Taking it Easy Saturday
Aug. 16th, 2025 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerToday (Saturday) has been a taking-it-easy day for me.
Taking it easy started last night actually, when after feeling pooped out from long days and short nights of travel earlier in the week I fell asleep around 8pm. I slept through until almost 8am this morning. Sleeping 12 hours might seem to stretch past "decadent" and into "are you sure you're not sick?" territory, but when I consider that across the four previous nights I averaged just 6 hours/night of sleep it seems not outrageous.
After waking up this morning I puttered around the house until after 11. The time snuck up on me. Around 11:30 I asked Hawk when a friend of ours, David, would be coming over; he hadn't reached out to us yet today. She texted him and found he was already on the train, and was just 20 minutes away. Ooookay then, time for a couple of quick showers! We met him just before noon and went out to lunch together.
After lunch we came back to our place. Our plan had been to spend the afternoon by the pool, but even by 1pm today the morning cloud layer was still hanging over the area. This is part of the still-ongoing mostly-cooler-than-normal spring and summer we've been having. Instead of decamping to the pool we swept the patio and sat there. Eventually the sky cleared and the air warmed a bit. By then we were happily enjoying the patio— more enjoyable now that it had been swept! We skipped the pool.
Once again time crept up on me. Suddenly it was 6pm! Time to start talking dinner. Hawk bowed out due to aches, leaving David and me to pick a place nearby. We aligned on Oren's Hummus in Mountain View. The food there was good, as always, though the restaurant was surprisingly almost empty— surprisingly because neighboring restaurants were packed indoors and out.
After a good dinner David got on the train to head north, back home. I walked him to the station then walked back to my car with a take-out container Hawk had requested. By 8pm I was back home... and not feel like doing much else for the day.
Taking it easy started last night actually, when after feeling pooped out from long days and short nights of travel earlier in the week I fell asleep around 8pm. I slept through until almost 8am this morning. Sleeping 12 hours might seem to stretch past "decadent" and into "are you sure you're not sick?" territory, but when I consider that across the four previous nights I averaged just 6 hours/night of sleep it seems not outrageous.
After waking up this morning I puttered around the house until after 11. The time snuck up on me. Around 11:30 I asked Hawk when a friend of ours, David, would be coming over; he hadn't reached out to us yet today. She texted him and found he was already on the train, and was just 20 minutes away. Ooookay then, time for a couple of quick showers! We met him just before noon and went out to lunch together.
After lunch we came back to our place. Our plan had been to spend the afternoon by the pool, but even by 1pm today the morning cloud layer was still hanging over the area. This is part of the still-ongoing mostly-cooler-than-normal spring and summer we've been having. Instead of decamping to the pool we swept the patio and sat there. Eventually the sky cleared and the air warmed a bit. By then we were happily enjoying the patio— more enjoyable now that it had been swept! We skipped the pool.
Once again time crept up on me. Suddenly it was 6pm! Time to start talking dinner. Hawk bowed out due to aches, leaving David and me to pick a place nearby. We aligned on Oren's Hummus in Mountain View. The food there was good, as always, though the restaurant was surprisingly almost empty— surprisingly because neighboring restaurants were packed indoors and out.
After a good dinner David got on the train to head north, back home. I walked him to the station then walked back to my car with a take-out container Hawk had requested. By 8pm I was back home... and not feel like doing much else for the day.
