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Cellar Dweller

My step son, Harry, is home! He was here when I got home from work last night and it was wonderful having him around. Having kids here makes me happy.

Him being home today means that I am working from the office desk in the cellar instead of the desk in his room. I am a cellar dweller again while he’s home. Today is Friday and I am working from home. Next week I will be in the office on Monday and then I am off for xmas eve, xmas day, and I took a vacation day for the day after xmas. So one day working in the cellar is all I need. I can handle it. Not that there’s any difficulty working in the cellar, I just like being upstairs more. That’s all.

I do have one thing planned for my lunch break down here in the cellar where no one can see me…

I setup a gift wrapping station. Let’s see how much of the remaining pile of presents I can get through while I eat my chicken patty and fries. Bring on the work day so I can get to it. Two working days left before Santa comes. Still much to do in that little amount of time. Let’s do this thing!

Holiday Traffic

Word on the street (pun intended) is that traffic is really crappy tonight. I still have almost two hours to go before I finish work and go out to brave the roads, but I am not looking forward to it.

What I am looking forward to is seeing my step son tonight. He’ll probably be getting to the house while I’m stuck in traffic. All the more reason to be happy about the commute situation (yes, that was meant to be very sarcastic).

I really want to go home now. One hour and 47 minutes to go.

While we wait, here are two pictures I took while putting gas into the car this morning… because that’s related to the overall topic, right?

Oh Great

Oh wonderful. My company gives a holiday gift. It’s a nice gesture but it requires the entire company to come into the office on the day the gift is distributed. I was in a massive crowd in New York this past weekend and I didn’t feel as Covid-claustrophobic as I do sitting at my desk in the office right now. The parking lot is full, it’s super loud with everyone talking at once, and we’re all going to catch the 21st century plague.

Yeah, I am opting out of the holiday gift next year.

Here’s a nice camera-phone sunrise to cheer me up.

110/365

It did not cheer me up.

Extreme Close Up

Robin’s food bowl must be a little low. She gets extremely affectionate when that happens, and she’s extremely affectionate right now. She knows that the road to her stomach runs through my heart… or something like that.

Star

The star on top of our xmas tree is dead. It died over the off season somehow. When we put it up this year it didn’t work.

It took me a couple of weeks, but I finally got a replacement yesterday. It’s not nearly as nice. I’ll have to upgrade it next year, if I can remember to do it.

107/365

Hiss

Jen looked over at the cat tree and saw them snuggled up with each other. It was adorable. We both took out our phones, brought up the camera app, and then as we both pointed them at the cats they started hissing at each other and a millisecond after I snapped this they were trying to murder each other.

Oh well.