May 21 Non-update - really down to goofing off!

I can't believe it has been almost 3 weeks since I updated this. It reflects upon the level of discipline and motivation to task, I suppose, but it has been a "busy" time but without major events. I will bore you with a few details and move on.

The first week of the month (May) was accounted for by another round trip to TN. Joan's bachelor brother in our (joint) home town had surgery on his other eye and needed some oversight, so to speak, and drivers, etc. So over the hill and back we went once again. The surgery went well. He has been also in the midst of getting some repairs done on his barn roof and locating and moving two (18 wheeler-sized) trailers of "stuff" from his old Oak Ridge storage area to his barn lot. One of the traiers is accounted for and the other seems to be missing. They assured him that it would be there soon.

During my down time there , mom and I (home about 4 miles away from Joan's brother) spent some good times together, doing repairs, napping, making short trips to Lowe's, watching TV, etc. I have been able to convince her to continue having my cousin (in-law) who has a yard service mow her yard for this year. He mowed it part of last summer when she was sick. Though she is 88 in July, she has a riding lawn mower and a half acre of grass that she is head set on doing herself. I think she will let him do it for now, especially since her mower is not cutting level at all times. I worked on that and thought I had it fixed, but it is still off a little.

Then it was back home for further loafing, contemplation, etc. We had a small bash for Joan for Mother's Day and she seemed to enjoy it. A few days later, our 89 year old former neighbor who now lives in Black Mountain in a retirement center, came to stay a few days. She and Joan were head set on spending a few days at the beach, but the weather and other factors discouraged that. We took her to Burlington today to meet her son in law who lives in Asheville, but had been there for a week babysitting his grand kids while the kids went to Myrtle Beach.

I have been by the office two or three times. It seems a different place but I miss it. I have been continuing some of my" studies," but there is not a sense of urgency right now. The Legislative Commission canceled their last meeting, I understand which could mean that other things have risen above them in perceived importance in the new session. Several crisp, self contained, and doable legislative packets with clarity of purpose and results need be developed for the new thrusts in this session. Most seem to have been tied up on other things to focus the head time to make it happen.

I am preparing a paper on climate change/AQ inventory implementation issues that I was asked to do, and it is progressing well. A l0t of things are probably going to happen before it is published however, so the urgency to get it done is just not there yet. There are so many climate law/policy matters that are absolutely going to change and many that are likely to change that it does not seem overly productive to do anything substantial. Work on adaptation and mitigation technologies and policies must continue in the meanwhile.
The TCR protocols are final and many/most(?) people do not seem to have even read them yet. Same goes for the certification protocol which will be finalized (post comments) soon.

I am finding that there is an art to goofing off. After 42 years of continuo8usly being a bureaucrat, it is not easy to sit and take a nap or take time out to actually fulfill some of the plans that have been forming all that time. For example, I am starting another blog on emission factors with notification to the many state contacts that