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In Which I Am Home Alone
K. is off in Seattle to see a YouTuber show tomorrow. I am home alone.
This actually hasn't happened in many, many years, so I've got an unnaturally quiet house. Callisto hasn't even started yelling at me that her wet food is overdue yet.
So what do I do with an evening all to myself?
I biked up the Ohlone Greenway to El Cerrito Plaza for some delicious shrimp tacos at Rubio's.
Then I biked back until I got to Cedar Rose Park, where I settled down and did some writing of next week's Mechanics & Meeples article and a revision I'm working on for the Paizo article in Designers & Dragons. I got to see the sunset too, which was stunning, probably due to all the particulate matter in the air from the North California fires, which set my allergies into overdrive on Sunday and Monday.
When it got dark, I headed up Rose Street to Safeway to do the week's grocery shopping, which is a challenging bit of uphill. That was my regular grocery store for a few years while ours was under construction, but I came to hate it due to their horrible staffing, which often left you waiting in line for 20-30 minutes while you gazed hopelessly up at the signs that claimed they'd open a new line whenever there were three or more people in line. (Spoiler: they didn't; there were sometimes 10 people in each open line.) Today it wasn't bad, probably because student move-in day isn't until next week.
Then I biked home.
The exciting life of a 40-hour bachelor.
Speaking of home, we have taken the first step to selling ours. We had our real-estate agent out two Fridays ago. We talked about home valuations and times to sell (she is quite certain that January is a fine time due to the limited inventory) and work that we should do to ensure we get a good price.
So, we now have a list of home repair stuff to do, to put on top of the work we need to do to get our cats ready for a quarantine-free trip to the islands.
I'm hopeful we can get going on some of it very soon, now that Kimberly's big Seattle trip will shortly be in the rearview mirror.
And it's just a hair less than 17 months until our planned move to Hawaii.
This actually hasn't happened in many, many years, so I've got an unnaturally quiet house. Callisto hasn't even started yelling at me that her wet food is overdue yet.
So what do I do with an evening all to myself?
I biked up the Ohlone Greenway to El Cerrito Plaza for some delicious shrimp tacos at Rubio's.
Then I biked back until I got to Cedar Rose Park, where I settled down and did some writing of next week's Mechanics & Meeples article and a revision I'm working on for the Paizo article in Designers & Dragons. I got to see the sunset too, which was stunning, probably due to all the particulate matter in the air from the North California fires, which set my allergies into overdrive on Sunday and Monday.
When it got dark, I headed up Rose Street to Safeway to do the week's grocery shopping, which is a challenging bit of uphill. That was my regular grocery store for a few years while ours was under construction, but I came to hate it due to their horrible staffing, which often left you waiting in line for 20-30 minutes while you gazed hopelessly up at the signs that claimed they'd open a new line whenever there were three or more people in line. (Spoiler: they didn't; there were sometimes 10 people in each open line.) Today it wasn't bad, probably because student move-in day isn't until next week.
Then I biked home.
The exciting life of a 40-hour bachelor.
Speaking of home, we have taken the first step to selling ours. We had our real-estate agent out two Fridays ago. We talked about home valuations and times to sell (she is quite certain that January is a fine time due to the limited inventory) and work that we should do to ensure we get a good price.
So, we now have a list of home repair stuff to do, to put on top of the work we need to do to get our cats ready for a quarantine-free trip to the islands.
I'm hopeful we can get going on some of it very soon, now that Kimberly's big Seattle trip will shortly be in the rearview mirror.
And it's just a hair less than 17 months until our planned move to Hawaii.