Monday off
May. 21st, 2007 10:21 pmI declared today an honorary holiday -- I might even be able to count it as time-in-lieu of Memorial Day, when I'll be working. In Honolulu, but working.
So I pottered around the apartment, and tagged the last five months of photos, and changed the filter on the furnace and turned the furnace off for the summer and realized that there's an awful lot of black soot on the control panel, which it's never done before. Time to ask management to get it serviced, I think, but no enormous hurry as I shouldn't be needing it again until October or November. In the afternoon I went down to my local Bookman's 'Entertainment Exchange,' a used-book store that also does media and general bric-a-brac. The intersection it's on is under threat of serious upgrading, which means that the whole area has been suffering from planning blight for a while, and I wanted to spend down my trade credit while the place was still in business. It still seems to be going strong at the moment -- now with Wi-Fi -- and I found a selection of mostly paperback books and a couple of movies, and promptly fell headlong into an Elizabeth George mystery set in my favourite part of Derbyshire.
Oh, and I think I can add baked salmon fillet to the list of things that are improved by a good dusting of black pepper and basil leaves. The salmon was as good cold today as it was hot yesterday. Black pepper is good on avocado, too. (Black pepper and basil leaves are what I have, so they tend to get sprinkled around when I'm in a vaguely culinary mood.)
Also achieved words, but not in enormous quantity, just a modest 539 to keep things ticking over.
So I pottered around the apartment, and tagged the last five months of photos, and changed the filter on the furnace and turned the furnace off for the summer and realized that there's an awful lot of black soot on the control panel, which it's never done before. Time to ask management to get it serviced, I think, but no enormous hurry as I shouldn't be needing it again until October or November. In the afternoon I went down to my local Bookman's 'Entertainment Exchange,' a used-book store that also does media and general bric-a-brac. The intersection it's on is under threat of serious upgrading, which means that the whole area has been suffering from planning blight for a while, and I wanted to spend down my trade credit while the place was still in business. It still seems to be going strong at the moment -- now with Wi-Fi -- and I found a selection of mostly paperback books and a couple of movies, and promptly fell headlong into an Elizabeth George mystery set in my favourite part of Derbyshire.
Oh, and I think I can add baked salmon fillet to the list of things that are improved by a good dusting of black pepper and basil leaves. The salmon was as good cold today as it was hot yesterday. Black pepper is good on avocado, too. (Black pepper and basil leaves are what I have, so they tend to get sprinkled around when I'm in a vaguely culinary mood.)
Also achieved words, but not in enormous quantity, just a modest 539 to keep things ticking over.
