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February 2017 01: spontaneous foot complaint
- For some reason I find myself dreading the descent of a staircase.
02: a science fair project idea
- Coming up with a solution for the problem of Donald Trump.
03: behind multiple layers of technology
- Why my job is rarely perturbed by disturbances in The Organization.
04: one of his multiethnic surprises
- Mark appears and pulls me out of my bachelor fugue state.
05: warm enough for chipmunk mining
- The dogs don't come back for awhile, and while unsuccessfully attempting to climb a slope, I see a pair of snow bikers. Also Ray & Mark interfere with my home improvement plans.
06: the one marvelously unsegmented pool of time
- Plans to make workday progress on installing an exterior door are set back by a minor workplace crisis and the limited supply of early February daylight.
07: eternal Trumpster Fire.
- Reading about Trump while debugging a shitty API.
08: quick winter door install
- A warmish day makes me take the plunge to remove a window and some wall and replace them with some door despite the time of year.
09: glasses-shaped mark in the snow
- The first foot-deep snow in years, and shoveling it while connected to my remote workplace.
10: the new skyscrapers of Brooklyn
- Seeing a live podcast recording at BAM and spending the night in one of the new towers downtown.
11: real estate mogul on the Palisades
- A guy with a cute rescue pit bull turns out to own most of the Rondout.
12: listening to political podcasts again
- Trump is so incompetent now that hearing people talk about him isn't as painful as it was. So I do so while working on the basement door project.
13: Panera has good WiFi
- I prefer the scene at Outdated. But it closes at 4:00pm. And, it turns out, it has crappy WiFi.
14: buying a wreck of a house on Valentine's Day
- Another closing on a real estate investment, this time a serious fixer-upper.
15: drywall is something I can do
- Though I never really wanted to be good at it, it's now definitely a skill that I have.
16: forty nine
- On this birthday, I eat two different kinds of pizzas and am given several kinds of flasks (one containing maple syrup) among other things.
17: the ride to Tulum
- Loud Americans and making cheap flip flops wearable, among other things.
18: to the Tulum beach
- Gretchen and I ride marginal bikes to the yoga resort where we'll be staying.
19: post-apocalyptic Chedraui
- Another closing on a real estate investment, this time a serious fixer-upper.
20: what I want to do on vacation
- Doing the same stuff as usual, but with different pressures and with a different environment.
21: cenote near the squatters' camp
- The best Mexican water experience so far.
22: a sea change at Tulum Beach
- After coughing up a bunch of seaweed onto the beach, the ocean quiets down and becomes tranquil. And I take my first ride in a colectivo.
23: farts on planes
- Not just one fart, and not just one plane. I'm talking about the flight back from Cancún
24: Panera for an important videoconference
- Good news in the realm of dismal bagels and an absence of vegan options.
25: like driving in a hurricane
- A powerful storm blows through and even manages to kill some electronics.
26: what happened to that wooden bowl
- A tale of a housesitter's dopeyness to amuse a birthday boy.
27: more elegant hinge than expected
- I surprise myself with the quality of a pet door I build.
28: thanks, Stripey
- Of course Stripey shows up after I've just painted the floor.
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