Highlights: Slept in while Jen fed the dogs. Thinking this should become a 'thing' – Sunday sleep-in. Then again, in a few more weeks, I'll be living a Month of Sundays sans the Henley-inspired lamenting. Maybe. I tend to lament myself. Thus no help is needed. I set out to make a massive dent in a backlog of home-based tasks and I'm proud to say I kicked ass on it. Once up and engaged I pretty much didn't stop until 6pm. Jen and Lauren took to painting the kitchen, and it looks so good! I sorted out the massively chaotic "cord drawers" where all the adapters and cables and assorted tech-bits reside, and it's all reorganized, binned 'n bagged. I ran the Roomba in the bedroom after clearing out and picking up assorted crap that got put where it belongs. I tackled my 'desk', a "varidesk" standing desk on a 'heritage' table in our bedroom, next. I caved and huge the Wings of Desire poster in the bedroom. Considering all it means to me and it's history, it's hopefully going to be a daily reminder. Such things lose their impact over time if not honored with mindful awareness so I'm thinking I might make it a part of the am routines to just take a moment and take in the meaning behind it. I moved next to the garage where I focused on emptying, cleaning and re-leveling both the wine cellar and the freezer. I found a snakeskin under the wine cellar – I can only assume it was a warm spot. No rattle, so no certainty as to the type of snake it might have been/might be. It brought back memories of finding a snake skin in the stack of old bricks back around a year or so after buying the place. I moved next to Tommy's room. I gathered and cleaned up a good deal of clutter and also ran a much better cord solution for his TV/Printer. I didn't finish, but I will return and complete it over the next couple of days. I finished the day's efforts by swapping the non-functional electric blanket for the functional one, AND by pulling out the extra lights and extending the back yard lights to the roofline peak above the bedroom window in the back. It provides a nice additional set of light in that space that will come in handy in the evenings. I dropped a bulb and although I picked up glass I could find, it was dark and needs a 2nd pass in the AM. John and Cathy invited us over for drinks with Mark and Wendy. It meant a lot to me to go over and hang out. I think highly of both of them as far as people go. They've got great character and having a chance to re-establish a neighborly relationship with them is the start of something I want to foster with others. When Pat passed away I felt a loss and sadness around the fact that we were neighbors for so long, yet not really connected in any manner. That's odd to me. I hope we get to do this sort of thing more.
Accomplishments: Uh… see above! :-)
Anticipation: Lunch with Marlin tomorrow.
Goals: Continue working on capturing all I can related to workflow and process so when I depart 1/5 I don't get pulled back in.
Gratitudes: The sense of satisfaction that comes at the end of a busy day during which stuff actually got done.
One Sentence Summary: Frogs can turn out to be better tasting than you might expect.
Oh, and today I learned that Lauren might choose to stay in Sac for the summer in order to work full time. She's said it's because she can't find work due to being gone in the summer. I'm fine with it. I encourage her doing so. We're close enough and we will make things happen as far as visits in both directions.