Updates – on random.
- I guest blogged at Not a Mean Girl‘s place on Thursday. I re-edited a story called “Hard Blue Chair”. You can check it out here. (It’s short so don’t worry.)
- They cut down the home of the squirrelly’s today… so massive squirrel evacuation in my neighborhood. Shall we bet on how long that will last??
- Exciting news about the Democratic convention!
- There’s going to be a tent city in the park 1/2 block from my house. No shit. 10,000 – 20,000 people in a park with zero public toilets, zero running water, zero food, and a neighborhood with zero parking. We’re so excited that we’re installing security doors on every door. (For the record, it’s not the tenters that worry me. It’s the people who will come to prey on the tenters.)
- They are closing the Denver Courts for regular business. Only convention business for the last two weeks of August. Now isn’t that a warm fuzzy!
- Homeland will close a mile around the Convention. (Let’s see – 20,000 people 1/2 block from her house… unable to get to convention… what are they doing to do with their time??)
- I’ve lost three relatives in the last two months. The insanity is running high in my primary family… very very high. All those who agree that I’m lucky to be the family weirdo, RAISE YOUR HANDS!
- Denver Cereal is doing really well. I’ve picked up a bunch of email subscribers and people are agreeing to be in the story in droves. I just have to keep it all straight now…. More than anything, I’m still enjoying working on it. YAY!
- We’ve drastically reduced our electricity consumption! By:
- insulating the attic,
- getting insulated blinds for all windows,
- adding previously mentioned security doors with screens,
- getting a house fan (installation should be this weekend),
- starting to double pain our historic windows (one at a time),
- instituting one light after 9 p.m. policy (This has other benefits too!
, and - Rosie and I moved to the basement during the day.
- I created a standing work station in the basement. I can stand and work on the computer. I really like it and particularly like what it’s doing to my legs. I can do almost everything except certain editing/blog posting/image editing. Try this – you’ll be amazed at how you feel at the end of the day.
- I still love Breaking Benjamin and hope they release a new album soon.
Now that you are completely bored, I’ll sign off! Please feel free to leave your completely random updates in the comments. One random update deserves another – plus you KNOW how nosy I am!
Happy Friday!
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So THAT’S what you’re doing in the basement all the time
So sorry to hear about your family losses … but we all should be as weird as you.
And I like Breaking Benjamin — “Apologies” is on heavy rotation in my world.
Updates of OG sounds like everything is popping along at the same pace, that is, never a dull moment. Denver Cereal better continue to be a pleasure kiddo, I would hate to see the Cerals flavor change.
Me: Still dealing with pain issues from the most recent car crash, rapidly approaching the last best hope, an electro stimulator implanted on my cervical cord. Will know more next week.
Still working on posting a poem a day, but not obsessing over falling behind that pace.
Life is good in that most people generally leave me alone and I them.
Hmmm could I stand and work at PC…naw I’ve too good of a cushion on my behind to waste t by standing.
Next!
I sure hope they will bring in some port-a-potty (sp.?) for that convention
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We sprayed insulation in rafters of our basement and I can already see that the AC unit is not clicking on that often.
Still waiting on a word from the company I interviewed with for three times. They are slow like turtles there, it’s been on since May. But don’t have a good feeling about it. It will be two weeks from last contact on Mon….
Finishing our fence on Saturday.
Have a great weekend, Claudia!
How totally insane that you’re gonna have all those people in a tent city! Wow.
Ok, randomness: Yesterday, I spied a former member of Smashing Pumpkins at a cafe here in Chicago. Same cafe he’s been going to since before they were famous. It was pretty cool.
the house sounds like it is coming along. I don’t know how much we spend every time we move, but we usually do blinds and this stuff called Gila window tint. It is like car tint for home windows. It cuts down on the interior temperature by at least ten degrees. We started using it in OK and then in TX. It pays for itself within one summer!
I hope the crazies are settling down….family drama is so draining!
We are getting ready to go back to KY this weekend. I need to do some school interviews, pick up some paint, and get ready to move into the house on the 25th! We are going to be in a hotel until then, but at least we will be together!
PS, I posted a big ol’ bee today. I thought of you the entire time I was shooting it.
c’mon, they’re not putting up any port0potties? Man!
I’m so sorry to hear about your relatives…crazy? You? Nah!
I’d like to have a standing desk at work…I bet it’d help!
Hope all those squirrels find new homes.
Everytime you mention your relatives, I think to myself that we are in the same family and are actually distant cousins with the same sick relatives. How did we get so lucky? Makes D and Judy all the more important! And Rosie!
Did I ever mention that I just abhor studying law? It must go back to my father being a non-practicing lawyer. Of course he couldn’t do math. I mean above the level of accounting arithmetic.
Don’t bottom fish the Financials.
Have a wonderful weekend. And although I haven’t read Denver Cereal, feel free to use me if you need me.