Musings at Altitude

I had 6 goals for the day, all things that I’ve put off for days, weeks, or even months, and all in desperate need of some attention.  I’m proud to report that I took care of 4 out of 6 today and have very good excuses for the other 2. 

Unfortunately, the one thing I want to do the most had to be put on hold again.  When I wrote the blog this morning, the temperature was 45 degrees and I had every reason to believe that since it was 8:00 in the morning that I’d have great weather to install the address marker.  By 11:00 in the morning, the temperature had dropped to 32 degrees and an ominous wave of clouds was floating over the house.  By 4:00 this afternoon, the snow showers had started and installation of the address marker (requires significant digging and some concrete being poured) was once again a procrastinators dream. 

The second thing that was left undone was the pigeon repellant.  We had every reason to believe that Home Depot carried some form of pigeon repellant.  At least that’s what the web said (my sister-in-law said so anyway).  But when we got to Home Depot and talked with the incredibly smart dudes on the floor, we were told nothing more than the age old trick that probably countless others have tried without much success – put an owl on the roof.  So for now, the pigeons are safe.  And with the weather now getting cold again, it’s probably a very good thing for the pigeons.

I can however claim success on the other 4.  I cleaned out the garage (one side anyway).  I collected all the tumbleweeds and got rid of them.  I went through all the old mail in my office and trashed 98% of it.  And my wife and I took my 207,000 mile car to Jiffy Lube and got that much needed oil change (and got a lot of admirers to comment on how good the car looks with all those miles as well). 

In addition, we went to Best Buy and got a cover for her iPod, went to the AT&T store and got the roller ball fixed on my Blackberry (I was having a major crisis with the roller ball not working), went to King Soopers and got the fixin’s needed for the dinner of choice that my son chose, and passed up Starbucks thus saving $10 and about 1,000 calories.

Now we’re sitting fat, dumb and happy watching the football wild card games.

A very successful day indeed!