December 8

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I think this will be the basement for the apartment building which will replace the old houses along the east side of 5th Ave., in the block just south of William.

Cool clouds in the late-afternoon sky.

This is what you see when you stand just inside the door to my office, with your back to the door.

That's my old Steelcase desk in the lower left.  Two monitors are better than one small monitor, but not as good as one really big monitor.....

My office mate, who just retired, worked making sure our staff was properly supplied with computers.  Computers that need to be worked on, or which are on their way to property disposition, pile up in this room.  Which is good, because if they didn't, I expect another person would be visited upon us.  This is a big room.......  I'd rather share space with 200 dead computers than one extra person.....

On the 8th I finally measured one of these window panes.  This building has a historic designation.  When they updated its physical plant, several years ago, we got new windows, and they had to be the same size as they were before, and they had to open!  Hooray for windows that open!!!!!!!!!

So -- are you ready for it?

One half of one of these windows is 3'7" wide, and 3'10" tall.  !!!  The ceilings were built to allow dropped ceilings to hold all the hvac and lighting, but near the outside walls, there is no dropped ceiling -- allowing the windows to be nearly 8' tall.  !!!

I am going to miss these windows.........

One of my monitors died, the morning of the 8th.  You can see the dead one, edge facing us, on the cabinet right in front of the window in the previous shot.

Walking over to the window, standing right by that dead monitor and craning around to see past the edge of the (ugly and intrusive) new wing, we can look mostly south to see the big tree.  And the clouds.....

Sitting at my desk.  The hill-that-is-the-horizon, and the black specks in the sky are crows.

Going to miss this sky.........  And the crows.......

Going to miss this view.

The big tree, again.

The corner of Washington and Main, at 5:30 pm.

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