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When I graduated from high school, I used part of my graduation money to buy a trunk, which I then refinished. I then put many growing-up things in it.

Then I went off to college and it stayed in my parents’ garage. When I moved to Portland, I brought it over, and it’s been hanging out in my aunt’s basement ever since. It’s a big trunk, and I don’t have room for it at my house.

Because of circumstances, it is time to empty the trunk so it can be sold.

Inside were two jewelry boxes which were full of this and that. Some of it I remembered, some, like this piece of paper, I didn’t.

I think this was a cover on my 6th grade desk that I decided to save for nostalgia reasons (I guess?) Let’s zoom in on some of the sections.

Despite the lower right corner being explicit about not drawing on the paper, it’s full of drawings. Perhaps I meant that I was only one who could draw on it? I liked my wish to not have spelling. I know spelling tests went away sometime in junior high or high school. The returned for my senior year of high school, though, much to my annoyance. I still wasn’t great at them.

You can see another spelling related wish, to get 100 on my spelling test. Also a wish to make it to seventh grade (there was no doubt), an example of printing and cursive, and my friend Natalie’s new address in Fruitland. She was moving over the summer.

I like my illustration of Mount Saint Helens before and after, as well as Jaws and my celebration of 100 squares. I’m not sure what the 100 squares thing was about, but good job past me, for achieving that.

Also in one of the jewelry boxes? My Pizza Hut nametag. You can see that I was a service professional.

Thanks to the Human Access Project, there is a swimming dock in St. Johns. I went to check it out.

It’s big and carves out a good swimming area, plus there are views of the St. Johns Bridge (currently getting a bit of updating).

My visit on a hot Wednesday afternoon did not coincide with tons of people, but I bet it’s hopping on the weekend.

The Human Access Project does great work.

My resting heart rate bops around in the 65 to 70 beats per minute range. Sunday June 30, was my worst day of Covid symptoms. And my resting heart rate knew it!

Having made it more than four years without experiencing Covid-19, I thought perhaps I was one of those people with natural immunity. But I wasn’t feeling well the previous day, and though I managed to make deviled eggs and go out to eat, I just kept feeling worse and worse.

So I tested Sunday morning. As I have done before, I set the test aside to wait the ten minutes for the test to do its work. But at about the three minute mark, I walked by and that second line caught my eye.

I totally had Covid.

Aside from not feeling well (Sunday was the worst day with fever and chills and absolutely no energy), I was bummed that I had made super spreader deviled eggs and hauled myself to a restaurant. I should have tested on Saturday. Then I could have at least eaten the deviled eggs myself.

I suspect square dancing at the Reser was my contamination point. Bummer.

I started “walking” the Camino on December 23, 2024, and here I am having finished my walk in May.

That’s significantly longer than most people take to actually walk the Camino, but since my walk was based on steps, there you have it.

I now start the longest expedition: the Appalachian Trail. As the number of kilometers is longer than 2,000, I don’t expect to finish this walk for a very long time.

Now that my job has ended, and I’ve given back the monitors and laptop, I’ve reverted to my previous setup.

I gave this monitor to Matt when I got the KVM switch so that I could use the work monitors with my desktop. He used the monitor for a time, and then it sat on his desk, just waiting for me to be laid off. So I happily took it back. You will note that some canning jars are raising the monitor to the correct height.

You will also notice the 2-Hour Job Search book on the corner of my desk. It is helping me network.

Memorializing my three-screen setup for my work computer. It allowed me to keep track of all the things.

The horizontal monitor was where I did my editing work. I could fit a document at 120% and also be able to pop the style guide up when I needed it.

The laptop screen was where I kept track of the requests coming in (or not coming in, as it came to be). I also did my internet searching on additional tabs.

The horizontal screen allowed me to monitor both Teams comments and messages as well as email. It was also where I kept my To-Do lists and opened relevant files.

You can barely see my keyboard, but it’s below the my desk’s top, arranged at just the right height.

Leap days that fall on a Saturday or Sunday are better than those that fall on a weekday. Weekday leap days remind you that you are working for free that day.

I was glad that my activity was longer than 29 minutes today because then this badge popped up.

I made it about a year with my new electric kettle. Though to be honest, the last seven months were full of hate for it.

I kept thinking I would go to the store and get a new one, but the months continued to pass and I didn’t, so I eventually ordered one from Breville. It’s a fancier version of my previous setup, and I like it much better.