Yesterday’s post was just a ‘stats' one. I don’t like skipping a day, but it happens. Jen’s continuing to struggle with the loss of Scottie, and I completely understand. I found an online service that makes custom stuffed animals and ordered one based on photos of Scottie. Now I come to find that it’s likely a scam site and there’s a slew of people who’ve gotten nothing or crap back after waiting 4x the initial timeline. I’m hoping to dispute the charge and move one. We’ll see how that plays out. Meanwhile, I’m thinking about pulling together a photo book for her with some timelines and milestones from 6.5 years of writing. Another thing that came about yesterday was talking to my mom about Lauren’s driving her PT Cruiser and, essentially, she’s going to give it to her! She’s not driving anymore, she let her license expire and it’s really not that valuable as far as the ROI to sell it. This works well for both of them. The visibility in the car is excellent, too, and it’s small and fuel efficient . She’ll be taking it next month when she’s down for the holidays. I went up to Jikoji this afternoon to be onsite for a StarLink HW update. I made the mistake of plugging my Tesla charger into the extension onsite, knowing from past experience that it seems impossible to remove, and sure enough, it was. It took a long time and a lot of effort, including feeding some plastic carton sealing ribbon through it and hooking it to a stump. Never again. The installation went well, ended at the end of the 4hr window but it was fine and good to be onsite and see some familiar faces. Driving down from Jikoji this afternoon I was above the fog - the Saratoga hillsides were covered with light grey mist. Such moments can be pretty cool. Cinematic. I was listening to something about how impactful doing gratitude journals could be, and how carving out time to just focus on and reflect on simple gratitude the moment you wake up and before your mind yanks you out from under the covers and into the chaos of the day. Sounds familiar, no? It does and has worked for me, yet it remains an ongoing challenge to be Zen about things like dipshit dipsticks driving wrecklessly up Hwy 9 on the way to Jikoji and back. And sometimes it’s not wreck-less.
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