Not an especially memorable day, I suppose the work week rarely has those, and I suppose the point isn’t really to capture memorably days, at least not the only point.
See that’s what we’re here for, folk, to start a sentence with a thought that the end of the sentence rejects or at least qualifies - no we’re not! Let’s see. Today I did some tasky sort of work, not any of the creative and in-depth stuff, some stuff I’d been putting off, and I did a bit of preparation and check-in for tomorrow.It’s annoying how a thing I’ve put off for a long time and spent many, many minutes worrying about can be done in less time than I spent worrying about it. There should be some reward of some kind, like little tokens redeemable for minute capsules that you eat and you get the minute back. I’d save them all up and have a longer weekend. I wonder minutes taste like? Sand, probably.
I got most of the dishes done early, hoping to get to bed early (I do the dishes at ours after everyone else goes to bed), so I can go for a run tomorrow. I thought of going for a run today but have had a headache all day.
The fall weather’s arrived properly. I woke up yesterday and was doing something in the kitchen - that’s how you know it’s a good story, when there’s a time (yesterday) and a place (the kitchen) and some action (I was doing something) - and I finished whatever it was (I forget what it was but let’s be honest, most of what I remember doing is stuff that is a kind of live analog to stuff I forgot: a blank spot in my memory of a lived blankness in doing something pointless) and I washed my hands and the warm water felt so good on my hands. One of the marks of fall, and of my aging probly. Cups of tea, which are made of wool, that’s why they warm our insides so, hit better in the fall because of this lovely weather. I’m hoping to go for a run in the weather tomorrow before I head in to teach, kind of ambitious knowing myself, but if we don’t set goals then what will we feel bad about falling short of?
Watched some TV, ate an apple - I thought of a slogan for apples if anyone from Big Apple wants to buy this off me, it’s The Apple: Nature’s Fruit. I ate it with peanut butter, like the good lord intended.
My wife and the youngest played badminton in the back yard, I saw them out the kitchen window while I washed the dishes, and a neighborhood cat came by and sat at the top of the little slide my kids have, that was funny. This cat is an indoor/outoor cat belonging to one of the neighbors but my wife thought it was a stray for a while and started feeding it so now it hangs out at ours a lot. That’s got its moments.
World news remains a hellscape, made the mistake of paying some attention to that today, did some tetris to decompress. I made up a joke: tetris is a meaningless progression of random shapes interacting for no reason, it’s exactly like life, except I’m good at tetris. (I’m good at life too actually.)
Oh I wanted to write this down: my mom send belated birthday gifts for me and the 14 year old and included gifts for everyone else. The gift for me was a shirt and some kind of poncho or raincoat kind of thing. She wrapped them in a piece of shiny rainbow paper she’d rolled into a tube and on which she wrote ‘don’t tear, unroll!’ so I carefully unrolled it and apparently there was no reason whatsoever for doing this, which I thought was very funny.
