The Michael Swayne Story V: King of his Castle

Tomorrow's temperature will lower throughout the day here. That's just wonderful! And, the chance for more snow is 80%. Super! And it just has to happen on the one Wednesday of the year that I deliver. If I could, I would deliver the newspapers on Thanksgiving rather than tomorrow. I have to be blessed with some of the greatest luck in the world. I mean, how many people can say that the weather controlling greater entity has a wish for them to be stuck with bad weather? All the time (most of the time).

No, after today, the weather will improve greatly. And then most likely, it will return to bad the first Thursday of December. It's the way things work.

This snowy weather did bring about one good thing. The kittens have started to stay in the cathouse my brother made. I am glad. I don't want to have little snowcats among any snowmen I may make this winter. Nothing good comes from a catcicle.

I brought in extra firewood today when I was bringing in firewood. Since my brother insists on filling the stove completely full every time he would check it, I would end up running out of firewood really early in the day. So today as I would bring in firewood, I would make sure there were as few holes as possible (since stacking firewood results in there being spaces due to wonky shaped pieces). If I had to guess, there were two loads of extra firewood in the pile when I finished. The pieces I chose seem to fit better than usual as I was stacking it up in the house.

I know U appreciated the extra firewood today. He spent most of the day as close to the stove as he could handle. I think the only time he was away from it was when I forced him to go outside and use the bathroom. Other than that, he looked as if he wanted to hug the stove.

I can't blame him. I would be right there next to him if I had a laptop computer. I remember there being days when I was younger that I would do my homework with my back up against the wood stove we had at our other houses. But yeah, if I had a laptop, I would be near the fire instead of in my room, the farthest from the fire.

But the big news of the day is that I will not be leaving the house at 2:30-3am when I go to work. I will be leaving at 5, maybe 6am. It was going to happen eventually, and I decided that when I had to wear pants three times to work I would start leaving later. Tomorrow will be the third time in the last five weeks.

Anyway, I want to try and get a few hours of sleep before I leave. So, that's all for now. I hope to see you around the forums, and until then...

Later!

Michael