🌞 Sitting on my deck in full sun, writing away! Previously I'd only have about an hour left of full sun before it passed over the apartment building. Now, out on the deck, full sun almost all day, casting tree shadows beginning around 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
✅ Good day…still not quite back into my routines. Need to get things settled personally and for my workshop in the townhouse. Chipping away at it. Exhausting but good days! Need to write and publish some long form thoughts.
👍 Just a few things remaining at the apartment at this point, I'll get them later today. Being back in the townhouse is a breath of fresh air, much needed. Haven't checked email, messages, replies, anything, since Friday. Will begin to get back into the swing of things today. Great blur of a weekend, and Mozzie with me the entire time!
😴 2am again. Time for bed. Successful first official moving day. Finished the day with assembling Mozzie’s bed…finished at 1am 🙈 but he’s in his new bed on the first night. Sleeping on the couch for me tonight. Final everything tomorrow.
☕ Up and moving! Coffee first then loading up a few more things before finding some food.
💨 Van filled with boxes, will run it all over tomorrow. Next few days are going to be wild. Marking tonight as my last night in the apartment with a cigar out on the shared balcony (first in a while!). Next cigar will be in full sun on my deck, listening to birds sing their songs.
📦 making and packing boxes, throwing stuff in, loading up my dad's van (thanks Dad!), and hopefully doing a run out to the townhouse tonight (if I have the energy). Home stretch!
☕ Second round of coffee. Final leather dye work in this studio apartment, final photos as-well.
🌞 sunshine!!
Grateful log for Thu, 16 May 2024
It started as an empty box. It started with my marriage being in limbo. When I moved here I was moving out of my parent’s house for the second time. The first time was when I was 21, just a few weeks before getting married to my high school sweet heart and best friend. I moved back in on Saturday, January 9th, 2021 as I was no longer welcome in my home with my wife and son, my marriage crumbling before my eyes.
Grateful log for Wed, 15 May 2024
☔ Oh hey look, day onebajillion of rain and zero sun! Spring weather is out there somewhere...and hopefully Summer is in the wings waiting!
The Strathmere leather weekend will be available for sale this week. I’ll be launching with a discount, and then will throw in a deeper discount to folks who’ve put their email address on “the list” (form at the bottom of this page). Otherwise, I’ll just keep talking about it :-)
🌧️ Rainy afternoon. Chipping away at all sorts of things, all will finish by Thursday. Coffee.
Grateful log for Tue, 14 May 2024
I never use glue when making something. Especially in my woodworking projects, and most of the time in my leather projects. I always have the future in mind: what if this bag comes back for repair? What if I need to disassemble this, move it, and put it back together again?
Day reorganized, some things moved to tomorrow. Power nap now, then coffee and knocking out a lingering annoyance so the rest of the week is clear. Tomorrow through Thursday will be mostly focused. Friday is a move day. Saturday the final move day. Here we go!
😪 That earlier than planned alarm is catching up to me already. Afternoon crash is real. A nap is needed, but I have too much to do (as always)...but it may be the best way to remain as efficient as possible.
I’ve all but stopped wearing my Apple Watch, only putting it on when walking/hiking/biking/etc. Have enjoyed wearing a non-smart watch the rest of the time. I’ve also been deleting a lot of apps from my phone, using it less and less each day. Have had better clarity as a result, based on both changes, and am inevitably more efficient when I sit down at my computer to do the stuff I was doing otherwise on a smaller device. Much more focused when I sit down at my desk. Worthwhile changes.
Will make a few limited edition leather cigar cases with this beauty.
Grateful log for Mon, 13 May 2024
☕ Alright. Calling it. Making coffee.
🥱 Jolted awake at 5:15 by the garbage truck banging dumpsters around, mind immediately started thinking about the day and now can’t get back to sleep. Was hoping for another hour or so.
Been a while: some catching up on life, The Strathmere, and so on
🌞 Is that sunshine I see!?
Part of my job can also include constructing custom shipping boxes. 7 leather bins between the two of these custom boxes :-)
