Once I got all the wrecked-car/new-car stuff wrapped up earlier in the week, I mostly wasted the rest of the this past week.

There's kitchen stuff to be finished. I *did* sort through that nasty cardboard box that was feebly trying to hold all the cleaning supplies that were stored under the sink, so that we've got a pile to take to the hazardous waste disposal and a clean(!) plastic(!) bin full of sorted stuff ready to be put back. Earlier in the week, there was a period of time where there was newspaper taped to the kitchen floor beside the sink area, but no obvious work was being done. The Girl and I got tired of tripping over the tools in the middle of the floor, inquiries were made, and work has resumed. The DH has cleaned out, sanding off, patched and (hopefully) is finishing prepping the under-sink area for painting. This may actually get done (?) in another day or two, at which point the cleaning supplies will be able to go back where they belong. It would be nice if that could happen before it rains, but I suppose we'll see...

The plan for today was to continue tackling that mess, and potentially make the archeological dig required to exhume the front room from the piles of (former) class work that has been accumulating over the last three years. Now that I'm DONE(!) that needs either pitched or filed. But instead, I got a text from the student I'm mentoring (I can not abide the term 'mentee') to tell me that she and her sib had a robot competing in the 'Space Elevator' competition today at the Museum of Flight. So I hied myself over there in time to watch two of their four matches. The first went well, the second was during the Space Elevator 101 presentation in the Allen Theatre, the third was a work in progress. They made the finals (their fourth match), but I had to leave before that to get back to get *some* of the weekend stuff done.

The Space Elevator presentation was very interesting, and gave me a better perspective on where things are now. I'll be taking their monthly newsletter now, to keep up on how things are developing.

So, all in all, it was another interesting day, but another day of inadequate progress on the homefront. But, then again, I can't think about a place I would have rather been to hear about Neil Armstrong...