I’m on my way back to NYC via Metro North, and on a Saturday!  It’ll be nice to have an extra day to settle back in after a break.  Is it strange that I need rest after my breaks?  After all, it’s only 2 hours away.  Some unfortunate people make that sort of commute EVERY DAY.  That’s 4 hours of travel,  8 hours of work.  I’m not sure if that’s dedication of just doing things the hard way.

Some things I did in CT:  build a desk.  Well, I (actually my Dad) cut a piece of wood 2x, and put it on sawhorses.  Learned some knots, I think 3 of them.  Ate.  A lot.  I learned to make better pie crust, I needed to add more shortening.  Brought Mia to the vet.  Gave Mia a bath.  Learned the beginning of “Big Love” on acoustic.  I finally got the picking pattern down!   Made some performance improvements on Prefix, and fixed a bunch of image crap.  Took a break from NYRB work.  Drove back and forth to NYC to pick up Cindy and Mia.  Not bad for a week.

I left Mia w/ the parents for 3 weeks also to save 2 round trips with the car.  Makes sense, but it’ll be sad to not have her to greet me when I get home after work, or to play with during TV commercials =)  Or to go for runs (we all know I go for so many runs w/ her).  Nice in theory, hard in practice.  She likes i there anyway…  On Metro North right now, which seems to be making every single stop on the route.  The train is packed so I thank god we get on at the first stop (New Haven).  I like to smugly stare a the people standing by the door that couldn’t find a seat, or didn’t feel like looking.  Is that messed up?

I got the Cicada remix of the Editors’ “Munich” playing from some random progressive trance mix I downloaded from 2006.  It’s better than the original I think, the beats and bass add some nice depth to the track.  So I’m just trying to burn another hour while we’re on the train.  Just passed the oddly named “Cos Cob” station.  So many towns that I’ve never been to.  Kind of a shame, but I just never thought of it while I lived here.   I supposed I can always do it later.  What I should be doing right now is reading that Obama book.  Just haven’t dove into it yet.  Or I could be reading the latest issue of The New York Review of Books.  I guess my brain is out of shape.

So (possible) plans for when I get back:  exercise, patch jeans, steel wool desk, buy teak oil, dj hero (likely), read, clean room/apt, tie knots.  Make a Christmas shopping list, a workout schedule.