Happy Tuesday!
This morning I thought I would finally outsmart the washing
machines and have a pleasant laundry experience. I woke up 3 hours before work to give myself plenty of time.
I had to wash my two uniform shirts, shorts, and pants, so I had no option but
to finish the job once I started. Everything was going great until t-minus 90
minutes to go until work. I went in to the laundry room expecting the washers
to be done. Instead, only one of them had completed the cycle. The other one
decided to quit halfway through, leaving my uniforms soggy and still smelly.
After coaxing the machine, I finally got a the “washing” button to ignite. From
that point on it was a race against the clock to wash and dry everything before I had to report to work. I
lost that race. My cotton pants were dry, but my synthetic fabric shirt and
underwear were still slightly damp. Walking to work with a combination of
dryer-heated pants and socks and not-quite-dry everything else was odd. To make matters worse, it was raining...heavily. I washed my rain jacket, but it didn't have enough time to air dry before taking it out into the world again. I was a hot/cold, dry/wet mess this morning.
Work wasn’t too busy today. The rain stubbornly stayed
around until about 2:00 until the fog kicked it out. The atmosphere was pretty
saturated all day today. Edie, Jami, and I all stayed in the information booth
to stay warm and dry. We succeeded. The parking lot didn’t need us anyway on
such a slow day.
After work I went on a run down to the ocean at Seal Harbor. I arrived
about 15 minutes before low tide. According to the tide chart, today’s tidal
difference was one of the highest it’ll be all month—13.3 feet! It was quite a
sight. I love to think about how only six hours later, my footprints at the waterline will be under water twice my height.
Today’s picture of the day comes from yesterday. There is a
dorm photo contest with prizes to the photographers of the best landscape,
wildlife, and plant pictures. I might enter this shot in the plant category.
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