I spent the weekend at Jessica’s parents’ farm and enjoyed an Easter celebration with her family yesterday. We had an Easter egg hunt for the little kids, a lot of food (a wagon bed half covered in it), and a hay ride. I also got to feed a calf from a gigantic bottle filled with a powdered milk mixture. That was a first for me; we never had cows when I was growing up on my parents’ farm, and the only time I’m ever around them is at Jessica’s since they raise beef cattle. I put up some photos of flowers and things around the farm. Fortunately, it was really pretty both yesterday and today and only rained like a biznatch in the night. I know this only because I was woken up in the wee hours by Jessica shutting the window next to my bed. I heard squeak squeak squeak squeak, pause (I’m sure she was thinking, “Crap! This is a lot of noise, but I have to get this shut!”, followed by a few more squeaks before the window got fully shut.

This morning, I read a chapter in my microcomputer organization book and it felt like the longest chapter ever. It was 65 pages and it took me two hours to read it. I’m normally a fast reader, but when I get into school books, time slips by so quickly. I find myself rereading sentences multiple times before I realize what I’m doing and that I haven’t paid any attention. My mind wanders so easily when the subject matter bores me. So I finally got the darn chapter read, which was over both single-cycle and multi-cycle processor designs, and took a break to eat lunch. Shortly after, Jess and her family were back from church and I came back to Lexington a little while later.

Todd and I spent the afternoon getting my car washed (gotta get that road salt off), returning a ferret care book (a little money back from my ferret adventure, hurrah), and picking up some organizational supplies for my apartment. The top shelf of my closet (you’ll love this, Trin and Jess) now has two long sets of shelves running along it in which my towels and other things are organized. Before, I just had all that crap crammed up there. I’m also making a Goodwill bag and sorting out other things to take back to my parents’ house, which is helping me get the rest of my stuff organized. In the kitchen, we set up a set of cheap metal shelving on which my various jars of pastas and sugar are arranged. Everything is much more tidy, though my bed is still covered in things that need to be put away.

Upcoming things, just to keep them straight in my head:

• Finish my state taxes and mail both them and federal;
• Go with Todd to his parents’ for Easter this weekend;
• Study for a microcomputer organization test on Friday;
• Clean out the bedding from the ferret cage and post ads for it.