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Monday was going to start early and busy and was kinda neither
I had it in my head construction was starting today, however apparently that was “this week” and is in fact going to be “Thursday, maybe”. I would be annoyed, but I’ve been around construction entirely too much over the years to even have any emotional investment in any proposed timeline. I wasn’t woken up at 7 am. Yay.
Someone came by to pick up the Rey cosplay stuff and also a silk and sequined top. I got to chatting with the woman and asked her to wait while I got the Jedi cloak and tunic, after I learned she had an adult son with complex disabilities and they do cons and cosplay and so forth together. Good for them!
Pink privacy pop tent is due to go out today, which is an exciting development. A.’s closet is no longer completely wedged.
It’s sunny, and about 60 degrees out. Remarkably pleasant after a rainy weekend. I did my last extension payment for taxes today, so I think I can go back to not thinking about taxes much for a few months.
A. had a bunch of questions about PTO and government holidays and why some companies recognize them but not all and why. I did my best to explain the complex negotiations between employers and employees around rest, the relative value of more money vs more time, and how norms around holidays and benefits packages simplify negotiations. I also brought up the importance the interaction between extensive guaranteed benefits and higher unemployment rates. Obviously, we couldn’t get into all of the things (like exploitation of workers under salary rules vs. hourly, wage theft, etc.), because this all happened on the drive in.
Impulse Labs (the induction cooktop with amazing controls and a battery built in) person was on Odd Lots talking about tariffs and their impact on manufacturing. He’s really great to listen to.
I’m trying to figure out when to stop on this round of decluttering. On the one hand, we have enough cleared out for construction, that we could stop. On the other hand, A. is just starting to really get going, and, for that matter, so is R. Stopping does not make sense under those circumstances. I’m thinking I’m just going to maintain as high a pace of listing things on FB Marketplace as I can manage for as long as I feel like doing it, partly because when I post a bunch of different things, I get people who ask for several different lots / items and drive further because it is justified by the increased amount. When this happens, it isn’t stuff that I would have thought to list as one lot, so there’s no fixing it that way. I feel very much like this exercise has a lot of the logic of a garage sale (altho without bothering with price tags).
Someone came by to pick up the Rey cosplay stuff and also a silk and sequined top. I got to chatting with the woman and asked her to wait while I got the Jedi cloak and tunic, after I learned she had an adult son with complex disabilities and they do cons and cosplay and so forth together. Good for them!
Pink privacy pop tent is due to go out today, which is an exciting development. A.’s closet is no longer completely wedged.
It’s sunny, and about 60 degrees out. Remarkably pleasant after a rainy weekend. I did my last extension payment for taxes today, so I think I can go back to not thinking about taxes much for a few months.
A. had a bunch of questions about PTO and government holidays and why some companies recognize them but not all and why. I did my best to explain the complex negotiations between employers and employees around rest, the relative value of more money vs more time, and how norms around holidays and benefits packages simplify negotiations. I also brought up the importance the interaction between extensive guaranteed benefits and higher unemployment rates. Obviously, we couldn’t get into all of the things (like exploitation of workers under salary rules vs. hourly, wage theft, etc.), because this all happened on the drive in.
Impulse Labs (the induction cooktop with amazing controls and a battery built in) person was on Odd Lots talking about tariffs and their impact on manufacturing. He’s really great to listen to.
I’m trying to figure out when to stop on this round of decluttering. On the one hand, we have enough cleared out for construction, that we could stop. On the other hand, A. is just starting to really get going, and, for that matter, so is R. Stopping does not make sense under those circumstances. I’m thinking I’m just going to maintain as high a pace of listing things on FB Marketplace as I can manage for as long as I feel like doing it, partly because when I post a bunch of different things, I get people who ask for several different lots / items and drive further because it is justified by the increased amount. When this happens, it isn’t stuff that I would have thought to list as one lot, so there’s no fixing it that way. I feel very much like this exercise has a lot of the logic of a garage sale (altho without bothering with price tags).