Cool, 60-ish, and damp.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Weather was crazy yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 The overcast turned to misty drizzle, then the sky opened late morning.\u00a0\u00a0 Then it mostly stopped for a couple of hours.\u00a0\u00a0 But in the early evening we had a lot of bump and flash, with actual hail for a brief time.\u00a0 Big hail.\u00a0\u00a0 Ping pong ball sized mostly with a few bigger, and some smaller.\u00a0\u00a0 Didn’t last long but it got my attention.<\/p>\n
Haven’t looked at the truck yet, but I’m sure there are some dings.\u00a0\u00a0 Today has light rain in the forecast.<\/p>\n
I used the lull in the rain to do my pickups yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 Stuff for the house, and the BOL mostly.\u00a0\u00a0 That late start got me home late too.\u00a0\u00a0 Did some more sorting, stacking, and moving stuff around.\u00a0 Cleaned up and did laundry.\u00a0\u00a0 The usual domestic bliss.<\/p>\n
Broke down and vac sealed the Costco pork ribs.\u00a0 Three racks to a pack is more than I want to defrost for one meal, so I cut each rack in half, and bagged them two halves in each bag.\u00a0\u00a0 That is more like dinner sized…\u00a0\u00a0 The rest of the marinaded pork chops got bagged too.<\/p>\n
Don’t know if I’ll head to the BOL today or not.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s turning into a challenge to get up there to meet the cable\/internet guy, and then mostly turn right around and come home.\u00a0 I have my non-prepping hobby meeting on Saturday morning, and I have good ‘show and tell’ items and don’t want to miss it.\u00a0 Plus I’ve been volunteered to be a committee chair for our annual meeting, so I should start getting up to speed on that.\u00a0\u00a0 There are other family reasons to not be gone Friday as well.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe I can go up during next week.\u00a0\u00a0 Change.\u00a0 Supposedly it does a body good.<\/p>\n
Today is the anniversary of one of my wife’s relatives’ unexpected death.\u00a0\u00a0 Having married into the family, he knew what I was facing, and was one of the first to make me feel welcome.\u00a0 I miss him.\u00a0 I’ve been thinking about old friends lately, and have started picking up the phone.\u00a0\u00a0 Don’t wait if you get the feeling you should reach out.\u00a0\u00a0 Twice it’s happened that I talked with a friend shortly before his unexpected death.\u00a0 I feel better for having had the contacts when I did.<\/p>\n
I don’t know why the universe works the way it does.\u00a0\u00a0 It might just be innate pattern recognition pulling signals from the noise, or inventing signals where there aren’t any.\u00a0 Or maybe it’s something quantum, or Taoist synchronicity, or God’s voice.\u00a0\u00a0 Happens often enough that I’m convinced something real is going on though.<\/p>\n
I don’t have a general sense of dread, nor any specific “feeling”, but I do sort of find myself oddly passive, in a sort of ‘learned helplessness’ sense.\u00a0 Like it’s all kinda pointless to keep working on the problems.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s probably just fatigue, and the fact my calendar has far too many absent friends memorialized on the next couple of pages.\u00a0 There are good anniversaries coming up too, both daughters have birthdays, and I have a wedding anniversary…\u00a0\u00a0 and of course I just had my birthday, which may be a contributing factor.\u00a0 Memento Mori.\u00a0 Probably worth considering, and then putting aside- like usual.<\/p>\n
And like usual, I want you to stack stuff. I’m giving you permission.\u00a0\u00a0 Do it.<\/p>\n
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Cool, 60-ish, and damp.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Weather was crazy yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 The overcast turned to misty drizzle, then the sky opened late morning.\u00a0\u00a0 Then it mostly stopped for a couple of hours.\u00a0\u00a0 But in the early evening we had a lot of bump and flash, with actual hail for a brief time.\u00a0 Big hail.\u00a0\u00a0 Ping pong ball sized mostly with a few bigger, and some smaller.\u00a0\u00a0 Didn’t last long but it got my attention.<\/p>\n
Haven’t looked at the truck yet,<\/p>\n