I passed on hanging out with my mother yesterday to take a nice long walk in Inwood Hill Park with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude: greenery and sunshine and birdsongs and a little bit of photography, mostly trying to get some shapes (with minimal success). It's too early for black raspberries, though we may try next weekend, depending on the weather then, and between now and then.
My company decided to have an "employee appreciation lunch" in which they first gathered everyone in the usual place to discuss plans for the next year or so (which include either more space in the same building, or moving to a larger office, in either of which we will again have an actual conference room instead of "gather in the hall outside J's office" for such meetings) followed by feeding people sandwiches. They made my boss happy by actually getting something she can eat (she is celiac and has to avoid all gluten, and without that she'd have had to go out and get lunch; I think she appreciated them remembering as much as she did the separate plate of grilled vegetables that had not come near bread).
I went to the eye doctor, and spent some time fretting at having lost one of my favorite earrings, but at 5:00 my cell phone rang to say that they had found it. I had, in the interim, had time to realize that of course I'm most likely to lose my favorite earrings, those are the ones I wear a lot. Nonetheless, I'm going to put those little rubber stoppels on this pair, to try to prevent this happening again.
One of the zippers on my daypack failed this morning. It's a double/zip-from-either-end arrangement, so I was able to close the bag today and not worry (much) about losing my stuff. If I can easily get one like this again, I will: it lasted a few years, and is a good size. Ameribags's web site says they still make this model, but neither of the two dealers they list closest to my office has it, according to their web sites. I may try the place in the Village anyhow: I got it there last time, and they have lots of other stuff. But I may also be looking for suggestions for not-too-big daypacks, that are nonetheless big enough to hold a moleskine notebook, my gym gear, and a few odds and ends (pens, sunglasses, tampons, a small flashlight, that sort of thing) but not so many as to get too heavy.
After work and retrieving my earring, I went to the gym branch nearest my office, and had a fairly good workout; they seem to have improved their laundry service.
( Read more... )
cattitude: greenery and sunshine and birdsongs and a little bit of photography, mostly trying to get some shapes (with minimal success). It's too early for black raspberries, though we may try next weekend, depending on the weather then, and between now and then.My company decided to have an "employee appreciation lunch" in which they first gathered everyone in the usual place to discuss plans for the next year or so (which include either more space in the same building, or moving to a larger office, in either of which we will again have an actual conference room instead of "gather in the hall outside J's office" for such meetings) followed by feeding people sandwiches. They made my boss happy by actually getting something she can eat (she is celiac and has to avoid all gluten, and without that she'd have had to go out and get lunch; I think she appreciated them remembering as much as she did the separate plate of grilled vegetables that had not come near bread).
I went to the eye doctor, and spent some time fretting at having lost one of my favorite earrings, but at 5:00 my cell phone rang to say that they had found it. I had, in the interim, had time to realize that of course I'm most likely to lose my favorite earrings, those are the ones I wear a lot. Nonetheless, I'm going to put those little rubber stoppels on this pair, to try to prevent this happening again.
One of the zippers on my daypack failed this morning. It's a double/zip-from-either-end arrangement, so I was able to close the bag today and not worry (much) about losing my stuff. If I can easily get one like this again, I will: it lasted a few years, and is a good size. Ameribags's web site says they still make this model, but neither of the two dealers they list closest to my office has it, according to their web sites. I may try the place in the Village anyhow: I got it there last time, and they have lots of other stuff. But I may also be looking for suggestions for not-too-big daypacks, that are nonetheless big enough to hold a moleskine notebook, my gym gear, and a few odds and ends (pens, sunglasses, tampons, a small flashlight, that sort of thing) but not so many as to get too heavy.
After work and retrieving my earring, I went to the gym branch nearest my office, and had a fairly good workout; they seem to have improved their laundry service.
( Read more... )
