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Jul. 30th, 2013 01:30 amStuff I did today:
1. Swept more water down in the basement -- the open area was pretty much dry by the time I closed, as were our main storage room and foyer, but there was still some residual water in the supply annex and quite a lot of water in the junk room.
2. Moved all the soaked boxes and papers to the pallets in the main room (excluding some papers I just put up on a table in the junk room) where they will have both a better chance to dry out and much less chance of getting soaked a third time.
3. Finished rereading Mister Monday by Garth Nix, and got halfway through rereading Grim Tuesday. I first read those sometime back in the early 2000s (*checks* aha! it must have been 2004, since I distinctly remember being annoyed that Drowned Wednesday was not yet published and that is copyright 2005) after I'd finished Nix's Abhorsen trilogy and wondered if he'd written anything else. These are quite definitely children's books, but who cares? Good stories respect no age limits, and these are a lot of fun. I am looking forward to Drowned Wednesday, which, I am assured by the back cover, contains pirates. :-D
4. Called the Tompkins County SPCA stray dog hotline on my way home from work to report someone's pet rabbit that had gotten loose and was hopping confusedly around the lawns on Tioga St. between Tompkins and Lewis. The SPCA is not contracted to collect rabbits, but the man who answered the phone said he'd received a call a bit earlier from someone saying that they'd lost a rabbit, so he'd see if their description matched mine (gray head, white front legs and shoulders, gray back, rear legs, and butt/tail) and if so, send the person to the location where I'd seen the rabbit. Meanwhile I convinced the rabbit that sitting in the middle of the road was a BAD idea and it hopped off into somebody's backyard instead.
(This is why smartphones are useful, incidentally! I would never have known the local SPCA's number if I hadn't been able to google it.)
5. Listened to several hours of an imaginary thunderstorm, courtesy of raining.fm. It is ridiculously relaxing, and not distracting in the slightest the way music tends to be for me. I think I will try using it as writing background noise tomorrow.
(Their timer function is slightly weird, btw. If I set the hour marker to 1 and the minute marker to, say, 15, it counts down to 1 hour and 0 minutes just fine, but then the display continues to show a 1 in the hour box even though it's now counting down from 59 minutes. In fact, when the site dings to tell you to take a break, it will still display a 1 in the hour box. This is a minor glitch, but it threw me for a bit so I think it's worth mentioning.)
I like this site so much that am toying with getting their app and seeing if I can use it while taking naps at work. It would be really nice to mask some of the ambient noise that seeps through from the front room, particularly the radio and the ATM.
1. Swept more water down in the basement -- the open area was pretty much dry by the time I closed, as were our main storage room and foyer, but there was still some residual water in the supply annex and quite a lot of water in the junk room.
2. Moved all the soaked boxes and papers to the pallets in the main room (excluding some papers I just put up on a table in the junk room) where they will have both a better chance to dry out and much less chance of getting soaked a third time.
3. Finished rereading Mister Monday by Garth Nix, and got halfway through rereading Grim Tuesday. I first read those sometime back in the early 2000s (*checks* aha! it must have been 2004, since I distinctly remember being annoyed that Drowned Wednesday was not yet published and that is copyright 2005) after I'd finished Nix's Abhorsen trilogy and wondered if he'd written anything else. These are quite definitely children's books, but who cares? Good stories respect no age limits, and these are a lot of fun. I am looking forward to Drowned Wednesday, which, I am assured by the back cover, contains pirates. :-D
4. Called the Tompkins County SPCA stray dog hotline on my way home from work to report someone's pet rabbit that had gotten loose and was hopping confusedly around the lawns on Tioga St. between Tompkins and Lewis. The SPCA is not contracted to collect rabbits, but the man who answered the phone said he'd received a call a bit earlier from someone saying that they'd lost a rabbit, so he'd see if their description matched mine (gray head, white front legs and shoulders, gray back, rear legs, and butt/tail) and if so, send the person to the location where I'd seen the rabbit. Meanwhile I convinced the rabbit that sitting in the middle of the road was a BAD idea and it hopped off into somebody's backyard instead.
(This is why smartphones are useful, incidentally! I would never have known the local SPCA's number if I hadn't been able to google it.)
5. Listened to several hours of an imaginary thunderstorm, courtesy of raining.fm. It is ridiculously relaxing, and not distracting in the slightest the way music tends to be for me. I think I will try using it as writing background noise tomorrow.
(Their timer function is slightly weird, btw. If I set the hour marker to 1 and the minute marker to, say, 15, it counts down to 1 hour and 0 minutes just fine, but then the display continues to show a 1 in the hour box even though it's now counting down from 59 minutes. In fact, when the site dings to tell you to take a break, it will still display a 1 in the hour box. This is a minor glitch, but it threw me for a bit so I think it's worth mentioning.)
I like this site so much that am toying with getting their app and seeing if I can use it while taking naps at work. It would be really nice to mask some of the ambient noise that seeps through from the front room, particularly the radio and the ATM.
