I closed on my house last Friday and have been moving in ever since. I'm mostly moved, though I'm probably underestimating just how much stuff is still in my old place. I should go get another load. The master bedroom was painted purple, walls and ceiling. I've had no fewer than three people offer unsolicited help if I need help repainting it. My answer was that I'll deal with it later, and getting moved in is my priority. Whoever painted it did a shit job with paint on the trim, even the light fixture. But: I've slept great the past two nights. My old bedroom was generic beige with a white ceiling, and I didn't often sleep great. New room, my daily schedule is a mess, and I'm sleeping great. Is it the dark walls and dark ceiling? Should I not paint the ceiling the traditional white? A website on the internet says blue is the best sleep color. Another suggests painting a ceiling not white but a few shades lighter from the wall color. So now I'm considering painting the walls a fairly dark blue and the ceiling a lighter blue. Any thoughts from hubski? One of the things still in my old place is my CDs. Records are all moved, and every load I thought "I own too many records." But they're moved. The CDs I haven't touched in literal years. I'm not sure they're worth anything. Maybe $1 each? I'll dump them in the basement for now. Anyone else have opinions on what to do with old CDs? I did trash my VHS tapes and donate my DVDs at some point.
Since WFH isn't much and can only do sedentary hobbies for so long, I've done a lot of yard work and such. Scraped rust off of most of the fence and repainted it. Also repaired/waterproofed wooden bits left from the gazebo that I hope to reuse as grow beams/fence for plants next year, identified and cataloged ones we currently have (counted/suspect 86 different species, still naming them), and played around with a soil analysis kit. It's been a productive week, for some definitions of 'productive' at least. It's a fruit! Some kind of tough, wild berry that's growing 3-5 cm off the ground. I'm not sure if they're edible, but gonna leave them be.
It could be a mock strawberry (Potentilla indica). Mock strawberries are edible but very bland compared to real strawberries.
There's a conference I'm going to in a few weeks. Many months ago after purchasing the ticket my job informed me I would not be reimbursed for the ticket (student price) as I am a part-time student employee, but they'd pay me to go which would cover the cost of the ticket. Since then, myself and some full time colleagues decided to submit an abstract which was accepted, and subsequently we were asked to make a poster as well to present at the conference. So being that I'm now presenting at the conference and not just hanging around, I asked if I could now be reimbursed and they agreed!
A year ago today I (caught?) began exhibiting symptoms of the 'rona. Assuming it was Delta due to how quick the symptoms came on... and how hard. That single J&J shot put in WORK. Had the thought a few times that if not for it, I would have easily been hospitalized at the minimum - just based off how grueling the fatigue was. Working on building back stamina, which I might have been able to work on sooner during recovery? No doubt a creeping laziness that WFH can inflict didn't help. If anything, I'm looking forward to winter time in order to run outside. The difference in ability to breath (let alone function) normally in winter vs spring/fall is notable enough for me to consider moving to a colder, drier climate.