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Didn't realize I hadn't updated in a while, but then, I haven't updated in a while.
Yesterday was Z's first day of work. It was exciting. I had to work 9:30-4:30, so I dropped him at the subway station on my way in. It wasn't even a minute out of my way. So, of course, I left fifteen extra minutes to do it. We were both early. Not much of a surprise.
I picked him up on my way home. The 33 (apparently its real name is The Kensington) goes from the airport to downtown. I work at one end, and he works about two blocks from the other end. So I zipped down it all the way, and missed the turn at the end and had to pull a Uie (waited until the police car went by, then did it near the intersection).
He got in the car and the heavens opened up. I drove home on Franklin St., which is a one-way street from downtown up to Forest Lawn Cemetery. It is lined with some of the most beautiful buildings in Buffalo, most still private residences. Driving along it is always uplifting. Then I proceeded to get soaked while lining up rain buckets under the gutter in the back that leaks, because I like having rain water to water the garden. I think my big rain bucket is slowly leaking, however, so I've been watering things already. They can use it. One little downpour isn't going to make up for the dryest June and July on record.
(By the way, my second crop of peas and snap peas are coming up beautifully and look amazing. This still looks like a successful experiment, so far.)
Z's work: ( He lives in a box. )
Yesterday was sort of a bad day to start, as the paper comes out on Thursdays and everyone spends Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday in a buckled-down fury of productivity. Today is the recovery day, so he'll actually have people asking him to do things and also telling him how. Which should be interesting. He's starting up the new server, and also informs me via IM that UPS just showed up with the new intern and Z has been charged with getting him installed. (I don't know. He said it, not me.)
Z forgot his lunch, so I have to zip down there around noonish; I'm thinking I'll take him out someplace. Yay! I have to say, I was just starting to do OK with money and all, digging myself out of the small hole where I had been deposited by the unexpected financial events of November/December, so I'm feeling extremely optimistic. Except that Z's new job wants $60 a week out of him for health insurance. (I pay $18 a week and thought that was a lot.) So he may need to shop around; I think NY has cheaper insurance and he still qualifies as sort of low income.
Well. I have a few errands to putter around and do before I go off for lunch, so perhaps I shall go do those. I do feel I have been missing comments people have left of late, though, so I'm going to try to look through them at some point and figure out who's said things I should answer. Have faith and patience, dear friends. Which is a silly way of putting it, but I'm feeling silly.
Yesterday was Z's first day of work. It was exciting. I had to work 9:30-4:30, so I dropped him at the subway station on my way in. It wasn't even a minute out of my way. So, of course, I left fifteen extra minutes to do it. We were both early. Not much of a surprise.
I picked him up on my way home. The 33 (apparently its real name is The Kensington) goes from the airport to downtown. I work at one end, and he works about two blocks from the other end. So I zipped down it all the way, and missed the turn at the end and had to pull a Uie (waited until the police car went by, then did it near the intersection).
He got in the car and the heavens opened up. I drove home on Franklin St., which is a one-way street from downtown up to Forest Lawn Cemetery. It is lined with some of the most beautiful buildings in Buffalo, most still private residences. Driving along it is always uplifting. Then I proceeded to get soaked while lining up rain buckets under the gutter in the back that leaks, because I like having rain water to water the garden. I think my big rain bucket is slowly leaking, however, so I've been watering things already. They can use it. One little downpour isn't going to make up for the dryest June and July on record.
(By the way, my second crop of peas and snap peas are coming up beautifully and look amazing. This still looks like a successful experiment, so far.)
Z's work: ( He lives in a box. )
Yesterday was sort of a bad day to start, as the paper comes out on Thursdays and everyone spends Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday in a buckled-down fury of productivity. Today is the recovery day, so he'll actually have people asking him to do things and also telling him how. Which should be interesting. He's starting up the new server, and also informs me via IM that UPS just showed up with the new intern and Z has been charged with getting him installed. (I don't know. He said it, not me.)
Z forgot his lunch, so I have to zip down there around noonish; I'm thinking I'll take him out someplace. Yay! I have to say, I was just starting to do OK with money and all, digging myself out of the small hole where I had been deposited by the unexpected financial events of November/December, so I'm feeling extremely optimistic. Except that Z's new job wants $60 a week out of him for health insurance. (I pay $18 a week and thought that was a lot.) So he may need to shop around; I think NY has cheaper insurance and he still qualifies as sort of low income.
Well. I have a few errands to putter around and do before I go off for lunch, so perhaps I shall go do those. I do feel I have been missing comments people have left of late, though, so I'm going to try to look through them at some point and figure out who's said things I should answer. Have faith and patience, dear friends. Which is a silly way of putting it, but I'm feeling silly.
