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Very little to report on today. I almost have no reason even to bother! Except then if I just skipped a day with no warning, my regualar readers might think I'm dead. (All five of you. Okay, I guess that's an exaggerated understatement—I had 97 unique visitors worldwide yesterday alone. Unfortunately I can't find analytics for specific feeds within this site, but I do know the vast majority of visitors are at the movie review blog, not this personal blog feed.)
I rode my bike home from work yesterday, but took a minor detour over to Rainier Square, where the new store is opening next week (one week from today!) and our new office will be as of early September. The Office Relocation Committee is working on a handbook for office staff and the move, and I've been tasked with providing some information about the surrounding points of interest, both inside and near that block complex. I spent an inordinate amount of time yesterday finding floor plans or maps online, and adding my own labels. I rode over to make sure there weren't any new retail stores on the ground level than I could find online (there were not: the sidewalk level has fully six retail spaces that still remain empty—and that's not counting the PCC spaces).
I finished up those images this morning and added them to two pages I added to the end of the PowerPoint version the handbook current consists as.
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Riding home from there gave me a little bit of an idea of what riding my bike home from the new location will be like. I had locked my bike briefly on a rack on the 5th Avenue side, so I could go inside and check on anything new there (which I did find: Equinox apparently occupies one of the retail spaces on the ground floor but without any entry point; the main entrance is up on the second level, right behind the security desk for the Rainier Square Tower residences; I also discovered an
Urban Pickleball just opened on Level 2). Trouble is, 5th Avenue is one-way the wrong way, so I rode on the sidewalk up to Pike so I could get on the eastbound bike path there.
I'm not quite sure how I will deal with this once the move is done. I'll probably be entering the parking garage on Union. To do it technically properly, I should go across the street on 4th because the two-way bike path there is on the west side of the street. But I would only be riding it for one block, so if the sidewalk is clear I might still just ride the sidewalk on the east side of the street on 4th before then turning onto the bike path on Pike. I suppose we'll see.
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Shobhit had taken himself to Howell Park for sunbathing yesterday afternoon, and wasn't quite back home yet when I got home. I read my library book (
Heretics of Dune, which is getting really good) for a few minutes. Shobhit got home and we agreed he would make himself the carrot dish he wanted and I would just have a veggie hot dog. I have a technically-expired 4-pack of tofu hot dogs as a sample from work and now that it's been opened, I need to burn through them before they start to rot.
Shobhit spent the evening, after attending a virtual Braeburn Condos board meeting that I did not bother with, watching his news programs. So, I went to the bedroom, and went to look for what else I can catch on Peacock the final week I have a subscription. I'll never have the time to finish the entire series, but for the first time ever I decided to rewatch
30 Rock. I was stunned to discover the first season of that show aired
nineteen years ago (2006). Everyone looks insanely young; Tina Fey's hairstyle is atrocious; Tracy Morgan is almost skinny.
Here's the most striking thing: my first go-round, it took well into the first season before I truly got into it. Maybe I just came around to its sensibility, because I watched the first four episodes last night and laughed my ass off. I even texted that to Claudia, because we have had conversations about how much we both love that show. She responded with
Oh shit—and a photo of her TV, also watching
30 Rock! Ha!
There are certainly worse ways to spend an evening.
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[posted 12:32pm]
