Monday: Up at 7:30, trying to shift my days a little earlier. MB got up as well, and some contention for the bathroom, but easily resolved. Shower, then down basement for morning practices. New goals: get up a bit earlier, and do not use the computer before getting to work. I already violated the second rule, in unplugging my laptop from the hard-drive, and simultaneously checking email. This will be a struggle. I'm an internet junkie. Back upstairs, and breakfast.
It rained a little in the morning, but cleared by the time I headed out. Stopped at the library and dropped off a score, then to KKC. Geshela and Hln were eating lunch when I arrived and Geshela asked "Who is there?" when I walked in the door. I said "Glenn" and then he replied "Just Glenn?" I said "Uh... Glenn's mind" then he said "Last week you didn't exist at all." and he and Hln laughed... Then we had a nice conversation about Buddhist philosophy, and Geshela encouraged me to keep studying. I swept up in the Gompa, and did water bowls. Hln offered me fruit and coffee, but I declined.
In to work. B was back from vacation, but seemed in an off mood. I worked on some performance monitoring code for my new subsystem. Talked to Jm and B a bit about an idea I had. Ordered cat pills. Made a vet appointment (for the cats, not for me.) Around 6 I took a break and walked out around the block. A woman gave me a sob story, asking for money... but it was obviously rehearsed. I said no and walked on. Got a slice of pizza at the garage. Some music, by and for, teeny-boppers played on wide-screen. I should say performed by teeny-boppers... most likely written by old pros. Very slick and packaged. The kids on stage were pretending to be entertainers, and the kids watching were pretending to be an audience. But this could perhaps be said of us all.
Back at my desk, spent some time working on my financial spreadsheet for my official budget meeting with MB. More work, feeling sleepy and finding it a bit difficult to concentrate.
Back home, talked to MB's folks briefly, then had the financial summit with MB. I think the surprising thing was, once you factor out the mortgage and bills, how similar our levels of spending are. She ate some food and packed lunches, and I played a little guitar... Sleepy... Thunder outside now.
After writing this entry, a massive thunder and lightening storm got underway. I realized that the large amount of rain that was falling might give me a clue to what was going on with the flooding in the basement. I went outside, and sure enough, the whole little stairwell going down into the basement was flooded. MB came down to help (and couldn't find me at first because I was around back.) I bailed out the stairwell, and made a little hatch to temporarily keep more water from getting in. The flooding was caused by: water coming from the little area between the house and the garage overflowing into the stairwell, the fact that rain can fall directly into the stairwell, and the gutter on the house above the stairwell is clogged and was overflowing in that spot as well.
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