a mid-October Friday's Eve

 Today is the 5th day of the 42nd week [can you believe there are only 10 weeks left in this year?], the 17th day of the 10th month, the 291st day of 2024 [have you started your Christmas shopping yet? There are only 68 shopping days left] and: 

  • Black Poetry day - my knee-jerk reaction was to ask what would rhyme with black?  That isn't what they mean, obviously....
  • Conflict Resolution Day
  • Edge Day
  • Forgive an Ex Day - forgiven yes.  Forgotten, no.
  • Four Prunes Day
  • Get to Know Your Customers Day
  • Harry Potter Book Day
  • Imagine a Day Without Water - trying to raise awareness of this basic human need for the past 10 years 
  • International Credit Union Day
  • International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
  • International ShakeOut Day
  • Mulligan Day
  • National Get Smart About Credit Day
  • National Pasta Day
  • National Playing Card Collection Day
  • National Vehophobia Awareness Day 
  • Pay Back a Friend Day
  • Spirit Day
  • Spreadsheet Day
  • Sukkot - observed the 15th of Tishri in the Hebrew calendar
  • Wear Something Gaudy Day
  • World Geothermal Energy Day
  • World Trauma Day
  • full super blue Hunter's moon at 07:27 AM EDT
  • and Voyager 1 is ~22h 56m 05s of light travel time from Earth.  Regular readers will note this update hasn't been given for a while.  The account owner explained they stopped posting on Twitter and Mastedon because the public information on the JPL website had been removed from public view in mid-August.  The account is now using NASA's HORIZONS system, but that isn't quite as precise, hence the ~ symbol.  

Quote of the day:
"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."
~  George Washington Carver - American agricultural scientist and inventor

Smelly update:  the refrigerator still smells horrible to me.  The good news is that maintenance has put in for a replacement.  The bad news is it will take a couple of weeks.  Even more good news to me is that my cleaning lady, and the two organizers could also smell the odor, so it is most definitely not my imagination.    Apparently I am not headed around the bend just yet, although I may be approaching it

The fact that I am able to decorate the outside of my home, knowing that items will not be tampered with or stolen, so I can put out nice things was one of the determining factors in choosing this place.  My neighbor from across the hall complimented me on my display, and I told her I wanted to put out things that represented me as a person    

The wreath is housewarming gift from my oldest friend of many many years via her niece and was hung up before anything else.   The green cloth is a furoshiki that I received wrapped around my chopsticks.  The book dragon was ordered especially for this, the goblet was purchased from the MD Renfest to support them during the COVID shutdown, the box with the flowers flowing out was bought at the now defunct Edmondson flea market and enhanced by a former coworker at C&F, the blown glass is from Jamestown, and the picture is an original called "Sands of time running low"  by Jeffrey Lipsky, an SL friend I met in RL at a con in Chicago that my daughter and I went to.

The inside of the apartment is looking good.  The TaskRabbit person is coming this Saturday to put up the curtain rods in both bedrooms and a plant holder for my wind chimes on the balcony.   He is also going to hang three cross-stitch pictures in the living room and assemble a coat tree for the kid's room.  After that the last project will be to get the books sorted out, and I have the organizers coming back in November during the long Veteran's Day weekend to help do that.

There are a couple of little things that I find myself grumbling about now that I am settling in:  the freezer obviously,  the fact that I cannot seem to get really hot water [it's hot, but not hot enough as far as I am concerned],  the storage area I have to use smells very musty, and I am parking outside [had to scrape the windows this morning.  Still in second place on the waiting list for the garage].  I don't like the commute either, although thankfully I only do it twice a week.  But chalk it up to "no place is perfect", neh?

The biggest thing is that although it is starting to look like home, it doesn't quite feel like home yet.  

Triscuit seems to feel the same way.  She is more relaxed when I am there, but she gets very tense when I leave for the office on Wednesdays and Thursdays.  I am still not quite .... comfortable - too many decisions to make just to get to do routine tasks as nothing can be done on autopilot just yet, as I still have to think/decide where things are.

I've started burning sage incense.

How long will it take until it feels like home?

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