Monday, October 31, 2022



Highlights: Yeah I guess I was pretty pissed off Friday. I felt it was warranted but also needed to take a step back, and with Jen's help I did. In revisiting my feedback, although I still have issues with conflicting messages and what feels like a dismissal of understanding to a degree, it's also hit some key points worth considering. I recognize some opportunities and I'm working to refactor my role in order to release some tasks (delegate) and pivot in others. We'll see how it all goes. I'm still having horrible sleep. I took a Gabapentin tonight at 8 to see if doing so allows me to sleep better but still wake easily. We'll see. One thing that makes a difference is not having both dogs on the bed. Today was a good work day and yesterday was spent with Jen doing some yard and patio tasks. It's supposed to rain tomorrow, that'll be a nice change. My "Asylum Years" arrived. I bit the bullet and opted to cut to the chase on the remaining 5 LPs needed to complete the entire effort. Yes, by next week, I will be done with the vinyl obsession. Really. I mean it. Seriously. OK I get the doubt but the list of must have's will be fully achieved and as much as I really loved this endeavor, I don't want to spend more time on it. I have other interests. But it's a blast to have them. I enjoy being able to just flip through, and even if I play it on my AirPods via AppleMusic, enjoying the legacy of holding and reading an album's liner notes is almost cathartic. Immersive. Tonight was Halloween. Maybe 30-40 kids. Usual older kids later in the PM. I didn't rip into anybody on age constraint - learned not to do that decades ago. Something Linda actually helped me consider and change my view about. It's weird and sad that she's not in the house as she would have been, yet Jen and I are experiencing our own time now and it's oddly compartmentalized. This whole scenario remains a bit surreal. It will likely be for the rest of my life. I listened to the 1938 "The War of the Worlds" broadcast on one of the LPs I bought earlier this year, just as I used to do almost annually for many years prior. It was awesome to do so, as was putting on the Woody Allen "Standup Comic" LP too. Milestones and landmarks, each of them.