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The Pope died. R.I.P. Not much else-I’m trying to keep myself calm, but failing a bit. Everyone is trying hard, but it’s not easy. I’m focusing on, well, nothing. At least some people are stepping up-I don’t know if we can. I think the best thing is to just stay afloat. And watch the hummingbirds feed as I work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday afternoon (3\/17). Haven’t picked this up since the last one was posted, a week and a half ago…nothing striking has happened. Got a ladder from the neighbors’ and trimmed our front porch bush, tidied and blew out the leaves on the porch too. There was a bunch of shells, fluff and poop under the couch, so mice. Erika’s working through her stuff. Matt got his new desktop working-the new power supply did it, then bios, Windows, apps. Other than that, working, workouts-still with an achy hip and tightness. Tried running-not yet. We’re totally out of money-did something to fix that-yuck. Did my taxes-owe the feds almost what I’m getting back from the state. Paid some bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday noon, yesterday was St. Pat’s. By chance, I was wearing green. This was a big holiday in college-I met one of my shortlived girlfriends at the Balcony one St. Pats. They started early with green beer for a nickel, then a dime, then a quarter. There were a lot of extremely drunk kids that day. Not much else-had to take pick up Claire last night from the train station, and take Salem to school this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, April Fool’s day. The usual has been going on. Got a call from my mom panicking about one of those scam virus things you get when you click on a dodgy link. I told her to close it and restart. Her computer guy took care of it. Our washer’s drain pump is failing-warranty service, here it comes. Not much else-got the bonus. The usual work, workout, shopping, chauffeur, etc. Cut the grass-need to do it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday morning-up early to change a password-East Coast company, changing at “7 am” Well, it’s 7:45, and no change. Got the washer fixed-there was a piece of plastic blocking the inlet. Not much else-I upset Claire yesterday because Erika was late and made her miss her bus, I got upset and the feeling multiplies. I thought we were ok, but no. Not much else-going to cut the grass, need to get a doc notarized and get my birth certificate for real id. Work, workouts, laundry, gamelan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday (4\/10), listening to an all hands. Not much, except all the chaos. Fine workouts, except for cutting things short because chauffeur duty. Went all around Sunday-Scottish bar for brunch-meh, then driving around-got a better extension cord for the spa, and an edge bracket for the dead door. Cut the grass, edge trimmed, and blew leaves from porches Saturday. The buds are beginning to open, and there’s a hummingbird at the feeder. A huge ring around the moon last night after gamelan. Got eggs from Vera too-had one on a bagel for lunch. My bonang on the one lancaran is improving-learning flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday morning (4\/14). Pretty quiet, though it is mostly that all the time. Worked out the usual. Went to an “estate sale” yesterday at a pretty cool house. A bit further removed from the busy streets, which is nice, but less convenient. Also needs a lot more work than this one does. Matt cut the grass, I put the front gate back up, and it actually latches now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another week gone-4\/21. Pretty quiet, day off Friday-took Claire to the train station, breakfast, Powell’s, messed my back up working out-hard to sleep well, fine gamelan Weds., blew out the dryer vent Sat., cut the driveway strip. That’s it. Got my birth certificate. Think I’ll call this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Pope died. R.I.P. Not much else-I’m trying to keep myself calm, but failing a bit. Everyone is trying hard, but it’s not easy. I’m focusing on, well, nothing. At least some people are stepping up-I don’t know if we can. I think the best thing is to just stay afloat. And watch the hummingbirds … <\/p>\n

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