Click images for desktop size: "C-Waves" by L A day off from work.
Nothing went well but I had the day off from work.
We waited expectantly all day hoping that we could go in and and let my puppy be a therapy dog. But too many doctors had taken the day off . . . small town stuff I guess.
We went for a long walk.
It was interesting that my puppy somehow senses when we are on a walk for our survival and a walk for its own sake.
On our ten mile hike she was always playing and telling me bad jokes and showing me disgusting things. She'd get scared (she doesn't like new things) but she never let her spirits dip.
Today she liked some of the things we did but she kept stopping and wondering, examining everything in a nervous way, as if she was afraid that she might forget something important and be forever lost.
We saw plenty of dogs on the way and she had to show them she wasn't afraid or I fear the day would have been hard on her.
At home I watched Dario Argento's “Trauma”. I was sadly disappointed. especially as, during the night I woke up and watched a Korean film, “The Diary Of June”.
Odd movie trying to be CSI on the one hand but being unable or unwilling to not be Korean. It was a film about bullying and about a mother. Parts of it were trite take offs but other parts were deeply affecting.
Other than that I've been working at getting my new computer into a shape I'm happy with. Changing and re-changing defaults, discovering things, recreating data bases, having the fun of seeing things that I built up for years, and then lost, seeing them come back in a new sleeker form.
Of course I've had to wedge all this in with playing with my puppy.
We seem to like each other plenty.
This week is, thankfully short. Tuesday I'm working the split location again. I'm not taking my puppy. That will make things grim and tedious if not downright sad.
The person I'm replacing called me tonight about some details. I was sort of chagrined to find out that she'll be working 4 hours in the afternoon but still be getting paid full time wages plus travel expenses!
Seems I'm somehow getting the short end here, but its not worth thinking about. Its only worth remembering.

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