My exciting life, this place
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It’s been lovely the past little while, after a wild week. More fun to come? Things are humming along at the same usual cadence-broke for the 2 weeks after mortgage payment, bill pays, overspending. They jacked up our electricity rates. Most everyone is doing fine. We have a show coming up March 9th. Always have stuff to do. Not so much caring about the wider world, even though a lot of stuff is happening. Sorry, trying to stay afloat, and getting involved in bigger stuff will just mess me up. Watching X-Files from the beginning-up to Season 3.
Wednesday (1/10) evening. Listening to my coworkers work-my stuff is done. Busy-got one thing all done, figured out what was wrong with another one, more to come. Nice workout last night-elliptical and negs, had to wait twice. Not much else, Claire has a cold, Erika is recovering (not so much), Matt and Claire are back to school-Claire’s taking Japanese. Gamelan tonight. Cold and rainy, gonna be icy and maybe snowy this weekend. Matt is driving for work-we’ll see how he does.
Thursday noon, watching a political thing. Not much else-prepping for password changes. Waiting for guidance on another thing. Fine gamelan-I’m getting better at making mistakes and just continuing-I barged through on another thing-not sure if I was wrong or not. Kids melted down by the end. I’m still crushing…
Friday morning in the meeting. Someone changed the way a bit was calculated, and it’s not working right, and there’s a demo. Afternoon-lunchtime-gotta get a thing done first. It’s been lightly snowing off and on since 11 or so. Nothing sticking yet. Claire called out-coughing a lot. Glad they’re home, waiting for Mathias to be done, and Erika and Salem to get home-I’m not going to the gym-just too uncertain whether it’ll freeze before I get done. Back from lunch-Claire has covid. I think I’m done-not much else except password changes left on my plate, and I can’t do that on a Friday afternoon.
Wednesday (1/17) morning. Yet again, we are out of ca$h. But thankfully we’re in the middle of an ice storm so we’re not spending money. Weekend was super snowy and cold, so we didn’t get out, except to the store on foot. Glad I have spikes, but I wore the wrong shoes the first time, so my chilblains got way worse. No working out, no nothing. Monday was a holiday.
Tuesday (1/30) morning. Got a production release out last night, and 5 (now 6, now 7, now 9) transactions in this morning and no failures. I was worried, because the messaging framework has many moving parts. I did blow it last week when prepping, but that had a lot less visibility, so glad it happened then. So, weather continued into the weekend, but it was quite warm this last one. Got the tarp up for the spa, I had to fill it after all the rain. And we had some water in the crawlspace, bought a pump and got a lot of it out. The rest just seeped into the ground. Put up Salem’s swing. I need to dig out more for the shed, if anyone will let me have the time, plus also cleaning the dryer vent. Spent yesterday in the ER-Erika had double vision and tachy, and her doc wanted her in. I got work done upstairs, and they did a bunch of stuff, gave her a heart monitor and that was it. Went to a cool witch shop Sunday, Salem’s play Friday and Saturday. Skipped a couple of workouts, but went Sunday for a quickie. Got through my reading backlog by speed reading…
Wednesday morning. Listening to a co-worker go through the thing from last week. Another quickie workout last night. Erika’s going to up her therapy frequency. Salem’s on finals week. Evening-time to quit, but I’m in a meeting. We’re doing password changes-got one done, the other is postponed because of technical difficulties that aren’t ours. We’re fixing the bomb from last week.
Friday afternoon in a retro meeting. Had to do an unexpected change. Maybe leaving early. Did get out earlier.
Monday morning (2/5). End of sprint, and the stuff I can get done is done. Putting in tasks and a deployment is it. Ok weekend, got the dryer vent done, a few more square feet of digging done before I broke the shovel, pulling blackberries, and vacuuming. Found a cat’s skeleton in the back yard. Bought another shovel for the same price as a replacement handle. Workouts on Friday and Sunday. Erika and Salem went to Beaverton on Saturday. Ended work a bit early on Friday. Powered through my reading-finished The Burning Page in a day! One book left-ordered the next Invisible Library book from the libe.
Tuesday noon. Trying to get things started. Not feeling very energetic. Afternoon. Had lunch, and a big cookie. Not feeling well after that. Gotta untangle this stuff. Didn’t. Time to go to the gym.
Tuesday (2/13) close to noon. Pretty quiet-password changes are slowly getting done, finishing up getting the area prepped for a shed. Saw a ufo last night-was out in the back with Matt, looked up and saw a dim gray crescent shaped thing moving slowly from west to east, completely silent, no lights. Hit my light instead of the camera. Went to the side of the house and didn’t see it. Very odd. Not much else-vacuumed, got my Fire remote working in the living room. Ran around over the weekend-library, binz, kids from point a to point b, a woo festival in the Lloyd, worked out on the usual schedule. I think the spa has a slow leak in the bubble system. Need to mow the lawn this weekend. We have no $$$, as usual. Need to file taxes to get the kicker-that will help some. Gamelan-we have a show in a month-Mindy wants me to start up suling again. I think I’ll call this.
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In a big car, going somewhere in OC. I turn right, everyone else turns left. Go on the freeway but it ends up on surface streets.
With a girl in her bedroom. We’re having sex, but she wants to insert some long thin thing in. I say fine, but we need something to keep me going. I say to lick my butt. She grabs red pills and viagra. I take them. We’re looking at odd fruit and she’s saying how her last one lied all the time. I say i won’t do that and tell her that I’m married. She says she knows that.
Outside on the roof. It snowed a ton and we’re making sculptures. I decide to make a replica of the pyramids. Get it started, have to go downstairs. Come back and it’s mostly melted and some other people are there doing something.
Walk around a convention center.
At mom and dad’s, dad is getting some minor surgery. Mom isn’t supposed to know. Walk around to the garage, he’s in a bed and the Dr. had to take out his gallbladder too. He wakes up.
Moving offices-they put me in the wrong place. Go over to where they put me and look around.
Meg’s getting married.
In an arena, climbing up a wall with cardboard on it. Have a box of cereal. Trying to find a place to eat it. get to the top and scoot over. I’ve forgotten the milk-climb down, get it, climb back up-it’s harder. Left the cereal down-it’s full of milk-nudge someone but it’s the wrong cereal. Find mine, walk over to get a spoon and there’s a tv showing me and the kids meeting some author.
Walk out of my room, wait for some lady to go back in before going into the bathroom.
Please tip the writer. Whatever amount you like-every little bit helps, and I’ll do a shoutout. We are always short of cash, especially with a big mortgage. Let me know if you or someone you know needs web design/development-my rates aren’t bad, and I’m more than pretty good at it. Java/database/AWS/UI too. ThankYouVeryMuch!
Here we are in the new year. Election year, almost halfway through the Twenties. What does that mean? I’ve been realizing some things, but society isn’t one of them, other that that we all have to live together on this small planet in an unimaginably enormous universe. They’ve been more about harmonizing the various conceptions of where we sit in the grand scheme of things. I’ve seen enormous gears, some sort of coarse to fine thing, the usual Jacob’s Ladder thing that I got years ago. Anyways, time marches inexorably into the new year, and we meet each day as it arrives. That’s the best we can do.
Thursday morning, last day of November. Trying to focus on work. It started raining today.
Monday afternoon (12/4). Trying to get stuff done. Fine weekend-workout Friday, quiet Sat. & Sun. Workout Sun. Windy Sat. night. Still sore from skating-esp. my left foot and adductors.
Tuesday afternoon-need to pick up Salem soon. Pretty quiet-warm and rainy. Contemplated the immensity of the universe lying in bed last night.
Wednesday morning. Erika is off with Christina, Claire swiped the car because late for school, so I’m here alone. What do I do now?
Wednesday morning (12/13). No milk, so had to have an omelette for breakfast. Such a sacrifice. OK workout last night-only had to wait for the last exercise, A bit of a cluster getting there and back though. Not much else. Short workout Sunday-had to get Salem from a choir concert. Going to one tonight instead of gamelan.
Friday morning. Trying to get stuff done. We’re totally out of ca$h this payday-the joy of a huge mortgage. Not much else-Salem did fine in the concert-we talked last night about sound for one of the pieces. They’re in the alto section, and you can rarely hear individual voices, but their mouth positions look good. Claire is having a lot of “friends” over.
Monday evening (12/18), finishing up work. We’re totally out of money until next Thursday. The joy of a huge mortgage. Quiet weekend, set up the spa yesterday. Workouts as usual.
Tuesday morning, listening to an all-hands meeting. Noon, working on finishing up some stuff, trying to get the spa in working order. Put hardener and chlorine shock in last night. Alkaline today. Check it after working out, adjust chlorine and alkalinity, work on pH tomorrow. Pump, blower, and heater are working fine. I’m having thoughts. Not sure what to make of that. I messed up a work thing, we’ll see if maybe we can get it going tomorrow.
Thursday afternoon. Listening to an interview with Andy Summers. Last day before a week holiday. Fun last night. OK workout Tuesday. No gamelan until the new year. Totally out of ca$h for the next week. Tip if you read this.
Wednesday afternoon, 12/27, sitting the binz parking lot-just can’t take it. Walked in and was overloaded from the start. Got what I needed really fast and left. Good Christmas-Matt got me a fucking death whistle! It’s really cool-starts off as white noise, then the screaming starts (found out later that I can make it bark like a Chihuahua). Busy weekend shopping, internet got shut off yesterday-paid the bill and back it came. No church Christmas Eve-just couldn’t do it. Fine workouts all weekend, Sunday was early because closing early, Boxing Day was the usual workout. Cut my forehead open on the handle of the dip machine-bled a lot, but fine now. Claire went to a party Sunday night-drove them and Maia from hir PWS class home!
Thursday afternoon, lying in bed-rolled my ankle taking out the trash last night-it’s a bit sore, but nothing more. Being lazy. Should go do something. Have to pick up Erika at the binz-Claire has the car, she went to OHSU, Claire picked her up and took her to the binz-going to pick her up sometime.
Friday afternoon, waiting for Erika. Been sleeping almost to noon this week. Nice. Started on leveling the back where the shed will go. Replacing the shower head in our shower. Turned out to be missing some important parts-like it was a return. Exchanged it and it went in fine, I need to tighten it up a scosche.
Wednesday noon (1/3/2024!), back to work. Pretty quiet over New Year’s-skipped workout on Friday, dug some more out in the back-need to go down about 6 inches to get level. Took Claire to the train stop in OC-it’s cute-they spent New Year’s in Eugene with friends. Picked them up last night, with a friend, they had a good time, but Eugene was boring. Quickie workout Tuesday, early workout New Year’s Eve.
Thursday afternoon. Back at work, lots to do. Got one thing done, a couple of changes, and an issue.
Monday (1/8) morning. I think I’ll finish this. Pretty quiet weekend-it’s been cold and rainy-going to be very cold this week. Erika has diverticulitis, and the antibiotics are making her itch really bad-ran a few errands for her. Claire has been using the car a bit more. Fine workouts Friday and Sunday-pushing it a bit on the runs. Need to go over tai chi to realign with the canon-the 2 I’ve done so far seem to be just minor changes.
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Herd some animals into their pen. Walk around to get them all in. The other dangerous one is out-go around to open the pen-talk to it and get it change to it’s alternate form, which is safe. She does, and it’s a beautiful girl in a tiny one piece. I go up and hug her and she starts kissing me. I go to open the pen and a bunch of women come out and are shocked by the barely dressed woman. I tell them to go get a towel and get back to opening the pen. She wanders away, I get the pen open.
In a suite, the girl is there and she tangles with Jim K who is sleepwalking. I get her untangled and away. A painting has a bunch of holes in it. I get the artist to come and repair it.
Walk through a garden, go to let a deliveryman with a water bottle in, but it’s a water heater, so he goes to a bigger gate and someone else lets him in. I walk to the main gate, but there’s something going on with filming and celebrities, and I walk through the ropes and along the mall corridor. There are a ton of fans behind the rope. Get to the end and go back to the garden, overhear someone on the phone saying that he noticed that no one was helping me.