Trying to Lighten Up

Ok gang, not that I want to try and please everyone, but the complaints about the new layout being hard to read were reaching a crescendo. I've tried lightening up the background a bit, but Blogger doesn't offer a whole lot of colors. Instead of 99 shades of gray, they have about four. And the fact that *my* computer display is almost as bright as the sun is one of the driving factors as to why I chose a darker background. I hate hate HATE websites with white backgrounds now. I've adjusted the brightness on my monitor way down, but it doesn't matter. White and/or light-colored backgrounds on websites burn my retinas. So in order to help all you old fogas out there who say it's too hard to read, I've increased the text size, and gone a shade lighter on the background. I hope this works. It looks better on my monitor now, so while I'm not going to promise not to change it, currently I'm leaning toward this combination of layout/colors/fonts as semi-permanent.

So there.

Anyhow...

I'm kind of in that too-tired to be coherent phase right now, as I've only gotten a couple hours of sleep. I was the Last Man Standing on my shift last night, not hitting the time clock until well after 4:00 am. Since Eddie's alarm goes off at five, I tried to take my time in getting home and making noise. So I stopped at the store on the way home and got a few small things--coffee creamer, milk, eggs, and a tube of ready-to-bake cinnamon rolls.

Once I got back to the house, instead of diving across Eddie and his inflata-bed to get to my nest, I took a shower, setup the coffeemaker, and put the rolls in the oven, timing it so everything would be done about ten minutes after he got up. I then just hung out at the kitchen table reading the pile of junk mail while waiting for everything to get ready. Last night was Eddie's last night at Casa de Mikey, so I wanted to make sure he got plenty of uninterrupted sleep before spending half a day at his office and then having to drive back to Phoenix later this afternoon.

Yep, his three weeks in Vegas is coming to an end this afternoon, and he's heading back home. It's been fun, but I'm sure he feels that his wife makes a better roommate.

Anyhow, the coffee and cinnamon rolls were a good way to start the day for him, but of course it kept me up for a bit. Now that it's all bright and daylighty out, it's tough to sleep, especially since two of my roommates are outside doing projects that involve a powerwasher and a compressed air tank. I'm sure I'll doze again for a bit later this afternoon before heading back to work, but right now I'm just feeling a bit groggy.

And I'll need my sleep. This weekend is Cinco de Mayo, the Holyfield-Mayweather fight, and the Kentucky Derby. The casino is going to be hopping.

Mikey