Postcard of the Day

( Who's that other one in a top hat that isn't Coolidge? )

just made eggs with onions and peppers, plus toast

Quite a midday meal, considering it's a weekday & I'm working, and there are guys working on installing air conditioning for me, too.  It felt extravagant.  As does the getting of air conditioning.

Funnily, it's kind of a chilly rainy day today, for the heat to be off while they're working all day.  So I'm cold in order to be not hot later.  But yesterday it was warm enough that I was hot in the sun, on a little walk at the office.  And now I've pulled out the space heater to compensate for uninstalled a/c.

Missing pi day there today, to be here for the workers, dangit.  I think I've been there for every one, until now, for however many years we've been doing that--- which I think is however long we stopped having soup day, which had started out as a memorial soup day, and then became a thing.  We've been having a chili cook-off, though, as if to compensate, the past two years.  And we'll be having our second taco bar on the day next week when the new head of the Society is in town.  Taco bar proved to be enough of an attraction that the majority of the shop came in for it, more than half of them re-arranging an in-office day for it.

B'lieve I want to turn somewhat more seriously/organizédly to some house cleaning.  Going into the back basement to prep for these fellas somehow pointed out to me not only how much stuff there is in the basement (that I've forgotten about) (including yet more things that belonged to the ex-, who never proper got her crap) but also how much stuff there is up here (a flirtation with adopting a St. Bernard from the shelter helped focus me on that too), and the reappearance with the warmer weather of the little gnat-like flies that busted out here last year for the first time, at least in numbers, has me aware of how much cleaning-cleaning there is to do, too.  Though I will say that I checked under the toilet tank and found that no gross mold-like gunk has reappeared there since I found that, a little over a year ago.  I was reminded of under-the-toilet when the protagonist in Perfect Days was checking with a mirror under one he was cleaning.

In prepping my updated fave movies list, I've been wondering how much my fondnesses for Poor Things and Perfect Days might be sort of heat-of-the-moment fondness.  But I suspect they'll remain on the list for a while, if not indefinitely.

I swear, it's a full-time job to take care of oneself, especially if you count taking care of the domicile as part of that.  Throw in another full-time job to pay for everything, and there aren't enough hours in the day for those things, movies, and sleeping.