I had my nose to a grindstone at work yesterday, didn't post much - the method to get through these tasks in the department where I was placed is to put on headphones, pull up a NetFlix video, and let it play in the background while I perform a repetitive task to save files for someone else to use. In this case I was going through Word documents identifying all of the locations of some exotic fonts. Once I know how many and what types I need, I'll import them into my computer and get to work on layout of this book of conference papers.

Evening meeting on campus, followed by a drive home to beat a thunderstorm passing through the area. I was within a mile of the house when the heavens started to open.

Today the itchy eye runny nose of autumn allergies are in attendance. It is a cool day after the storm so I'm in the house puttering. I have to get some t-8 bulbs for my hall bathroom, I thought it was getting dim, and was apparently down to the last of the four until yesterday when it went. One of these days I'll replace that fixture but since it works for now it stays and I'll simply replace the bulbs.

My son's room needs to be converted back into the guest room. Right now it is loaded with stuff that returned with him from the university last summer. He didn't need this in his new apartment, or didn't have room to take it, so it can be put away or repurposed.

So, laundry, cleaning, and work on that room today. It is a fasting day and I'll make a late lunch of some sort. I didn't buy any new pants this summer, I was able to use pants I had, but I hadn't been wearing some of the smaller size 12s for the last few months. I've been back on the alternate day fast and am now in some slightly snug jeans again.

CS, I find that all-or-nothing consumption pattern with chocolate, some ice cream, some sweets, etc. That's why I don't have them in the house much - I suspect we all have things that don't seem to hit a brain "off switch." It's good if you can set up a routine that does that for you. I took alcohol out of my diet altogether for now in order to have the discipline for the alternate day fasting. It's too easy to defer the fasting day till tomorrow if a couple of glasses of wine have muted the desire to maintain a dietary routine or reach a goal. With as difficult as things are at work, if I can't be successful in reaching some of my personal goals outside the workplace, I feel pretty miserable. So for now, the wine is not there to soothe away the workplace stress at the end of the day (which I do miss) but I hope to counteract that by finishing projects important to me.

SRS