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In Which Life Progresses
Jan. 7th, 2020 09:31 pmWork. Managed to work today. Yay. Not optimal work, mind you. I'm not sure of my monitor placement: I may get too much glare from behind (and to the side) of the screen. And the kitchen chair that I'm using is hurting my back. And I still have no light in my office. And my "O"s and "P"s don't work great. But, I got through much of my lagging email. And I dealt with some RPGnet issues. And I talked with Christopher to coordinate the week, something that's much more vital now than before.
Drive. The joy of a very early workday is a very early ending, so after work it was still afternoon. My long-term plan is to have this time free for swimming, but we're not there yet. So instead I took Kimberly out for a drive. This was literally my first drive without adult supervision in 29 years. Well, without the supervision of an experienced driver, but that doesn't sound as funny. I drove to Eleele where we stopped in a thrift store and bought some clothes (I got a very new looking Hawaiian shirt to add to my collection; Kimberly got clothes that mostly didn't fit, due to the lack of a changing room), and we came home. My muscles were so tense during the ride that it was painful, but Kimberly said I was seeming more relaxed and confident on the way home. Perhaps. I'm still not used to taking those turns and rises and drops at speed (which I'm increasingly realizing may in part be due to the size of the vehicle), and I don't know if I'm feeling any more confident about parking, because I just pulled straight into a "space" at the thrift store. But I got additional practice, which was what I wanted. (And made sure I didn't go two days without driving, which was also what I wanted.)
Boat. Surprise! At dinner I got a call saying that our container was ready to be delivered. It'll be here tomorrow at 1pm, plus or minus. This resulted in a bit of a frenzy here at the house, trying to clean things up before the deluge of 200+ boxes (about half of which are "PBO", full of books and games, which will just be stored until we can afford built-in shelves, but the rest of which will be unpacked tomorrow by our shippers). So, I cleaned all of the boxes and debris out of the house (after opening up and putting away my last shipments and Christmas gifts!), and took the debris down to the garage, where I broke down all the cardboard and loaded it into Julie the Benz and where I broke down all the styrofoam and loaded it into trash bags. A new reason to go back to the Eleele/Hanapepe area: to visit the refuse and recycling stations again. (Though probably not tomorrow.)
And so for a brief moment in time, our house is more orderly than chaotic, but that will change tomorrow. Things I'm most looking forward to seeing: dishes, silverware, our DVD player (yes, I'm old, but we have Homeland season 7 from Netflix), and Hal the Rhoomba.
Drive. The joy of a very early workday is a very early ending, so after work it was still afternoon. My long-term plan is to have this time free for swimming, but we're not there yet. So instead I took Kimberly out for a drive. This was literally my first drive without adult supervision in 29 years. Well, without the supervision of an experienced driver, but that doesn't sound as funny. I drove to Eleele where we stopped in a thrift store and bought some clothes (I got a very new looking Hawaiian shirt to add to my collection; Kimberly got clothes that mostly didn't fit, due to the lack of a changing room), and we came home. My muscles were so tense during the ride that it was painful, but Kimberly said I was seeming more relaxed and confident on the way home. Perhaps. I'm still not used to taking those turns and rises and drops at speed (which I'm increasingly realizing may in part be due to the size of the vehicle), and I don't know if I'm feeling any more confident about parking, because I just pulled straight into a "space" at the thrift store. But I got additional practice, which was what I wanted. (And made sure I didn't go two days without driving, which was also what I wanted.)
Boat. Surprise! At dinner I got a call saying that our container was ready to be delivered. It'll be here tomorrow at 1pm, plus or minus. This resulted in a bit of a frenzy here at the house, trying to clean things up before the deluge of 200+ boxes (about half of which are "PBO", full of books and games, which will just be stored until we can afford built-in shelves, but the rest of which will be unpacked tomorrow by our shippers). So, I cleaned all of the boxes and debris out of the house (after opening up and putting away my last shipments and Christmas gifts!), and took the debris down to the garage, where I broke down all the cardboard and loaded it into Julie the Benz and where I broke down all the styrofoam and loaded it into trash bags. A new reason to go back to the Eleele/Hanapepe area: to visit the refuse and recycling stations again. (Though probably not tomorrow.)
And so for a brief moment in time, our house is more orderly than chaotic, but that will change tomorrow. Things I'm most looking forward to seeing: dishes, silverware, our DVD player (yes, I'm old, but we have Homeland season 7 from Netflix), and Hal the Rhoomba.