New year, new pattern

Knowing that the 6 am call days were wreaking havoc of some sort,( i try to figure out a better way. )

lola_kristine read my Winter goals and noted that "The HALL" sounds ominous. Why yes it is! First of all, there's no light in the hall and there's no ambient light yet, so no photos. We have two long low cabinets, custom made for our previous apartment, that have two shelves at CD height, and it's two CDs deep. The CD shelving is so out of order it's comical, we should probably buy flashlights to dedicate to finding things in the shelves. That is the easy part.

On top of the shelves are boxes from our last move, containing photos and frames and art. We intend to fill the hall with family photos and art. We'd bought the frames for around the large window on the Presido, the window the CD shelves were custom designed to sit under.

Hanging on the main wall currently is a huge laminated aerial photo of *a section* of the community college campus Christine and i did GIS work at. It was a substantial investment for Christine and, as she has continued with a contract job to create the campus GIS (almost done, hurrah!), a signifier of sorts. Taking that down (which just went up in the vacuum) may have more emotional meaning and significance than simply taking it down.

We did get up the long photo of her father's divinity class at Harvard, nineteen-forty-something, some years back: it's on a wall visible from the dining area and gets some light. The rest of the hall is reasonably lit by ambient light during the day, but we will need to figure out some lighting solution appropriate for renters.

Then, once we clear the boxes off the long shelves comes another challenge. I would like to put some of the pottery collection there and some of our very large books from Books'R'Crack The Folio Society. (This would then clear up floor space and shelf space, so other books could have homes in the barrister book case and on the desk shelves.)

The surface screams "Cats will run here." Quake putty seems cat-proof so far, but that's mainly been Greycie Loo's dancing up the walls. Edward is more massive and claims some file boxes that have been left at the end of the CD shelves. What will he make of the new surface?

I suppose an question may be whether we just get more Ikea book cases that go higher to fill the hall space. We could have an "eye-level" display area for pottery and photos, while much more of the space is occupied by books and media. Hmmm.

Upitty-up updates

Ms Greycie Loo continues to be F-I-N-E-fine. She is lithe and athletic and owns Christine and will deign to notice me when Christine is asleep. Christine guesses she weighs 7-8 pounds.

Mr M is doing well after his procedure. We are dosing him twice a day with a laxative and every other day he receives a subcutaneous fluid drip. We've got five more of those to do. He's doing well, although i suspect he'd like us to stop poking him. M weighs 12.5 lbs (at least he did after being unwell for five days or so).

Edward is at the vet and the vet things odds are 1 in 2 he has ringworm. He's staying until later this afternoon, and we expect to know whether it's a ringworm people can get or one that's not particularly transmittable or if it's something else. He weighs 16 lbs. He is ALL MUSCLE.

I am transitioning from bronchitis cough to asthma cough. I am probably doing great. But dubious. Also, i only have bandwidth for work, really. (I so want a nap right now but there is a conference call in ten minutes.) Weight reports are only given for cats. Thbbt!

Christine is well and engaged and planning to do a public demo of one of her projects at a geo meetup on her birthday. (I will be working, dinner with colleagues, etcetera.) I think she has recovered from taking care of all the sick critters last week.

Helen the Hybrid has done the commutes just fine. The driver's seat was left in not-quite-right position, but that's not her fault.