So today marks the end of my long stretch of time off, during which I accomplished nothing.
Sure, I signed a contract to buy a condo, but that’s not looking like it’s going to actually amount to anything (more on that in a bit), so basically I accomplished nothing.
It’s not as though I expected to accomplish anything, I’m just noting the fact that I didn’t.
I did actually think about going away somewhere at some point, but that thought led to some obvious questions, the first of which was “Go where?”
The second, of course, was “And do what?”
The point of the thought, though, was that I would do something wholly out of character by just driving off somewhere for a few days and hope that the rest of it would just fall into place.
Ultimately, however, I decided that if I did go off somewhere by the time I got there I would have maxed out my ability to step out of character, at which point I would that I was simply being Jon somewhere else, and if I’m going to go somewhere and just be me I might as well spare myself the trouble and stay home where I’m comfortable.
So that’s what I did.
In any case it’s all over now, and tomorrow morning I’ll have to get up early and drive to work through the ice storm that we’re supposed to get.
Even though it’s been snowing and sleeting since this morning, and they’ve known in advance that this was coming, it’s doubtful that anything will be done to clear the roads and to ensure that they remain clear.
I imagine the road crews will take their standard “Let’s take a lesson from France and just surrender” approach to snow removal, and as I’m sliding in to work in the morning I’ll see multiple plows and salt trucks parked alongside the road, their drivers catching some much-needed sleep, as not actually removing snow is extremely exhausting.
I already had to venture out into a panic-stricken world of lazily drifting snowflakes and somewhat wet roads today.
Actually, it turns out that I didn’t have to venture out, as the meeting that I thought I had was not taking place. Three of the four of us who’d been present at last week’s meeting recalled that we all agreed to just meet every Thursday at 1, but apparently the fourth person didn’t remember it that way and wasn’t going to drive in for it.
Of course, one of the other people wasn’t going to brave “storm” to come in for the meeting anyway, so basically I showed up for nothing.
Well, not nothing, as I’m still going to put the time down on my time sheet. It won’t be overtime because I didn’t work Sunday, but it will make up for the shift differential I lost out on by being on vacation.
I had kind of intended to go to see “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe” and “King Kong” this week, but I just didn’t feel up to sitting through them, especially since it would have meant having to get up and dressed pretty early so that I could catch the earliest matinees and be there with the smallest possible crowds.
That’s usually how I like to do it if I go to see a movie by myself.
Maybe next week.
I didn’t post anything yesterday because for most of the day yesterday was about as uneventful as it’s possible for a day to be outside of being in a coma.
The one unusual event was that my brother Brad called me in the evening.
Today started off equally sluggishly.
Given how short my Thursdays are thanks to my early bedtime, I hate to sleep in too much, but this morning as I was lying there forcing my eyes to stay shut it seemed to me that actually getting out of bed was probably the worst idea that anyone ever had.
Eventually I was forced to get up by the sound of my phone chirping and Brian’s voice coming out of the walkie talkie.
Still groggy, I couldn’t manage to work the Direct Connect feature, so in frustration Brian actually called me to ask his question about a work-related e-mail we’d gotten.
As far as the whole condo-buying thing goes, there are some old debts that I need to clear up before I can get financing. I got the list today, and thanks to some duplicates and an inaccuracy (I already paid one of them off), the amount is less than I was originally told, so it’s possible that I could come up with the money in time, but given how much of a rush would be involved I can’t help but wonder if I shouldn’t just back out of the contract (which I can still do for at least another ten days, though probably even longer), get the debts taken care of, wait a couple of months, and try the whole thing again. Admittedly I’d lose out on the particular unit I was looking at, and I’d probably end up having to pay more (base price on the units in the development I’m trying to buy into already went up $5,000 in the past month), but there would be a little less pressure involved.
So I’m not sure what I’m going to do. Just scrapping it for now (I’ve got a fair amount of time before I absolutely have to get out of my apartment) has a definite appeal, but on the other hand I’d really just like to get this all over with.
We’ll see, I guess.
In any case, there are some things that I should do to prepare myself to my trip back to the salt mines tomorrow.
I hope you all have a better weekend than I’m likely to.
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