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I have GOT to vacuum the house today [housekeepery]
That's one of the chores I keep backburnering.
My family typically has a Family Zoom on Fridays. Because my brother and his family are in Argentina this year for his bird-chasing sabbatical, Family Zoom got rescheduled to 6 pm my time so he and his wife and the kids are all actually awake when we Zoom. In the past, when everyone else was on the West Coast, we would Zoom at 9 pm my time and it would be a struggle to keep my eyes open. The downside of the 6 pm Zoom for me is that I am rarely at a point where I can leave work and get home by 6 pm, so then I wind up stuck at work for at least an extra full hour, which then postpones dinner and essentially renders any remaining evening time completely useless.
We weren't even originally going to Zoom yesterday, except apparently while I was in the midst of taking care of the crickets, my siblings learned that my mom would be able to Zoom after all. It was 6:15 by the time I finished washing up the cricket bins, so I hopped on right away. But then, looking out the window, I had that thought of, oh, it's snowing again. Rather hard. If I wait any longer to leave, conditions are only going to get worse. So I abruptly signed off and hit the road.
Thankfully, conditions were rideable, so it only took me ~45 minutes to get home. So dinner was at 7:20 pm instead of 8 pm.
I keep telling myself this weather is fantastic for brevet training.
Actually, I kind of like riding in this sort of weather, because it keeps a lot of people off the roads, making the roads much more quiet and peaceful. And most of the roads I commute along tend to get plowed fairly expediently because they are bus route roads and roads leading to hospitals.
The only body parts that got at all wet and cold were my arms. Temperatures were only slightly below freezing. Today all the precipitation in Albany is melting.
Most of what accumulates on the floors these days are dust bunnies and stray hairs from my head. It's just the crumbs that I really can't stand.
My family typically has a Family Zoom on Fridays. Because my brother and his family are in Argentina this year for his bird-chasing sabbatical, Family Zoom got rescheduled to 6 pm my time so he and his wife and the kids are all actually awake when we Zoom. In the past, when everyone else was on the West Coast, we would Zoom at 9 pm my time and it would be a struggle to keep my eyes open. The downside of the 6 pm Zoom for me is that I am rarely at a point where I can leave work and get home by 6 pm, so then I wind up stuck at work for at least an extra full hour, which then postpones dinner and essentially renders any remaining evening time completely useless.
We weren't even originally going to Zoom yesterday, except apparently while I was in the midst of taking care of the crickets, my siblings learned that my mom would be able to Zoom after all. It was 6:15 by the time I finished washing up the cricket bins, so I hopped on right away. But then, looking out the window, I had that thought of, oh, it's snowing again. Rather hard. If I wait any longer to leave, conditions are only going to get worse. So I abruptly signed off and hit the road.
Thankfully, conditions were rideable, so it only took me ~45 minutes to get home. So dinner was at 7:20 pm instead of 8 pm.
I keep telling myself this weather is fantastic for brevet training.
Actually, I kind of like riding in this sort of weather, because it keeps a lot of people off the roads, making the roads much more quiet and peaceful. And most of the roads I commute along tend to get plowed fairly expediently because they are bus route roads and roads leading to hospitals.
The only body parts that got at all wet and cold were my arms. Temperatures were only slightly below freezing. Today all the precipitation in Albany is melting.
Most of what accumulates on the floors these days are dust bunnies and stray hairs from my head. It's just the crumbs that I really can't stand.