A Little Feng Shui

When a power outage curtailed my computer activities today, I rearranged my bedroom. Moving all the clutter into the crawl space has made a remarkable difference; suddenly our little bedroom actually feels spacious. Jim likes to hoard little piles of things in the bedroom. It must be a habit from childhood. Anyway, since he's working in Albuquerque for a few months, I decided I can sleep in a room without a geiger counter, a converter, and his various electronic experiments. The latter are actually quite neat; he has different colored gas lights (neon? argon?) mounted on wooden boards. But they can live somewhere else for the time being.

I've been cleaning a little bit every day, trying to scrape off the layer of filth before the Willeys come to visit for Rachel's graduation. Curiously, the Asian lady beetles never attained their usual fevered reproductive spike this spring. I rarely see live ones now, just carcasses here and there. Dad and Sandy are coming for the event as well, staying at a local motel. Dad is generously taking all of us out to dinner at the Marietta Brewery afterwards.