fractured reality

Data dump follows:

042212- dear god it’s early, CAK, security, flight, taxi (what was I thinking?), hotel lobby, too early to check in, go to Sam’s No. 3 for breakfast, room ready, shower, try a little laptop skyrim, no good, veg out, dinner = ???, there’s no way I’m going to the opening reception alone. Nightmare.

042312- awake, shower, conference breakfast = hell, coffee’s not bad, opening session is b.s., morning sessions meh, watch something funny in hotel room on laptop, grab slice at Anthony’s for lunch (yay! pizza is just what I wanted, haven’t had its equal since the Flying Dog), more sessions, dinner approaching, walk to King Soopers (no longer remember if it was apostrophe-ed or not), purchase cheese, bread, arugula, ice cream, lemon, no wine? weird, walk across street, purchase wine, walk back to hotel, watch stand-up/mst3k while eating bread and some cheese, half of the lemon + arugula, drink entire bottle of wine, fall asleep watching more mst3k, wake up, go properly to bed.

042412- awake, walk to Snooze on Larimer for breakfast, blueberry pancakes, awesome coffee, more sessions, not hungry for lunch, watch peep show (yay david mitchell), more sessions, leave feeling pretty antisocial, bummed out haven’t heard from brenda/eric, decide not to go alone to queen of sheba (ethiopian), order pizza, watch like 4 more series of peep show, fall asleep.

042512- awake, get dressed, realize that there’s no session I want to go to before my shuttle to the airport, receive call from Brenda saying she just got my message and can I meet for lunch, walk to the capitol/state building, denver public library and museum, walk to the yardhouse for lunch (gardein burger), back to hotel lounge to read while waiting for shuttle, airport, flight, home again after midnight (ugh, but also yay)

very, very glad to be back home.

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I’m excited today by DIRT.

Yes, that fancy store-bought dirt that Moe can’t compete with, loaded with nutrients.

Nine cubic yards of peat-blended topsoil should be in my driveway sometime today. Then I get to distribute it using a wheelbarrow over the course of the weekend. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee

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It’s April now, the garden beds have been built, dirt has been ordered, and it’s supposed to snow tonight (ha ha!).

And while the equinox was this morning, the equilux (day of equal sunlight and darkness) was actually a few days ago. Blame atmospheric refraction.

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So the weather has been absolutely crazy for an Ohio March. Today it is supposed to reach 80°F. The weather has been so nice that I was finally inspired to get a new battery for my Vespa. Said battery arrived in the mail on Friday. I had not anticipated that it would ship without being pre-mixed (these are lead-acid batteries), so I was a little surprised when the battery included instructions for how to pour the sulphuric acid into the battery. Fun!

Anyhow, in no time at all the thing was mixed, charged and installed in my bike, and so Saturday and Sunday I got to ride around some, and yesterday I rode to work for the first time in at least 6-10 months.

I need a new helmet, or at the very least a new visor, but I think I would like to get a modular helmet like becca has.

Gardening supplies were bought by us on Friday, Saturday, *and* Sunday this weekend, which is a sure sign that it will snow again real soon, I bet.

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