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I was halfway through "Swallows and Amazons" before I started getting really into it, but this morning I've had a hard time putting it down. I just managed to drag myself away and have a shower, after two pots of tea and at least two hours of reading. Now I think I can go get the paint for the car. :)

More nightmares last night. But that was hours ago, of course, and I've done lots of reading since, so I feel better now. I know it involved a guy waving a gun in my face. I know I'm too much of a worrier. Honestly it's not really that I think there's going to be violence against me, but I do often feel hated in this job. It doesn't help that IRS agents say they're glad TSA was invented because it gives the public someone to hate more than them. ;)

I had to do training last night - at work before I came home - about changes in the SOP, and I really didn't understand some of them, it was vague and disconnected because of the way it was presented, and I was trying to cram so much reading in so quickly that I was confused, and where it's done in these online classes I couldn't highlight things. I didn't even have paper to keep notes on - I should have gotten some, it might have relieved my tension a bit. I hate that kind of thing, because people expect me to know, because they think of me as a trainer. I'm not, I'm only a mentor, but even people who I've been working with since the start seem to think I'm a trainer and check with me about rules, it's weird.

Must go before I get annoyed again, thinking about it. Or more annoyed.

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I finally got my paint for the car! And I got my black sandals cut down so they fit my feet better! Okay, it's not a perfect job, there's a bit of a corner, but it took the shoe repair guy like 2 minutes and he charged me $4, and now I don't have a mile of sole sticking out in front and behind my feet. So, Yay! :) I can probably sand off that bit of a corner easily if I want to bother. Now I know that a razor knife is NOT the way to go with these foam sandal soles - he said a power sander was the thing to use.

And now that I know where the shoe shop is I'll probably go back with other things. I can't believe it's taken me so long to get around to finding a shoe repair shop. I need to make a list of things a small town needs, so that if I ever get around to building my own town I'll be able to plan in everything. (Okay, I probably won't be able to build my own town for real, but maybe I can write about a town. ;))

Help me out, here, what do we need? The perfect town to live in would have what?

- General Store
- Shoe Repair
- Seamstress/Tailor for alterations on clothes.
- Coffee/Tea hangout
- Breakfast all-day restaurant (Open 24-hours, per ladyfalcon.)
- Dancing
- Public transit
( editing the list to add your suggestions and some commentary )