Procrastinators Anonymous. . . meetings TBD

Now I understand why they call it a soccer pitch.

Just once it would be nice to get to the end of a day and say, "I got more done than I thought I would."

I ordered a door today. A woman tenant called 911 because she couldn't get out of bed. The firemen did what firemen do when they respond and find the front door locked - they use their mongo crowbar and pop it open. Somewhere it's written that checking the back door or breaking a window is against company policy.
Normally I could buy an exterior door off the shelf. But this particular builder used 4x6 construction for all exterior walls, which means a wider-than-normal threshold and casing. The door will arive in 7-10 days.
I don't especially enjoy hanging doors. Getting them plumb, level and square is essential and too often tedious. Get one of the three right and at least one of the others goes wrong. All it takes is one more whack with the hammer to drive that nail and the next check with the level will bring bad news. And molding will only cover up so much.

Nora Jones and her ilk seem out of place before dinner. But after dinner, and/or when the sun's gone down, they are especially relaxing. (Pandora.com)

Our garbage disposal suddenly leaks like a sieve. It's OK if you just run water down the drain, but if you fill the sink so a volume of water flows or run the disposal while running the faucet the water just pours out of a seam halfway down the unit.
The lady who owned this house before us bought the most expensive and elaborate of everything. I think sales and service people took advantage of her, because no one, especially a little old lady living on her own in Sun City, needs a 25 hp Insinkerator with sound insulation and chrome muffler bearings. Tomorrow I'll replace it with the cheapest model Lowe's sells, and that disposal will be more than adequate to chew up the broccoli I pushed around my plate before taking it back to the kitchen.
This will be the third or fourth disposal I've replaced in the last few months. I think a guy could almost make a living just replacing garbage disposals. A wrench, a screw driver and a pair of low-rise jeans and you're good to go.

While I was at Lowe's I went out to the garden section to buy a bougainvillea vine. This is the time of year here that they stock annuals - geraniums, petunias, marigolds and the like. People buy them mostly to put in pots for the patio or front walkway. You can't plant annuals in beds like they do elsewhere because we don't have soil. We don't have dirt. We have something just this side of cement that can charitably be called ground. This is the desert, after all.
I can't justify buying colorful annuals even to put in pots. They will last weeks at best, and then the heat will scorch them whether they're in the shade or not.

According to a report published today an American gets Alzheimer's every 70 seconds. Half of them already had it but forgot, so they got it again.

We have our first two Pathway volunteers for Juarez in November. Excellent!

Steve sent me the link to this article. Deeply disturbing.
Abortion and the economy

Children are important to God. The Bible makes that very clear. That's part of what makes a ministry in Juarez so valuable, and abortion - for any reason - so terrible.