Things I have done this week:

1. The endless saga of photo editing continues. *flops disconsolately over desk* The problem with photo edits is that they are horribly, mind-numbingly tedious, and yet I can't just automate them by saying, "Kick up the light by 30, kick up the color by 50, increase clarity by 15" and so on, because every photo has a ( Read more... )

Stuff about stuff:

1. Current holiday plans are as follows: Nick has an MRI appointment tomorrow noonish, after which he and Dad will start driving east. They plan on three easy days to get from Minnesota to New Jersey, arriving late afternoon on Xmas Eve. Meanwhile, I will drive down on the 23rd. Beacon has decided to do a virtual Xmas Eve service ( Read more... )

1. I got my Covid-19 booster shot on Saturday. The overall effect has been much more similar to my first shot than my second -- no fever or general flu-like malaise -- but after the initial muscle soreness in my left shoulder wore off, I seem to have developed some joint soreness and possibly a slightly sore/swollen lymph node? Or then again, maybe ( Read more... )

Things about today:

1. Got my Covid booster shot! This was annoying to schedule, but the actual shot part went very smoothly. My upper arm has been getting achey as the day wears on, but so far not too badly.

2. The local Collegetown burger place I sometimes order from has changed their order/payment processor YET AGAIN, which is frustrating and ( Read more... )

Five things make a post:

1. Covid-19 test came back negative. \o/

2. The new tenant of a unique apartment that I badly wanted to stage, photograph, and video told us in July that they would arrive on Friday, August 13. I had been putting off staging that apartment because it's a third-floor walkup and I thought I had some breathing room to get more ( Read more... )

Well, I was officially under a quarantine order for about... oh, 90 minutes? this afternoon, but obviously that did not last long.

Basically I got preventatively quarantined on account of having had contact with Ms. Random Numbers, but was very shortly thereafter exempted because the state verified that I am vaccinated. The one potential issue is ( Read more... )

Today I worked 10am-3pm (yes, that is an hour more than I intended to work; tasks have a tendency to slop over, alas!) during which period I took photos and video of four apartments and un-staged three of them. Either Awesome Temp or I will un-stage the fourth tomorrow or Thursday -- it was less urgent, since the incoming tenant doesn't plan to ( Read more... )

So today I sent out literally 10 leases on the same apartment. Simultaneously. With a note to all the applicants that I had, in fact, sent out 10 simultaneous leases, and the first person to sign and pay would get the apartment.

This is ABSURD.

Then later in the afternoon, I sent 3 simultaneous leases for a different unit.

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Last year, we were still ( Read more... )

I got my second dose (Pfizer) this morning at 8:30am. There was a slight mishap with the injection -- nothing serious, just the 1-in-a-thousand chance of nicking a teeny-tiny vein so it bled more than expected and the technician had to apply pressure with a gauze pad for a minute, before wiping the area down again and applying a bandaid.

I felt ( Read more... )

I am so annoyed right now.

Tompkins County has set up a vaccine registration service, and I registered to be notified when vaccination slots were available. (I technically qualify under comorbidities because they are using a REALLY BROAD definition of overweight -- and I also work in public-facing building management services by some definitions, ( Read more... )