For me the weight seems a bit heavy, coming so soon after my Aunt’s death for Keldor to also lose a relative, but both of them were in their 80’s, and that is the most popular age for people to die, so I can’t really say it was unexpected.

 

So he took a day to just relax and be, and worked on my blog project. One of the things in the back of my mind when I started this GitHub blog was that I could set up a section for all of the places I have ever lived. Last night and this morning I have finally started that section. It took all day, but I managed to get a pretty complete list, pulling in locations and dates from a spreadsheet of places lived that my past self started so very long ago that mom had helped me fill in some of the addresses and approximate dates. I have even calculated my approximate age for each move (keeping in mind that some dates of moves ar accurate, as there are passport stamps and calendar entries for them, but others are guesses based on “it was summer” or other clues in my memories). So, without further ado, I present the folder of the Places I Have Lived, in all its first-draft and detail-lacking glory.

 

I did get a break from the project in the middle of the day. I had gotten up to look for something to eat, glanced out the kitchen window, and saw that it was a truly beautiful day, so I decided to go for a walk first. It was a beautiful day, with -10 C temps that mean the snow squeaks delightfully underfoot. My favourite sort of weather.

 

Even here at our house, it was looking pretty:


 

 Slept through to just after 04:00 (not counting the normal middle of the night trips to the toilet, of course), then got up and did 25 minutes Pilates. By then Keldor was waking up, so I kept him company on the phone as he drove to work, and I got ready for work and walked to the bus stop. 

 

Work was intense, we had a meeting in the morning to discuss a dataset I hadn't gotten to yet, but we will be meeting the data providers on Tuesday next week when we are in Uppsala, so we started looking at the mapping they'd started a couple of years  ago, and we decided that I would use the time between that meeting and our after lunch meeting to go through and determine what info we need to ask about the data from them next week. 

 

I managed to do a quick mapping of the spreadsheet columns to our database tables and columns, enough that we went through it as a group after lunch, and cleared up a few things I had been uncertain of, and wound up with a short list of questions to take to Uppsala.  Definitely a day when I feel I am earning my paycheck, and that they chose correctly when they picked me.

 

It meant that I couldn't take my preferred bus home, which meant that by the time I got home it was well more than a 9 hour day (it took the whole bus rode to get my notes from the day's work converted to forms that my future self will understand, and metadata for the new spreadsheet properly recorded).

 

Home, I lost yet another game of Qwirkle to Keldor,  that is 8 in a row he's won. This streak needs to end soon. Then I had a survey about Swedish politics to answer, so I did. I choose the answers in favour of governments taking proper care of all the people, not just their own citizens, of course. And the ones that indicate that certain problematic world leaders are unpleasant and not to be admired. 

 

The rest of the early evening slipped by just relaxing on the couch looking at social media for a bit. Now it is 21:00, I have done my yoga, and think I will head to bed.


 

Tomorrow I get to work from home, but alas, the contractor won't be starting on the attic bathroom due to having come down with a fever. Poor guy. I hope he's better soon.

 

Friends and strangers the world over are enjoying intense Northern Lights, we have clouds.