The First Sunday of Advent
Dec. 1st, 2024 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat_sochoI finally emerged from my apartment today after being a hiko since Wednesday, because I needed to do laundry before heading down 95 to Las Vegas and a meeting with the heads of DoE's environmental management department tomorrow morning. It's not going to be a very long meeting, but since they asked for both the chair and myself, I figured I ought to get off my ass and go. Barb will reimburse me, since this is an NSSAB dhaba, and another half a grand in the NSB account will be nice, especially with Social Security short-sheeting me this month.
Wound up not going to the community Thanksgiving dinner; instead I bought a 14-pound frozen bird (the smallest I could find) and roasted it in a bag, but unfortunately it was still pretty dry. Fixed stuffing, mashed potatoes, a sweet potato, a baked potato (which wound up being chopped up as part of this morning's breakfast) and an acorn squash. I was going to also bake a loaf of bread but there was enough going on that I didn't.
I don't remember what I had on Friday. Spent most of the day wrestling with the cube shelving for the living room, which was slightly less of a pain in the ass to work with than the bedroom shelving and held more stuff. Found a number of things that had gotten lost over the years. Now I need to sweep the area between the cube shelving and the old Target shelves so I have room for another shelf which will allow me to collapse some of the stuff in the living room against the west wall.
Saturday I was going to go to the post office, but I didn't. Stayed inside, ate Thanksgiving leftovers for dinner, played a lot of Civ6, sorted through the available players in preparation for the draft this week.
Today I did a bunch of required training on Inkling. I'll pile on to the rest of it when I come back from Vegas; it'll be hard enough to deal with the blogging tomorrow and Tuesday.
Finished rereading Alliance Rising and Alliance Unbound; reread Cloud Castles, which is why I was up until 0400 and didn't get up until 1330 today. Still went out and did a little shopping for tea, yogurt, and butter, then did laundry and came home to find I have a new neighbor across the hall. Maybe I can bribe him to shift some of these damn boxes.
Wound up not going to the community Thanksgiving dinner; instead I bought a 14-pound frozen bird (the smallest I could find) and roasted it in a bag, but unfortunately it was still pretty dry. Fixed stuffing, mashed potatoes, a sweet potato, a baked potato (which wound up being chopped up as part of this morning's breakfast) and an acorn squash. I was going to also bake a loaf of bread but there was enough going on that I didn't.
I don't remember what I had on Friday. Spent most of the day wrestling with the cube shelving for the living room, which was slightly less of a pain in the ass to work with than the bedroom shelving and held more stuff. Found a number of things that had gotten lost over the years. Now I need to sweep the area between the cube shelving and the old Target shelves so I have room for another shelf which will allow me to collapse some of the stuff in the living room against the west wall.
Saturday I was going to go to the post office, but I didn't. Stayed inside, ate Thanksgiving leftovers for dinner, played a lot of Civ6, sorted through the available players in preparation for the draft this week.
Today I did a bunch of required training on Inkling. I'll pile on to the rest of it when I come back from Vegas; it'll be hard enough to deal with the blogging tomorrow and Tuesday.
Finished rereading Alliance Rising and Alliance Unbound; reread Cloud Castles, which is why I was up until 0400 and didn't get up until 1330 today. Still went out and did a little shopping for tea, yogurt, and butter, then did laundry and came home to find I have a new neighbor across the hall. Maybe I can bribe him to shift some of these damn boxes.
