Some negative aspects of today:
1. I awoke to find the sewer system in my home/office backed up and 2" of a grotty fecal-laden sulfur-smelling liquid-like substance on a pretty big area of the first floor. This is the 4th time this week.
2. The father of one of my friends died today, and at 28 she's too young to loose her father. I called and she was pretty much beyond upset. In one of the long pauses where more condolences would have been awkward, I lost it too. I've thought of more to say, but she's already in the air back to London, to the arms of her family.
3. I ate two chocolate donuts, for no reason other than desire.
4. I struggled for hours with some chemistry calculations, and I now regret cutting those classes on molecular bond energy.
5. I drove quite a bit out of my way to shop at a particular store for a small item for the car. Not only was the store gone, an entire shopping complex had been built. So much for going back to the old neighborhood.
6. Someone interrupted my beauty sleep with a 0900 call regarding work, and I couldn't go back to sleep. The inability to go back to sleep wasn't because of #1, but #4.
Some positive aspects of today:
7. Living in a place that is inherently grotty means that an event as in #1 above doesn't really change the decor. Shoveling water is not a bad activity with the right flat shovel, and the rhythm of body motion and the flow of water alternating between force and gravity is enjoyable.
8. Time is not infinite, and this is a good motivation factor.
9. I was really hungry and they were really tasty.
10. I still don't have an answer which I feel is correct for the particular molecules, but I learned some new concepts.
11. I saved about $6, since I really don't absolutely need the item, and I was just driving around to avoid dealing with #1.
12. Getting up before noon is not a bad thing, and I put the time to good use.
Some positive future events:
13. Guys with serious earthmoving equipment, diamond-tipped asphalt cutting blades, and general-purpose pneumatic demolition tools will arrive on Monday morning. The sewer problem is outside, which falls to the lord of the land.
14. I can call a real expert in thermochemistry anytime I want, but I consider that cheating.
15. I'm leaving for China in 2 weeks.
1. I awoke to find the sewer system in my home/office backed up and 2" of a grotty fecal-laden sulfur-smelling liquid-like substance on a pretty big area of the first floor. This is the 4th time this week.
2. The father of one of my friends died today, and at 28 she's too young to loose her father. I called and she was pretty much beyond upset. In one of the long pauses where more condolences would have been awkward, I lost it too. I've thought of more to say, but she's already in the air back to London, to the arms of her family.
3. I ate two chocolate donuts, for no reason other than desire.
4. I struggled for hours with some chemistry calculations, and I now regret cutting those classes on molecular bond energy.
5. I drove quite a bit out of my way to shop at a particular store for a small item for the car. Not only was the store gone, an entire shopping complex had been built. So much for going back to the old neighborhood.
6. Someone interrupted my beauty sleep with a 0900 call regarding work, and I couldn't go back to sleep. The inability to go back to sleep wasn't because of #1, but #4.
Some positive aspects of today:
7. Living in a place that is inherently grotty means that an event as in #1 above doesn't really change the decor. Shoveling water is not a bad activity with the right flat shovel, and the rhythm of body motion and the flow of water alternating between force and gravity is enjoyable.
8. Time is not infinite, and this is a good motivation factor.
9. I was really hungry and they were really tasty.
10. I still don't have an answer which I feel is correct for the particular molecules, but I learned some new concepts.
11. I saved about $6, since I really don't absolutely need the item, and I was just driving around to avoid dealing with #1.
12. Getting up before noon is not a bad thing, and I put the time to good use.
Some positive future events:
13. Guys with serious earthmoving equipment, diamond-tipped asphalt cutting blades, and general-purpose pneumatic demolition tools will arrive on Monday morning. The sewer problem is outside, which falls to the lord of the land.
14. I can call a real expert in thermochemistry anytime I want, but I consider that cheating.
15. I'm leaving for China in 2 weeks.
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I've wandered around and you're still here...
Thought I would be going to see her soon as well but alas I am off to the warm southern soils of Old Mexico instead
work work work
and I can not complain
I have recently developed quite a habit of all things sweet and fatty and anything with chocolate is a sure winner on my menu of late. Chocolate donuts rank high on the impulse meter as well as what it means to add the word deluxe to any meal.
Substituting anything for skipping the bar.
Replacing certain sugars with less bad sugars
seeing how it goes
Good luck shoveling shit against the tide
and figuring out the inner turnings of heat and matter