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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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