Today I had my eye doctor appointment and I am right now wearing contact lenses for the first time in about 10 years. They feel funny but I'm having no trouble with them. I found and destroyed a yellowjacket nest in my front yard yesterday without any stinging involved (see 8-10-2003). Boy, I hate thinking about the first time Alex or Missy gets stung...I had a pretty severe allergic reaction to yellowjacket stings when I was a kid. Last week the house changed such that the casual observer might not even recognize it: we FINALLY got the two replacement windows upstairs that we ordered in JANUARY (For all the jerking us around and possibly outright lying to us about these windows, they ultimately gave us a 15% discount over the delay. Big deal. Probably not enough to keep our business.), we had the living room and dining room carpets cleaned (BIG difference), and we got the sectional sofa we ordered in June. We hadn't decided whether to put it upstairs or downstairs, but the decision was made for us because it didn't look as big as it is when we saw it in the showroom. It couldn't go downstairs. So the old sofa is downstairs and we may sell the futon.