I like routines

I really like routine. Actually, I get really comfortable in routines - some routines I like (glass of wine with dinner, watching Louie on Thursday nights, brushing my teeth in the car), others not so much.

Anyway, today I broke my routine. I don't have a ton to do at work at the moment - what we consultants call "being on the beach". I hear at the top firms folks actually go to the beach during these breaks. I just watch HBO GO at my desk.

So my routine is already messed up (not working hard). I decided to use some of my now very free time productively, so after lunch I went to the gym. Fine. Did 40 minutes of elliptical and some squats, if you must know. So now after work, which is when I usually (at least for the past 3 weeks) go to the gym, is now open. I decide to get a haircut.

My hair cut spot is Brighton's Hair Salon, which is in the neighborhood I lived in from 2008-2009. Again, routines. I get to the place, find parking quick, pause the podcast (Marc Maron) on my iPhone, and go inside. I have to wait 20 minutes for the guy ahead of me. Then Sofia, who runs Brighton's Hair Salon, sits me down and does a great job making me look presentable and professional. Great.

Next I run into the beer & wine grocery store and grab a Montepulciano and Cupcake Chardonnay. Also some "owater" because they don't have Vita Coca.

I head back to my car and as I turn the corner I can see through the window that the dashboard is lit up with electronics. What?

My car is sitting in the middle of Brighton, running in park. I get in and check to see my laptop is still in its case. Hallelujah, I'll survive another day!

I like routines.

The Debt Limit

I found what Ronald Reagan had to say about the debt limit very instructive on how ridiculous the GOP has become:

"This letter is to ask for your help and support, and that of your colleagues, in the passage of an increase in the limit on the public debt...The full consequences of a default - or even the serious prospect of a default - by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate."

Read it all here: Washington Post.

The man he was writing the letter to, Majority Leader Howard H. Baker, has a very cool Wikipedia article: Howard Baker