Office organizing had been productive. But I've also been extra productive in support and help and training and you know, doing my job.
It's almost like things in my gig are getting a little closer to what it was like 5 years ago than they ever have. But in those five years a bunch of new hires all got their own system and some departments have bought stuff that normally used ours. It's what it is. All this reminding myself about what I can and can't control over the years with rates and use and all that I'm the job, aka recognizing I have very little influence, had been helpful to scale up nationally/globally. But the difference in significance and what's at stake are a little different. But my influence is even lower. Like win the big lottery with one ticket influence. But as long as everyone keeps buying tickets someone wins. That's a shitty analogy esp since it feels like it went big and the worst person won.
It's ridiculous the level of petty hate, the twisted lies and the shit that some how people just don't see.
Ok that maybe wasn't great to write before it reminded me of the thought I had on the ride home Thursday. I'm the thick cold slush that froze into sniper ruts that are out there still. The political opposition party and candidates basically need to run a 24/7/365 coordinated national campaign, now. And until (and beyond) if we ever have elections again, until we reach a point of equality and common sense good for all the people, not just the, not see, the problem people. But what do I know. I'm just an isolated fifty something white dude with basically no social circle, who takes photos and rides bikes and does the microscope thing, which is really just kind of complicated photography.
So kind of good things happen yeah? Pull back from social media a bit, a lot. Filling the time catching up and working on the chaos that has accumulated around me. Not bad. I'm not an ostrich as much as I'd like to put my head in the sand, that's not going to help, but I'm still not going to try to take in the firehose stream of doom and disaster we told everyone that would happen if this was the outcome.
Weather is going to be kind of fucked tho. Not a ton of snow, but some. Right now it's so cold that the ice everywhere on the path won't melt. Were going to get snow on that, then rain. But warm enough? It's all allegedly happening but it sounds bad for Tuesday commuter and the whole week next week
But yes, I'm so glad I have the studded tires right now. This actually has been the first winter commute in a long time where they have been essential, and the old ones just barely work in a straight line pulling the plow on snow.
It's funny, I did find a typed, yes actually physically tired draft letter of statement and purpose for my application to grad school at MSU. So not only typed, but also I used the word: photomicrography. Not sure I've used it since. Or done it since. The electron microscope was using film, as maybe I mentioned, and I had a full darkroom to myself until coming out here to RI where the darkroom had just been decommissioned. But EM and LM are different documentation beasts.
I'm thinking maybe it's time to begin the next organization phase of setting up the full darkroom in the basement. Not just the film room.
I'd like to get out in the woods on the MTB. But that's not looking great for the weekend. And that's ok. It's been a LOT of work committing this week. And I'm tired. But hey maybe Monday will be some miraculously good conditions and I'll get out then. But I also need to redo the rear brake on the Stache. And figure out if I have the tools needed to overhaul the seatpost on the Top fuel.
Which reminds me. I really just have a bike room full of Treks, with a couple Blocks, and a Wisconsin Paramount. Those Kleins? The Bontrager? The Lemond? All post Trek buying them. Two of the Kleins are Chehalis built, the Bontrager is Santa Cruz made. Now I have the Madone, arguably similar in level to the Quantum Pro, the Top Fuel is more Adroit/Mantra range and the Stache has the same holy shit those are big tires (3") that the Adroit had with the 2.35" tires in it now. I should get RSL bars for the Top Fuel and the Stache so it matches the MC2 on the Adroit.
But I should also get that Pentax K1 so I can get cool color bird photos and rowing shots. I will always shoot in black and white but there are times when color is the choice.
And yeah maybe the blog is back? I guess maybe it would have been better to fire up the laptop for this. But doing it here means I can have the big coffee mug in one hand and write with the other.
Hmm, there's not much left in the pot and I'm the only one up. Gonna need to pace myself today with the coffee so I don't overdo it. It was a late night last night. Picked up kid on the city after a show, after dropping them off and then going to TJs as a date night (shopping, how romantic), picked them up because they aren't super comfortable getting to the bus plaza that late and the buses stopped running before the show ended. So it was late. And I was deep in dreamland when the dog loudly announced they needed to go outside way to early. I did manage to fall back asleep until the sunlight, lack of coffee, and bladder conspired against me. Tired as I was, I got up and made coffee and started the morning quietly.
Reminds me. I've been chasing lower back pain since that first plow day and the storm after the annual physical and spasm with stained muscles.
Almost every night I've been taking an Aleve at bedtime. Because when I didn't, the pain would wake my up and sometimes would spasm from the pain and, yeah, bad cycle. The Aleve helped prevent that. It also, oddly enough, turns down the wake up and pee in the middle of the night dial.
Last night no Aleve and even after going to bed after midnight I still had to get up and pee at some point. BUT the back is getting close to pre-strain/spasm level. The heavy heavy studded tires aren't helping but working to keep the cadence up makes a difference, but it's also why I'm a little more tired after this week's commute.
Next week is a for day week, maybe I will have enough left in the tank to ride Saturday and rest Sunday if the conditions are good enough to get out.
That's enough rambling I think covering a pretty big arc.
Take care of yourself, and those around you.
Amor Fati Morherfuckers
Heddwch
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