In a few weeks my parents will fly out here to hang out, do some tourist stuff and drive all over the Midwest.

So that means the house needs to be spotless, I have to buy new bedding so my mom won't give me shit about it, I need to take the new car in for its service before the drives, I need to run the car through the fancy car wash for the first time before they get here, I need to develop an alcohol addiction to deal with the incoming stress, I need to clean, I need to fix up some stuff in the yard, and I need to make the joint look like a normal well adjusted human being lives here.

I also have two major astronomy events coming up and a talk to prepare for, a major upgrade in progress at work and the whole Ohio Valley is about to become useless to anyone who works for a living due to the nuttiness that the the Kentucky Derby festival.

Somewhere in there I have a final (hopefully) doctor appointment from the accident last year, meetings with lawyers, and trying to get some time in with my friends. All you young people who think that once you become an adult the whole parent-kid dynamic changes? Lol, how adorable. I say this as someone who does love his parents, but we are vastly different people with different world views, outlooks, politics, living comfort levels etc. The real stressor is that they are elderly, and this may be the last time that they come visit me and I get to host them in a house that I own, feed them food that I bought and cooked, and in general get to dawdle over them for a few weeks. Fortunately my mom and dad are in good health, have solid finances, and otherwise have good genes and should be around for many more years. They just hate traveling.

I should be able to come up for air in about August.