When you are trying to call your manager to tell him you’re resigning, but he is too busy writing snarky passive-aggressive emails and ignores your calls. Best tradition of this company.

Also, found these little guys popping up after the rain. I think they are chanterelles and not jack-o-lanterns and not false chanterelles, but what do I know.
Morning that was magical.
15 minutes after this, I had to do a demo for a client.
I like being able to work remotely and will probably miss this part.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Today is Canadian holiday, and I’m the only one working. Also, upstate all week as the plan was all along.
I’m in that peculiar state where I know I will be resigning tomorrow, and nothing of what I’m doing now matters, but I can’t bring myself to not care. At the same time, if I manage to speak to my manager tomorrow, they might terminate me immediately upon learning that I’m going to a competitor, which means I won’t even be able to get into the office.
Or, they might let me work here for 2 more weeks to let me turn things over (which would be smart on their part, but being smart has never been this company’s strong suit).
I’ve never quit like this before, and I know it won’t be pretty, so there’s some trepidation.

Yesterday’s rainy walk

The year is 2033, and mankind’s first manned mission to Mars is about to
become reality. This is the story of how we make Mars home, told by the
pioneers making it possible.MARS, a Global Miniseries Event, premieres this November on National Geographic.
The Martian documentary series?

6am adventures in the park.
Looking at swimming dogs and eavesdropping on a happy Serbian woman with a buzzcut and a big smile explaining to another dog-owner how she is building a little paradise with her Croatian friends in Istria to take her pitbull that she found in Bed Stuy to and open a bar and have a few chickens and goats.
She plans to have 17 dogs and cats there.
But, a few more years of corporate slavery here first before running away from it.
I’m a little envious.


