Sitting at my desk, go figure, coffee cup at hand, some slow blues emanating from my speakers, and all is sort of right with my world.

Dark out, as it is still early, too early some would venture, to be awake and compos mentis, but all in all, I’m ok with it… so far. 😊

Went to bed last night with only a smattering of snow on the ground and awoke to three or four inches of the white stuff. Funny. I get paid with the green stuff Sammy, not the white stuff. As a comic in all seriousness. LOL. Sorry. SCTV. Bobby Bittman and Sammy Maudlin. Old TV sketch with Eugene Levy et al.

Anyhow, where was I? Nowhere yet as it happens, as the thought train is still taking on coal and water in the station.

Myriad thoughts ambling around my brain these days. A trip down south on the horizon, some things to accomplish there, and then perhaps, a quiet two weeks where I do nothing but read, bake, and just contemplate 2024 and what it might bring. The first quarter though is already planned, with regards to flights anyhow so no rest for the wicked there.

Will I miss my little flat when I move? Oh yeah, right, sorry, failed to mention that? Or did I? At any rate, yes, the decision to move was had quite suddenly the other day. I say quite suddenly but that really is a misnomer. It wasn’t sudden as it has been percolating for some time, 6 or 7 years at least, LOL. But the hard ok I am moving declaration, at least to the air around me, came only the other day. Where to you ask? Well, therein lies the rub. I am just not sure, only that I am leaving my little flat, in my small but of late burgeoning burg. Leaving my friends? Ok, sorry, who am I kidding? I have no friends. But I will be leaving people that I do know, and like. My grocery across the street, my computer guy, and other small-town amenities that I have come to accept as part of my fabric.

Moving entails finding a new pharmacy, a new doctor, new everything really. At least though, at least I think so at any rate, where I end up, I won’t have to change my internet provider, or a few other things. And, I will have more space to actually cook, and move about without bumping into shit because I have too much stuff and don’t know where to put it because I don’t have the space.

So, I have that going for me.

Funny though, apropos of change, the requests are already starting to come in. Latest from my ex-. Yes, ok, the request was based on a short conversation we had, but still and all it comes fairly early days in the process. And of course, well, this one I will leave until later as it hasn’t played out in full yet. Sorry, but I can’t get into it here and now.

Tell you one thing though, that I will not miss and that is the location of my flat. Right next to the main entrance of my building. And the reason why I am sitting here, so freaking early is that it did snow last night. And of course, the guy, who by the way is a nice guy, was outside my window at just gone 530am shovelling. So, there is that on the I won’t miss this list. A few other things as well, but I think that the I will miss this, at least for a while, list, will be longer. Most definitely the convenience of the things that I have in my orbit. But, depending on where I end up, those things might be close at hand. One never knows, does one.

And, I will have to find a new dentist. That I will miss. I like my dentist, and finding one that is a close, or is as suited to my needs will be a task. Not one that cannot be overcome I am sure, but a task, nonetheless.

My Dad has been gone for 8 days now, well, departed from this earth physically for 8 days. Seems like a million years ago. I miss him, and my mom of course, but my thoughts aren’t overflowing with sadness or even, well, I don’t know what or even. I think, and this is only my brain working now, so don’t take it as gospel, but I think that perhaps seeing as how my lines of communication to him, and really, about him for the most part, over the last number of months, the acceptance that he was no longer an everyday part of my life, was allowed to settle in. Maybe, who knows? These are only my thoughts, and as you know my thoughts aren’t always in line with how things are. Well, ok, I see things a lot more clearly, for the most part, than a great many people, but, well, just but.

Grey day dawning here, and I have a boat load of things to do today. And apropos of my dentist comment, I actually do have an appointment this morning, so there is that.

Laundry, packing, cleaning up, and just general shit to do. I love that phrase. All encompassing really. I have shit to do. Doesn’t delineate anything nor give details, just denotes that you are busy, or have things on the list.

Conundrums abound though, but for the nonce I shall allow the ebb and flow to, well, ebb and flow as it were.

The day beckons, and my shit to do, won’t get done, unless I get up off my ass, and well, do it.

So, I bid you, as always,

Until the next time,

Peace.