It's not too bad... actually.

Yesterday, I had the kids take off their shoes and run back & forth across the new mattress.

Between that and putting a pillow under my knees, I managed to sleep pretty darn well without hurting my back.

Granted, I am still pretty darn tired right now.

I know what part of it is.

It's that I wake up around midnight every night, and am not sure what to do.

I often still feel wide awake, so I pull out my headphones and listen to a radio show on my phone.

Unfortunately, I fall asleep during the show.

I'm a stubborn bugger, so I will restart the show or queue up to where I last remember hearing, and try to finish the show.

This process might go on for an hour or so, till I either give up, or I finish the show.

Today though, I'm tired as I noted, but I am finally starting to feel invigorated.

During one of my many, mini-breaks, I stood outside on the porch after getting the mail from the box, and enjoyed the sun on my face.

A few minutes later, I grabbed my hat, and sat out there playing several Pinochle on my phone.

Then, I walked over to the church parking lot and looked at their gravel and remembered how many stones I pulled out of there that are semiprecious.

This lead me to getting a small amount of stones a buddy wanted me to polish out, and put them into the tumbler.

So, I checked one tumbler and it was still "charged" and needed to be run for a bit to loosen up the materials inside.

I took another tumbler I have and got it cleaned up and charged it's barrel with my friend's stones, and a bunch of larger ones, because it's very inefficient to tumble less than a pound of stones at a time.

It actually takes longer to polish a small amount of stones compared to a larger amount.

For a 3 pound tumbler, a large amount is over 1 pound to the full 3 pound capacity.

I also noted that I had several other tumblers and equipment that needed to be fixed, put together, merged, etc. For example, one of the tumblers has a good motor but a frozen bearing that needs to be replaced, and another one has a bad motor, but good bearings.  So those will be merged together.

Well, Ellie just got home right in the middle of the day.  Seems that one of the kids in her classroom crapped in the pool, and Ellie was in the midst of it at the pool.

Ellie's in the shower now, getting the crap off.

Lucky for her...

In the immortal words of Homer Simpson:

"It's so funny, because it's not me..."