Ongoing Letter - Allan's Place
Allan's journal to the world. (Sounds important, doesn't it?)
Morning Routine
I generally wake up, turn my coffee pot on, enter receipts into Microsoft Money, upload previous (yesterday’s) pictures, and write my construction blog.
Morning Hair
I generally don’t have a shower every day now. Why bother when I’m just going to get dirty during construction?
Morning Off
This is my first day off in many, many weeks.
It is now 37°C outside. It should be extremely warm inside, but it’s a very pleasant 27°C.
I guess we should be eating more yoghurt.
… or less of it. (Yuck.)
Old pipe, new pipe.
The former was dug out of 20 St. S. here in town. The latter will be the final fitting to complete the plumbing at 1403 up.
More random thoughts as they come.
I’ve had some kind of flu bug. It’s been hanging on for 3 weeks.
I’m in Cardston for students but don’t want to be. I’d rather be sitting on a recliner with a heating pad at my back.
슬픔, 부끄러움. 세상은 미쳤어.
I’m back doing desk work again, adding receipts to Microsoft Money. It’s been raining off and on for a few days, so I’m not working outside in the mud.
Besides that, my right wrist is sore (beginnings of carpal tunnel syndrome), so I’m taking it easy with the physical work. I wear a wrist brace most days.
No morning is complete without my cup of joe.
Another birthday has come and gone. And I’m still here. I wish I could say the same about many people I have known.
“What did you do on your birthday?” Hmm. I drove to High River, AB, to pick up Floyd, did laundry, tutored, and watched Hill Street Blues reruns.
Been busy the past few days. I installed some deadbolts in the rear of a rental property, cleaned out part of the garage, completed my taxes, blew out all the leaves from the red shale rock on the East side of the house, and attended a pot-luck supper at the community centre.
Boy, the music at Starbucks sucks. There was some opera tenor bellowing away like a sick cow in the previous song, and now we have show tunes. Should a person run the risk of sounding like a complainer, put up with it, or leave?
I left.
Happy Leap Day!
Today is February 29, 2024. To celebrate the Leap Day, I’m at Starbucks downing an Americano and completing my tutoring logs. Okay, so it isn’t much of a celebration, but it’s nice to get out now and then.
sunset outside Milk River, AB
It’s spitting outside – half snow and half rain. It’s a Sunday today, and I’m ‘taking a day’ (day off).