Kind of a crappy weekend here. I had thoughts of maybe pressure washing the deck (if not actually getting around to staining it), but the wife got sick and basically went to bed on Friday night and stayed there until Sunday. Though if she was gonna miss a day of a weekend, Saturday was the day to do it – it was cloudy, windy, damp (I don’t think it really rained much, be just stepping outside make you feel clammy), and cold. I don’t think it even got up to 60°.

It was even too cold to go sit on the tractor and cut the grass (I mean, I suppose I could have, seeing as I sit on the damn thing when there’s a -40 windchill to plow the driveway, but plowing is necessary to get out to the road and lawn mowing is most definitely optional).

So I mostly spent the day playing Wolfenstein: The New Order (always good to do some Nazi-killin’, though I’m old and kind of suck at the whole “gaming” thing, so the Nazis probably killed me – or, I should say, killed B.J. Blazkowicz – more than he killed them) and laughing at the foibles of the folks on “Renovation Realities.”

Mostly I laugh at their confident “pre-project” predictions of how great things are gonna go as they “start” the total kitchen renovation they expect to do in five vacation days at 9:38 AM by having breakfast and then clearing all the shit out of the drawers and cabinets – though it’s also fun to watch them cut live wires, drill through water lines, or check for gas leaks with a match.

I often wonder about the camera guys on this show. I mean, I know they’re just supposed to be impartially recording events as they transpire, but when you see somebody fixin’ to blow the house up, it seems like maybe you’d at least say, “hey, tell ya what. I’m gonna just leave the video rolling while I head out to the next block or two over. Gimme 5 minutes, and then carry on.”

I also finished watching Season One of “Orphan Black.” A good show, IMHO, so you may want to give it a shot if you find yourself with time to kill. Season Two is on now and I’ve been recording it, patiently waiting until I get through the season one.

Much to my horror, I found that I didn’t get the first episode, which, given how the first season ended, I really need to see. It’s not for free yet on Amazon, so I’ll have to pay either $2 or $3, which I guess I can spare but that’s pretty much what I typically spend on a book, which lasts me considerably longer than 43 minutes. So I postponed the decision until the next time I’m in-between renovatin’ and Nazi-killin’.

Though I will put this question out to you all: is it worth the extra money to buy/rent the HD version from Amazon? I always get HD, but when I watch “regular” DVDs, they look pretty OK to me (not pristine but generally good enough, especially for a teevee show). I’m tempted to try it out one time, just to see.

Sunday was a better day, at least. It started out kind of cold and cloudy but it did brighten up in the afternoon and the wife managed to move about a bit and get some sun and fresh air. And I got the grass cut (not much else – unless you count extricating a rather enormous Bufo americanus – aka, American Toad – from the pool solar cover).

Sadly, it never really got all that warm – 72-ish, which I hate to complain about, but when you’re hoping for pool weather, that just doesn’t cut it. It felt nice in the sun, but when clouds wandered by it got kind of cold and breezy.

It was also the Father’s Day Fly-In Pancake Breakfast at the little local airport, so the skies were filled with small planes buzzing overhead. They were enjoyable to watch, but there also must have been helicopter rides or something going on, because about every 7 minutes a chopper flew directly over the house at an altitude of about 37 feet (or so it seemed). A few times are cool – after that, it gets a little annoying.

And now here we are – Monday again. I’m off, and it’s looking like a bright sunny day so far (not very warm yet and they say maybe some t-storms later – probably to correspond with whatever time I get off my ass and venture outside). The wife is home as well – recovering, but still in somewhat of a persistent vegetative state. She looks pretty wiped out, so hopefully one more day of rest will set her right.

I just hope she doesn’t pass whatever the hell it was on to me, ‘cuz while I could use a good excuse to spend 36 hour in bed, I really don’t like being sick.