Something Random

[Mercutio]

My office building used to be a bank. We still have the vault, the safety deposit boxes and the pneumatic tubes for the drive through teller lanes. The building is supposedly hardened to vehicle crashes or explosions as well, so I'm guessing it's an insulation thing. My personal office is on the back side of the building and looks out into Indiana Dunes National Park and/or State Park, which just means that I see a meadow and a lot of trees.

I finally have AC again and since I got to tell the techs how to set up the new system, I finally, possibly for the first time in my entire life, got to choose how climate control will work someplace. I have an HVAC zone to myself and don't have to share with hot flash grandmas any more.

 

[jtr1962]

How's the living alone situation going? I'm guessing it's an even bigger adjustment for you than for me. I couldn't have anything resembling a conversation with my mother although she was still physically there.

 

[Mercutio]

I'm not used to the empty place. My quasi- partner goes out at night because she lives somewhere with a night life now, so we don't talk nearly as often as I'd hoped. I've been able to keep relatively busy with photography work and general hobby-tinkering but my cats aren't great at keeping up their end of a conversation.

On the positive side, I'll be getting my place cleaned and decluttered this week by friends with more domestic sense than me and thanks to the power of cheap plane tickets, i should be able to see her at least three times in the next couple months. At some point I expect we'll have to have a talk about ending our relationship just over the practicalities of distance and age but for now we're still as together as people who live exactly 1110 miles apart could be.

 

[Newtun]

Zen to One

 

[jtr1962]

I'm not used to the empty place. My quasi- partner goes out at night because she lives somewhere with a night life now, so we don't talk nearly as often as I'd hoped. I've been able to keep relatively busy with photography work and general hobby-tinkering but my cats aren't great at keeping up their end of a conversation.

On the positive side, I'll be getting my place cleaned and decluttered this week by friends with more domestic sense than me and thanks to the power of cheap plane tickets, i should be able to see her at least three times in the next couple months. At some point I expect we'll have to have a talk about ending our relationship just over the practicalities of distance and age but for now we're still as together as people who live exactly 1110 miles apart could be.

My cat isn't so good at conversation, either. I'm also in the process of organizing my place a bit. Over ten years of taking care of mom meant I let lots of things slide.

Yeah, long distance relationships are hard. Heck, I lost touch with my high school friends after school ended and we were in the same city. Not being in daily contact tends to have that effect. Out of sight, out of mind. I guess eventually you'll have to have the talk you're probably both dreading. I'm guessing it would be difficult to impossible for you to move near her for work and other reasons. I'll also guess you haven't saved enough to consider retiring or semi-retiring at this point.

Just take it day by day I guess, and be thankful for the time you did have together.