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This past Friday was a work-from-home day. Such days are like a raise 
in pay for me, since I'm not using time and fuel to travel to and from 
Austin. This was starting one of Wrangler Country's ocassional '3-day 
concert tours'. ;)  

Saturday was just too damned hot to do much during the day. Our 
younger daughter approached me with questions about the IT profession 
in general. She expressed some interest in getting a certification or 
two. Like me, she fools with computers as a hobby. I told her that was 
the way I switched to IT: I was in it as a hobby, then decided to make 
an attempt to change career fields. I happened to have the cards fall 
into place. 28 years later, here I was. I told her I would bring some 
books home from my office on campus. She may take to such a change 
like a duck to water. All I can do is to encourage her.

On Sunday morning before I had to leave for my gig, I had to take the 
weed eater to the front yard. Because of the heat, I had gotten behind 
on the growth. My wife uses native plants for the front yard. We 
haven't had grass in the front yard for years. I can't remember the 
last time that I used a lawnmower.