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Jul. 26th, 2014
Saturday randoms
Jul. 26th, 2014 07:10 amI did sleep well last night but I was busy. I start off sleeping with my head raised and my feet raised a little. Then, in the night, my back complains so I go to flat. And after an hour or two my nose clogs and then my mouth becomes a painful desert so I raise the head of the bed a bit again and that fixes that.
You'd think with all this up and down (combined with trips to pee and drinks of water) would not be conducive to a good night's sleep but I enjoy it. I love the feeling of being a little awake in the middle of the night and scrunching down to bring sleep back again. And, it was cool enough to be comfortable.
Today will likely heat up enough that it will be time to turn the air conditioner back on until we get cool again. The next 10 days look too warm for me and mostly cloudless but not africa hot.
Today is swimming - in an hour. Then I think I might go over to West Seattle for breakfast and a grocery store run. Or I might not. There is a city wide run this morning - mainly at the other end of town. Then there's a big night time parade through downtown. And in between is a home Mariners game. So traffic, around town, will be mostly fucked. I might trade the West Seattle plan for Beacon Hill which would make getting home more better maybe or I'll just play it safe and come on home. There's nothing I really desperately need at the grocery anyway. And I have stuff here to make good breakfast.
Skipping ahead to next week, I think I'm going to go to IKEA on Monday. I need 5 flat white sheets and theirs are by far the cheapest and a better size for my project than regular twin bed sizes. In my bedroom, I have two sets of closets that have curtains instead of doors. The curtains are shear and are backed by white sheets. The shears need washing and the sheets need replacing. So that's my project du next week. I think I'll probably head down to get there for free Monday breakfast before the store doors open.
I just realized I forgot to do my plank yesterday. I guess we'll call that my rest day.
You'd think with all this up and down (combined with trips to pee and drinks of water) would not be conducive to a good night's sleep but I enjoy it. I love the feeling of being a little awake in the middle of the night and scrunching down to bring sleep back again. And, it was cool enough to be comfortable.
Today will likely heat up enough that it will be time to turn the air conditioner back on until we get cool again. The next 10 days look too warm for me and mostly cloudless but not africa hot.
Today is swimming - in an hour. Then I think I might go over to West Seattle for breakfast and a grocery store run. Or I might not. There is a city wide run this morning - mainly at the other end of town. Then there's a big night time parade through downtown. And in between is a home Mariners game. So traffic, around town, will be mostly fucked. I might trade the West Seattle plan for Beacon Hill which would make getting home more better maybe or I'll just play it safe and come on home. There's nothing I really desperately need at the grocery anyway. And I have stuff here to make good breakfast.
Skipping ahead to next week, I think I'm going to go to IKEA on Monday. I need 5 flat white sheets and theirs are by far the cheapest and a better size for my project than regular twin bed sizes. In my bedroom, I have two sets of closets that have curtains instead of doors. The curtains are shear and are backed by white sheets. The shears need washing and the sheets need replacing. So that's my project du next week. I think I'll probably head down to get there for free Monday breakfast before the store doors open.
I just realized I forgot to do my plank yesterday. I guess we'll call that my rest day.
Home where it's warming up...
Jul. 26th, 2014 11:21 amMy swim was good. There's a woman who often swims on Saturdays and is very chatty and fun. I have no clue what her name is but we finish about the same time and so chat a little. Today she was remarking on what a great swim day it was "no crowds and my cast of favorites was all here." It's funny. Lane swimming is very singular. I get in and swim my mile and get out. I might stop a time or two to adjust earphones or clear out goggles but never for longer than necessary. No swimmer visits. I rarely end up in the locker room with people I know so there's no exchange there... I mean it's a solitary thing.
And. Yet. I know exactly what she means and feel exactly the same way. It's comforting and nice to have people you come to know and/or recognize swimming around you. Makes no sense but there it is.
I also found out that she is a linguist. I've never known a linguist before. She explained that her brand is of the how people think of the words that they use kind of linguist. FASCINATING! And very cool to know.
After swimming, I headed over to Office Max to drop off my FedEx package - the Dell tablet off for warranty repair. On the list of things that Dell is handling poorly in this whole deal is a rather humorous typo on the instruction page. In a run on list of all the places you can drop off the box - mostly various flavors of FedEx offices - there is included, in the middle, Office Mac. Wonder what ever happened to the Dell Dude.
Most of my out shipping goes via UPS so I drop them off at Office Depot which is about a half mile from Office Mac(x). OD has not very interesting inventory which very very nice people. OM has much better inventory with a staff that would rather you go somewhere else. Interesting.
I got home without hitting traffic problems but they were starting to mount. Glad I nixed further errands.
At home, it's hot so the air conditioner is on. Sometimes when I first hit the on button, it wakes with a loud crack. Today Zoey was sitting next to it and jumped. Now it's the usual cooling droning sound and she is stalking it.
Breakfast was good. I'm nearly out of bacon. And the only kind I really like is at Costco. So it looks like that's on the list for next week.
As soon as I finish my coffee, I need to clean the kitchen and then update the music on my swimming Shuffle and get it charged. And then it will about baseball game time.
And. Yet. I know exactly what she means and feel exactly the same way. It's comforting and nice to have people you come to know and/or recognize swimming around you. Makes no sense but there it is.
I also found out that she is a linguist. I've never known a linguist before. She explained that her brand is of the how people think of the words that they use kind of linguist. FASCINATING! And very cool to know.
After swimming, I headed over to Office Max to drop off my FedEx package - the Dell tablet off for warranty repair. On the list of things that Dell is handling poorly in this whole deal is a rather humorous typo on the instruction page. In a run on list of all the places you can drop off the box - mostly various flavors of FedEx offices - there is included, in the middle, Office Mac. Wonder what ever happened to the Dell Dude.
Most of my out shipping goes via UPS so I drop them off at Office Depot which is about a half mile from Office Mac(x). OD has not very interesting inventory which very very nice people. OM has much better inventory with a staff that would rather you go somewhere else. Interesting.
I got home without hitting traffic problems but they were starting to mount. Glad I nixed further errands.
At home, it's hot so the air conditioner is on. Sometimes when I first hit the on button, it wakes with a loud crack. Today Zoey was sitting next to it and jumped. Now it's the usual cooling droning sound and she is stalking it.
Breakfast was good. I'm nearly out of bacon. And the only kind I really like is at Costco. So it looks like that's on the list for next week.
As soon as I finish my coffee, I need to clean the kitchen and then update the music on my swimming Shuffle and get it charged. And then it will about baseball game time.
Time Marches on...
Jul. 26th, 2014 09:29 pmI moved into this condo in January of 1992. It was really December but the very tail end. Every day was something new in the 'hood. My terrace overlooked the Kingdome and the Kingdome parking lot and across it, the gravelly junk yards on the other side of the train station before Chinatown.
My Mom was coming to visit that July. She was actually coming to visit my sister but it was handy to stop here for the night on the way to visit The Daughter Who Provided Grandchildren. (My sister, with whom I have not spoken - by choice - in a decade, lives 2.5 hours north of here.)
Anyway... Mom was supposed to get here on Friday night and I was ready. The house was clean, the fridge was stocked and I was ready. And Daddy called to say there was a problem with her plane and she was coming on Saturday instead. Shortly thereafter, I noticed commotion on the street below my condo. I called my friend from work, Nancy, and said that there was action down here and I had cold beer and needed company so I didn't mess up the house. She came right over.
The commotion was the Seafair fun run which started and ended just under my terrace. We drank cold beer and cheered the runners. Then the parade that had started downtown came to my house. It marched right across the parking lot and around the Kingdome before it ended in the parking lot on the other side.
When it got dark, Nancy and I took lawn chairs and went down to the street to watch the lighted parade go by. It was wonderful and amazing.
And the years went by. They built really nice looking buildings in the gravel pits between me and Chinatown. Oh and they renamed Chinatown to the International District. They tore down the Kingdome and built a football stadium and an exhibition center. So the parade started ending before it actually got to the parking lot. But still some bands kept going and it was fun to watch. Then they built a building the parking lot...
Tonight, I can kind of hear some of the bands but I can't see them. It's ok. I have great memories of the way it used to be and I really like the way the neighborhood is now so as we say... it's all good.
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I have a guest/reading bed in a little room at the front of the condo. It is an airbed that I think has a slow leak. I have long hated the bedspread that is now old and faded and covered in cat hair. I got to thinking that maybe IKEA would have something I could instead of the one I hate so I looked online to get an advance peek and see what they had size wise. And then I remembered a quilt I have that has a pattern on one side (which will not do at all) but is navy blue on the other. I dug it out and replaced the one I hate and it totally works!!! I love shopping in my house. Delivery is fast and the prices are great!
My Mom was coming to visit that July. She was actually coming to visit my sister but it was handy to stop here for the night on the way to visit The Daughter Who Provided Grandchildren. (My sister, with whom I have not spoken - by choice - in a decade, lives 2.5 hours north of here.)
Anyway... Mom was supposed to get here on Friday night and I was ready. The house was clean, the fridge was stocked and I was ready. And Daddy called to say there was a problem with her plane and she was coming on Saturday instead. Shortly thereafter, I noticed commotion on the street below my condo. I called my friend from work, Nancy, and said that there was action down here and I had cold beer and needed company so I didn't mess up the house. She came right over.
The commotion was the Seafair fun run which started and ended just under my terrace. We drank cold beer and cheered the runners. Then the parade that had started downtown came to my house. It marched right across the parking lot and around the Kingdome before it ended in the parking lot on the other side.
When it got dark, Nancy and I took lawn chairs and went down to the street to watch the lighted parade go by. It was wonderful and amazing.
And the years went by. They built really nice looking buildings in the gravel pits between me and Chinatown. Oh and they renamed Chinatown to the International District. They tore down the Kingdome and built a football stadium and an exhibition center. So the parade started ending before it actually got to the parking lot. But still some bands kept going and it was fun to watch. Then they built a building the parking lot...
Tonight, I can kind of hear some of the bands but I can't see them. It's ok. I have great memories of the way it used to be and I really like the way the neighborhood is now so as we say... it's all good.
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I have a guest/reading bed in a little room at the front of the condo. It is an airbed that I think has a slow leak. I have long hated the bedspread that is now old and faded and covered in cat hair. I got to thinking that maybe IKEA would have something I could instead of the one I hate so I looked online to get an advance peek and see what they had size wise. And then I remembered a quilt I have that has a pattern on one side (which will not do at all) but is navy blue on the other. I dug it out and replaced the one I hate and it totally works!!! I love shopping in my house. Delivery is fast and the prices are great!