My sinuses are making my face hurt. I'm hoping it's just allergies and that covid didn't finally catch up with me.

Would you use the phrase "_____ seconds flat" for a number like 4.74? Or would you only use it for whole numbers?

Whole numbers. To me, "flat" means "no fractions."

That's what I thought, too. This article is making me twitchy. [link]

Yeah I'm with "flat" meaning no fractions.

Talked someone today that gave insight into why the store manager got fired. and I hadn't been around when she was being like this but she did need to be fired.

Whole numbers. To me, "flat" means "no fractions."

Agh, taking a taxi home from the airport because lately it’s faster and cheaper than an Uber. But annoying when the first cab doesn’t have a meter (I got out—there’s not a negotiated flat rate to my neighborhood like there is to downtown and I don’t want a surprise) and the guy was pissy. Sorry dude. And now I’m in a cab where I can’t see the meter, which is also annoying. (And he’s driving a bit like a maniac). This is why Uber/lyft are handy. Sigh.

Yesterday turned out to be less productive than I'd hoped. No housecleaning aside from taking out the trash, and while I did get a start on weather staining my outdoor furniture in the evening, mosquitoes drove me inside after I'd gotten one coat on the top and sides of a single chair. I did get grocery shopping done for two households though, so it wasn't a total bust.

Weekends used to be so long, and now I blink and they're over.

Ugh. Also I weighed myself. Granted I did next to no walking or working out or anything for the past week while traveling, and I ate terribly the past few days, but YIKES I have gained almost 10 pounds since the end of July. Not good.

This weekend I took the dogs for a 3 mile walk, changed the oil in my car, recycled the oil, did three loads of laundry and put them away, vacuumed and steam cleaned the upstairs hallway, did some computer stuff for my wife, did a couple loads of laundry, did the grocery shopping for the week, went to the hardware store (using my trike and trailer) to get salt for the water softener, cooked dinners, and fixed the squeaky drawers in the upstairs bathroom. However, I didn't do the first floor vacuuming or cleaned up the basement or got rid of the pile of empty cardboard boxes in the garage. So got some stuff done, but didn't get as much as I should have.

Despite living in Minnesota for a year and a half now, I didn't really know anything about Walz and it's been fun finding out about him since being picked for running for veep.