It sounds werid, but in evenings while I’ve been hanging out in the party or cooking dinner, I’ve been dialing campaign calls for Phil Steck, mostly because I need a way to de-stress, move time along, do something as far away as possible from the data work that I’ve increasingly become a fast order cook in R Studio. You can get anything you want in R Studio, that Arlo Guthrie song goes.
Racing through the weeks, 🗓️ not only is it autumn, the mornings suddenly are much darker, 🌄 it was cold enough inside this morning I race downstairs and got my blaze orange hoodie on before boiling down the water on the stove for coffee. ☕ Yesterday or maybe it was Monday I got my pay stub in the mail, and said it seems like the last one just arrived. I really should cancel the print pay stubs, their becoming a major source of paper garbage in my life – even though years ago I liked having them as bookmarks 🔖 and just the mental relief 😮💨 of seeing that number written down on paper. But now two weeks seems every other day, more crap to send up into smoke. I’m reminded of the Health Department slogan, “burning your trash doesn’t make it disappear.” Perhaps. I do find myself reading more about chemistry ⚗️ and science of modern material science, noticing the smells 👃 of burnt plastic. I was looking at calculator 🧮 in the trash at the office and videos of landfill life on TikTok, the mixture of broken shit and film plastic and dirt. But also it just keeps on coming, more and more CO2. And inflation.
Short-order cook 🧑🍳 was the only way to describe yesterday. I am so ahead but also far behind on work, though lately I’ve not been getting into the office as early as should. Never did get around to rescheduling my dentist 🦷 appointment, as soon as I thought I had another free moment, five more emails 📩 came rolling in. Right around 5 things slowed down a bit, checked through my messages about Big Red, more crazy low-ballers and people obviously not serious. 🛻 Maybe I value the truck too much, it’s basically garbage, but I also am aware of inflation and what people are listing things for and actual prices.
Time to shower, 🚿 and ride the mountain bike 🚵♂️ to work, try to get in earlier to keep up with things. No afternoon meeting downtown today, so that will also give me some extra time to get work done once I’m in the office. 👨🏼💼 Tomorrow I’ll work from home – I want to head out to Rensselearville to camp 🥾 – but I’m watching that Nor’easter bear down on us, 🌀 and I think it might be might be much too wet of a weekend. 🌧️ Maybe it’s a good weekend to stay home, 🧽 use some of those cleaning supplies I got last week, and do some cleaning, deal with that musty smell in the kitchen before I close the windows 🪟 ont the colder nights that are coming only more common. I’m just glad it wasn’t so cold last night that the heat clicked on with the windows open. ❄️
