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I still don’t have my plane reservations, but I’ll have them today come hell or high water. Nor do I have an appointment with the National Police. The office will still “shortly add new appointments.” That effort, for me, has been put aside until Monday.
Although the temperatures are not what they were in August, it still gets too hot in the afternoons for much outdoor activity. So, I don’t have a plan for the day. I’m just riding out summer. I hope you’re all finding some pleasure in the day.
A painting fell off the wall outside my office yesterday afternoon. The framer had put a discreet wire loop hook on the back. It broke. The undamaged painting is sitting on the floor, leaning against the wall. Maybe I’ll start decorating like it’s an atelier. I have so many framed pieces still to hang. I think I’ll just lean them against the walls all around the house.
Todavía no tengo mis reservas de avión, pero las tendré hoy pase lo que pase. Tampoco tengo una cita con la Policía Nacional. La oficina seguirá “añadiendo nuevas citas en breve”. Ese esfuerzo, para mí, se ha pospuesto hasta el lunes.
Ayer por la tarde se me cayó un cuadro de la pared de fuera de mi oficina. El enmarcador le había puesto un discreto gancho en el parte posterior. Se rompió. El cuadro, intacto, está en el suelo, apoyado contra la pared. Quizá empiece a decorar como si fuera un estudio. Todavía tengo muchísimas piezas enmarcadas por colgar. Creo que las apoyaré contra las paredes de toda la casa.
Aunque las temperaturas no son las de agosto, todavía hace demasiado calor por las tardes para hacer mucha actividad al aire libre. Así que no tengo un plan para hoy. Simplemente estoy aguantando el verano. Espero que todos estén disfrutando del día.
• Sí, esto es lo que hago a las 2:04.
• No se nota, pero estoy desnudo.
• Supongo que está ahí para ahuyentar a las palomas.
• Miré al final del pasillo y vi a Dudo esperando pacientemente mi regreso. Me sentí halagado.
• Una grata sorpresa. Y no hay ningún cartel que diga que no es potable.
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I need more walls, or to give away some art. Instead I keep adding to the pile.
David:
I know that feeling. We have lots more walls for art in this apartment, but have decided to not cover every square inch this time. Still, a couple of rooms still have nothing up.
You could also install ledges to stand the art on. That way you can move it around at will!
I hear you on the frustration of the plane tickets, gah. Boud
Boud:
The ledge idea is wonderful, except that our frames are a great variety of sizes and I’m obsessively particular about positions of things on the walls.
Planes and bureaucracy and falling art and nudie pics.
We got a little of everything from you today!.
Oh, and architecture porn!
Bob:
I try to be versatile.
In cargo?? Shaking my head, here. What is it with all the crazy people in service lately? Did you see Ken’s blog today about The unbelievably obnoxious and rude radiology technician when he was getting his knees x-rayed yesterday?
Still, I have faith! I can’t wait to hear about your successes with all of these scheduling and purchasing issues.
J Chabot:
I did see Ken’s blog and couldn’t believe what I read. He was astoundingly forgiving.
Ah the eternal conundrum of where to hang pictures – we have two “picture walls” and a hallway bedecked with multiple frames (mainly autographed photos of famous people we like, and theatre programmes) – but there is a pile of loads more stuff yet to be framed, and unless we expand the current displays from floor to ceiling, little space left to put them. 😟 Jx
PS There’s a ghost in your bedroom!!
Jon:
We did once go all the way to the ceiling with framed art. It worked in that house. That’s a friendly ghost… well, sometimes.
I love your shadowy profile picture.
Do you remember travel agents? Oh, how I loved them. You’d go and tell them what you wanted and before too long, you would have folders with plane tickets, boarding passes, and hotel confirmations. All done. Here you go. Thank you!
Ms. Moon, the Elderly
Ms. Moon:
We actually had one travel agent the entire family used. Life was so simple then. But I was young and didn’t care about my seat. Besides, flights were often empty and I could spread across three seats. I had thought of going to the travel agency at El Corte Inglés (they have their own). But they would have had the same problem with the Iberia website. When it works online, it’s a breeze.
Really? You have moved 19 times? And not just to different houses but different locales.
Hang those pictures! Get that art on the walls!
ellen abbott:
This move was not as efficient as the others. And now I have too many other things to do and can’t seem to find the time for the walls. So, I do nothing!
You big tease! We get artsy fartsy while SG gets Scooty Booty!
Deedles:
Yeah, poor SG!
Oh, Scoot, maybe you should forget Iberia and fly with Lufthansa? At least hugging Dudo has paid some dividends — he looked downright sympathetic in yesterday’s post, LOL!
Tundra Bunny:
I do like Lufthansa, but limited options and the connections suck this time around. (Like less than an hour connection time in a large international airport). As for Dudo. As if! He wanted a treat and no one was there to give it to him.
What a tease you are! 😉
Getting that appointment AND getting your plane tickets is getting ridiculous! I’d be so frustrated, not that it would do any good.
Kelly:
I am frustrated and it does no good. It will all happen. Eventually.
I looked at the so called naked picture and I thought you were wearing a blue T-shirt
larrymuffin:
Definitely not. The colors are just the play of the light through the windows.
How artistic is that, shadows and light, so Caravaggio of you.
larrymuffin:
So appropriate! My first art history professor was a major boor but he loved Caravaggio (and I do, too). I don’t know how many times he mentioned the juxtaposition of light and dark. Not as often as he said um…um. I used to count them during his lectures.
Next time you’ll have to aim the camera lower.
Kirk:
The nice thing about that is that’s where the shadows go flat and dark.