Middle of Thanksgiving weekend. I spent Thursday (early) morning at the beach, then the afternoon and evening at the folks’ watching football and eating, which was mostly mellow and relaxing. Friday I was at the beach again, then worked on a few things at the new Starbucks on Nimitz in Kakaako. Came home for a [...]
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One of the things I hate about myself is my inability to make myself do regular, everyday household chores on a regular basis. My evening hours are often a weird combination of vegetative decompression, escapist media consumption, and enslavement to the tyranny of the urgent, an urgency created by my not doing things ahead enough [...]
Walked to the credit union. Cashed the check. Still hadn’t heard back from the mechanic, so I considered going back to the classroom to chip away at those sub plans and the tidying, but thought it would be a waste of time if he called me as soon as I got there, not to mention [...]
When last we left our hero, his wounded vehicle was still parked in front of his house when he arrived home after a looooong day prepping in the classroom. Monday I got up a lot earlier than usual, packed a lunch, and tidied up the inside of the car. I drove the car down the [...]
Friday. New Year’s Day. I saw It’s Complicated with some of the Village Idiots. As I navigated the parking structure in my car, I noticed trouble with the steering. I parked the car and saw that the car was dripping power-steering fluid. Ugh. The movie was nice, but I took a pass on dinner after, [...]
Crazy day. We had our open house last night, my fourteenth open house, and it went quite well. Dropped in at Little Oven, a regular Thursday-night hangout for a lot of Honolulu Twitterers, and got home around 11:30 (in time to catch Kristen Chenoweth on Letterman). I had to get a sudoku puzzle done (I’m [...]
My life is crazy. I stayed up too late Friday night, crashing at about 3:00 a.m. Didn’t wake up for some reason until 3:00 Saturday afternoon. I’m still up. I haven’t done a THING. So on no sleep, I am going to clean house. First up: the living room, the area around the TV, and [...]
I’m not quite in summer vacation mode yet. Got a few more of my end-of-year requirements to take care of. Took care of one today; gotta do two more. Hopefully tomorrow. Went to a two-day workshop Tuesday and Wednesday. I’ve realized for the past two years that I suck at teaching vocab, so it was [...]
Three good things that happened yesterday, and three good things that happened today: Yesterday. I don’t know how I did it, but I created five sudoku puzzles between the early morning and about 9:00 in the evening. Started at breakfast and just kept working on it (taking breaks to work on other stuff) and before [...]