a day in the life

All times are EST and are approximate, not correlated with NIST or the atomic clock.

0633  daughter yells, "no school again, Dad!"

0633.005  semiconscious, I mumble: "So cool, iPad, hunh?!"

0839  dog barking furiously; "it's just Mom coming home from work," I mumble; it's not, I realize after hearing the doorbell ring

0840  kid with shovel asking if I want any shoveling done; "no, thanks" I say as a sleepwalker; if I were more alert I'd have made the investment; we often made money doing that as kids, up in the wealthier parts of Stamford, nto Old Greenwich

0852  breakfast; two Thomas' Toast-R-Cakes, tea with milk

0907  begin clearing porch stairs and our sidewalk and Brenda's; realize I must clear a spot for Beth

0907.01  realize this wet snow is as heavy as just-poured Quikrete

0907.02 to 0945  dig snow in street clearing space for a Honda civic; we are a one-way street; driveways are a luxury on Tipp hill

0947  Beth pulls in to the quasi-cleared spot, not far, but legal, from hydrant

0948 to 1119  with daughter's help we free or moored car and straighten it out; help Jack From Across the Street clear his white Chevy; look down the hill and see cadres of people shoveling all over or snowblowing (I don't like snowblowers); clear area around red hydrant; Ukrainian-Americans across the street yell at each other about snow removal

1129  call mom back home; suns comes out; snowing in CT; sun comes out there; during call my vision gets blurry, like the ocular migraine i had around 1998

1141 toast and tea; still fuzzy vision

1147  hard to read words while typing some emails; feel perfectly fine otherwise; still, a tad scary

1149 to 1229  lie down; can't sleep; disturb Beth as she tries to sleep

1230  wake up; vision seems fine; relieved

1249  eat leftovers from last night's supper: delicious galupki, roasted potatoes, grilled, sauteed beans and peppers

1257  drive ABK to reservoir up by Geddes Street; sun blazing; melting; from Bellevue Heights Church driveway, she climbs over snowbank, takes along trek uphill; meets friends; tussles with boy(s); watching, I am joyed and grateful

1313  actually I think I ate lunch around now

1314 to 1420  prepare invoices

1500 to 1531  call to DC, discuss June quality conference with EPA person; very good call

1547  prepare invoices to be mailed

1609  drive to Wegmans; envelopes

1710 to 1750  nap

1853  to 1924  dinner at The Black Olive

1944 to 1959  walk dog

2018  browse the Flapper blog

2118 to 2131  blog

No paychecks, no pierogi, no porn. That's my day so far.