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Chilly morning, pleasantly so; oh, Mother Nature, you incorrigible, pre-apocalyptic tease.

Now that I(think)'ve got more time for The Work throughout the day and the newsletter has shifted to a (far more workable) monthly schedule, a changeup inbound here. 50% of the way there today, full tilt tomorrow: shift this space into being less of a status-update thing and more of a status / thought synthesis thing, with these wordthings being the first things posted (end of the first chunk of the day, more or less), Attendance Cards the second (a way to bring me back into The Work, and a useful visual separation between days), approx midmorning, see you tomorrow – though once I'm working in NuSanctum (dogchild door successfully installed, with much rage and profanity, yesterday), that might shift to mid-morning for these, mid-afternoon for ACs, especially since I'll be able to move to a more sane schedule.

(All, as ever, subject to change.)

Kamala's raucous reception at her brief appearance at the DNC was moving: this is '08 all over again, not only in the candidate and running mate (Walz is nothing if not a more progressive Biden 20 years younger), but – save any shred of dignity and worthiness of respect – in the opponent, the oldest candidate ever to run for the office picking a young rising star (about to flame out) profoundly unfit to serve ice cream let alone step into the presidency (Palin, even, was more prepared than Vance – at least she was a governor, who could, we should remember, see Russia from her front porch).

Present quandary (other than standard perplexity in The Work at hand): why does the left option key on my Kinesis keyboard stop working at random times? Some key combo I press in my slop-type or a sign of diminished implemental capability?

(Nu)Sanctum, one month later

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After spending the weekend building a porch and fighting with the eaves doors while K painted the outside trim and doors (right one still needs a second coat - she got rained out) white, I’ve done all I can until the solar install happens – floor and trim / corners being the final major bit of blood, sweat, and tears from my hand. After that, I move my office out there and start working “outside the house” for the first time in 15 years.

One more note here: the stark difference between the outside and inside is intentional: wanted to make it look like a typical garden shed from the outside while the inside is a wooden brain wonderland. Useful TARDIS-infused camouflage. For frame of reference, NuSanctum a month ago.