Schreiber

It's been a hot minute.

In our last post, it was two Mondays ago. It was 35° and snowing heavily. (Everything that day and the next got canceled.) The snow piles were temporarily epic.

I say "temporarily" because fairly soon thereafter, the weather shifted into "melting" mode. It was like 65° and sunny over the weekend, and today is going to be even warmer.
I went out to look at the river, on that 65° day. The ice was still there, but was definitely starting to melt. Ironically, it was then that I knew definitively that I could have walked over it, even a week earlier. The ice sheets on the boat ramp, the holes in the ice, all showed that it was like 15 cm. thick. It was, in fact, tempting to try to walk across it... but it was probably rotten AF.

ETA, Tuesday: it was 80 ucking degrees earlier. What is this freaky unnatural shit.

(Ik know. A sign of the end times.)

Diese Tabellen zu formulieren, damit sie nicht so aussehen wie etwas das aus einem Hundenarsch gefallen ist, ist selbst ein Hundenarsch.

ETA: Now I get to make sure all the hyperlinks actually work. נָקְטָה נַפְשִׁי, בְּחַיָּי

I probably shouldn't try to ask my boss if we're meeting this afternoon by texting him "M'saion?", should I?

I'm on my THIRD cup of coffee,
Still can't face the day...


ETA: Are there parody versions of "Awake, Alive, Alert, Enthusiastic"? Because there should be.

ETA2: And if I think today is bad, let's try tomorrow, when I have to get out to catch a bus at 6:55AM.

"Calamity Song" on infinite repeat.

Trying to find ways to abbreviate "Policy Studies Associates" without using either "PSA" or anything that looks like "Polic.Studs.Ass."

I need to get out of this fucking industry.

"You're in Maya" on repeat.

Meantime, this evening I need to (somehow, and not nec. in this order):
- Go grocery shopping
- De-decorate and yeet the tree
- Do some Duo
- Do like another hour of work
________

COVID Levels (as of 12/27): Approaching 2100 Bobcat-Robots,* i.e. somewhat HIGHER than last year. (FML)

* Again, that's my self-invented unit for "Copies of CoViD RNA per mL of wastewater in the Boston-area North System, as reported at https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm." (The name was inspired by the Pirate-Ninja + "Trochee Fixation", with a side order of "Package contained bobcat.")

Schedule:
- Work for like another hour and a half
- ADDED: Do Covid test
- Go to the grocery store (likely to be nuts)
- Come back & cook dinner (deliberately boring)
- Go to the wine store (likely to be nuts, but a friendly sort of nuts)*
- Hand-wash gloves
- Attempt to get some additional work done...

* ETA: Nope. Added 1.8 miles to the BTBS total.