Day after Labor Day, back to the grindstone. Oh, wait. Im still on seven-day weekends. Never mind.
Or not. Ive still got some yard work to do before the snow flies, and from the way the weathers been acting thats probably going to be at about noon on Thursday. Ive pledged that I will finish painting the siding on Our Humble OBode before winter, for starters. I havent ever attached a condition to that – Ill either finish painting or eat all the paint chips scattered around the foundation of the house! With milk and sugar! – but Id end up eating a lot of crow if I dont, so the push is on. There isnt much left. I should be able to finish in a week or so. The soffits and all the window frames need to be painted, too, but I never said anything about those so I think Im safe there.
Other yard work, such as trimming the overgrown lilac and honeysuckle bushes, will get done only if I can finish painting. In that case, I might end up taking care of that next spring. Care to put any money on that?
The other Very Important Thing Ive got to do today is return the videos we rented from Bongo Video that we shouldve taken back last night because the late charges are crazy expensive. I dont know why we dont just hand them the rental fee plus one or two days late charges when we take the movies out in the first place. I cant remember the last time we rented movies and didnt pay the late fees. We used to feel guilty about that, but guilt slowly morphed into self-satisfaction that we were doing our part to keep a local business afloat with our very own financial mini-stimulus program.
I picked one hell of a day to return the videos to the store on my bike. All the wind in the world is right here in Madison today – apologies to the folks in Galveston, but its one-hundred and one percent true. The wind was even kicking up rollers across Lake Monona big enough to surf on, not that anyone was taking advantage of it.
Honeydew | 11:54 am CSTCategory: adventures in unemployment, bicycling, daily drivel, painting, work, yard work
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Brah, I would TOTALLY surf Lake Monona, just to say I did it! Chillin’!
Congrats again on the new job! :)