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NO SHOW

Today's movie was cancelled since I felt rushed. I had a lot on my plate and the movie just scrunched me in tighter than an older retired man ought to feel scrunched.

I made good use of the "free" time though.

I cut my hair. That takes 20-30 minutes by the time I primp it and look at all angles and so on.

Then, I went out and reset the sprinklers which have been on FULL for the newly seeded grass. It is that time of year and they soak the seed. It has been two weeks. The new grass looks great. Emerald. Enough water.

I also set the water to OFF for Friday when the guys come to cut it and do other yard work. If the ground is moist the mower fucks up the new planting. I wish, actually, they would use the weed whacker for the grass. But they won't. So I have cut the water for all little lawns off for the day.

We have mini-lawns. It is a nod to water conservation and a kind of neat landscaping idea. Out back we have alternative diagonal squares of gravel and lawn.

A lot of people have gone to all gravel. Austere. This preserves a bit of green with half the space seeded.

Some day, I suppose, I will break down and do the whole property in low water gravel and plants. Not yet. I recycle pretty good though!

I watered out front. The poinsettia is getting new leaves. Whether it will do this fast enough for the holidays is up to the poinsettia. I planted this after last year's holidays and it did fine until summer when most of the leaves burned.

I looked the plant up and they said that I should have cut it down to the base. 4 inch stems.

Well, maybe, but most of this advice is for places where it is humid and there is rain and not a desert. So I think the leaves would have burned worse had I pruned it.

I don't know.

We shall see what we shall see.

I also read more than I planned of the book that is now on my desk, The Magicians by Lev Grossman. It is so fantastic. Literally. It is the first book I have had for awhile that I just want to pick up and finish, NOW.

So that is how I used my extra two hours and I still have ten minutes left.

The market went to shit today in the last minute because my bank, Wells Fargo, seems to be in trouble again.

Don't worry. I won't pull my checking account out. I have to admit that we did pull our savings account out a while ago, though.