weekly retro: just a little something to take the edge off
a brutal heat wave hit the city last week and i spent most of my time indoors, sluggish from the heat but restless from the confinement of my apartment walls. my new walking shoes sat on my table in its box, waiting with me for the relief of below 90 F temperatures.
fortunately i had the company of pumagreg to take a bit of the edge off.
pumagreg is probably 13 or 14 years old, he's been living with me for 12 - i adopted him several months after i moved to jersey city. he knows the way to beat the heat, such as laying on the cool floor, dipping his paws in water, or going "goblin mode".
this is "goblin mode" btw.
i've passed the time stuck in home live streaming which has been nice. being a woman online hasn't exactly changed, but the spelling of insults certainly has. but in my youtube chat, it's all been really nice - friends joining in to help me figure out new hosting platforms (glitch shuts down in a week), discover cool sites, young devs asking for advice, and all of us simply keeping each other company. i might make this a permanent fixture of my "4-day work week".
the heat finally broke on thursday, so i could catch at least one aerial yoga class, and catch up on what the park has grown either despite or because of the heat. the "peony watch" sign is down with not a peony in site, but the lilies are absolutely popping.
i pass these hydrangeas on the way to jerseyscript every month, but the bar we hosted it at suddenly closed. we were supposed to meet next week on the 8th, which is also the glitch shutdown day. this week also begins q3 and the countdown to launching my shop - i successfully filed my q2 sales taxes last night to the tune of a whopping $0, may this quarter be the last of such a total. 7/7 feels like a good day to start a "new chapter", to distract me from the ones ending the next day.
i was able to take a break from editing and coding the store's transactional emails - it's like i never quit my job sometimes lol - to go to the library for my 2nd book-binding workshop. the binding part was like 5 minutes, but then i was in the zone for 2 hours cutting up an out-of-circulation book about vermeer. i even turned on the compressor last night to airbrush inside of it, a grumbling sound i've not heard in a couple of months now. not all chapters are chapters, i guess. some are actually storylines that can get picked up back again.
things i enjoyed this week
- on one of my livestreams, alan shared wttr.in, a nice weather forecast in terminal-esque ascii art
- pov: you're a bag that was just checked at the airport
- i've been tits-deep lately in the png community on tumblr, where folks like @pngblog do a great service of removing backgrounds of images in collection format.
- the way this guy hugs his alligator sends me to the moon
after i publish this, i can finally put on my new walking shoes and head to the gym. let's hope it solves all of my problems as well as yours.
xoxo jenn