Year: 2016

Monday at work-so, so tired. Maybe coffee will help. Not enough.

OK, so to recap: Fri., finished work, easy home, no gamelan party. Sat., lazy, cleaned a little, don’t remember anything else. Sun., church, sold the TX, libe, Fry’s, Sonic, shop. It’s still snowy and icy, mostly because the temps have stayed low. Rainy today and warmer. Easy in-changed my route a bit-only one switch, same time. I might have to work part of next week-this is not a bad thing. New route home-missed the bus, so major pain. Dinner, M to thing, S to bed. Wash, rinse, repeat. Tue., same thing-the route home was a mess-everything running oddly. Dinner, S to bed, bed. Weds., see Tues. Took my regular route home, much less lateness. Dinner, S to bed, bed. Working through my past dream journal-currently in ’96-have to go to ’90-long slog.

Dreamed about alien visitation last night-contact, no communication-all I said was my name, didn’t hear anything. There was a little gray alien in a column of light that I assume was a transport device. I used to have these “plane crashing, aliens visit” dreams about once a month-now they’re sporadic. I think it’s more to do with higher worlds trying to connect with my waking consciousness rather than straight alien visitations, but who knows with dreams?

So, home, dinner, S to bed, bed. Woke up early, left early, to work early. Finally got the official work reorg and…nothing really changes except my boss’ boss. Left early after a nice chat with a co-worker. Home, dinner at Izzy’s, drive around, ice cream, home, S to bed. Tired, then not. Up, hang out drinking coffee, tidy, laundry, church, fondue, S to bed. Up late, S got us up at 7, opened presents, clothes for me, church, beignets, tidy, nap, dinner, S to bed. Moved my pi wordpress to the x10 site.  Watched the last Harry Potter and the extras. Up late, sleep in, hang out, tidy a little, line, shop, Whole Bowl, got some guitar references and a uke book for S. More last Harry Potter extras. Tue., fam visited Sally Showman, I cleaned, plus a little of my stuff. Dinner, movie. S to bed.

And we have the decorations out, but no tree yet. I think we have most of the presents for the kids.

Another weekend over. Pretty quiet-Fri. was home, S to bed, very tired. Asleep early. Sat., up, school meeting, E to hairdresser’s, S to friends’ and the Nutcracker. Libe, sat and read, get E, lunch at Pizzicato, browse, shop, bins, pick up S, dinner, S to bed, watch drone racing. Up Sun., skipped church, cleaned the house, watched more drone racing. E and S home, clean more-wash, vacuum, tidy, dishes, dinner, fold clothes, S to bed, and here we are. To bed late, up on time, to work, work, one of the people in our group is leaving. I discovered that E’s reading glasses work for my right eye only (my left eye is fine up close, bad long, and the right one is fine long), so I took out the left lens, and now reading, phone and computer screens are super crisp.

So, home, sis got us a Christmas gift that got recalled, dinner, S to bed, check out the Mirage (working great), laundry and dishes, bed. Up, missed bus, alternate route, work. Gonna snow tomorrow afternoon. Home, dinner, S to bed, laundry-really the same ‘ol…

And Weds. was awfully fun. Got to work, work, started snowing about 1ish. Left about 2:30, thought taking a different route home. Big. Mistake. When Portland gets snow, everything locks up, and in this case, everyone left for home at the same time-the map was a sea of red. I sat on a bus for an hour to get to downtown. Another hour to get to another bus. That bus went onto snow route, so I got off and walked to get another bus. Waited, and waited, so I walked. 3 miles in a snowstorm. Nice to have those crampons. The 3 mile walk was the shortest bit of the trip. It was nice, though, quiet, and I was properly dressed. Brought back memories of walking back from the Jadrych’s in high school. M likes it too. Saw one big crash at the bottom of a closed hill. And a jackknifed truck at the bottom of the hill by our apartment.

Working from home Thu., got the car from a friends’, shopped, home, work. The usual work from home. Going out to get a laptop for E-failed. It’s getting slushy. More work, dinner, S to bed. Woke up early, E was snoring, so no sleep. Easy in, snowy and icy, but crampons rock. Work.

I have a big list of things to do, and a gamelan party tonight.

 

So they said it was going to snow, but no snow. Well, maybe a little in the air, but mostly rain.

OK, so this weekend: clean, shop, church, libe. Quiet on Fri., made my bus. Cleaned Sat., E slept very late. Got the porch cleaned up-they sent us a nastygram. Pulled the xmas stuff out of the closet. Late up Sat., the thing. Church Sun., shop w/E, all over. Tired, so tired from shopping. Dinner, S to bed, work, bed, up today, no snow. Another work day, home, phone meeting, dinner, S to bed, laze, tidy, bed. Up again, another day, kind of restless, having trouble recalling my dreams-need to write them down right away.

OK, so Weds.-very cold, potluck at work-the container for the fruit salad opened all over the bottom of my bag and my pants. Aargh-had to clean it up. Work, potluck-ate too much. Hard to work, but got stuff done. E picked me up and it took an hour to get home. Gamelan-cleaning the room, drinking beer. Home, snack, bed. Up this morning, WFH. No snow until 11, then a bit, then more, then freezing rain. Got work done. Phone demo up next-done-everyone likes it. Dinner, S to bed, work on WP upgrade, changed theme. To bed, up-no school, S up early. Left early, just caught the bus, no train, got off to go to the 75, no 75, 33 to 99 to downtown, 77 cancelled, walked to the 15, just made it. E gave me crampon-like shoe slip-ons-like chains for your feet. They work great. No one else from my group is here. Got stuff done.

This is pretty cool. I like cool maps-for many years I had the State of World Atlas, they updated it, and need to do it again. I have a few things to do this weekend-the usual, but a few more, and I need to get to the tidying and pick up some books at the libe.

is barreling it’s way towards us. I have a week enforced holiday-hopefully there will be lots of snow so we can go to the mountain and ski. M and S want to learn.

Anyways, the president-elect is at it again with the Twitter, and is picking people to ruin the gov’t. The Greens are doing recounts in flipped states-like that means anything. I chatted with an old school friend this morning. I’m trying to sell all my extra music gear.
Yesterday was work, home, dinner, S to bed, computer, me to bed. Trying to diminish the number of unread printed things I have. Then on to the boxes of paper. Then more purging. I think I’m in good shape, and as the tidy lady says: first your stuff.

Hopefully I’ll end up with tidy-I read the tidying book, and maybe that will be a pointed stick. Getting rid of unused music stuff is a big start too, as it’s all consolidated into the Kronos, QY and guitar gear now. Better, because it’s all integrated and in one place-I can improve my piano, and have a place to record at the same time. The only thing left is a way to do sampling in the field-I have a 58, but it has to be attached to the Kronos-a portable recorder is in my future-Zoom or Tascam, Tascam or Zoom?

OK, so work, home, long phone meeting, S to bed, yummy dinner, bed. I wanted to practice piano, but no. Finished up 3 magazines, working on a Chinese philosophy book and one on Masonry. Up, work, home-missed bus, E on a thing, sold the QY for $40. S to bed, dinner, bed. Finished the t’ai chi book, halfway through the masonry book-it’s basically Anthro in Masonic form, written in 1922. Slowly making my way through the dream book.