What have I been doing lately?  Learning to manage a Cisco PIX firewall and VPN Concentrator for a government agency.  Updating the Pianofest website for my friend who's the festival director.  Creating an online store upon, launching a Google Adwords campaign for, and aggressively promoting SugarPineDesigns, a quite artful quilt pattern site.  And, of course, running in the muck.

My front brakes started grinding last week on my Toyota RAV4.  I needed new rotors and pads, both sides.  Additionally, the mechanic cleaned and adjusted the rear brakes.  Total cost: $222 (only $90 labor).  I was just a bit shocked that it was that inexpensive.  The mechanic is very good, very cheap, and very fast.  He's got the rest of my business for life.

I believe this is the last of it.  In come the rooms.  Out goes the snow.  Right now for me, just such a mash of mish seems a fitting symbol for the cluttered eek of irrepresible life..