Ponderings and Musings

We decided to run some errands after dinner on Wednesday night. We had some gifts to pick up, so we made the rounds of the neighborhood. I asked my husband if he wanted to stop for a drink and he thought that was a great idea.

There’s a couple of nifty bar and restaurants in our general vicinity. I’ve been telling Earl I would like to find a happy hour situation for a once in a while visit with perhaps other folks that work full time from home. I really enjoyed going out like this once in a while when we lived in Chicago (until the pandemic brought that to a halt) and I said we’re not doing it enough now that we live in Tucson. So we’ll probably do this a little more.

I just remember that’s it’s a drive, and not a train that gets us home afterwards.

Even at 54 years old, this makes me so very happy.

The sunrise was beautiful this morning.

Up until today my home office (where I do my day job) had three desktop computers of some fashion. I have my standing desk with my work setup and then I had my “back desk” with a Linux desktop running on a 2011 Mac mini and an NCR RealPOS (what a name) cash register. All that was missing was the actual drawer on the cash register, all the parts are there.

I’m on a minimization kick and I decided to retire the back desk computers for a while. While we were traveling back east earlier this month I had great success in making my iPad Pro my main driver for all the things I accomplish on a day to day basis. Now, if I want to edit music or make a video or do things of that nature, I still have my Mac mini in the upstairs office. Cleaning up my home office was good for my psyche.

Clean desk, clean mind or something like that.

My husband is very kind. A few times during the week he’ll make me a snack plate when he thinks I’m starting to get peckish. I suspect that he overhears me starting to be cranky with the folks at work or something, so he gives me a little snack to help me finish up the afternoon.

This is a typical snack plate. All that’s missing is a flute of champagne.

Eight years ago I was doing my impersonation of a Visitor from the original “V” from the 80s.

Pretenama.

I saw this wallpaper while we were out and about yesterday. I found the color and design interesting. I do wonder what caused the grease splotch and unfortunately it’s become a point of focus when I now look at this photo.

Apparently this is the calm before the storm. The National Weather Service is advising of a Winter Weather Advisory starting tomorrow morning at 5:00 AM and going through Tuesday morning. Naturally I am on the schedule to fly an airplane smack in the middle of this event. I will not be making that flight if it’s snowing or close to freezing rain because that’s not how I roll. Or fly.

It’s pretty out today. Truman wants to go out on the roof and explore. I go out there with him but I’m not dressed for it at the moment. I should probably get dressed.

Especially if it’s going to be unseasonably cold for the next few days.

We are onboard United flight 1716. It’s a Boeing 737-MAX/9. We are at 34000 feet.

We are at PHL Philadelphia Int’l Airport awaiting our flight. The rental car had to be back at the lot a little early to avoid another day’s worth of fees, so we are at the airport a little early. It’s the perfect time to take advantage of our passes at the United Club.

I’m missing traveling a lot. Since the pandemic work has slowed down on travel a bit, though they’ve started up with some travel again over the past few months. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to do some quality travel for work and pleasure in 2023, because I really enjoy the Jet Set Life.

As Jeannie’s sister once said, “Your Major Nelson has Jet Set potential and you’re a horse and buggy genie!”

Over breakfast I was mentioning to Earl that one of the reason I get into a “funk” at home is because I’m not interacting with the public enough. It’s not that I want to interact with the public, but I like being around the energy of being in public, from a corner where I can watch. I have always enjoyed people watching. Working from home, playing at home, and spending Saturday nights at home is kind of wearing on me. Since the pandemic is as close to “over” as it’ll ever be, and let’s face it, COVID is never going away, I’m happy to see public life getting back to something akin to “normal”. I’ve never been “normal”, my thought processes just don’t work like typical though processes and cover a whole spectrum of things at any given time, but interacting with the community in some sort of way gives me energy.

Until I have to rest from it.