We have moved and love it, tonight is our first night here and wifey cooked us a family dinner and we ate togetger at an honest to goodness dining table -- literally never happens for us. We have the essentials in, board games mostly, but still lots to do and it's going tk be a month before we are finished I think. Back to work in an office next week, not by choice.
Hubski Zoom Had a great chat with _refugee_, elizabeth, and c_hawkthorne last week. Topics included when is gossip gossip and when is it information sharing. Conclusion: Gossip might negatively change the attitude of the listener towards the person under discussion. Information sharing might possibly help the speaker change or understand their own attitude towards the person under discussion. More Hubski Zoom I look forward to more Hubski Zoom. Jitsi, actually. Many of you are probably sitting at your computers work-zooming, or school-zooming, or family-zooming. I barely turn on my computer, so it can be amusing. Winter, snow, cold and warm soup . . .
It's supposed to snow, but it is 45 degrees (F) and sunny. But it's Seattle, so it could be snowing in two hours. Who knows? It's February and February in Seattle currently has camellias and crocus blooming in our yard, pleasant beach walk with my wife on Alki Beach last night, and the possibility of snow and temps down into the teens. February is always like this. I have plenty of work to do for my jobby job. But not too much. A good pace. Big personal projects this year are to resurface the back deck (wood frame is good, but going to replace the surface with a composite), install a pocket door for the downstairs bedroom, majorly modify a closet in the same room, and rototill the mulch we laid down last year, to prepare the front ex-lawn for planting a veggie garden. And I'm just about done converting a steamer trunk into a whisky cabinet. Hope everyone else is plugging along and keeping their head above water...
Would love to see a picture of your soon to be whiskey cabinet. Sounds like that would be a fun project.
I’m jumping out of my skin this week, Hubski. Been working as our night shift packaging manager for 8ish weeks now with a lot of success, setting factory records, have 4 supervisors and over 100 employees under them all reporting to me. It’s wild, it’s good, but the schedule isn’t sustainable for 5 days a week which I made clear going into this. I wouldn’t mind 3 nights a week and 2 days a week of work, skiing in the morning has been spectacular...but... I’ve been so jittery this week and itching for something different or something hard. February is a tough time of year, I haven’t climbed any mountains lately, no trail races, my fitness plateau has broke, finally, and is so great to see, so now I’m working on bouldering strength. Maybe I’m just ready for spring because Jesus I’m not so much bored so much as wondering what’s next. 29 and managing in a Fortune 500 and climbing stuff like Rainier has me putting a lot of expectations on my 30s and I gotta back down from that.
Here's something you wrote on Wednesday, August 14, 2014: Explore yourself, explore others, explore your interest, explore your surroundings. Explore as much as you can because you probably won't have as much freedom again. If you think you're going to regret not doing something, do it. That's something that took me a while to come to terms with and agree with. It sounds like you still agree with your then self.
I have a cat. His name is Claude. I'd share a picture but I can't be bothered posting it on imgur. Suffice it to say he's the best cat.
My cats are Tess and Hugo, and they are also the best cats.
I'm going climbing tomorrow! The climbing gym near me has been closed for a while due to covid but they are now back with a fancy booking system and a hard limit of 8 people in the boulder-room at a time. I am beyond hyped to climb again and a bit worried about how much strength I'll have lost. At least I'll get the satisfaction of managing problems twice..?
Went out yesterday morning to warm up the car so that I could take the cat to the vet and discovered that it had snowed another three inches. That is two and half feet in the past couple of weeks. It has been years since we have had so much snow. I have always said that if it is going to be cold it had better snow to make the cold worth it. Snow makes the dead dreary gray landscape of New England much nicer. The shoveling provides good exercise and warms up the body. And snowshoeing. God I hate being cold.
My cat broke the F5 button off my keyboard. He was standing on my computer when I touched the wrong thing on my phone and it started playing some video loudly. He spooked and ran, breaking off a key I almost never use. This joins my broken J key that my other cat broke a year or two ago when laying across my computer and stretching, catching a claw on the key and pulling. I got J mostly reattached. Both keys I almost never use. The computer is nine years old so it's hard to be too fussed. I need to figure out how to snap the F5 key back on. I can see it's partially broken, but I think what's left will stick if I can figure it out.