Not quite 8am here, and all I want to do, to be quite honest, is to go back to bed. Alas, I have to go in and make up my "holiday" day...required by the company I work for--their idea of a "paid" holiday off, is for you to come in and work on your normal day off that week. Basically, all a national holiday off for us is, just moving our normal day off to the holiday day, cheap bastards. Sucks being me, huh?
Have I mentioned that I have a slight dislike for cheap people?
I'm not talking about people who are cheap 'cos they are struggling and have no other choice, or people who are trying to save money for a specific purpose--college tuition, a long holiday, etc, or those who are simply being careful not to overspend beyond their means, or for some other, totally logical, practical reason.
I mean people who have quite enough money, thank you, and are only being grasping and cheap because that's...what they are. Saving money's fine, going out of your way to be a cheapskate when you absolutely don't have to be...very low brow, in my humble opinion. I once had a rich uncle who definitely wasn't hurting financially, who used to have breakfast at McDonald's--not because he liked their food, but because they gave him a break on the price of his coffee. 
Cheapskate. A man whose networth is over $250,000, going out of his way to save 20 cents on a cup of coffee...ridiculous.
I expect some of these people secretly shove pennies up their arse, 'cos they're afraid that they'll lose them.
Anyway...
Bad night's sleep. Pain, lots of pain...and probably too much caffine. I'm supposed to stay away from caffine, but I ran out of caffine-free beveragess, yesterday. Bought a one liter bottle of diet lemonade, but couldn't find it--stupid me stuck it in the cupboard where I keep the tinned veggies...what was with THAT? I'm over a month away from age 48, and already I'm going senile? That's not good.
My bad foot was hurting more than usual last night. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't--it's sort of like my limp...sometimes it's hardly noticeable-- only a slight shortening of my stride, and sometimes I walk stooped forward and the limp is extremely pronounced.
Needless to say, I'm going to work today on only about 4 hours sleep. That sucks.
Had a mosquito in the living room with me, last night...had a field day with my skin, and I've bites on my neck and upper arm that are itchy as hell...I hate mosquitoes. I should be used to them though, as growing up we had an overabundance of them, due to there being a deep ditch with standing water in it, right next to our property. Mum was never bothered by spiders, wasps, snakes, ants, flies, field mice...but God, she HATED mosquitoes! A mosquito was the only thing I ever saw, that could make my mum lose her usual calm...that and the time she saw a cockroach at a restaurant. That seemed to freak her out as well, for some reason.
So, gonna' be a hot one here, today, 88 F (31 C). Yuck. We had autumn-like weather the last couple week's of August...now this. No global warming? Riiight.
I wonder if we'll get that tropical storm next week, that's supposed to work its way up the east coast, from Florida? There's tropical storm watches from Florida all the way to the New Jersey shore, from what I gather.
Anyway, have a good Friday all. Cheers. N.
