{"id":12293,"date":"2009-08-04T11:29:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T18:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/08\/04\/12293.html"},"modified":"2009-08-04T11:29:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T18:29:25","slug":"not-leaving-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/08\/04\/not-leaving-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Not leaving the house"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two days after that Shakespeare Santa Cruz performance, I flew to Chicago for a long weekend. Helped Mary Anne & Kevin pack; went furniture\/antique shopping with M; watched the beginning of a romantic comedy called French Film<\/cite> (don't think I'll watch the rest, but I think M liked it better than I did). Mostly a good trip, but by Tuesday I was kind of burned out on travel and glad to head home. Which bodes ill for my next few weeks.<\/p>\n

Worked at home on Wednesday, iIrc.<\/p>\n

Thursday the 30th, we had another offsite. This one was with a subgroup of the group that had the offsite the week before; this time we went kayaking on Elkhorn Slough, then had lunch at Fandango<\/a> in Pacific Grove, then went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. A good day, even though it started with my leaving the house before 8 a.m. I enjoyed kayaking; hadn't done that since the first time I'd tried it, with (iIrc) Arthur and Kam many years ago, and the guide provided lots of interesting info about the local wildlife. I really like watching pelicans fly in formation barely above the water.<\/p>\n

Sadly, I once again failed to pet the bat rays at the Aquarium; as has happened the past couple times I've been there, they all refused to come anywhere near the edge of the tank where they can be petted. I don't blame them, but I'm disappointed; petting them is my favorite thing at the aquarium. Still, there was lots of other nifty stuff to see, and I brought home a stuffed octopus and a stuffed giant squid.<\/p>\n

That was also the day when the previous owners of my house came and took all their remaining stuff out of my garage. So I now have a big empty garage to put stuff into.<\/p>\n

I worked at home on Friday. Then I spent nearly the entire weekend doing magazine stuff, with a break to watch the first couple episodes of Torchwood: Children of Earth<\/cite> and a couple of breaks for phone calls and unpacking and such. Monday morning, Breht the handyman came over and did some more fixup work around the house. I finally made it in to work early Monday afternoon, having not left the house since my return home from Chicago the previous Tuesday night, except for the Thursday all-day offsite.<\/p>\n

It's been nice to be at home.<\/p>\n

It'll be nicer when everything is unpacked and various things are fixed and I have a washer and dryer and so on. But even in the house's current state of disarray, the downtime at home has been very helpful to my general peace of mind.<\/p>\n

This Friday evening, I'm off to a high school friend's wedding in Montana. The following weekend, another friend's wedding in the Seattle area. The weekend after that is the beginning of a week in Maine with college friends, followed most likely by a week in Boston. Then home, with the intent of never leaving home again. Somehow I never manage to follow through on that intent for very long.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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