The weather has no respect...
Mar. 23rd, 2005 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpHere it is, the fourth day of spring, and it's snowing again. (Not much, granted, but the flakes are coming down and the car is coated with the white stuff.)
No biggie. I'll just hunker down in the basement and run the electric heater. As I've mentioned before, the more snow on the mountains when it finally does stop snowing, the later in the summer does the Forest Service impose restrictions on the use of the outdoors around here. And later is a Good Thing™.
Now, I've just got to figure out how to make the time to make use of the outdoors around here, past my usual "quick drive along a road late in the afternoon to look for some mushrooms," which is the norm during those periods of August and September when I am actually in Pagosa.
As far as being resident in Pagosa during 2005, I crossed to the positive side of the 50% mark about a week ago. Unfortunately, it really doesn't mean as much as it could, since it's been a month and two days since Galina left for Houston, so I am solidly on the negative side of 50% as far as "days with Galina in 2005" are concerned. (This raises a curious question: how come I picked 50% as a breakpoint? Why not 33% or some other number? The easy answer is that with 50%, it's easy use words like "more" and "less." Otherwise... I'd have to think on it, but in the background only, as there's too many things to get done in too little time.)
I have an 8-page job at hand, due by the COB (though it arrived so late yesterday that the coordinator said I could deliver it tomorrow morning, if I needed the extra time). Things are picking up, a little, but they need to pick up a lot more. The sum invoiced so far this month is fairly small; I have not yet made 50% (there's that number again) of my self-assigned "nut" for the month.
Cheers...
No biggie. I'll just hunker down in the basement and run the electric heater. As I've mentioned before, the more snow on the mountains when it finally does stop snowing, the later in the summer does the Forest Service impose restrictions on the use of the outdoors around here. And later is a Good Thing™.
Now, I've just got to figure out how to make the time to make use of the outdoors around here, past my usual "quick drive along a road late in the afternoon to look for some mushrooms," which is the norm during those periods of August and September when I am actually in Pagosa.
As far as being resident in Pagosa during 2005, I crossed to the positive side of the 50% mark about a week ago. Unfortunately, it really doesn't mean as much as it could, since it's been a month and two days since Galina left for Houston, so I am solidly on the negative side of 50% as far as "days with Galina in 2005" are concerned. (This raises a curious question: how come I picked 50% as a breakpoint? Why not 33% or some other number? The easy answer is that with 50%, it's easy use words like "more" and "less." Otherwise... I'd have to think on it, but in the background only, as there's too many things to get done in too little time.)
I have an 8-page job at hand, due by the COB (though it arrived so late yesterday that the coordinator said I could deliver it tomorrow morning, if I needed the extra time). Things are picking up, a little, but they need to pick up a lot more. The sum invoiced so far this month is fairly small; I have not yet made 50% (there's that number again) of my self-assigned "nut" for the month.
Cheers...
