SEP 20

2024

Friday: Julie was stuck on a call when a cat fight in the hallway woke me up around noon. A survey of the locals indicated that Mim had disappeared somewhere in the basement, so Julie and I took turns exploring the basement throughout the afternoon to try to locate her. I even climbed into the crawlspace, despite being unable to find my kneepads, but there was no sign of her. It was a huge relief when she turned up, seemingly none the worse for wear. Searching the basemeent is a lot less troubling than searching the neighborhood whenever we thought a cat might have gotten out without our knowledge, but I'd still prefer to live somewhere without a crumbling cellar with a rickety old crawlspace.

For lunch, all I had was a bowl of cereal, after which I did the dishes, then started chopping vegetables for dinner. I didn't buy enough zucchini for the orzo recipe I was following, but I had twice the volume of onion required, and I included some breakfast sausage as a side dish. I suggested we each do our own thing as it was pretty late by the time dinner was ready, but I mostly just watched youtube videos. The latest Castle Super Beast podcast episode has me a little curious to try playing Satisfactory, so I picked that up tonight, and I also need to buy my plane ticket for the meetup in October before I go to bed.

2023

Wednesday: after returning from the gym, I spent a while just standing in the bathroom doorway and reviewing my reflection, trying to decide if a majority of my stubble had gone grey yet. It was true of the hair along my jawline and cheeks, but the hair around my mouth is more brown than not. I forgot to shave after finishing my shower.

At work, I got through all of last week and most of this week's weekly project, but I've been assigned to support ten employees who've just been added to the ongoing accounting project, so my attention on the weekends is going to be more split than usual. I did get some corrections to my cruise request submitted for November, though.

When I was done with work, we walked to City Fitness. The air was cool and pleasant. I spent my workout reading blog updates I'd fallen behind on along with a Castle Balderstone Club Floyd transcript.

Once we were back home and cleaned up, we finished the leftover cashew chicken with broccoli and rice while watching the last couple of episodes of Derry Girls. I ended up reading about the Good Friday agreement and subsequent developments for a while before dangling the cat string for Cliff, Juice, and Pigs. (Juice has some kind of scab matted in the hair on the back of her head. No evidence about who got her that bad, so I'm just going to assume it was Goose.)

Once Julie went to bed, I brought my laptop back to the office, wrote this update, and decided to wear my braces to bed, as my wrists have been burning as I typed this.