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7.10.21

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Soon I will be going back to face-to-face work. Even though it will be a flex schedule I am somewhat dreading it. I love working from home and I am more productive. I suppose I still will be at least some of the time it’s just I am so unused to interacting with people face-to-face and think that a lot of training I do with faculty is actually better via Zoom as they can share their screen with me and I can lead them step-by-step in whatever application rather than sit side-by-side and watch me do an overview on my computer. But such is the life I suppose.

The art is still on hold. Not sure what is happening… Cannot do the same stuff anymore but don’t know what comes next yet. My creativity is completely drained and maybe it is a good thing. The switch does not come immediately and I just have to be patient with it.

The Sumer is in full bloom. We reached almost the middle of it. I have to count September as part of the Summer nowadays because September continued the heat streak for the last couple of years. Of course, global warming “does not exist…” I don’t know how much proof people who don’t believe in it need for them to realize that it is part of life now. During the heat burden when temperatures reached way over 100F I was walking my dog around my townhouse complex and only very few had air conditioners sticking out of windows. I was wondering how they survived… There were I think 75 deaths in Portland from heatstroke. 75 too many. Most of the houses in Portland are very old and do not have air conditioners and there were none in stores as it usually is in the Summer. I just got lucky that my friends who moved to a house with central air gave me their window unit. My friends rock and I am very fortunate and lucky to have them.

I am looking towards next Wednesday when it is my day off with lost patience so that I can go to the coast. Going on weekends is insane as the whole of Portland and its suburbs are on their way there and it is overcrowded on the road and beaches. Going in the middle of the week promises a fast drive and solitude on the beach especially the beach I am going to. I cannot wait for my zen by water and Opee’s happiness chasing birds and the waves. He is very fast and happy. You can see it in his step and a huge doggo smile. That warms my heart to the highest degree.

I am glad that I have things I am looking towards amid the minutia of every day. Life is good when you can do that.

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