Fall break (day 2)

Grading (typical pastime). Cleaned the floors, did more laundry. Executed a closet update: summer clothes into storage, winter clothes out of storage, all-season clothes folded and sorted by color. Did not actually finish any task, so it's a bit demoralizing to end the day and not be able to cross off any item from my Grand To-Do List for Fall Break.

End of day email tally: personal 83, work 73.

This post's theme word is agon (n), "conflict, contest, or struggle." Ignoring the siren song of the unreplied inbox message is a continuous agon.

Fall break (day 1)

It's not really a break, of course. The power was out at the office, so I stayed home and dissassembled a heat pump. Then cleaned it with a toothbrush. Party time over fall break!

Very little actual work got done, but a lot of bureaucratic and maintenance tasks were accomplished. Laundry. Cooking a big pile of escarole. Rainy dog walks. Waiting on phone tree queues for customer service agents. Tickets closed.

End of day email tally: personal 87, work 81.

This post's theme word is verisimilar (adj), "having the appearance of truth or reality." The verisimilar dream meant that I actually cleaned the heat pump twice today.