Reality bites, Yoda's chocolate
Nov. 18th, 2004 12:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsAs wrapped up in my own tired little world as I was yesterday, I barely remembered to record the interesting parts of my life. It all started pretty well, though: up at 6:30 and out the door at 7, driving through the thin fog down 509 was okay until we came over the hill and headed down into the light industrial valley on the south side of Seattle. The city was socked in, the fog was as thick as a politician, and rising over the Greenlake district I saw a thick column of mist ascending into the clouds to pierce a disc-shaped mass of clouds; it looked exactly like someone had nuked the Northside. Just to the left of it, steam rose out of the cement processing plant. Overall, it had the look of a city both in the process of being devastated and its eerie aftermath, all at the same time.
Work was okay. I ripped through quite a number of minor bugs, as that's what the schedule, and then headed over to resuce Omaha's laptop, Leda, from the repair people. Her backlight had been fading for a while, so they replaced it. Then I headed up to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shemayazi's place, for dinner and conversation. That's about all we had the energy for; we were both dead to the world after only half a grueling week.
I got home in time to realize that I didn't have my laptop's power supply with me. That sucked, but it was late anyway and I didn't let it bother me.
At four in the morning, Kouryou-chan wakes us up with a terrible cough. It's that deep, raspy cough she seems to get every winter, only this time the humidifier is dead and we can't get it working. Hoping that the cough medicine would kick in soon, Omaha and I went back to bed. Omaha finally relented and tried to clear up the cough a little by taking Kouryou-chan outside, and that seemed to help a little. We were able to get back to bed by about 4:30 or so.
This morning, I headed out again in my car, this time only to hit the brakes again on the same downward track that heads into the industrial district. It was stop-and-go for an hour. A tractor-trailer had slammed into a power pole, blocking all three lanes of traffic and creating a nightmare downtown. Still, there is a silver lining to it: I was in my car long enough to finish lesson 48 of my Japanese conversational course.
For lunch, I went over to the supermarket to grab a sandwich. It was okay; it's kinda hit-or-miss with the Larry's Deli. On the other hand, I did find Dagoba Chocolate which is really good as chocolates go. Now who can pass up a confection made on Yoda's homeworld?
Work was okay. I ripped through quite a number of minor bugs, as that's what the schedule, and then headed over to resuce Omaha's laptop, Leda, from the repair people. Her backlight had been fading for a while, so they replaced it. Then I headed up to
shemayazi's place, for dinner and conversation. That's about all we had the energy for; we were both dead to the world after only half a grueling week.I got home in time to realize that I didn't have my laptop's power supply with me. That sucked, but it was late anyway and I didn't let it bother me.
At four in the morning, Kouryou-chan wakes us up with a terrible cough. It's that deep, raspy cough she seems to get every winter, only this time the humidifier is dead and we can't get it working. Hoping that the cough medicine would kick in soon, Omaha and I went back to bed. Omaha finally relented and tried to clear up the cough a little by taking Kouryou-chan outside, and that seemed to help a little. We were able to get back to bed by about 4:30 or so.
This morning, I headed out again in my car, this time only to hit the brakes again on the same downward track that heads into the industrial district. It was stop-and-go for an hour. A tractor-trailer had slammed into a power pole, blocking all three lanes of traffic and creating a nightmare downtown. Still, there is a silver lining to it: I was in my car long enough to finish lesson 48 of my Japanese conversational course.
For lunch, I went over to the supermarket to grab a sandwich. It was okay; it's kinda hit-or-miss with the Larry's Deli. On the other hand, I did find Dagoba Chocolate which is really good as chocolates go. Now who can pass up a confection made on Yoda's homeworld?
