Day #141- Tropical Storm

We survived the tropical storm with little damage - mostly fallen trees, not a lot of flooding. The storm moved very quickly through - with a lot of rain and a lot of wind.

And as you can see from the photos - I took a walk after work through Ditmas (which basically looks like Greenwich, Connecticut, with it's stately multi-family homes and landscaped gardens) to Flatbush Co-op. First time I've visited the Co-op since March. I'd been avoiding the area - for fear it would be too crowded and it was in the Spring (everyone was cooped up in lock-down - which meant they were socializing on their front lawns.) Now, a lot of them are back to work or upstate on vacation, so not as many on the streets.

There were a few downed trees that I had to go around, however. Which was why I chose to walk to the Co-op and not to the Cemetery today.



Bored at work - waiting on a lot of things, and I've fallen into a bit of a routine. I'm happiest when I'm jumping from one project to the next. Multi-tasking. Oh well, tomorrow might get broken up a bit more with a conference call with boss (dreading) and a staff meeting(also dreading).
Actually anything that involves close interaction with management, I dread.

So - to alleviate the boredom, I text-messaged brother. ( Read more... )

The photos are partly to show that I live more in a residential community than a city - it's not really the suburbs, since very walk-able, you can live here without a car, but it's not quite the same as a city. It's hard to explain Brooklyn to folks who've never been here. Or NYC for that matter - NYC is an odd city. Only London and Paris come close to it.

The other thing I did to stave off ennui, which is a more more descriptive word for boredom - was buy audio books of urban fantasy novels I've already read, loved, and vaguely remember. I can listen to them while working. They are cheap if you bought the kindle book, expensive if you didn't.

Oh well, at least the soap is back - if a bit oddly. Lots of social distancing, and no more intimate scenes. Not that GH had that many to begin with. And Lucifer Season 5.1 starts in mid-August, while Legend of Korra also comes to Netflix in Mid-August. Plus, Netflix decided to extend Lucifer for one more season - so it's getting a S6, it talked the writers into doing one. AND...the Witcher is coming back in 2021, and has a spin-off. AND...His Dark Materials comes back in the fall.

There's entertainment things to look forward to. I feel for sports fans though - outside of Basketball, Hockey and Golf...not sure there is going to be much. Major League Baseball keeps running into issues.

Anyhow...off to make dinner and watch the soap. I might even work a bit more on my novel.

Thanks for reading.

30 Day Music Challenge...

Which various people are doing...I've been following beergoodfoamy's but snagged it from wendahl, because she listed all the questions.

Day 1: A song you like with a color in the title - (emphasis on like, there's a lot I don't or can't remember).

My favorite would be...

Watch on YouTube

Although a close second is "Goodbye Yellowbrick Road".

There's a reason I never really do these things, or just do them all at once. I'm absent-minded. I'm liable to forget or skip a day.