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.

Martin Hall ribbon cutting ceremony

 We've been moving equipment into the building for awhile, but today was the official Martin Hall ribbon-cutting ceremony!

The building went from looking like this:

... to an eco-friendly, environment-integrated "treehouse" like this:

It still has that offgassing new-building smell of fresh plastic and paint. Each floor has a dominant color, and they correctly selected "green" for the one where my office sits.

This post's theme word is assart (n), "a tract of woodland cleared for cultivation". The rear footprint of the building forms an assort, restoratively cleared in order to make way for the saplings which will grant shade to the building several decades hence.