It’s only Tuesday and the midweek blahs have already set in. I feel I’m accomplishing nothing in my efforts to make changes in my life. I blame this on my work schedule, and being too tired after work to do much of anything after waking up at 5:00 a.m. I am not a “morning person,” I never have been, and efforts in the past to change that have been futile. It doesn’t matter what time I try to get to bed, my foggy brain simply does not want to function at a time that has a “5” in the hours position.

After work I hosed off my car. I have not washed the car in two or three years, and yesterday while filling it up with gasoline I noticed that it is looking so dreadful and pathetic, covered in bird dung and road dust and general grit, that even I could not stand it anymore. My plan is to hose off the car each day this week to loosen up the accumulated grime, and then wash it properly this coming weekend.

Of course, weekend plans may be postponed, as not one but two hurricane-force storms are bearing down on Hawaii. In case I haven’t mentioned it, I’m currently living on Oahu in Hawaii. Hurricane Iselle is a Category 4 Hurricane right now, altho’ it is expected to weaken before impacting the Big Island on Thursday from the southeast and then moving up the island chain. Tropical Storm Julio, expected to strengthen to hurricane force, is following closely, and is expected to reach Hawaii by Saturday or Sunday.

Over twenty years have passed since a significant hurricane or tropical storm has hit Hawaii. Ever since I moved here fifteen years ago, people have been saying “we’re about due for another hurricane.” Chances are good that both Iselle and Julio will weaken to “mere” tropical storm status before making landfall… but who knows?

This afternoon I shoveled more sand onto the bank in front of the house in an effort to make it look less eroded. I used to put a fair amount of effort into building up the shoreline embankment every year in an effort to reduce erosion. My efforts were rarely effective, and for the past couple or three years, ever since we had a particularly rough erosion season, I have not done much to improve either the structure or the aesthetics of the bank. I’ve been shoveling in sand lately as part of the ongoing effort to make the house and property look, if not good, at least somewhat less bad before asking real estate agents for a ballpark sales estimate. Depending on the winds, tides, and currents generated by the incoming storms, my recent efforts may very well turn out to be futile.

My efforts at daily blogging have been somewhat futile as well. I don’t see this as helping my efforts at “self-improvement” very much, and I’m too tired to put much effort into writing anything interesting or of value beyond my self-indulgent rambling. Like, my failure to write a “real” article about screen repair, for example.

Anyway, I gotta go get rested up so I’ll be in top form for hurricane survival!