City in the sky

We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

This morning dragged. I had 3 consecutive hours on chat, which was most decidedly not hopping. Then I had to quickly make lunch because I had a webinar a half an hour after chat.

It was a TIAA retirement webinar which was not at all what I was expecting as it had very little to do with saving for retirement. (I guess the market update webinar is in a couple of weeks.) It was more about how to take care of yourself - mentally, physically, emotionally - in the lead up to retirement and during retirement. It was actually rather thought-provoking and I will probably (re)watch parts of the recording, when they send it.

I finished (re)reading a fic and then hopped back on the question queue to see if there was anything going on. Not really. I was contemplating logging off when someone emailed asking if anyone could cover chat for a half an hour. So now I'm sitting on chat, where I began my work day. 10 minutes to go...

I'll take a walk later, probably after dinner as I'm starting to feel hungry. The temperature starts edging upwards again tomorrow - mid-to-upper 70sF with scattered rain - before hitting the 80s on Sunday and then probably another heat wave. Oh joy.

I did my cardio this morning and then took a brief pause to check my email before starting strength training. I saw JetBlue is having (another) sale that includes dates through mid-December, so I thought I'd go ahead and get tickets for my late November/early December trip to see the fam. So I put in the dates and it thinks and then says, there are no flights. What the hell? So I do some Googling and discover that on Monday, they announced the were turning the Seattle-Boston and Seattle-JFK routes into seasonal ones. Which means they stop flying in late October. The mind boggles. I scurried over to Alaska Air, as that's the only real alternative, and booked my flight because I didn't want to wind up stuck in a middle seat in economy (omg no; extra room seats are the only way to go coast-to-coast despite the extra cost). I still have to get bus tickets from SeaTac to my parents, but there's plenty of time for that. And so, about an hour later, I finally got to strength training.

Shower, late lunch, then to work which dragged. Summer school has started, so there's a little more traffic than there has been, but not a whole lot.

This whole week is a lead-up to PokemonGO Fest Global, which is this weekend, so I've spent a lot of time playing that. After raid hour tonight, I made dinner and settled in for the new ep of Outrageous. (New ep of Art Detectives was on Monday!) Then my mother called.

At least the outrageous heat and humidity seem to be coming to an end - for a few days, anyway.