Chill Wednesday
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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88F tonight, but we had a high of 93F today with high humidity.
I called in sick today, blaming a migrane.
In reality, I just wanted to duck out of the heat and take a midweek break.
Yesterday at work I put the finishing touches on a huge project that's been going on since spring break!.. wall stuff.
In the middle of that project I also advanced the locker combinations for every damn locker in the building, confirming the new ones, and jotting it all down in ancient books with pencil.
Essentially, since the spring I'd been working on one or the other of these big, time sensitive projects, but yesterday was the end of it, and today there wouldn't have been anything special for me to jump into... just a day of busy work.
So, I figured it was time for a chill wednesday in the AC, at home.
Sunday was building checks, and I took advantage of the time, after doing the different readings and door checks, to clean all my car windows, and empty out the cargo hold of the RAV 4.
After driving around with a bunch of stuff from the house in the back of the car for a year, it was time to let go!.. and make space for my journals.
That bicycle I found in the stairwell last December, dismantled, and put into the van, went into the trash compactor.
I had hoped that by now I'd be in a 1BR with enough space to work on the bike, but that didn't happen, and it's not clear when, if ever it will happen!
I also finally ditched the litter boxes and jugs of cat litter I'd been carting around, as well as the cat carrier.
And inside the cat carrier was the sink rug from Melody Manor, the custom blinds for the back room there, and the bamboo wind chimes I'd had since the AutumnWood days.
All things I won't have any use for in the foreseeable future.
I threw out a bunch of random crap in the front seat... some landscaping hand tools, like that turf knife, and a box of vacuum seal bags I have no use for, as well as a bunch of old unopened letters from BMO!
I pitched a box that had the framed, colorized photos of the house ancestors, which had been hanging out on the porch... as well as the "Donavan," ensign I'd ordered from Amazon to mount on the firepit.
Those colorized photos exist digitally, however.
And I threw away an old copper tea pot belonging to my grandmother... which I now regret, because I could've probably given that away.
Still, I have nowhere to put it in the flat!.. and God only knows when I'll ever have a stove with burners that can host a tea pot again!
As you know, my current two-burner range is covered by an air fryer most of the time.
In the end, all that was left in the van was the round stand, which is a twin of the one I have in the flat (which I do have space for), my acoustic/electric bass guitar, and a box of halloween decorations.
It felt sad to throw away the stuff that I did, and a bit triggering to see it all again, but we've got a reckoning with the Public Storage unit coming up in September, and this was a prelude to that!
The goal is to empty that unit out, one way or another.
Colleen, Brian, and I, will take what we can fit into our cars... family photos, blinds, landscape lights. For me, my journals. Possibly my little kitchen table and the rug that matches the one I have here in 1106.
As for the china and the books that Sheila wanted... she'll have to pony up the cash to have it shipped, or it's being left behind, with my lawn mower, and whatever else I'm not thinking of right now.
At home, I worked on comping, Closer To You, but didn't get it finished.
On Monday night I brought my acoustic/electric bass, in it's soft case, back to the tower after work, and left it on a table in the trash room where people often leave things for others to take for free.
On Tuesday morning it was gone.
Hopefully it's in the hands of somebody who's gonna play it, and who's happy to have found such a nice instrument for free!
That thing was in mint condition, and I'd cleaned it up and put on new strings before it went into the soft case, last year.
If so, it's one more in a very long list of items from Melody Manor that've been released into the world for free!.. everything from landscaping equipment (wood chipper, 300 feet of hose on a reel, etc) to construction materials, dishware, instruments, and furniture, to living cats!
Today, I finished comping, Closer to You, and then moved on to comping, Bed in the Suburbs.
I got the first two verses and choruses done, and am currently poised to do the bridge vocals.
This more than made up for the time lost to building checks on Sunday.
But I did take a little time to clear out space in the closet.
When I moved in here last year, I stuffed two vacuum-sealed bags full of spare pillows and blankets up on the top shelf of the closet.
But I haven't so much as thought about them in a year, so I threw them out.
I then went to the car and brought back that box of halloween stuff.
Of all the things in that box, I kept only the plastic jack-o-lanterns, the glow in the dark skeleton, and my little vinyl bats.
The rest of the stuff... window clings, plasti-cardboard pumpkin cutouts with ground stakes for yard decoration, and an old owl wall hanging that belonged to Dad... I left down on that table in the trash room, in a box, labeled, "Halloween Stuff!"
What I kept fits nicely in the closet now, with a little room for something more!
If you don't count the round stand, which I'll be bringing back up here tomorrow night, the only thing left in the van is my steel dolly!.. which, of course, I'm keeping.
So now the cargo hold is empty, and ready to store my journals.
I'll use the dolly to bring one box at a time to the flat for digitization.
That'll be done by reading the jounals into a voice-to-text app, and scanning whatever needs to be scanned.
Then I'll just pitch the hard copies and move on to the next box until it's all on a hard drive!
I actually need to do the same with all my cassettes!
Imagine a life where I no longer have to lug all that shit around with me from one move to the next!
And now that I'm 56, it's about damn time to have it all digital, so that I can actually work with it.
That's the update for my chill Wednesday.
The next session is booked for Studio C, this Saturday.
Miss Fortune will be the song.
Two more days of this work week.
A three-day work week next week.
Then my mid-summer break!
So, this free day today helped me bust up what's left of July, into bite sized pieces!
And that's good, because these days, I hate July!
It's packed with unhappy flashbacks to both 2023, and 2024!
July 23 was when I confirmed the balloon payment was for real, and got stung by a wasp the same day!
July 24 was, of course, just the worst!
Hopefully next July will bring flashbacks to this one... recording in Studio C every Saturday, and comping vocals all weekend.
That'll be good!
But this July's gotta end!
August won't be so bad.
School's gonna kick back into gear.
Vocals are gonna get easier... a few re-sings, and harmonies... as I catch up on the last of the comping.
I'll be seeing light at the end of the tunnel, vocally, in August.
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