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hrj Let's see, last posted on the 19th which was Tuesday...
This week was mostly madly trying to get all my work deadlines finished before taking a week off. It was rough, but I made it. Down to three open investigations to come back to. (Well, and whatever I get assigned while I'm gone. At least my boss was nice and avoided assigning me anything new at the last minute.) One of the remaining investigations will make an amusing story once I know what the ending is. If I can find a politic way of describing it.
Tuesday was farmers' market day; Wednesday I did the rest of the grocery shopping (milk, eggs, flour, and a few things the farmers market doesn't supply). This week involved two trips to the UPS store to pick up packages. If I'd known they'd come in on consecutive days, I'd have waited. The packages were the Le Creuset cookware that I picked for my corporate gift and half of the pasta maker supplies from Sur La Table. (I'd have been happier if they waited until the whole order was available, but they may have been shipping from different origins.) So I don't have the rolling machine yet, but I do have the ravioli-making stuff.
This should be my trigger to move into the next kitchen sorting-out project, which is pulling out all the pots, gadgets, etc., sifting through it for things I don't need to keep (always ironic when in the middle of a shipping spree), and trying to find a better organization system so that I can get at things more easily and don't forget I have them. I fantasize about having things organized by work units (e.g., all the baking things in one area, the stove-cooking things in another, etc.) but realistically I think organizing them by size and shape (as well as frequency of access) makes more sense.
An odd thing happened around Wednesday: I started feeling like I had the mental energy to work on to-do items that aren't part of the core daily routine. I started going through the email in-box. I shipped some songbooks to the person who'd sent me a SASE a month before. I ordered the rest of the colors of tapestry yarn I need for the Rabbit Hunters needlepoint. I went through the open tabs of booksellers with Kalamazoo specials and did my medieval book shopping. I'm not sure if I"m really coming out of quarantine-fog or if I'm just pre-energized for my vacation. I've been feeling lately like I'm finally getting enough sleep regularly (and then last night I slept really badly, which is par for the course when I should be able to feel utterly relaxed).
But here I am: on vacation for the week. It's not a completely empty schedule because I originally planned this week off for BayCon and then the Nebula Conference. BayCon got postponed but the Nebulas went online. And, in fact, the first Nebula event is a zoom reception that starts in about an hour, so I should really track down my log-on information and make sure I'm set. (The conference proper doesn't start until much later in the week.) I've been joking that my oft-broken pledge to take at least one entire week of vacation that doesn't involve leaving my house was the jinx that caused Covid-19. It won't be the best of weeks to be in a non-AC house in Concord because there are 100+ temperatures projected for two days, and temperatures in the 90s for three others. I may need to set up a sprinkler in my back yard and run through it periodically.
This week was mostly madly trying to get all my work deadlines finished before taking a week off. It was rough, but I made it. Down to three open investigations to come back to. (Well, and whatever I get assigned while I'm gone. At least my boss was nice and avoided assigning me anything new at the last minute.) One of the remaining investigations will make an amusing story once I know what the ending is. If I can find a politic way of describing it.
Tuesday was farmers' market day; Wednesday I did the rest of the grocery shopping (milk, eggs, flour, and a few things the farmers market doesn't supply). This week involved two trips to the UPS store to pick up packages. If I'd known they'd come in on consecutive days, I'd have waited. The packages were the Le Creuset cookware that I picked for my corporate gift and half of the pasta maker supplies from Sur La Table. (I'd have been happier if they waited until the whole order was available, but they may have been shipping from different origins.) So I don't have the rolling machine yet, but I do have the ravioli-making stuff.
This should be my trigger to move into the next kitchen sorting-out project, which is pulling out all the pots, gadgets, etc., sifting through it for things I don't need to keep (always ironic when in the middle of a shipping spree), and trying to find a better organization system so that I can get at things more easily and don't forget I have them. I fantasize about having things organized by work units (e.g., all the baking things in one area, the stove-cooking things in another, etc.) but realistically I think organizing them by size and shape (as well as frequency of access) makes more sense.
An odd thing happened around Wednesday: I started feeling like I had the mental energy to work on to-do items that aren't part of the core daily routine. I started going through the email in-box. I shipped some songbooks to the person who'd sent me a SASE a month before. I ordered the rest of the colors of tapestry yarn I need for the Rabbit Hunters needlepoint. I went through the open tabs of booksellers with Kalamazoo specials and did my medieval book shopping. I'm not sure if I"m really coming out of quarantine-fog or if I'm just pre-energized for my vacation. I've been feeling lately like I'm finally getting enough sleep regularly (and then last night I slept really badly, which is par for the course when I should be able to feel utterly relaxed).
But here I am: on vacation for the week. It's not a completely empty schedule because I originally planned this week off for BayCon and then the Nebula Conference. BayCon got postponed but the Nebulas went online. And, in fact, the first Nebula event is a zoom reception that starts in about an hour, so I should really track down my log-on information and make sure I'm set. (The conference proper doesn't start until much later in the week.) I've been joking that my oft-broken pledge to take at least one entire week of vacation that doesn't involve leaving my house was the jinx that caused Covid-19. It won't be the best of weeks to be in a non-AC house in Concord because there are 100+ temperatures projected for two days, and temperatures in the 90s for three others. I may need to set up a sprinkler in my back yard and run through it periodically.
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Date: 2020-05-23 09:03 pm (UTC)5/21 temperature 97.6. Bike ride to main post office masked. Entered PO to verify that the pre-paid shipping on the envelope was all good. Handed off envelope but no receiving. Picked up a box at the UPS store (in the strip mall on Willow Pass down by 242). Masked, mutual contact of objects but no direct contact.
5/22 temperature 97.4. Standard bike ride, masked.
5/23 temperature 97.4, which settles the question of whether my low baseline temperature is because I usually get up fairly early. Today I lazed in bed until well after 10am and it was still this low. No plans to leave the property today.
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Date: 2020-05-24 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-05-25 05:59 pm (UTC)