I'm pooped! This Cerner project at work is going full steam. We are still getting the players in place so I'm working a ton of hours to help cover the shifts for training. This is a 70 hour work week. UGH! But the good news is, Dave and I (and Larry too...of course) are going to Atlanta. I'll enjoy the R&R. I think we're going to a farm in McDonough to pick some blueberries and peaches with JoAnn and her crew. We'll visit with the family and hopefully I'll have time to get with my best friend, Sue. I can't wait to see everyone.

Betty had a garage sale Saturday and let me throw some stuff in. I made about $240. Not bad. My last experience with a garage sale was disgusting. I had one about 15 years ago when I lived in Atlanta and I hated it. So, I always poo-poo'ed doing a garage sale again but now I'm in a stage of life where I want to get rid of all my crap.

I want a crap-free house. Clutter is stressful. I use the analogy of cups in your cabinet. It's stressful to have, say, 20 cups in the cabinet. You have to stack them, balance them, make a decision on which one to use. You tend to use a cup once and put it in the dishwasher. Soon you have a ton of cups to restack in the crowded cabinet. Stress. On the other hand, you can have two cups in the cabinet. One for each person. You can set aside (elsewhere) four more for guests. Now, you can reach into the cabinet and take out your cup. No decisions. No balancing . Just take out your cup and use it. After you finish your coffee, you can rinse out you cup, dry it and place it back in the cabinet. Easy. No stress. I want to do that with my life. Simplify and de-stress. But, how about this for an oxymoron: in order to de-stress you have to be stressed. Huh? In order to get rid of crap and clutter, you have to dig everything out, decide what goes, have a sale or distribute your crap. That's stressful. In order to get rid of financial clutter, you have to work more and budget. That's stressful. But that's ok...I'm willing to tolerate a little stress in preparation for a more stress-free life. We're getting there, slowly but surely.

Hurricane season is starting off with a bang. They say Alberto will be a hurricane when it hits shore tonight. Unless it does something weird, we should only get rain. That's cool, we need it.

We're watching an old movie "Coma". It is from 1976. It's based in a hospital. It's strange to see the old computer systems, type writers, glass IV bottles, white nurses uniforms with the old Clinic shoes and nursing caps. The surgical masks are made of cloth. There are ash trays in the hospital corridors. rotary phones, and they definitely have not heard of HIPPA.

I was watching Dave and Larry finish up their walk this morning. It's so awesome to see Larry prance down the street. His tail wags from side to side and I swear it seems like he's smiling. He is the happiest dog in the world. Sometimes I envy that little fella. It doesn't take much to please him. He's such a great dog.