I am working on having a plan for today after work. There's a yoga class at a gym in the next town that is in the right level that I can go to it at 7:30, so I was thinking yoga and then dinner but that is very late compared to my usual routing so I am considering dinner and then yoga and that seems reasonable but then I realized this whole plan hinges on GETTING DRESSED and it may fall apart on that basis. I mean, I got dressed yesterday, doing it again today may be too much. We'll see.

I got my cubicle all packed up yesterday, including my headset and dock other ancillary computer things that I thought IT would move with my monitor so that it could all be set up correctly but was told after I had sealed up all my boxes that, no, I needed to pack that stuff as well, so I tossed them in a bag with the Halloween decorations I was not sure whether I would actually bring in just yet. Me and the one other person who is there late-ish in the afternoon took all our boxes and the boxes of everyone else who is in the first wave of moving and had sealed everything up and put them on pallets to be moved by the company driver. Tuesday I will find out how the new commute actually is - per Google and Waze it doesn't look bad going, I haven't checked coming back but popular wisdom is that Thursday afternoons may get bad with people heading to Tahoe but I have side street alternatives that may be better.

There is a gym near the new work location, and I'm told it's pretty nice once you are in it but it's in a not great neighborhood, but it's in a higher level of the gym network so it would cost me more in fees if I wanted to go there. Which should mean that it has more amenities, and I already looked at classes and it has a couple on Tuesday/Thursday evenings that I might like but that would mean driving rather than taking the bus as well as just having very long days away from as well as the increased gym membership costs. So the cost-benefit on that is going to take some thought. Hopefully I can get a day pass to gather data.

I have scoped out a distillery on Mare Island (so real close as the crow flies but about 4 miles to get across the bridge and back) that I am looking forward to checking out after work, and there's at least one happy hour within a mile of work that I will have to try. Yelp is giving me good possibilities for breakfasts and lunches. Biking to the train station, taking the bus to the Vallejo Transit Center, and biking to work still a pretty good possibility that may be workable with a side trip to the gym.

Would still rather not be making the move, but what can you do

Good god, Hec!

Yes, definitely need to plan something with Nanita. And we’re going to hopefully see flea and family when we’re at the Cape this summer. And hopefully lots of play dates with Stitch and vw.

That all sounds good, sj!

Good god, Hec!

Sorry, -t and Dana! It's a lot.

Anyway, so that makes me see my mother's alcoholism during my high school years in a different light.

And I have to reconsider how I viewed my dad's behavior knowing he was receiving hormone treatment (Testosterone supplements) and "diet pills" (Lordy, they were just handing out Meth like it was candy back then) at the same time.

Look at you go, -t! Yoga, gym, bicycling! I am very impressed with your healthy-making plans.

Jesus, Hec. Unbelievably horrific.

-t, I am impressed by your scoping skills.

My weekend plans are to put together the deck umbrella and to see some people at some point for something... which is exactly how far along those plans have gotten.

Maybe drinks and food under the umbrella?

That's a whole lot to live with, Hec.

I am heading to San Diego because my uncle's new wife had a heart attack two weeks ago while scuba diving sixty feet down in Mexico. The Mexico is why there has been a two week delay. It takes a while to get the body released. She did not survive.

I only met her once and it wasn't even at their wedding but my cousin's a month after theirs in May. And now her celebration of life. She liked my shoes and was mad that my uncle's ex-wife was at my cousin's wedding. Like she didn't birth and raise the kid. I like to think that would have been a funny story in a couple decades.

So basically this is Cass gets to see her uncles but the same one who was super emotional (happy) last time will be super emotional (disraught) this time.

She did not survive.

Oy! I'm sorry, Cass. That's gotta be horrible emotional whiplash for your Uncle.

Oh, Cass, I'm so sorry. Your poor uncle.

Hec, please to note that I am much better at making the healthy plans than actually carrying them out! Orders of magnitude. But sometimes I do follow through.

Umbrella-warming drinks and nibbles on the patio sounds delightful, JenP!