Friday

 What?  I'm not doing Anything!!

Yesterday, I had to go to the coast to talk to the people at the Marriott and work out this dive for the Shark Bait kids.  It was my second trip to the coast in 2 days because Wednesday, SeaWorld had suddenly decided that they couldn't do Friday.  They couldn't do the time and day that we had all rearranged our schedules for.  They could only do Thursday. 

I had Mim this trip instead of being by myself, so with the long conversations about the inconsistencies of the powers of the mutants in X-Men or other deep and meaningful things.  It meant that I wasn't alone with my thoughts, which is always dangerous.

I picked Levi up after school and we had 2 meltdowns before we made it the 5 minutes home.  The first was because I hadn't worked out that the 'password' was 'Rocket Boy'.  The other was because he was telling me how he had fallen off his scooter in the morning going to school.  He hadn't cried at the time....at all! By the afternoon's retelling however he didn't make it through the story.

Man!  That kid is getting tired.  All the kids are getting tired.  We all need a break. 

It has been raining again.  Not the hammering rain that was previously being experienced, just a on and off sprinkling.  Levi and I were washing turkey poo off the concrete and I went back inside so he could wash his 'work site'.  By the time that I got back, he was filling a bucket that he shouldn't have been.  I didn't really care but the guilty look said that he didn't think it was a strictly legal activity.

Just that small amount of rain had the causeway go under water again.  It doesn't make me overly confident about this wet season.  The ground is just not absorbing water any more.  Pretty much it goes straight into the creek.  Not much of a buffer any more.