It was 218 ppm here in southern Ontario which is unsafe, but places like northern Michigan it was 1150 ppm, and you can’t escape that by staying indoors and running the AC. You’d have to wear a respirator full time until that number falls bellow 50 ppm. That’s a long drop to be waiting for when pressed right up against the source of the smoke, but only separated by open lakes, creating a wind tunnel driving all that smoke towards you. Yikes. Bad juju all around with this year’s forest fire season. Entire towns wiped out – again. This looks to become an every single year from here on out occurrence now. Tragic.
I think it’s Friday today. I’m still discombobulated by the west coast travel. I can’t fall asleep at 10:30/11:00 pm anymore, I find myself awake until 2:00 am now, and I’m just not feeling the 8:45am alarm, nor my 9:25 am back up. I need to get my old time regulated self back in focus because there’s far too much of summer left to start creeping towards staying up until 3 or 4 am, and wanting to sleep the whole day away. I have work, and responsibilities, obligations to perform, I can’t regress like a teenager because of time zones and jet lag. Maybe if I’m just far more physical today that will help switch me back?
I’m on the last day of my big project before I hand in my first draft. I have a handful of pages left to go, and then soft proofing, and fixing items I know will come up during the style review. Best to get out in front of them now, head it off at the pass. It’s a long one though, I’d estimate it being between 85-90 pages long for this go around. The trick is to pace yourself for the long haul. I start with about 21 pages, next day 33 days, third day once we’re really rolling along (provided the data you have allows for it) you aim for another 30 or so pages, then on day four you do the last ten or so, and begin soft proofing on my end. Export it, hand it off, then wait for any edits or changes. It’s a mighty fine system. Works well and saves my wrists from RSI’s.
Gave myself a carpal tunnel injury nearly twenty years ago and that was really unpleasant. To the point where I couldn’t use my dominant hand to eat, drink, get dressed, or even brush my teeth without severe pain. Sounds like wringing out a leather glove whenever I used any tendons in that hand, and it lasted for weeks. This was before I had children. Could only imagine trying to change diapers with only one good hand. I know people can do it, but by golly that seems tough.
Luckily the temperature is cool this morning, and the air quality back down to a 7 from yesterday’s 11, and I took forty minutes to cut the front lawn. Now it doesn’t look quite so bad. Oh yeah Markham Mower still has my Echo SRM-230 weed eater, that’s gotta be eight full weeks by now. I guess they’ll keep it for 12 to 13 weeks, I’ll get it back in September I think. Ha. So stupid.
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