Quotidian

[redbird]

Or, as someone else puts it, 5 random things make up an entry:

• Mr. Twinings, or his heirs and assigns, no longer love me. They have discontinued the blend of tea that has been my default tea-in-bags (for offices and some sorts of travel), Ceylon Breakfast. There's a replacement, called just Ceylon, which will do, I think, but I'm considering just buying more of my favorite loose Assam and some of those fill-it-yourself tea pouches. (Washing and drying tea balls at work has, in general, proven to be a nuisance, doubly so because I need to microwave the water for 30 seconds to get it hot enough.)


• Black Labs are heavy: I spent the ride in this morning with a slightly fidgety guide dog mostly lying on my foot, in between getting up partway and sniffing at another stranger's pants leg. The person he was with tugged him back into place, but didn't speak to the dog (or to the man, but she of course couldn't see what he was doing, only feel him move away slightly). That dog may need more exercise, or a refresher training course.


• I'm in the middle of multiple books again, in this case one novel and one short story. Both are recent purchases; I've also got two not-yet-started library books. (I'm borrowing a lot of mysteries at the moment, in part because I rarely want to reread those.)


• Somewhere along the line, equinox=spring stopped seeming plausible: it's been spring here for a few days, in the places where some of my friends live for weeks, and isn't yet where some of the others live. Nonetheless, it seems relevant that the days in this hemisphere are now longer than the nights.


• There was email at work this morning, to all staff, about their 2006 bonuses, stating that everyone would be getting the details from their supervisors in letters today, and the money by direct deposit tomorrow. Oh, and free pizza for all, as lunch today, with no speeches. Temps, even those who've been there longer that I have, don't get annual bonuses, but we did get pizza. It seems a shame that the person who's been complaining to me that she's not paid enough to eat wasn't there today.