01: staring into a bowl of alphabet soup - Even for someone who has been working with Javascript for over 20 years, TypeScript in Angular looks like a typographic mess.
02: early October lightning - I never am defeated by software development. And the weather warms up and there are downpours.
03: absence of paranoia - Smoking pot for the first time in maybe four months.
04: gala on a pier - Gretchen and I attend the Farm Sanctuary gala in Chelsea.
05: propaganditunities - A barrista who likes cow milk and a woman with an out-of-control service dog from a breeder both get some preaching from Gretchen.
06: landlord landscaping - Bringing the proper tools to cut back out-of-control vegetation.
07: Neville goes on a walk with some strangers - What hanging out at a bookstore and being cute will get you.
08: between a wife and work - Trying to keep everyone around me happy.
09: anything but blister packs - I go to ShopRite just because they sell sleeping pills that aren't sold in a most unpleasant format.
10: Ramona goes to work - She's a good girl while hanging out all day at the software development firm.
11: Mexican headphones - Discussing a weird little crisis at Mercy For Animals.
12: occasional dashes of light confusion - Maybe I drank a bit too much last night in the diaspora happy hour.
13: soggy, slimy, covered with mushrooms - Cooler weather and processing more rough firewood. Also, more oxygen sensor hell.
14: back tranche restored, 2018 - Also: how wearing shoes so much lately has affected my toes.
15: pretty much uniformly dysphoric - What my kratom has been like of late.
16: two dogs, one office - A brief visit to the office followed by some errands and political work.
17: route past the goose ponds - A shorter road to work. Also, Ramona comes along.
18: this purpose I have found for it - A use for cruddy old fuel oil. Also: the things ritalin will make you do.
19: acquired - My new employer gets bought by some other company in my sixth or seventh week of work.
20: political event at UPAC - Antonio Delgado, Natalie Merchant, and the daughter of a deceased congressman.
21: wooden donut for an axle - Fixing a car with a piece of wood.
22: mysterious workplace stomach illness - It wasn't the mushrooms, so maybe it was the pasta?
23: tech support at Epson.com - Not especially helpful.
24: coordinating at Rough Draft - What Sarah the Vegan claimed to be doing at tonight's Pat Strong postcard party.
25: Charles' hillbilly handkerchief - Also, I make a new cat friend near my workplace and turn on the boiler for the season.
26: what people with dashboard cams listen to - They listen to more pop and rap than rock 'n' roll and country.
27: a mass shooting affecting people I know - A Trump-deranged white guy shoots up the synagogue attended by Gretchen's brother, killing eleven people.
28: six backpack loads - Spending nearly the whole day salvaging firewood.
29: NOS neural dysphoria - Beware the mid-afternoon energy drink.
30: Gretchen sees my low-energy workplace - I also learn a few more things about Red Hook, NY.
31: alarm tech is better than I thought - Even if it is part of a dystopian Black Mirror infrastructure.