Sept 25

Well, hello, Thursday evening. How did it get to be night already? I really can’t blame the time of year. It' does get dark earlier, but it doesn’t get LATE any earlier.

I just got all distractibmpated and didn’t remember to post anything until now, and that’s after getting up EARLY, too.

So it’s been a good day all around. Got up in time to move the ar out of the way of the concrete installers who arrived promptly at 8AM. The get up early part was complicated by a cat who insisted on sleeping on my legs almost all night, and weather that made “cat on legs” a progressively less comfortable situation no matter what position I laid in. He eventually gave up and went to stand on Spouseman’s chest for a while, before finally stretching out to sleep properly.

So, low sleep night. Early rise. Brisk walk in teh glorious fall sunshine with clouds making the early sky really dramatic. Yogurt and crunchies with strawberry jam, because I am an unrepentant weirdo, and then—brace youselves, friends—I FINISHED TACKING TOGETHER MY FAUX SHOJI DOORS.

It’s not like I’ve had the iron I needed for doing this task for three weeks now, or something. Oh, wait.

Anyway. Veneer strips have been added to the backs to hold the tops and bottoms to the main bodies, with nails added for additional structural support—and spacers on two of them so they’ll stand vertically desipte there being moldings at the floor level. The only remaining step is to put some clear velcro on the walls for attaching them in different places depending on whether I want to hide the napping nook or have it open or block it partially due to sunlight needs.

I did that while the concrete work on the driveway was going on. Tampers are loud and distracting. So are cement mixer trucks. Both were deployed over the course of the morning. Once they finished and I finished my project, it was time for a neighborhood walk and some tasty lunch (cashews, apples, cheese, and fresh basil with a few pita chips, plus tea of course.)

That’s where I’d planned to do writing, but instead stalled out for a couple of hours. Chatted with friends online, listened to birds (I have an ID app, Merlin, that tells me what I’m listening to, and hooee, sometimes it is glorious to live in the future, lemmee tell you.) And I read some interesting science articles, about Long Covid, about some kind of radioactivity event in Indonesia that’s flying under the radar, about weather in the Atlantic, and some other things.

BUT then I wrote! Finished a scene, started a next. Very pleased with myself over that.

And now I’m at the ‘brar doing my 3rd of FOUR shifts this week. Really looking forward to cheap pizza, cucumber salad and another few episodes of Slow Horses. I’ll be caught up to the current season by the end of day tomorrow.

What will tomorrow bring? Not sure, but it won’t involve coming to the library. That’s not until Saturday, which will have another early morning wake-up for a morning extra shift.

So tomorrow I shall sleep late. That’s my plan and I’m sticking to it.