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Week Notes No. 46: Daily Bits

By Justin G. on 25MAR10MON

Did you change your clocks? It’s clock change time where I live.

Almanac / outlook, Mar 03 to 09

After last week’s visit from late spring, we’re transitioning back to NorCal winter. So, lows will be in the 40s and highs in the 50s until late in the week when they reach for the 60s. There is a slight chance of rain on Wednesday, emphasis on slight. To sum up, we get a little more soup weather.

Sunrise is at 6:30 and sunset is at 6; eleven and a half hours of daylight. Those times are good until the weekend because on MAR09SUN we spring ahead. We’re still into changing the clocks twice a year. The new time for sun up is 7:30 and sun down after 7. Just as before the change, the days keep getting longer and longer; we maintain eleven and a half hours of daylight despite the horological shenanigans. And the moon is still quite new but rapidly waxing; we’ll transition from dark nights to bright ones this week. Heads up– there will be a total lunar eclipse on the 13th, when the moon is full!

Day Bits

A smattering of notes this week.

1. MAR03MON
   • The cirrostratus clouds were really stunning this afternoon, as if a giant painter had drawn their brush clear across the sky. Pale grey, white, and a bit of blue peeked through, blending and streaking from the horizon to beyond the top of the sky, smoothly filling it all. I don’t think I’ve seen clouds like this here before. The whole sky is an enormous canvas! It’s really quite the effect; I stopped and admired nature’s finest work of the day. More of that, please.
2. MAR05WED
   • I worked in the office today and was quite surprised to see that it rained a lot at home, but not at all up here, when usually it’s the other way around.
3. MAR06THU
   • Got a run in today. Doing the fitness, activities, whatever, it’s become a boundary condition. They’ve become non-negotiable. I’ve been on a long road to get here. I hope I stay, in this place of regular exercising. Something I’ve said to myself lately is “you wouldn’t not eat, would you?”, a sort of reminder. Exercise, on the regular, it’s like making sure to eat. I usually think about my day while running. The benefit this time was solving some problem at work–a relief. It still surprises me how that works.
4. MAR08SAT
   • A busy-relaxed Saturday: gardening, library, laundry, hardware store, running, hang board hanging, dog park, dinner, reading. At no point was there any pressure to get it all done, just a steady step by step progression through a long list of things to do. Starting many of these tasks was a mini-battle against inertia, each one showing now-me that I can get more done in less time than past-me would expect. It felt good. Also, busy. Still trying to find the right balance between doing more needed things and still resting to enjoy life.

It’s been another busy week, and I don’t think it’s going to let up. I’m just trying to get some words out here so I can mark time.

Outside Events

I don’t know if it was how busy I was at work, or a change in how things are going in the federal government, but there was less standout news to me this week.

• Some good news: Firefly landed on the moon.
• The end of weather forecasting is coming and I am miserable over it. Fired: hurricane hunters.
• US stops sharing intel with Ukraine. Despicable.
• US suspends cyber operations against Russia. Speechless.

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