And it’s back to Monday today… July 14th 2025 my niece’s birthday. Corinne is what we call her. She’s turning 39 which is a reflection of time in aging on almost everybody’s part, but my own he jokingly said to himself.

Today is humidly oppressive. Yesterday I did 14 mi on a bike ride up to North Bergen took the advice of my neighbors Mithra and Frank and went a little bit further up on the path that I was used to and I have to say I was literally underwhelmed by what was ahead of me. I did not get far and at a certain point it just turned around and did my own thing which seems to work best for me at least.

Next week I return to Liberty State Park because that’s a little more interesting. And I do have my routines that people on social media ask about. Mike has been staying with us since Friday which has been good. I think yesterday was the first day he actually left the apartment and that was just a cover to carry the groceries up four flights of steps as I was heading to do my bike ride.

In the office today it seems like Jimmy Chile is a bit distant whereas Marcus is a bit chatty and I look at myself in the mirror and wonder where that red splatch came from on the left temple of my forehead. I suppose it will bear looking into and see what happens. It was a bit unnerving but not too distressing.

So whereas the plan was to have Mike come over on Fridays and leave on Monday. Today we allowed him to stay and use the computer and search for jobs since he really has to find a job soon!

Bill has been running around driving kids from point A to point b with occasional stops at cd&e. He is able to stop by on Saturday for a couple of hours and one of those hours. He took a nap which was good. It was, since he needed it.

He did the same thing today without the nap and I gave him the heads up that Mike was just going to be in the crib which probably leaves Bill to scratch his head, wondering what’s going on?

I’ve been busy today at work filling in any requests that are asked, initially freezing sitting at my desk and wearing a cardigan, and then that got too warm, so I’m back to freezing.

Just got to make it to Thursday. That’s my goal. However, I do have to work on that. Ambitious career plan that the agency that placed me where I’m at is asking for a first draft singular.

I made penne pesto and chicken last night and also made a special sauce for Mike since he doesn’t like pesto. And I made enough to bring some for lunch today which was saltier than it was yesterday. I don’t know why.

I did not sleep well last night. That’s a lot of tossing and turning for me and the inability to get comfortable and Bills clock radio going off every 15 minutes with some talk radio a.m. nonsense. I may have broken Bill’s radio in which case I have to get him a new one but I won’t do that until he tells me “you broke my radio”.

A short while ago, smelling weed all the time on the streets was a bit unnerving. Nowadays, it seems to be commonplace, so much so that I’m getting used to it.