A friend spent the afternoon here as we discussed options on computers as he shopped for a new one. I think another friend will be able to help set it up (no point in paying Dell to do it). The whole time he was here Cookie kept trying to sneak in for cuddles and scratches, and he loved it. I think he likes to come here as much to play with the dogs as to visit with me.

For the next three days we have a warning from the ERCOT folks (in the news, especially since the freeze in 2021) that they will be particularly hot, so don't use major appliances during the day. If not, rolling brown-outs. We're in late August, this will end eventually, but this summer isn't going down without a struggle.

I've ordered dog food because my trip to the store today (the day after they always get their weekly dog food order) was a bust and I left empty-handed. Tonight I ordered it online and they'll deliver to the store where I'll pick it up in a couple of days (no shipping charges this way). This, along with computer shopping and other stuff today let me work my way through a short list of tasks, so I managed to tackle four of the six. The "Ivy Lee Method" is an experiment these days (a list of six things, and move those incomplete to the next day's list). It isn't working quite the way Mr. Lee intended.