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long day

Fri, 15 May 2026 02:49:59 GMT

I haven't posted in over a week and a half. As the illness diminished my schedule increased. Been very busy. But today...

I worked in the morning, and drove to Chicago in the afternoon. I was going to work in the office, but decided at the last minute to stay home in the morning. I had an "appointment" to pick up my camera from the repair shop at 3:00. But leaving from home put me behind by 20 minutes. And work was busy at the last minute, so I didn't get out of the house for 20 minutes. Turns out I was 45 minutes late. The woman said she thought I wasn't coming. But I got my camera.

Unfortunately, in addition to the cost of repairs, I paid 40 bucks for parking - twice (once to drop off and once to pick up), and half a tank of gas each time, which was a bit painful this time.

And then I went up to pick up my whisky. The nav system in my car was not cooperating, so that was fun Instead of the map, I got an AI which told me all about my destination, but would not give me directions. I eventually got the usual map working.

So I got my whisky, and my friend's whisky (whose two boxes didn't even fit in my trunk), and went to Delilah's. But first I ate at a little Venezuelan style restaurant, which was good. And then had whisky at Delilah's. I made it home by shortly after 9:00.

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the weekend

Mon, 04 May 2026 04:07:57 GMT

I don't know if Cindy is still sick, or just feeling the effects that are hanging on, but she's not doing too well - coughing constantly. I still have some coughing, especially around bedtime but not like she's got. Other than that I feel fine except I don't have all my energy back. Yesterday I had to go out to get a new belt for my mower, then replace it, then mow. It took a lot out of me. After that, we needed to go to the grocery store, and were planning on looking for something for supper, but we learned that a BBQ food truck we like was at the brewery we like, so after groceries, we went out there and got some food and beer for supper.

This afternoon I worked in the gardens, did my Spring cleanup. I also drove Cindy to the pharmacy to pick up some cough medicine. We had leftovers for supper, then I went out for errands - got more groceries, and got my car washed. Then I left for the David Byrne concert. Cindy couldn't go because of her coughing, so I called my friend Steve, so we met and went down together. Cindy's daughter Heather was also at the show she texted me asking where I was. I told her and she said "ooh, you're all fancy, on the first floor!" I said, "you're in steerage?"

As expected, it was a fun show. Byrne did a smattering of Talking Heads tunes "And She Was", "Nothing but Flowers", "This Must Be the Place" and a couple more I wasn't familiar with, until he loaded up "Psycho Killer", "Life During Wartime", "Once in a Lifetime" and Burning Down the House" at the end. The other songs were enjoyable as well. The audience was on their feet more often than seated.

The walls around the stage were video walls, as was the floor. Since there were no shadows on the stage, it seemed like the musicians were just put in by video effect. They used a few video tracking tricks, like putting the musicians' names on the screen following that actual positions on the stage. Similarly with "spotlights" under their feet. For the first song, they were performing on the moon, as the Earth rose behind them. Byrne pointed to it and said it was heaven.

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New York Public Library

Sat, 02 May 2026 02:12:53 GMT

Last week in New York, Wednesday morning we visited the library. You know, that library. I’m sure most people who aren’t from the city refer to this building as the New York Public Library, but of course it’s a big city with a lot of branches, and this is just the most famous one. And it is very famous. The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. You know the lions. This is Patience…

(I didn’t pay my respects to Fortitude this visit.)

And this is the Rose Main Reading Room…

When you see it in the movies, it would seem to be right inside the front door. But it’s actually up on the third floor. Notice how high the ceiling is. Also note, if you want to see it, it’s only open to the public for an hour, at 10am.

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art in New York

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:03:26 GMT

My favorite museum is MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art. It's been a while, so we had intended to see it on Tuesday afternoon, but we ended up spending the day in the ER. We had intended to take a day trip to Philadelphia on Friday, and see the Barnes, but that fell through due to illness, among other things.

This time we visited the Guggenheim. ( see more )

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trip report, 7, home

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:01:18 GMT

I didn't sleep well again. This time due to the illness. Maybe got six hours. Cindy went up the street for some breakfast, and brought some back. Then we sat in the room until noon. Actually, I went out for a bit. It was cold and wet, but I wanted to see what was up with the gridlock on 5th Ave. There was going to be a parade on Madison Ave, so that was cut off, and traffic on the rest of the streets was jammed.

Checkout was at noon, and we had to get across Madison before the parade started at noon, so we walked over and found some lunch before flagging a taxi to take us to LaGuardia. So we did a lot of sitting around the room, then a lot of sitting around the airport. And sitting on the plane. I got some sleep, though the seat was uncomfortable and hard to find a position for rest.

Got home about 6pm. It's always nice to be back in your own bed, but it will be extra good this time.

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trip report, 6

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:11:05 GMT

Yesterday I mentioned that I wasn't feeling well. Today I was fully ill. I woke early, then Cindy went out around 11:00, and I went for a walk. I walked around the area at a relaxed pace. I sat in Bryant Park behind the library, for quite a while. It was pleasant. Then I went over to Times Square. Funny, it was less crowded, on a Friday afternoon, than almost every other time I've ever been there, even at midnight. But I really don't need to go back. Nothing more to see. I got a hot dog from a street vendor, and ate it in front of the library.

Cindy went to meet an artist friend, and they went to a photography show at the Armory. While waiting for her to return I dozed on and off, then we went for a sandwich. Then came back for a bit before housekeeping showed up to service the room, so we walked down to Madison Square Park and sat for a while before coming back. Then out for dinner. I got mixed up on the diners I found on the internets, so we had to find a new place. Went to a sports bar that was noisy as hell. If we'd actually had any more to say to each other at this point, I would have turned and walked out.

I was trying to decide if there was anything worth doing for a couple of hours tomorrow morning, in my sickened state. I thought I'd take the subway down to the Brooklyn Bridge, and I could get some photos. But then I checked the weather - 50 and raining. Horrible. Just discovered there's another photography exhibition, and it opens at 9:00, but I shouldn't be in crowds of people when I'm like this. So I'll just have to stay in and rest. At least until noon, when we have to check out. Our flight isn't until after 4:00, so we'll have some time to kill after checkout. Lunch, I guess, then go to the airport early?

This is my third time at this hotel, since it is centrally located in Midtown, and the rates are reasonable. Unfortunately, the tradeoff is for a very small room. No furniture except for the bed. If I'd known I'd be spending a lot of time in the room this time, I might have sprung for a more comfortable room. But a hundred dollars a night more is a lot.

I haven't gotten a good night of sleep this entire trip. In this place, the mattress isn't great, and it's very noisy here. Sirens are not uncommon, and car horns are constant. The rest of the noise just sounds like a construction site sometimes. The first two nights were in a decent room with a good bed, but I had temperature issues, and maybe issues with just being away from home. I don't know if all this poor sleep contributed to my illness, but it's sure not helping now.

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trip report, 5

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:37:38 GMT

We walked over to a new subway station (they're almost all new to us) and took it down to a restaurant that we always try to visit when we're here. After breakfast, we walked east through Washington Square, and over toward the East Village and then down. I was watching for a street name, but I didn't realize the street changed names, so we went quite a way too far. Doubled back and found the International Center for Photography. They had several exhibitions on, which were mostly good.

Found a cafe for lunch, then took a tour at the New York Tenement Museum. The tour focused on the life of a family and what it was like for them living in a tenement. Our tour happened to be about a black family who lived in the area in the 1860's, 70's and 80's. I wasn't expecting too much of out of it, to be honest, but it was good.

Then we walked back up to the hotel. It was too far. We stopped once, at a crappy "Irish Pub" where they couldn't even make me a whisky sour. We should have stopped and rested at least once more, but by the time we got to the point of exhaustion it was too late, and there was no place to sit. Cindy was doing better than she had been the day before, but still not back up to speed, and I wasn't feeling well, so didn't have full energy.

We looked online for a place for dinner, and settled on a barbecue place. When we got there it was full and very noisy. So we wandered around and found an Indian place that turned out to be good. It's surprisingly tough finding a place to eat around here. They're all overpriced, or too fancy, or hole-in-the-wall, or some ethnicity we're not into or not in the mood for.

After that, Cindy stayed in, and I want to the Top of the Rock, the observation deck on Rockefeller Center. I'd never been up in one of those tall buildings at night, so that was cool.

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trip report, 4

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:50:30 GMT

We had a quick breakfast at the coffee shop up the block, and got to the library when they opened at 10. We saw the famous Rose Reading room, which you have seen in movies like Ghostbusters. Then we saw the Polonsky Collection, which is basically a museum. They have some of the original stuffed animals that Winnie The Pooh was based on, which I thought was pretty cool. Then we walked on up to Central Park. Got a hot dog at a cart. It was subpar and we'll have to be more careful about the vendors we choose in the future. Then up to the Guggenheim. Saw work by Carol Bove, Gabrielle Munter and Robert Rauschenberg. I was only marginally interested in these artists, but Cindy had never seen the Frank Lloyd Wright building. And then we took the subway back down to the hotel.

This was all rather slow going. Cindy was tired, and had to walk very carefully. With her arm fractured and in a sling, she can't afford to fall again.

We rested a while and then I went back out with my camera. I went toward the east river, and ended up at the UN Building. Shot a lot of architecture. Then we had supper at a noisy Irish Pub. And sat in the room for the next few hours.

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trip report, 3, injury

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:00:10 GMT

We were up and on the road reasonably early. Drove back down to LaGuardia, returned the car, and got a cab to the hotel in Midtown (a block from the Empire State Building). Got there at noon. We walked two blocks and ate at a Mexican restaurant. We left there and turned the corner where Cindy tripped on a rough patch of sidewalk and fell. It was a bad fall. She was wearing a backpack, and the extra weight pusher her straight forward onto the ground. She landed on the palm of her right hand, the back of her left arm under her, and her face. A small crowd of people gathered to help. We got her to sit up, got her pack off, then stand, unsteadily. They gave us some tissues to wash her scraped up face. One guy tried to convince me to call 911, and then he finally just called for us. Fire truck arrived first and they gave her an initial check, and put antiseptic on her face. Then the EMTs gave us a ride to nearby Bellevue Hospital in an ambulance.

The place was jammed, so everything took a long time. Her right arm hurt when she rotated her hand, but it was worse over time. When they x-rayed it, she had to turn it in different positions, and it was excruciating. Turns out the radius is fractured near the elbow.

Accident happened a little before 1:00. Left the hospital around 9:15. Was around two hours from when they told us about the fracture, and when they told us the treatment - a sling. So now we're learning how to function with only one arm. Dressing has been the biggest challenge so far.

She's got a grey swollen bruise over her eye that I'm scared about what it will look like tomorrow. Also a scraped, swollen nose, and her lower lip is pretty beat up. She's taking ibuprophen for the pain. We walked back to the hotel from the hospital, and we weren't moving very quickly.

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trip report, 2

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:29:15 GMT

They said to show up between 9 and 10, because Lily goes down for her nap after 10. But early this morning they told us Lily was up early, which means an early nap, so we'd have to go much later. And sit around the hotel room for a couple of hours. I asked Jill if we could do gardening outside before she gets up. That was fine as long as we didn't alert the dogs and wake Lily. So we showed up at 11, and Lily was waiting at the door for us.

Cindy spent the day playing with Lily. She took her for a walk in her stroller. I spent the day working in the yard with Jill. We planted all the plants she'd bought the day before and dug up a lot of weeds. I was like her accountability buddy, keeping her working (with the help of Cindy watching the kid). And also give her a lot of advice. So I enjoyed myself. I kept working until about 5, long after she went inside because her allergies got bad. But I got everything done. I was feeling pretty good until I sat down, and then I crashed. I'm I'm pretty stiff now.

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trip report, 1

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:54:31 GMT

Flight to New York was uneventful aside from a lot of turbulence flying over a storm. We got here fairly late and had a late dinner at the diner next to the hotel. Saved half of it in the mini fridge for breakfast, but it turned out to be frozen. A microwave oven made it edible, if not good.

Went to visit the big kids and the little kid. Hung out with them for a while then went to lunch. Cindy and I went for a beer during naptime, and went back after. Cindy stayed to play with Lily while Jill and I went plant shopping. She and I are to do some gardening tomorrow, but it's going to be rough because it will be in the low 40's, and very wet with rain today and tomorrow morning.

I was super tired, yawning all day.

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Easter dinner

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:10:34 GMT

Thursday, I saw something on Fb about Good Friday being the next day. This was the first I'd realized this weekend was Easter. Sometime on Friday I realized I hadn't heard anything from my mom about Easter dinner on Sunday. We always have dinner with the family on Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Saturday morning, Cindy made plans to visit a friend for her birthday on Sunday. Later in the day I finally decided I should inquire about said dinner. If I hadn't, I figure I probably would have gotten a "where are you?" call this afternoon. And it would have been partly my fault for not asking.

Turns out my mom had forgotten to tell us about it. So I went over to Mom's today. My sister and her two kids were there. Before dinner, I saw my mom take the salad bowls off the table (we usually bring the salad). So we had dinner. Cindy arrived after we'd finished eating, but before dessert.

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restaurants near me

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:30:58 GMT

We were going to eat out, at an Asian place we like, but they were closed - on a Saturday Night. It took us a couple of minutes to think of another place in town that we wanted to go to. So I decided to make a list of all the restaurants, not counting coffee shops and takeout/delivery places.

Grafton, from east to south
Flannery's Bar & Restaurant @ Fire Ridge
The Bunkers
Juice's Ghost Town
Water Street Brewery
McDonald's (ff)
Qdoba (ff)
Dave's Hot Chicken (ff)
Quiznos (ff)
Noodles (ff)
Subway (ff)
Firehouse Subs (ff)
Chipotle (ff)
Five Guys (ff)
Flipside
13 North
Collectivo (coffee shop, breakfast, lunch)
Spring Garden
The Stillery
Lobo's Place
John's Pizzaria
Fiddleheads (coffee shop, breakfast, lunch)
McDonald's (ff)
Even Odds (pizza)
Dragon Gourmet
Cousin's Subs (ff)
Bamboo Bistro
Culver's (ff)

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the library project

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:45:07 GMT

Cindy retired from her job this week. She was, what 30 years at her previous job, and fifteen at this one? She has a lot of photography ahead of her, and one of her projects is to visit all the public libraries in Wisconsin. She started last Fall, but only got about ten libraries done before we went to Madison a couple of weeks ago.

She visits a library, takes a few photos inside and out, and then does a little research and writes a post about it. Maybe two or three at once. You can read (and subscribe to) them here: https://wisconsinlibraries.substack.com/

She got a tour from the director of one library so far. Hoping that will happen again. Some libraries are more interesting than others. Some are Carnegie buildings, some are in community centers or town offices. Some have their histories right on their websites, some barely have a website. There are eight tribal libraries, that we know of, on reservations.

I'm getting invested in the project. I'm sure I'm annoying her by pushing her to make plans to visit more. And I keep offering advice. Like, do some research before you go, so you know what to look for. Hand out business cards. I'm sure some the things I suggest are things she's already thought of. I also made a Google map. I pinned every library, and populated her list with addresses and websites. There are around 450 of them. I've even found new libraries that weren't on her list.

I'm trying to figure out how long it's going to take her. Two or three years? She can maybe get ten on a day trip. Do that every other week, that's five per week, or less than two years. The ones in northern Wisconsin will require longer trips, but we can get more done per trip because it's longer. I'm trying to figure out some routes, but it's hard to judge how long it will take until we actually do a few. I keep saying "we," but I won't be joining her on a lot of these trips, because I don't have that much vacation.

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Sunday

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:16:07 GMT

Sunday was a sedentary day. I sat for most of it. I caught up on my reading on Substack (photography) in the morning. In the afternoon, I sat at the computer and caught up on stuff. Fixed up some photos and posted them. Updated my whisky list. Took care of some CoPA things. Took care of some SAS things. Cooked supper. Worked on my presentation for the whisky tasting. Worked on Cyn's library project.

I don't know what's going on this week, if anything, except Cindy is retiring. Her last day at work is Tuesday!

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Deering Bridge

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:31:09 GMT

When I was in Chicago last week, I stopped to see a bridge.

Yes, I like the bridges. If you want to see more pics, and maybe read a little about it, I posted in Substack: https://kevinhansenphotoart.substack.com/p/deering-bridge

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long day

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:16:46 GMT

I worked in the morning, and left for Chicago after lunch. And not as early as I'd hoped because things kept coming up at work. My friend messaged that she wouldn't be able to meet me.

I had to take my camera to a shop for repair. The first place I chose was mail-in only, but their website wasn't working and I couldn't get through. The second place I stopped at today. They told me they don't do repairs onsite. The two places they send cameras to either wouldn't do my camera, or would take over a month. So I chose a third place and drove the opposite direction. I went north because I had to pick up some whisky. And then I went south. But that time my phone wasn't working with my car, so I was driving in an unfamiliar part of town without navigation. I finally got it to work and got downtown in good time.

Got confused in the building trying to find the place. Dropped the camera off and headed back north. I thought I should be enjoying something in downtown Chicago but it was getting late, the weather is bad, everything is expensive there (it cost me $25 just to park for less than half an hour) and I wasn't in the mood. So I went back north.

I found a soul food restaurant. It was all electronic. You could order at a kiosk or QR for a menu and order at the counter. But I got confused and thought I had to order online. I was trying to enter my credit card number on the phone, but I didn't have to, and then realized I entered it on a scam ad that comes when you do a QR code. I was caught by one of those before. So while I was waiting for my food I called the credit card company and canceled my card. Later, I saw an email saying I had set up a Google Pay account. Oh what in the holy fuck. Why is this so hard! I mean, even if I was ordering online, why was I even trying to enter my cc number? Why didn't I see what I was entering it for? Google Pay is legit, so I wouldn't have had to cancel my card.

So I went over to Delilah's for some whisky. At least that went fine. Had rain for part of the trip home, and wind for all of it. Talked with Cindy for a while after I got home, and then had to go out for milk.

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the weekend

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:51:48 GMT

Yesterday morning we decided to drive to Madison. I wanted to take my camera to a repair shop there, and then Cindy suggested we visit libraries to take photos for her library project. When I was looking up the location of the camera shop, I decided to read the Yelp reviews, and someone said they don't do the repairs, they just send the cameras out to the manufacturers. That won't work for me because mine is too old, so that plan was scrapped, but we still went to the libraries.

We visited eight out of ten in the city, including in nearby Monona where Cindy lived as a child. We missed a couple that we could have gotten if we'd started earlier in the day, but it's not like we won't be going back through the area.

The weather was amazing - sunny, and temps in the upper 70's. I wish we'd been able to spend more time out in it. I wanted to walk around downtown with my camera after the libraries closed at 5:00, but it turned out Cindy's feet were hurting. The rest of the week will be in the 30s and 40s.

I still need to figure out how to get the camera fixed. There are a lot of repair shops in Chicago, so I need to figure out where and when. I've got less than four weeks before we go on vacation.

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blizzard

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:28:33 GMT

We got an inch and a half of rain yesterday, and the snow started in late evening. It continued through lunchtime today. I have no idea how much we got because the wind was so strong it was just drifting everywhere. We got out to shovel after supper, and did most of it. I finished around 10pm. Fortunately it was fairly light. Due to the rain, there was ice underneath, but also fortunately, because it was slushy before it froze, it was textured and not very slippery.

It's supposed to get below 10°F overnight. Then Wednesday it will be above freezing, and getting warmer every day after, so I don't expect it to last long.

Cindy and I were both supposed to go into our offices today, but there was no way I was going to spend 45 minutes shoveling, and then an extra long commute, and get there late and find nobody else in the office. My coworker felt the same way. He said it took his wife an hour to get to work, twice as long as usual.

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wind

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:33:29 GMT

Friday we had wind. The wind speed was 30 to 40 mph for much of the day. The weather station across the street says the wind speed hit 50 once, and gusted to more than 60 a couple of times - 68 mph it says. I don't remember it ever being like this. There are trees down here and there.

We were working from home, and my connection was slow all day. We went out for dinner, and when we got home the internet was out. There were reports of power outages, and there were more of them today, for some reason. This morning was perfectly calm.

Everyone has been watching the forecast all week because it was calling for over a foot of snow this weekend. We were on the 8 inch line, with up to two feet in northern Wisconsin. But now the forecast for our neighborhood says we'll get a couple inches of snow overnight, then a couple inches of rain tomorrow, and over an inch of snow on Monday. And it will be windy.

It's a little annoying to have to go back to winter after some springlike weather last weekend, but I didn't really get a chance to be out in it, so it still doesn't really feel like Spring was happening.

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hungry days

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:05:54 GMT

Sometimes I'm hungrier than usual. Some days I can't go all the way to noon without having to find a snack or eat lunch early. I always need something in between supper and bedtime (that's usually six hours), but sometimes I need more than usual. No idea why this happens, but I'm sure most other people have this too. But recently I was less hungry than usual. I didn't need a snack in the evening (after a normal supper), and on top of that, I wasn't hungry for breakfast the next day, and made it all the way to lunch. Very strange.

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the weekend

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:27:35 GMT

Yesterday, we drove up to Appleton to a gallery talk at the art museum. It was about the same distance away as Chicago, but a much easier drive. I think we spent as much time at the museum as we did on the drive - one way. It wasn't until after we got home that we thought of a couple other things we could have done on the way (besides dinner). One was stopping halfway there, at a gallery where someone we know is having an exhibition of his work.

Today was more laid back for me. Cindy did her usual Sunday housework chores, but I didn't do as much. Worked on the whisky tasting a bit. Got outside (it's been warm) and picked up some trash from the gardens. Took care of some CoPA business. Cleaned the shower. And we did some planning for our trip to New York next month.

Tomorrow is the SAS meeting, and Tuesday is CoPA. After that, the calendar is open again for a week.

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brain not braining

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:41:20 GMT

As I mentioned, it's been a rough few weeks. I'm exhausted. Today we went to a play, and then met a friend of Cindy's for pizza.

Before we left, I asked her what time we had to leave. She said "the play starts at 3:00." Ogod, I have to do math and estimating.

"What kind of pizza should we get?" "I don't care." "But..." "Just don't get mushrooms." Not the kind of decision I was wanting to make at that point.

Her friend was very talkative, and I was grateful since I had nothing to say. It was taking a good portion of my energy to stay attentive.

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wasted time

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:15:19 GMT

I was supposed to get together with my friend Doug last night. He was coming up here. I was working in the office, but I had more than enough time to get home and eat supper before he arrived. He messaged me at 6:10 saying he was done eating and I could come anytime. Shit. I was supposed to go there. So I jumped in the car and got there a little before 7.

My main problem was that if I'd realized, I would have just stayed downtown after work, had dinner, worked a little overtime, and still been to his place in plenty of time. But going home, and then back past the office to get to his place, I wasted nearly an hour in the car.

And then I still had work to do, that I would get done after he left, which would have been probably around 9:30. But I didn't leave his place until almost ten. And then got stuck in traffic because the freeway closed for nighttime construction. So I logged on to work at 11:00. Only did 40 minutes.

It was all very annoying. I was looking forward to meeting Doug because I needed a break. All that extra kinda canceled out a lot of that break. I worked almost 11 hours today, and then had to take care of some CoPA stuff.

So that's how my week is going.

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boring weekend stuff

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:11:45 GMT

I was going to write about something this weekend but then I put it off until today so I could include the whole weekend, and now I don't know what it was.

I made pancakes for supper on Friday, and the house still smells like pancakes. I have no idea why.

I'm still sorting and shelving the LP's. I'd like to get the turntable working and listen to them all. I wonder how long that would take. I feel like we could average one a day, but I'm sure I'd get tired of it, so it would probably take twice that long. And I don't know how many are there. I think we're talking about years, and that's with skipping all the ones we have on CD and listen to all the time. This explains why we'd get tired of it - because we already have most of the good stuff on CD, so this would be a couple of years of mediocre 70's rock music.

D&D yesterday. One more session in April will close out the storyline. Not sure what will happen after that.

Today I went to Chicago to buy whisky. I had them all located at Binny's but stopped at Discount here in Milwaukee on the way (Binny's has their inventory online, and Discount doesn't), and found five of the six whiskies, and for less money. Still had to go to Chicago to pick up that last one.

While there I stopped at Delilah's for a whisky. Ended up talking with the owner for a while. He gave me his card and said to let him know the next time I was in town so he'd be in and we could chat.

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