So you know all that stuff I accomplished last week, gittin' er done, feeling like, "look at me, see how good I am now at multitasking, handling stress, etc." Well, the bottom line is, doing all that in such a short amount of time (doing all that new stuff, not taking time to process it, missing sleep along the way, etc.) proved to be a Bad Idea. I got a cold about a week ago and it's still with me. Fortunately, today I do finally feel like it's going away--I think.

Tonight we saw The Changeling (a Clint Eastwood movie) and I really liked it. It was a good old-fashioned movie with recognizable good guys and bad guys, and it was based on a real historical incident--and they apparently remained faithful to the facts. Something else I liked was that a Presbyterian minister was one of the heroes--a bona fide crusader for what was right.

The fly in the ointment this evening was: I lost my cell phone! We'd gotten cheapie (the cheapest refurbished model) Virgin phones when moving here and the guy at the kiosk sold me a holster he said was made specifically for my phone. Trouble was, it (the holster) only worked 99 per cent of the time. The rest of the time the phone would somehow slip out when I moved around too much. Usually I found it again quickly. This time, however, I didn't. I was in the theater watching attractions and they mentioned, "turn off your cell phones." When I reached for mine--uh oh! After getting home I went online and "suspended" my account. Tomorrow I'll again go nose around places I might have lost it--and then I'll fuggedaboudit.

But just maybe this is a good thing. It gives me an excuse to research a type of cell phone that would permit me to record, then download, conversations. I need such a thing for cell interviews. (And no, I would not do so without people's consent!)

Well, it's time for my "story" (a portion of my current bedside reading...)