Weekend Plans Post: I want my hour back hour back hour back.
For a few years, the pandemic made the transition of Daylight Saving Time significantly less bad. I was lucky enough to be able to do remote work for months and months and my commute went from 25-35 minutes to 2-3 minutes and while the switch to DST wasn’t seamless, it was not painful for what might have been the first time in my life.
That autumn was the first autumn that I was ever able to say “oh, I now understand why people missed the extra hour of sunlight”. I had to move from making my afternoon jog at 4:30 to 3:30 and that felt WEIRD to finish work and then immediately go for a run. If I took some time to decompress, the temperature difference between starting immediately and waiting an hour would be in the double digits. (Colorado sunsets ain’t no joke. The sun hits that mountain and then it’s *GONE*. None of this lingering on the horizon stuff.)
I’ve spent the last week doing a staycation and playing Elden Ring and I should have a review next week. (Short version: There are some serious flaws. There is some serious delight.) As for the weekend, Maribou is going to be flying out to visit friends and I will be batching it. Game night on Saturday, laundry on Sunday, back to work after a seriously nice vaycay on Monday… at which point I will be saying “I want to retire.”
But one thing that I will get that will definitely help with the transition of going back to work?
An hour.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is “interruption”. Photo taken by Maribou.)
Well, I will need to go in and grade and do more SysBot preparation; working this afternoon got interrupted by scary weather (apparently there was a tornado about 10 miles south of me, and possibly one east). So I spent part of the afternoon sitting on the bathroom floor recovering my long-dormant Mastodon account (just in case Twitter winds up in the sh***er, thanks to it now being a vanity purchase of someone with far more money than sense) and checking the weather radio
I also need to start a gift project (something small: a hat or fingerless mitts) for a gift exchange I take part in the first part of December. That may be tonight though I’ve only got as far as pulling a couple pattern books off the shelf.
It’s still raining like mad out there; I had had plans to go down to the farm store south of town that sells grassfed beef (and now is having baked goods from a local baker on Fridays – the place is only open Tuesdays and Fridays) but I’m not going out in this, maybe next Tuesday for the beef….Report
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systematic botany, which is one part plant evolution, one larger part plant identification. Inherited the course from a retiring colleague when our “search” failed (couldn’t find a qualified replacement). I admit I’m kind of long in the tooth to have to prep a new class, but it is what it is.Report