Nov. 13th, 2017

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At night I open up the door to the terrace for fresh air while I sleep. This morning, I got extra fresh. We are having a semi serious wind storm here today. Here downtown, that means stuff that isn't nailed down is bouncing all over the asphalt and concrete. Bins and fences and bikes and all kinds of shit flying around.

A long (maybe 60+ yards) fence around a construction site at the end of the block was totally down this morning and traffic cones were splattered all over the road.

I thought I had a flat tire on the bridge but it turned out to be just the wind tossing me about. At the end of this storm, I will have my view back. The Tree That I Hate is getting nakeder and nakeder! Twitter says 65 miles per hour.

My swim this morning was great. I was the only person there for the first 10 minutes but then it filled up. And as soon as someone left, someone else was there to take their lane. But, I think it will be fine. It's also so big that even with people in every lane, it does not feel packed.

I did find 1.5 bad things. There are not enough showers. Two showers are broken with signs on them that they will be fixed. And, this morning, when I came in from the pool, the rest of the showers were occupied. This is not great. But, maybe it's a Monday only issue. The .5 thing is their hair conditioner. UGH. S'ok, I can bring my own.

Otherwise, it continues to be wonderful. No waiting out in the cold until the asshole-du-jour opens the door at 5:01. I got there at 4:55 and the friendly guy at the front desk was there and delighted to check me in. I was in the water swimming before 5. Nice.

Big Fish games are located across downtown from here and I'm not sure how the morning traffic will affect my arrival time so I'll leave extra early for my 9:30 session. Even so, I've still got time to kill. Think I'll get on that project now.
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Wow. We are having some wind and rain. The traffic lights downtown are horizontal. The Tree That I Hate is swaying back and forth pretty severely (and, she says with delight) pretty nakedly!

And there's rain. I just went outside to get something and got pelted. Stinging rain. At 3 pm it was dark like 9 pm in Summer. And it's supposed to get worse tonight. I'm glad I don't have anywhere I want to go.

Crapity crap crap, the lights just flickered. Plenty of people around town have already lost power. We will NOT be first in the fix it queue. ARUGH. Excuse me while I go plug in my external batteries. Ok, everything seems to be at 100% so cool. Flash lights and batteries are available and at the ready.

My morning at at Big Fish was another success story. I got paid $100 for 90 minutes of game playing. Totally works for me. Their testing operation is really classy and on top of it. They know what they want, no screwing around. It's fun and interesting. And they pay you right there on the spot. Today's guy asked "may we call you again for another test another time?" Holy You Betcha, Batman!

After my test Frank and I went to 99 Ranch and DK Market (two large mainly grocery stores stocked with stuff from other lands. Adventure! I was able to stock up on my favorite cheese crackers and got some other goodies. Then we had lunch at Popeyes. YUM! Oh and we also went to a large (think big box) grocery that they have in that part of the county and we don't have here. All in all a very fun adventure.

Zoey's at the window watching shit blow around. She and I both are very glad right now that she isn't a dog who needs walking outside.

Last night I ran out of yarn on my sweater. Today, reinforcements arrived so I need to get to some ball makin'!

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