Some much needed rest and relaxation

After getting home from my night class, I went to bed about 9:00 and slept 'til about 9 this morning. I feel a little refreshed, but I must admit that I see little work getting done today, except for a few hours surfing the net and playing my Xbox. I think I may take a nap in a little while. I don't feel like I've reached the minimum number of hours of sleep I need. I should be seriously working on my conference paper by now, but alas, I think I may procrastinate at least one more day.

I visited a new optometrist today for an eye exam and a new set of glasses. They should be in sometime next week. That's about as much excitement as I can handle today. I spent almost $300 on my new glasses which doesn't include what my insurance company kicked in. Earlier in the week, I bought a tankless water heater -- one of those that supposedly provides continuous hot water -- so I'll be installing that sometime within the next few weeks, whenever it arrives. That cost about $700. My budget is feeling a little out of whack at the moment. On top of that, my wife took a week off work to stay home with my daughter who had the flu, and she called today and said she may not get paid as she had expected. Good times. We may be eating leftover SPAM all week.
On a side note, upon leaving the house this morning, I found that the garbage collectors came by today and were kind enough to throw my trash can in the middle of the back alley where some freakin' shitbird was kind enough to drive over it for me. Thanks, I appreciate that.
Y'know, it's not that hard to stop your vehicle, get out, and move it out of the alley and into my driveway. But luckily, in Texas, where everyone drives some big-ass truck or SUV, there's really no sense in doing things so politely. Especially when we can just run shit over. So that's what they did. I think, in order to exact revenge, I will spend the rest of the afternoon pulling everyone else's cans into the street and running over them.