School started back up again this week. Alex is now a junior, and the girls are both sophomores. The first week seemed to go pretty well, except for when some kid that Natalie was trying to be nice to basically told her that he was way too popular to bother with her. He almost made her cry. That's high school for you. She did make another new friend the next day though so that was good. Alex and Missy didn't report anything like that, fortunately.....Beth has decided she is not well enough to go back to work. Her meds have not been working much lately, and she feels like she is going backwards. Monday I went to the school with her to see her boss and tell her that she was quitting. She hates to leave them high and dry because they are sorely in desperate need of aides, but it is what it is, and Beth cannot do it right now...Something I ate disagreed with me on Tuesday, apparently, because shortly after getting home from work I started feeling really queasy and puked my guts out a few times, but after that it pretty much was over.....Wednesday was water wars for the youth group, and it always seems that the temperature drops precipitously when that comes around. It's been cooler and occasionally rainy for a couple weeks, but things held out just long enough for the kids to have some water fun at church.....I spent a lot of time at Iotron in Columbia City this week and last, and probably more coming up, including talk of me going out to the Vancouver plant again.....This weekend we've tried to just have chill days so nothing much going on. I got a few things done around the house, mostly working on staining the window trim in the living room (haven't worked on that in a couple months (it's been unstained for 13 years) and on the camper. After the last camping trip I decided that we really don't need to worry about resale any more (the thing is 23 years old, after all) so I also have modded it by removing all the water system to increase storage under the benches. We never use the water anyway. I'm working on replacing the sink (which flipped upside down for storage) with a tabletop that we can store more things on.