Thunder of Wade

I’ve decided to finally make the jump and get my own domain.  Welcome to my new blog under   thunderofwade.com

Still got a lot of work to do on the site – it’s due for an overhaul – but it’s nice to have a new space.   I’ll eventually shut down my gozips and blogger accounts, please update your bookmarks.

So, I’m just past the midway point of week 3 of my poison sumac experience. I’m doing much better, but it’s still not quite gone yet. Still doing the long-sleeve shirts and calimine lotion – with a dubious effectiveness. Though there have been a few times where I’ve stopped and thought “hey, it doesn’t itch” – which of course makes it instantly itch again.

The weekend before last, I decided to do a little yardwork. I don’t do much since I rent and the landlord does the mowing – but a storm had knocked down some trees and branches into the yard. And instead of cleaning them up, they just mowed around them.

Yesterday, at the pool, I was doing my laps as usual and noticed that the guy in the lane next to me was a novice swimmer. Well, more novice than I am, as far as that goes. He also didn’t have goggles and the pool is usually super-chlorinated.

I saw a set of signs up in the student union today. One said that graduating seniors could pick commencement tickets today. The other directed incoming freshmen to orientation.

I went to my sister’s new house for easter weekend – my parents stayed there as well. The new house is huge and on a great piece of property. We had a pretty low-key weekend; I got trounced by my brother-in-law at ping pong and we went for a couple of walks with my niece. She’s babbling up a storm and working on new words all the time. We all enjoyed her exploration outside – the creek, the trees, the trampoline, and the trip down the quiet road in the wagon.

I forgot to mention one part of the walk from the other night. I was taking a slight shortcut through a bank parking lot and out of the corner of my eye I saw some movement behind and to the side of me. I turned and saw a dog. Here’s a reconstruction of what went though my head while I was busy being startled:

Today is day four of my Standing Desk experiment. I’d read about some studies that said that sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day can lead to some health problems, so I bought a cheap set of plastic shelves and configured them to sit on top of the cubicle on my desk. I still need to work on the height a bit, but otherwise I’m getting used to it. My feet are bothering though. I’ve got a foam pad that I’m using, but it’s not enough and either shoes or no shoes, they still are uncomfortable. I’ll give it a few more days and see how it goes – I can pretty easily revert back if needed.

I headed back to the School of Law this afternoon for a beverage and thought I’d treat myself since it was a nice day and I’d had a tough week. This time, my target was the vanilla frappuccino. I swiped my card, pushed the button and the machine politely registered my transaction and thanked me – giving me my revised balance.

I headed over to the nearby school of law today for a beverage – since the computer center vending machines don’t have the selection or the convenience of using our campus ID for payment. My co-worker went with me since he wanted to get out of the office for a few minutes as well.