Oh office job, how you warp a human being… I broke a
personal vow to never create a PowerPoint presentation today. All I did
was copy some cat images from the internet and make a slideshow (well, I didn’t
actually use the slideshow function, I just put the pictures onto subsequent
slides) for my upcoming safety lecture on sunburn prevention. (In the
interest of “safety first,” every work center conducts a weekly safety meeting
in which very important topics are discussed. I thought some
visual aids in the form of a kitten wearing a sombrero would energize the
otherwise blandly informative content.
We all kept an eye on election results throughout our
Wednesday afternoon. Things were not looking good when I took a break for
dinner and band practice. I was at the Coffee House when the blow struck;
I kept looking beseechingly at the messenger for ten minutes, waiting for
the “Just kidding!” And then the thought that all this life, work,
and play here might shudder to a halt due to lack of interest and funding
threatened to swamp us all in grief, which we fought back with more wine.
It still feels far off, but the distance back home shrank quite a bit.
Tonight is the long-awaited, one-time-only performance by
Cold As Ice - Antarctica’s Premier Foreigner Cover Band. Things are
shaping up for a rager of a Saturday night, but as I have a pressure ridge tour
to lead tomorrow morning, I’m shooting for 2am bedtime. As always, safety
first, and remember to cover up in the sun.
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