Dishes still dirty
almost six hours of sleep. Ok, ok, ok. One of these days I will figure out the bluetooth interface to my phone so I can see for myself what the machine is registering. This morning the cat was definitely in Wake Up Human mode.
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A full zoom before I got there, a sahd of sleep and then a huge zoom
Barely over 4 hours of sleep. Not counting the nap after the cheese puffs Ugh Still wired long into the night about testimony. Spent part of blind people zoom turning ingredients into food. Good use of time but the kitchen still needs HELP. Meaningful conversations on the smart blind people zoom. I do not know whether it is reasonable to hope that nonviolence will prevail and the invading army will put down weapons and start sabotaging tanks. But I find it useful to believe that is possible. There was a Quakers in Kiev Zoom late at night Seattle Time. It was full But an email came with new time, new link and capacity of 500. I wound up not going back to bed. I even decided that I can risk Zooming across god knows what surveillance into a war zone on my own phone. At max there were 457 people there. That is a lot of people and a lot of people who needed to greet each other. So off and on the whole worship there were alternating spells of popcorn and people pleading out loud or in t...
The Joys of Multitasking
About 5.5 hours of sleep Late night showers are amazing--except for the part about braided post-shampooing hair stays damp well into the next day. Today's fun is Senate Ways and Means committee marathon. Bill I am testifying PRO is #46 on agenda. after 7 hours they are somewhere around bill #32 on agenda Signed in on phone and half-listening while I work on other stuff on computer. Talk about hearing voices in my head. Hazing bill testimony gut-wrenching. Also bills about mental health issues. Cat on her command post Funky lunch menu: Reese's cups, celery, cheese sticks, mandarins
What? ANOTHER hearing?
Another ALMOST six hours night. The another hearing is Ways and Means tomorrow at 9:00 am Two vaccine signs in different scale sun was gorgeous today. I even went out in it and Grocery outlet was nowhere near as crazy as sometimes on a Friday afternoon. PS. I'm fully vaxxed. But I have paper and a fat marker and a text message.
Multilingual Doomscrolling before bed?
Well over5 hours of sleep. Even clost to 6. More would have been good but I owed the world some Senate committee testimony. The testimony got VERY helpful editing and turned out great. Now to supplement the verbal comments with 5000 characters of additional wisdom within the filing deadling. Momentos from a trip to Kiev / Kyiv As for the doomscrolling, it turned out matter to text someone with "What do you think?" Someone reminded methat despite a whole lot of things someone is still proud of where he was born. Someone is also in touch on Facebook with friends who live in places under attack. We both hope they can stay safe.
When The Levee Breaks feat. John Paul Jones | Playing For Change | Song ...
Not quite 5 hours of sleep. I wavered between lying in bed and being warm a bit longer and being sure to have time for a shower. The shower and the hungry cat won. This morning's sleep curtailment was two different state Senate hearings, one of which I was supposed to testify at. That part got postponed until tomorrow. Charitably, Republicans from Eastern WA just needed to be Republicans. It was entertaining. And maybe just as well things held over until tomorrow. Maybe there will be fewer construction noises. Was this hearing worth waking up for? Modest entertainment value. PS. It's always bad policy to start a war and Twitter thinks airlines should just refuse to fly in and out of Russia for a week at a time to see if Putin budges.
Have celery Ready to Roll
about 5.5 hours of sleep. Definitely could have slept longer. Snow on window ledge and roof and trees ALMOST made it about some must-do laundry before the Amazon fresh order arrived. As it was the arrival text was a good excuse to pull my clothes from the dryer even though a few of them were still damp. It's winter. We need all the humidity we can get. Never mind that the human is too much of a bleeping fresh air feak and the cat is observing the current visitation of winter from under the covers on the bed. I have never been so happy about a really fresh nicely formed bunch of celery in my life. I will have to saute it up with some onions and freeze a lot of it but somehow that feels manageable. Then there is the get the brain back from events even when the body never left. Happy Tuesday.