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OK, I’m calling this-it’s been five months. Really the same ‘ol the whole time. Doing fine in our new house. It’s quite chill, with decent neighbors. That may be changing… The rest of the world is in a fine state, but not really affecting us that much, other than the high interest rate we’re paying. And the hot weather. Politics and general discourse is a disaster. And the weather? Yow! Been listening to OPB in the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday morning (3\/21). Another bill pay declined <sigh>. Well, the bonus this year is going to be really good, so I’ll spend some of it on that, and a trip to Vegas, but the majority needs to get saved because of the mortgage… It’s a beautiful day, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday morning. Friday noon. Friday afternoon. Don’t think I’ll get to this until after working out…and it’s Tuesday morning. So the weekend was a weekend. Workout Fri<\/a>day<\/a> and Sun<\/a>day<\/a>, pulled holly Saturday, church, libe, shop and a thing Sunday, paid a bunch of bills-the bonus was sorely needed… Erika, Salem and their friends went to Breitenbush Sunday\/Monday. I was going to make sweet & sour pork, but ran out of time. Finally started to clean up the graffiti on our concrete wall in the driveway. Needs another pass with a wire brush. Need to fix one of the fence doors too. Erika accidentally turned on a burner in kitchen 2 and started a bag of pretzels on fire-glad I was in here…the overhead fan is misbehaving… Always something needing to be done-saw a big blackberry cane over by the graffiti too. Blackberries and holly aren’t allowed here, even though blackberries are delicious, and this area is called Holly Acres. Holly grows like a weed-subterranean root systems sprout new trees. They’re both Class C invasive plants. Got Salem’s old laptop working again-we found the power plug… I copied everything over from my old one-I think I’ll retire that one, depending on how well I can get the Windows stuff working on Linux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, late morning. Will I get to this today??? Nope. Friday morning (3\/31). Trying to get some stuff done before the weekend. Not much going on. Matt is taking his driving test again today-we’ve gone out a few times, and he’s still quite awkward behind the wheel, and makes bad decisions. We’ll see. I overworked my hamstrings on Tues<\/a>day<\/a>-negatives. Did the stairmill for the first time-that was fun… Hamstrings are still sore. A Gamelan thing. Got a wire brush yesterday and took a second pass at the graffiti-looks better. Pulled that blackberry cane too. And got keys for everybody. And visited Costco. And took out the trash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday afternoon (4\/6). Busy trying to get our app in shape for uat. They’re making us upgrade a devops component and it’s breaking anything that goes against SQL Server in Python. aargh. Leaving it as is means a 30 min wait when deploying, and eventually it will fail. Anyways. Matt got his license, the usual over the weekend, I capped our second shower head, need to screw in the bracket for the broken gate, the graffiti needs another pass, got new filters for the spa, workouts (3<\/a>, not 3<\/a>\/31<\/a>, 4<\/a>\/2<\/a>, 4<\/a>\/4<\/a>)-I had to cut the Tuesday one short to pick up Salem, and drove them to school yesterday. Gamelan last night, my hamstrings are recovered. Not much else-need to cut the grass and aerate, kill the plants in the herb garden area. Erika’s phone is messed up-had to file a claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday noon. Have to wait until today to get E’s new phone-the auth from the insurance company runs on an overnight batch rather than EDI. Had to call t-mobile to check it. I got the thing fixed-a 3 line change to the ci file…now I have to make that change to 6 other lambdas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday night. Reading a good book. Upset stomach this afternoon. Work<\/a>out<\/a>, mellow weekend, shopping, church-Salem was Judas, Easter egg hunt, tidy, cooking dinner, Colin’s gf visited, no workout. Got Erika’s phone, super easy set up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday afternoon (4\/12). Went from having an upset stomach to a full-blown cold. Pretty bad one too-coughing a lot, no covid. Trying to get work done, but it’s hard. Didn’t sleep well-bagged working out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday evening. Still sick-took the day off and slept until noon. Salem is on a trip to Salem for a theater camp. Erika slept in Colin’s bed last night. Not much else-had takeout Chinese last night, got a work thing done this evening, need to take out the trash, doubt I’ll work out tomorrow…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday night, started my taxes. Need to wait to get my W-2. Not much else-got stuff done, skipped workout-feeling better, but still not 100%, made dinner, Salem is having a great time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday late morning (4\/19). Another work day-got jumped on a task I was supposed to do next week. No worries. Pretty quiet-just the way I like it. Feeling better-work<\/a>out<\/a> last night was tough though-ARC machine was ok, but working out was tough-had to stop after every machine to catch my breath. Weekend was pretty jelly too-ran Salem around Sunday to a show-a thing-they had a great time. The rest was the usual, taxes, picked Salem up after their trip, shopping, need to cut the grass soon, hopefully it’s dry this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…and now it’s late August (8\/22)… Haven’t touched this since April-a bit of a mini hiatus. Not much going on, other than the usual-work, gym, house. Went into the office for a day. Claire took Salem up to Tacoma for a show. Got a huge bonus, spent most of it. Scheduled then cancelled a trip to Vegas. It’s been a hot and dry summer. Many many apples from our tree-only a few edible ones. 62nd birthday. Listening to NPR in the car now. Taking Erika and Salem to Breitenbush Thursday. Our front porch looks nice. We all have AC in our bedrooms. Claire got a cool Strat copy. Matt got his license and is driving at work. We got new couches from Ikea, thinking my mom would come up for Matt’s graduation, but she got a bad UTI and had to cancel. Erika is trying to clear her stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday. Waiting for an eligibility specialist for OHP weirdness. Been on for 80 minutes. And my Fitbit is acting up, just after I canceled Premium, so I have to call them too. Not much else-gamelan tonight, worked out last night, elliptical<\/a> and COP 1<\/a>, had to wait for tai chi b\/c the area was being used by a-holes. Took Salem to school for rehearsal-they slept late. We have to drive to Bend to get puppets for the play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OK, I’m calling this-it’s been five months. Really the same ‘ol the whole time. Doing fine in our new house. It’s quite chill, with decent neighbors. That may be changing… The rest of the world is in a fine state, but not really affecting us that much, other than the high interest rate we’re paying. … <\/p>\n

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