Joy to the Circus…

“You should have went with us!” Mrs. Florene said excitedly over the phone last night.

George got on the phone and told me all about the horses and the clowns. It sounded neat. I shied away from getting out of the house and stayed inside last night. It was my night off and I was in bed by seven and woke up at 3 am – my medications making me so sleepy. The circus set up shop down in the old playground from the elementary school that sat there during my youth before it was torn down and a new school was built across the road. I drove by a few times last night on my way to Fat Albert’s noticing the amount of cars involved and the circuses’ entourage.

“It was the Lewis and Clark circus,” George told me.

I explained to George who Lewis and Clark were and the discovery of the Northwest passage by them. George didn’t seem too interested in my bit of American history, though.

Dad and mom stopped by after eating at the “Cock of the Walk” restaurant. Dad brought me a plate of fried mudbugs and some fried green tomato appetizers. It was delicious and a welcomed treat.

“How are you feeling tonight?” dad asked me as I sleepily wiped my eyes from being in bed.

“Dad, I have felt so strange lately,” I explained to him. “I feel spaced out all the time.”

“Give your medications time to work before you quit taking them,” he replied, warning me.

I woke up at 3am and immediately drove over to get my eight diet drinks for the day. It was a pleasant, cool drive with fall finally arriving in the South. I had to turn on the heat in my car it was so chilly. I’ve been waiting for this weather for months – finally growing tired of the incessant summer heat we have been experiencing.  I love the change of seasons.  Soon, there will be the smell of burning leaves and the sound of kids wandering through the neighborhood for Halloween. I will try to do something special for Halloween this year and decorate and put out candy.

Well, I am going to toodle around with my computer for awhile. I bought the 64-bit edition of Windows 7 Ultimate yesterday and I am going to install it this morning and see if it is faster and if I can find all the relevant drivers for my computer hardware.  Dad promised me last night that if I were to quit smoking again, he would give me $300 dollars a month to upgrade my computer before New Year’s arrives. The will give me ample impetus to quit smoking again. I can quit with that kind of reward on the way – my computer being more important than any amount of cigarettes smoked.  I am off to be offline for a few hours and  hopefully will be back up and running before dawn with an interesting new operating system.