Creeping in

The wildfire smoke, that is. It's still difficult to tell from just looking - is it morning fog? or smoke? And my app says it's the same as it has been for several days, on the line between ok and getting to be no ok. There is rain predicted for the end of the week. However, there is a huge chasm around here between predicted rain and moisture falling from the sky so who knows.

Much to do today. The next attack is a drawer that's going to be the most difficult. It's full of stuff that I have the hardest time parting with. Bags. Hand bags. Small zippered bags. Reusable grocery bags. I have a thing about bags. I guess since I always figured I'd turn out to be a bag lady, I just established a freakish attachment. I no longer even carry a handbag. I have enough small zippered bags to fill a dumpster and don't use a lot of them anyway. I have 8 excellent reusable grocery bags that fold up into themselves and fit nicely in my car's cubby. I don't need any others. And... yet...

So this will be a wrangle me against me.

Then there will be a trip to Goodwill. And a trip to the dumpsters. And then it will be done. With a day to spare.

Today's baseball is at 4. BUT, they gave up the last two games to one of the worst performing teams and today face one of the best. I'm not that hopeful.

The Haul du Jour

All of this went to Goodwill today. It's a couple of bags shy of a very full Smart Car.



I still need to label some boxes but, pretty much everything is done and Robby cleaned up after me. Nothing is crammed in, all is viewable easily so I can see where shit is, when I look on the shelf or in the drawer. And, all my winter coats and jackets are hung in the armoire and out of my everyday closet/scooter garage.

I'm quite happy with the project.

Something's up with Biggie. I first noticed it last night. I put some food in his bowl and he acted like there was a live bug or something in there. He would approach and then pop back and repeated that a bunch of times. Finally I moved the food to a new bowl and he ate it cautiously.

This morning he's still kind of jumpy. He let me do the sewing room project with minimal interference. He did bring in a bird but not to the killing field. He brought it over to me and then carried it over to another part of the living room. I was bread bag ready and he was not happy about losing his prey. He has a new toy with a feather and bell AND a laser and he's not one bit interested. He's back out on the terrace again now. Just have a weird week I guess.

I think I'll knit some and finish up listening to a tech podcast I started while cleaning.

Perks

Today I needed my little jewelry wire cutters and I not only knew right where they were but they were easy to access in a drawer that is only 20% full. The perks of purging. As I have with all the other rooms, I have wandered back to the sewing room just to open a drawer or open the armoire and admire my work. Talk about sparking joy!!

But, sometimes, no joy. I cannot find Biggie's papers. I had all of the papers origin, adoption, medical for Biggie and The Smalls, in a folder and that folder is no where to be found. I'm afraid that it got accidentally purged. Not a big deal, really. More of a nice to have than a something I really need. The only other vet that Biggie has been to besides his current one is the one at the emergency surgery. And they sent his records to his vet so they are all there. And that's all that matters. But, still. My system isn't perfect.

My internet started going in and out this afternoon. About a dozen times. It was out for as long as 5 minutes and as short as 1. Finally I went to Twitter and DM's the provider who checked and saw that my modem did not have service. She rebooted it on her end. No joy. She concluded that I had no internet. And scheduled a service call. For Thursday. BTW, this is Monday. She expects me to go without internet for four days? The drugs must be crazy good at that company.

Anyway, about the time she had everything settled, the internet came back solid and has been solid ever since. There's something hinky with my modem. There are usually four or five lights lit up and there are only two. BUT... I got internet and it's a fine speed. I'm going to keep an eye on it for a couple of days. I have a little utility that logs network outages so I'll just let it keep the data. If it takes four fucking days for them to get someone out here, I'm in no hurry to call off their dogs.

The Mariner game is going way better than I anticipated so I need to get back to it.