Irenic Road

Week in Review and Habitat For Humanity Workday

This week flew by. I hardly remember most of it, but I’ll try.

• Monday: Recovered from Thanksgiving. Not a productive day. Paid the bills, though.
• Tuesday: Recovered from recovering. Wrote a lot of code at work; was actually productive. Had a good lunch conversation with Paul; looking forward to small groups of all sorts. Saw a Ferrari in front of the restaurant. Nice warm weather.
• Wednesday: Realized I was out of food, except for spaghetti and cereal. Spent some time in Dahl’s. Spent too much time adding info to a new (but much needed) OS X app. Slept poorly.
• Thursday: Went to my parents’ for supper, took power drill, brought back pumpkin pie and work clothes for Saturday. Went to bed early.
• Friday: Wrestled computer at work, put out other fires. Signed up for decent internet access (the free wi-fi at my complex is as slow as dialup, and insecure in so many ways I try not to think about it). Played with NetBeans and PHP a little, started redesigning blog— for real. Discovered that Illinois by Sufjan Stevens is the greatest album of the decade (according to Paste). Glad I finally heard it this year— you know, before the decade ended.
• Saturday: Worked on a couple Habitat houses. Moved some home appliances, caulked up the wazoo. See below.

I broke out the long underwear for my church’s Habitat for Humanity workday. I thought we were supposed to be at the site by 8 am, so I found myself in the peculiar situation of being the first person at the Temple for Performing Arts (where we met to carpool, and where the church meets on Sunday). After moving a some home appliances from one house to the other, I spent the rest of the day caulking pillars on the porches. Being a “detail-oriented” person (picky perfectionist) I was the right person for the job. I became intimately familiar with every seam and crevice on those pillars, and will probably dream of caulking tonight. Despite how that might sound, it was a fun event and something like being on Extreme Home Makeover, since we had over 30 people on site. I also enjoyed the lunch croissandwiches and chocolate chip cookies which were made by other church members. And I have to mention the “gourmet” snack chips (I didn’t know chips could be gourmet).

When I was a kid I played soccer every spring and fall, After a Saturday morning game I’d return home and lay down on my bed, still wearing my uniform, and feel tired, warm, and satisfied. Then I’d peel off my matted socks and sticky shin guards and take a shower. Well, after I got home around 4:15 I lay down on my bed— and fell asleep, sans shower. I didn’t bring a camera, but here are a few photos that have already surfaced on Twitter:

• http://twitpic.com/s8v3k
• http://tweetphoto.com/5904316

Looking forward to church tomorrow. That’s not something I could say until the past couple months.