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asher553Well, a full week since I last journaled here. I was mildly ill for a couple of days - last time I was sick was a year and a half ago, so no complaints - and I took the occasion (since fortuitously I was on a break between jobs) to rest up.
Sunday I was feeling well enough to put in a couple hours canvassing for Victoria, who's running for a seat in the Oregon legislature. I had a miscalculation with the edge of a sidewalk and suffered an embarrassing fall and a bit of discomfort from a twisted ankle, but otherwise it was a good day.
My new job started this week - back to working from home, after my 14-month onsite job at the tech manufacturing company in Hillsboro. Yesterday (Monday) was mostly administrative stuff: getting my workstation set up, logging in at my computer, etc. (The computer arrived Friday via Fedex, with the sign-in password printed on the sheet that was included in the box with the computer. I am silently judging.) Today was my first day of training, but I only worked four hours of the workday (two at the beginning and two at the end) due to prior commitments; the boss approved the time off with no hassles.
This morning I finally got to meet my doctor at the VA Clinic - Dr. T. - for the first and probably last time. We had had to re-schedule my intake physical once already as it turned out she was ill on that day. Today she was in good health, and so, according to all indications, was I; and Dr. T announced to me that she is set to retire soon! So my Primary Care Provider with the VA will be somebody new going forward, but I've been assured that all my tests indicate I am in great shape, and I'm now in the VA system and am getting more comfortable with it.
In the afternoon, I took the car to the shop for a long-overdue oil change and tire rotation. I clocked back in at 3pm, and connected with one of the techs for about an hour of training in the ticketing system. I spent another hour exploring the reference resources, and clocked out at 5pm.
But my day wasn't over yet! The occasion of tonight's debate served as a chance for the local Team R to organize a meetup at a local tavern, so I joined about 40 of our folks to watch the debate, cheer our guy, and roll our collective eyes at the gaffes from both parties. I saw a lot of familiar faces, including Ben (who's a politically active small businessman in Portland), Victoria (whose campaign I had canvassed for the other day), our chair Gabe, and Brian (who hosts the conservative meetup group in Portland).
I've got a bunch of half-written pieces that I want to finish and post. I finished reading Harry Potter 5 - Phoenix, and I want to post a write-up on that; there's a lot going on there (the key plot point is in fact a major failure by Harry, and the "Order of the Phoenix" of the title plays almost no role in the story, except to bail Harry out in the end) and I want to make sure I do it justice.
Also on my fiction reading list: the second books in the survivalist series by W. Michael Gear and James Wesley Rawles ("Fourth Quadrant" and "Survivors" respectively). I want to get back to Michener's "The Source", and I'd like to explore Agnon. And I absolutely positively mean to get back to my Toni Morrison read-through, picking up with her seventh novel, "Paradise".
In the non-fiction world, my spiffy new copy of "The Feynman Lectures on Physics - New Millennium Edition" arrived a couple of weeks ago, along with the book of exercises.
It's getting late, and I've got plenty to keep me busy. But I need to get some rest. [666]
Sunday I was feeling well enough to put in a couple hours canvassing for Victoria, who's running for a seat in the Oregon legislature. I had a miscalculation with the edge of a sidewalk and suffered an embarrassing fall and a bit of discomfort from a twisted ankle, but otherwise it was a good day.
My new job started this week - back to working from home, after my 14-month onsite job at the tech manufacturing company in Hillsboro. Yesterday (Monday) was mostly administrative stuff: getting my workstation set up, logging in at my computer, etc. (The computer arrived Friday via Fedex, with the sign-in password printed on the sheet that was included in the box with the computer. I am silently judging.) Today was my first day of training, but I only worked four hours of the workday (two at the beginning and two at the end) due to prior commitments; the boss approved the time off with no hassles.
This morning I finally got to meet my doctor at the VA Clinic - Dr. T. - for the first and probably last time. We had had to re-schedule my intake physical once already as it turned out she was ill on that day. Today she was in good health, and so, according to all indications, was I; and Dr. T announced to me that she is set to retire soon! So my Primary Care Provider with the VA will be somebody new going forward, but I've been assured that all my tests indicate I am in great shape, and I'm now in the VA system and am getting more comfortable with it.
In the afternoon, I took the car to the shop for a long-overdue oil change and tire rotation. I clocked back in at 3pm, and connected with one of the techs for about an hour of training in the ticketing system. I spent another hour exploring the reference resources, and clocked out at 5pm.
But my day wasn't over yet! The occasion of tonight's debate served as a chance for the local Team R to organize a meetup at a local tavern, so I joined about 40 of our folks to watch the debate, cheer our guy, and roll our collective eyes at the gaffes from both parties. I saw a lot of familiar faces, including Ben (who's a politically active small businessman in Portland), Victoria (whose campaign I had canvassed for the other day), our chair Gabe, and Brian (who hosts the conservative meetup group in Portland).
I've got a bunch of half-written pieces that I want to finish and post. I finished reading Harry Potter 5 - Phoenix, and I want to post a write-up on that; there's a lot going on there (the key plot point is in fact a major failure by Harry, and the "Order of the Phoenix" of the title plays almost no role in the story, except to bail Harry out in the end) and I want to make sure I do it justice.
Also on my fiction reading list: the second books in the survivalist series by W. Michael Gear and James Wesley Rawles ("Fourth Quadrant" and "Survivors" respectively). I want to get back to Michener's "The Source", and I'd like to explore Agnon. And I absolutely positively mean to get back to my Toni Morrison read-through, picking up with her seventh novel, "Paradise".
In the non-fiction world, my spiffy new copy of "The Feynman Lectures on Physics - New Millennium Edition" arrived a couple of weeks ago, along with the book of exercises.
It's getting late, and I've got plenty to keep me busy. But I need to get some rest. [666]
