Give me an “R”! It’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Saturday, October 16
While coffee cups are in, we are still without a coffee delivery, but the restaurant apparently got one because there were some silver packets of coffee in the back coffee room when I reported for duty…Later I invaded the restaurant to reappropriate some more coffee for morning coffee service (MCS) and found they had a box of the coffee we use, too, and in those small, single-pot sizes, too…Exactly why they got a delivery and we didn’t wasn’t immediately clear, but I took several packages from Donor Box #1 and it is still unclear where the silver packets came from.
Also unclear is why Amy used the emergency supply of that lousy, engine additive producing leading national brand (LNB) coffee right before yours truly reported for duty…Rather than waste it, I put some hazelnut creamer in it, which produced serviceable, thru-the-nite coffee.
In other food news, there were crumbs all over the place on the back office desk…There were ketchup packets, too…Heck, there were crumbs all over the keyboard, obliging yours truly to turn the keyboard over and then power wash the entire desk.
I swear there is hair growing on the top of my head…I am not making that up.
I’ve been taking a supplement called fo ti for several weeks…It’s a root from some plant native to China and offhand yours truly can’t remember why it was picked up at the health food store – I think the Chinese name might’ve provided moderate influence – but some research revealed a story about an old Chinese guy who started taking it and before you could say Year of the Dragon he was climbing mountains and humping like a bunny again…The research also showed legend had it the guy’s hair turned black and he lived for many more years.
Well, yours truly no longer really cares about his hair anymore, but the longevity benefits sounded good, so I bought a second bottle of capsules and recently I was rubbing the top of my head and there was some hair growing where previously it was completely bald…I’m willing to bet The Portfolio on it…I googled “fo ti” and “hair growth” just for funsies and got some hits, but it’s the internet, of course, and you could probably search for “yak piss” and “hair growth” and still get a few results…Now, it should be noted there’s no desire right now to grow the flowing lock(s) back, but I’ll keep tabs on it and when it is time to grow it back we’ll see what turns up.
The big news in town is two of the chain hotels (like ours) are going to be converted into worker housing…Like every other ski town in the state, it’s expensive to live in town because it’s a ski area and those with money tend to hog all the mansions in town and where to house the ski bums that come in the winter has long been a problem…The article said initial plans are to charge $1,200 a month for a room, which isn’t too far off of current rents real apartments, but it also includes utilities and internet and parking, tho why parking’s an added bonus is beyond me…You fork over rent, a place to park is implicit.
I bought some more air travel this morning…Recall my flight from the big city to Louisville to see Uncle Rudy and Aunt Susie next month was canceled so I got another one, altho instead of flying out from the big city yours truly is flying out of the nearby small, regional airport…Also, recall the trip includes a flight to LA and a flight back to the big city and you don’t have to be a Wright brother to reckon ol’ Sparrow will need to get from the big city airport to the regional airport where his car will be…This hit me this morning.
$150, not too bad, but hardly a deal, either…It’s on Friday morning, too, and the flight from LA gets in on Thursday nite, so ol’ Sparrow should also start looking into hotel reservations at the big city airport for Thursday nite as well.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 0900 Saturday until 1900 Saturday…10.0 hours for the day and 49.5 hours for the week, the quest for an unprecedented three consecutive 50+hour sleep weeks denied, but one of the great lessons of life is not every knock on History’s door is answered and we’ll take our also unprecedented two consecutive 50+-hour sleep weeks with gratitude.
And those of you keeping score at home know we are still averaging over 50 hours of sleep thru the first three weeks of the sleep month, a heroic total I know all of you are marveling at…We’ll see if we can keep it up, tho there are five sleep weeks this month, so it could be tuff.
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The Diary of a Nobody is a novel. All elements are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Anything else is a coincidence.
It was inspired by the 19th-century British novel of the same name.
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