once again a slave to the grind
So, we all wandered back to the grind this week after a couple of weeks; off, and in most cases, off the grid. The smartphone spent a lot of time in a drawer, and I largely ignored the telephone and the email and the internet (except to grind a bit on Marvel Heroes and pick up the free holiday goodies) in favor of mostly uninterrupted rest and relaxation.We had a couple of enjoyable evenings out playing tabletop games with friends where we fed pandas, figured out who would be the Betrayer at the House on the Hill (SPOILER: it was Dan), and building superheroes for future four-color adventure. I read a couple of books, built a drum, welcomed some really pretty baby fish into the world, rehearsed some bass lines, made some tasty Indian food, and wrote some music. All told, it was not a bad break.
But now we’re back to work/school, and I’m sure my lovely spouse is happy to have the house to herself again, so she’s able to attend to tasks like super-secret committee responsibilities and kitten snuggling.
Today, the phrase of the day is Polar Vortex, which is a fancy meteorological way of saying that it’s a little colder than usual – not excessively cold – it was 14°F when I left the house this morning, cold, but not crazy cold. The schools had a delayed opening, as apparently did my workplace, but it didn’t make the news, and it wasn’t mentioned by either of the guards at either of the checkpoints I passed coming in – the place just looked like a ghost town once I got settled, so I called the status hotline from my desk. Wasn’t the first time, won’t be the last.
So, yeah. Welcome to 2014. Hope it’s a good one. Seems okay so far from this end.
