Big Reveal Part 2

At Wednesday’s session, Trainer said his wife had visited the studio, took one look at the position of the treadmill and said “NO”.

Nothing else, just “NO”.

As a consequence of his wife’s resounding NO, I walked into the Cave this morning and found ......

Treadmill is now on the opposite side of the room, facing the picture window, open areas well within sight.

Perfect placement and, oddly enough, telling the story of my life — as it is now, because the placement has my back to the feng shui Relationships corner, back to Family wall.

My problem solved, Trainer’s problem solved as he can still fold it up out of the way, and Trouble with his wife avoided — had he ignored her opinion.

Exiting the kitchen yesterday, headed for my perch on the couch by the patio window, I grabbed the cell phone and took a photo of what I saw across the way.

It’s Assistant Maintenance Guy! He’s back, and appeared to be measuring the window for screens.

Glad he survived his diagnosis.

He’s friendly and chatty when Head Maintenance Guy isn’t around. So, I’ll have to catch him during such a moment, tell him it’s good to see him back, ask how he feels now and find out how it was when he was going through having tested Covid positive.

It’s looking like I’m going to have to spoil my view of outside, keep the blinds closed, or only partially open, now that the ugly curtains are gone and there’s a wide open view to inside my unit from across the quad.

I almost got caught fully nude one morning.

It was back in 2013, when corporate took over the complex and was having the building painted.

There were a few days when the windows had been covered with tarp, taped in place, leaving me foot loose and fancy free inside, insofar as walking around not fully clothed, while blinds were open to allow some little sunlight to seep into the unit through the tarp. On one such morning I was on the computer, not semi but completely nude while waiting for bath water to run.

All of a sudden, I saw an edge of the window cover being ripped away.

I didn’t know I could move as fast as I did, when I jumped up, crouched down and fled into the back room.

Painting completed, a worker had climbed a ladder, gotten onto the patio, and was stripping away the window coverings.

Don't think the worker was faster than I, caught a glimpse of anything. But, if he did, all he would have seen was a brown flash.

With office staff now all present and accounted for, having lived through and around Covid, the governor declaring California open again, things might get back to somewhat of a new normal around here ─ with maybe outdoor events.

I’m just looking forward to when I can safely walk the University’s campus again, and for in-person 5Ks to restart.