Less Mulling

Looking back over this blog, I notice the posts I enjoy most are about what's happening in the present: such as a big storm with photos of snow. I think I need to do less mulling and more reporting on current events.

And I need to strive for John Scalzi's cheerful, chipper tone.

Today I need to pull together the paperwork for my taxes. How is that for cheerful? I use a tax preparation service. But I like to come in with everything neatly ordered and on a spreadsheet.

The people who run it are art fans and run a gallery in the front of their offices. The art is good. I have bought a couple of pieces. It's the one problem in using them: the risk of buying art. But it's affordable.

If I can manage to pull together the various bits of information in a reasonable amount of time, I will go out to a coffee shop and either read or write. Patrick and I share an apartment that isn't small, but is of modest size. We both love the living room, and spend most of our time there, and we both like time alone. So we both go out to be alone and give the other person time alone. For him it's walks through the skyway system. For me, it's time in coffee shops.