Hi, friends!
It’s almost Friday. We’re gonna make it to the weekend.
Topic tonight is something that pleasantly surprised you lately.
I was really hesitating to do a windows update on this struggle bus dinosaur of a laptop. But I did it, and it seems to be okay! I figured I’d be posting on my phone for the next few weeks, but here I sit, typing on my laptop. 🙂
I’m pretty sure it can’t manage the windows 11 update, so I won’t be trying that. This lil trooper had windows 7 installed when I bought it new.
I was just talking with Mrs. Yellowbird over dinner about her work situation, in which she may have to go into the office more often than currently, which may be a deal-breaker. Which I took a step back and realized how much things have changed that actually GOING to work, won’t work.
This shouldn’t really have been a surprise, but I figured out today that all these projects I’ve accepted aren’t due back on Monday, as would be the norm, but Wednesday, because everyone seems to be getting the 3rd off, along with the 4th. So that was a nice surprise.
When you adopt the freelance life the space continuum remains somewhat intact but the time continuum goes out the window.
My company doesn’t give us Monday off, but all the vendors my teams work with do.
So anyways, I’m not getting fuck-all done on Monday. Maybe I’ll start writing up documentation for projects that I haven’t had time for yet.
Birb alert!!!
I finally spotted a hummingbird snacking at my feeder. I was so happy I almost cried!
The haze from the Canadian wildfires really hit the Blue Ridge last couple of days. Looking to the Southwest you can’t even see the mountains or Angel’s Rest. When I went out to mow today I had to wear a K95 mask and my still my eyes got irritated. This can’t be good. People in the cities up North must really be suffering.
I have not been perambulating around but we have had the windows open and we haven’t actually noticed anything. I don’t think it’s exactly like a blanket of fog. I think clouds develop, with defined borders, and they settle in and then move on. It looks awfully hazy right now, actually…
It has been pretty bad here in the Toronto area. Been coughing like crazy not because of Covid but the pariticlesm
Oh shit. I just looked up Toronto’s air quality. My grandparents didn’t mention it. I guess we’ll be indoors with the windows closed all long weekend. Thankfully they have AC.
Bon voyage. Maybe it’ll be like Seattle. If you can see Mt. Rainer you’re in for a good day. In Toronto, if you can see the CN Tower, you’re good to go. Slightly different reasons, of course.
You live in a beautiful part of the world.
We’ve finally been getting enough rain that I don’t have to water the garden, not that I’d been super diligent about it before.
I’m so overdue for rain here.
Which means when we finally do get it, it’s totally going to be a super angry popup thunderstorm with massive heavy downpour that destroys flowers and breaks branches.
One of the nice things about the natives I’ve been putting in over the years — something that doesn’t get talked about much — is they seem to spring back from gully washers.