Last night we had severe wind and rain and I woke up to water in my kitchen, seeming to come from an outside wall, under my dishwasher, and heading toward the refrigerator. Joy.
I hadn’t run the dishwasher in a day or two, so I went to look at our outside attached shed and found the roof leaking and water pooling on the shelves and storage bins. I both called maintenance and submitted an online ticket; they came out and confirmed that the shed roof needs replacing and that they have a habit of leaking and they’ve got roofers doing work this summer so now we’re on the list.
As for the water in my kitchen, my neighbor had a significant leak in his unit late last night and they think it crossed our shared wall. I feel bad; we have a great neighbor and he deserves nothing but the best.
So that’s how my morning’s been going; once maintenance left I made some coffee and lemon-blueberry-crumble pop tarts and journaled for a bit.
We don’t have any games scheduled for today (at least according to my calendar) but this last Wednesday one of my D&D DMs introduced a concept for campaign-canon one-shots that would allow us to still play even if some folks had to postpone or miss a session. It involves manipulating time and space to pull random PCs into a realm in an attempt to save it from The Extinction. This week we successfully saved Pandemonium!
I’m going to be typing up notes for these games, too, but I left my notes elsewhere and won’t be able to get them until tomorrow at the earliest, so they aren’t typed up just yet.
Last Sunday was June 1, and the first week of Pride Month in the US. This is my fifth Pride knowing and accepting myself for who I am and my third since coming out openly. And even as legislation tries to make my existence untenable and internet commentators wish me imprisonment and death, I can honestly say that I’ve felt better about myself every year since 2020 and I wouldn’t “go back” for anything. I’m still here, and I’m proud of that.
It’s said that Pride is important because someone tonight still believes they’re better off dead than being themselves. I felt this way for years. When I came out, at least two former friends told me to my face that I’d be better off dead than myself, so I know this statement isn’t hypothetical hyperbole or exaggerated. Anyway, happy pride to anyone observing it, and a happy June to anyone not observing it but still content to let others do so.
I suppose it fitting that I’ll end the month auditioning for a local production of The Laramie Project.
This week at work was a struggle in that my computer needed reimaging, which in turn necessitated an update to Windows 11. It might’ve been an update, but it wasn’t an upgrade by any stretch of the imagination. I should’nt’ve had to spend the better part of four hours searching forums to make my computer usable – turning off “AI Assistants”, resetting Office and Adobe defaults, trying to import saved passwords – and yet that’s what I had to do. I never did get the passwords working correctly, and I ended up needing a new scanner. So I had to say goodbye to Googly, who’s graced my desk since April 1, 2021? 2022?
This Friday was the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings. My friend Mr Tom Poole was both a Pearl Harbor and a D-Day survivor. I wrote down many of his stories so they wouldn’t be forgotten, and now own the kitchen table around which he shared those stories with me. I sit at it every day and enjoy my coffee and journal at it most weekends.
If anyone is at Normandy these next few days, please look out at the Channel and spare a thought for Mr Tom Poole and the lost sailors of the Meredith.
May the seas lie smooth before you
and a gentle wind fill your sails.
This week also saw My Chemical Romance release a remastered version of their album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, which is in my opinion the best MCR album even as other albums have better standalone songs. On of the songs on the album is “Ghost of You” – and the music video for the song (first released August 30, 2005) is entirely centered around D-Day imagery. The music video itself has also been remastered:
I dropped off some things at our local thrift shop by way of donations and also picked up a few things – this week it was DVD copies of Constantine – an amazing film, glad I snagged it before anyone else grabbed it – and the 300 duology – which are films I don’t love but don’t hate and will serve just fine as background noise when needed. I also found the complete Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour series. My collection of Scooby-Doo DVDs has outgrown the case I have them in.
Well, now that I know I can safely use the dishwasher I’m going to do some dishes and clean up the kitchen just so I can make it dirty again with lunch and supper – supper is going to be bacon and cheddar cheeseburgers with lettuce, tomato, pickles, and extra crispy waffle fries. At least that’s the plan.
What have you been doing this week?
Running In My Head 