I’m settling in to life in my new locale pretty well but for one exception. I have spent the last 20 years of my life in places that are profoundly flat. Center City, northeast Philly, the shore. Hell, even the places I vacation like Florida and Vegas. Very, very flat. I remember on my walk […]
I have, at the very best, a sordid history with housekeeping chores. Now, in fairness, I have lots of sordid histories, most of them emotionally-unavailable brunettes. In this case, though, I feel like the word “sordid,” with its connotations of dirt and squalor, is much more fitting than in most of those cases. Toxic codependency […]
I cooked tonight in the new place for the first time. This is not to say that I haven’t eaten the last three weeks. I have. And it’s also not to say that I’ve been subsisting on takeout either. I’ve made myself plenty of meals. Tonight was the first time I did serious Cooking with […]
It seems like with the snow mostly gone the entire world decided to make a day of it in Jenkintown. I’ve been out and about today for the first time since Wednesday morning and holy SHIT is this street mobbed. There was, for the first time in the two weeks I’ve been here, a line […]
Ow. Ow ow OW. My ankle hurts in a NEW way now, and it hurts all the time, but I am told this is good. Most people who undergo this procedure get the debridement in one or two places. I got it in seven. After the procedure my surgeon came to the recovery area and […]
I keep having these “last moments.” Last week, I had to get a prescription filled. I had the idea that while I was waiting for it I could head to the Shop Rite and grab some quick groceries I needed, and my meds would be ready by the time I was done. If you’ve never […]
A word, here, about beginnings. Alright, well, we are in it now. Talking with my realtor this morning, I mentioned that I had been thinking about it, and it occurred to me that I should probably have my next place done and dusted BEFORE we tried to sell this place, as if we sold this […]
A word, here, about changing circumstances. I’ve been having some oddly unpleasant dreams lately. That in and of itself is not especially weird, for me. I’m not talking nightmares here, not in the recent past at least, but the experiences I want to say the last week or so has been different enough from normal […]
I had my first day at the new job today, and it turns out when you’re an actual employee and not a hired gun, things go a little different. As a contractor/consultant/whatever, you’re always expected to produce from day one. Today, once I got my new equipment and stuff set up, my boss basically told […]