Hey, look at this blurry photo of our Century Link router! Those red lights mean we have no internet. But we do! Because we also have Comcast.
Two internet providers is piece of mind during this quarantine time.
This three-day weekend, my last until Memorial Day, was spent getting the new work-from-home space in order.
I installed shelves and bulletin boards and assembled my new desk. It’s an adjustable standing desk, and here you can see it from the working side.
Here is the at-home side.
I bought two keyboard trays, one for working, one for personal use. But I forgot to check to see if they would both fit under the desk. They did not. I engineered this solution, buying a length of wood, cutting it into two pieces and offsetting those pieces from the for-work keyboard tray. It worked.
What didn’t work was not accounting for the crank handle on this side. I ended up moving the keyboard over far to the left. In that position, I have just enough space to turn the crank fully. Here’s the desk in the seated position.
Installing those keyboard trays was a two-person job. They were really wiggly. Luckily, Matt came and held the brackets steady while I screwed in the screws.
I have no more desk drawers and my shelves don’t put things in easy reach, so I bought this caddy at Ikea. It can roll to either side of the desk.
If I want, I can store the chair and the Ikea caddy under the desk itself.
I ordered bookends from Etsy. Those will be shipped.
I’m glad I could make both sides work and I’m looking forward to seeing how the new setup works from day to day.
Matt and I celebrated my new job by picking up food from Urdaneta, which is a Spanish small plates restaurant on Alberta.
The food was delicious, and I would like to go back when they are seating people.
Matt also was a fan.
P.S. Behind him, you can see my old desk, waiting for a NextDoor buyer to come and pick it up. More on that in another post.
When everything has its place and things must be displaced in order for changes to occur, that means a lot of things all over the place.
I am not a fan. But the only way out is through.
While the birds have been enjoying their birdseed snacks, today was the first day I noticed a squirrel taking part in the smorgasbord. Drat!
Thanks to never getting around to getting the soaker hose set up, my one Oregon Sweet Meat squash was very small comparatively. I’d say it is half the size of my 2016 harvest. It was very flavorful, though. That’s the advantage of not watering. If things grow, their flavor tends to be more concentrated than very well watered vegetables.
It was Matt’s week to choose the date and he came home with a Lego set for us to put together.
I do love the tidy order and step-by-step of a good Lego set.
Here is the finished product.
I also think it’s fun how the astronaut fits in the cockpit, and the satellite folds and fits into the space ship.
Once we were done, we dissembled the whole shebang, repackaged it, and I dropped it off in a Little Free Library so someone else could enjoy it.
I went to Fred Meyer and grabbed ingredients for beer cheese fondue, fondue dipping things, and our favorite kind of ice cream. As a bonus, I stopped by a Redbox kiosk to see if the movie we were planning on watching, Tenet, was available. It was! This means we paid $1.80 for it, rather than the $19.99 we were planning on paying.
The result: beer cheese fondue was delicious and simple to make, Tenet was entertaining, and the ice cream was, as always a cornucopia of chocolate flavors and textures.
In the normal world, I don’t go to the movies on Christmas, because I wouldn’t want to go to work in Christmas Day and I don’t think my actions should support other people having to go to work on that day. But this is a pandemic, all the theaters are closed, and Wonder Woman 1984 is opening on HBO Max on Christmas Day!
So we bought our selves a one-month subscription to the channel, and prepped for a Christmas Day treat.
I made a cheesy pizza roll appetizer I’d had my eye on for years, Matt broke out the cheese from the gift basket his uncle sent, I mixed up a colorful cocktail, and we settled in for the next Wonder Woman installment! Here’s my review.
This year, due to quarantine, the fam met briefly in my Aunt Pat’s garage so we could do stockings. This year, that meant putting things in a “stocking” that was really a bag with a name written on it. Then we brought our stockings home to unpack.
There were a lot of goodies in the stocking!
Plus, I had a fun present to open, so here’s another view of the spoils.
The stationary says, “Nobody writes letters anymore.” I love it!
These were my winners!
And check out this situation:
Though brief, it was nice to see everyone for a stocking exchange.
