeal.

* I'm still working on the socks. I'm still not sure how I feel about them:

 * I may have to put "All Clear" aside again as I do find the setting a little upsetting. But what to read? If I could quickly find my copy of one of the Georgette Heyer Regency romances, I might try that, despite having bounced off them before. I need something where nothing too bad seems to happen. 

I guess I could wait a few days (up to ten, or maybe more, depending on how the USPS seems to be slow walking things again) for my copy of Sarah Beth Durst's next book ("The Enchanted Greenhouse"). I pre-ordered it after reading The Spellshop last year and it's finally out.