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The rain continues. I'm into it. When I was walking the mile to the office from the bus stop at 3rd & Pike, I flipped my podcast over to my "
Rain" playlist. Of course those songs are all metaphorical rather than literal but whatever.
When I was on my lunch break yesterday, I sat in the staff lounge area over by the windows to the patio, through which I could see suddenly huge gusts of wind. Then it rained really hard. I really lucked out with the timing yesterday, though, because the rain had paused while I was on my way to work, and did again on my way home. I had my umbrella and never needed to use it. And so I walked home, and read
The House in the Cerulean Sea the whole way. I'm a little more than halfway through it, and I must say, I am loving it more the more I get through it. At this rate, this may be a rare solid-A book read.
I had also read while walking from the bus to the office yesterday morning, but could not do that this morning, as this time it was steadily raining. We still have rain in the forecast every day through Friday morning. I suppose it's lucky we've got sun in the forecast again for the weekend. Laney and I may do another outdoor happy hour after the movie we're scheduled to see on Sunday.
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Speaking of Laney, she texted me while I was walking home from work. I can't remember if I mentioned already that they pushed her move-in date at Pride Place up from mid-November, to late October: Thursday the 26th. I'm actually taking the afternoon off to help unload the truck.
She got her first chance to come inside and see the unit yesterday, and she texted four photos she took. I already had a "
Pride Place 2023: Laney Moves In" photo album started, with some exterior photos I had already taken (plus a couple she already took and shared), so I added these to it.
The unit is very small, which we both already knew; the studios
range between 330 and 450 square feet, and Laney's is in between those numbers. I can't remember exactly, but I want to say 380? She measured the main living area and texted me that's 11 ft by 13 ft. Presumably the rest is the limited closet and bathroom space, although she said for an apartment so tiny the bathroom is surprisingly spacious. Like the unit she's in currently in Renton, that may have to do with it being senior housing.
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Anyway. The rest of my evening was fairly uneventful. I watched this week's episode of
Ahsoka—which was super action packed—in the bedroom, during which Shobhit watched an on-demand recording of
The Silence of the Lambs. Since he was occupied with that, I spent some time working on the 2024 calendars.
I'm a little disappointed by Costco outsourcing their calendars to Shutterfly since last year. They no longer have 11.5 x 14" options, and any other calendar service I can find offering that size charges $10 more per calendar. I can't abide by that, so I'm stuck having to construct 12 x 12" calendars now, as that's the largest Shutterfly offers, and is the only place I can still get a Costco discount so the calendars are priced at "only" about $20 each.
I'm not thrilled about having to make all the photos square in shape either. But, whatever. We'll all make do, I guess. I went through to mark up month photos with small bits of text about what the photos are of. I spent at least an hour on it, and had already done an hour of work at least on other days so far. I just need to find all the grid photos for birthdays and anniversaries from the past year now, add the years to those, and construct the calendars.
I've been doing these calendars now since 2006, when I made 2007 calendars. This will make the 18th year of doing them. I think the first year I used, maybe Bartell Drugs photo service. Several years after that I ordered direct from Apple, but then they discontinued the service. So then I switched to Costco where I discovered they had a member discount. Now even they're outsourcing. I still get the Costco discount, but this will make the fourth service I've had to use.
I might have watched
Only Murders in the Building with Shobhit after his movie, but we ran out of time. I had music playing, and he eventually came to the bathroom and told me he'd been calling me for a while. Of course, he was doing so from the living room at the other end of the condo. He loves to do that, when I often can't hear him whether I have AirPods in (as he assumed last night) or not. God forbid he just get up and walk into the room to talk to me.
By then it was late enough, and Shobhit doesn't work today either, I figured we'd just catch up on our TV tonight. That'll do fine.
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[posted 12:35 pm]
