This has been a strange week, so far. Yesterday, I arrived to work about an hour late. Why? There had been an accident, a terrible one. The commute to work can be a scary one. This is an old ‘highway’, a two lane long road, in which the speed limit is 55 miles per hour (88.51 km/h). This means we are all doing no less than 60, most likely. On top of the speed limit and high traffic, there is almost no illumination whatsoever. And guess what? It is getting darker.

A cyclist tried to cross said road, at 6:45 am, when it is still very dark. Unfortunately, a driver did not see him crossing. Because of the accident, they block the road, and it just so happens that was the block in which my work-site is located. Trying to get one of the cops to let you through can be difficult. It took me three tries before the traffic police let me pass.

Today, another accident. Not as tragic as yesterday’s, but an accident that could have been avoided. Fortunately for me, I was able to go around this one and made it to work on time.

This is a very reoccurring thing on this road around this time of the year, when it starts getting darker. And people never slow down, and some others are too in a hurry that makes it even worse for many of us.

Before leaving work today, as a joke, I told my coworker.

If I encounter another accident on my way here tomorrow, I am just going to turn around and go home

😆

For a while, I have gone back to using TickTick as my main task manager. As much as I love Things 3, it is not my best option. As for my job, I use a Windows PC.  Recently, I had started messing around with Todoist again, and it works great, haven't had any issues whatsoever. Until today. Today I remembered why I had stopped using Todoist in the past. For whatever reason, every once in a while, it breaks. The app won't open at my work computer at all. Whereas TickTick has always been rock-solid.

There I have it...

I purposely, grabbed my MacBook Pro, even charged it, opened Ulysses and wanted to write a blog post. Now that I am sitting, very comfortable, and with a beer, I had forgotten what I was going to write about.

This does happen a lot, actually. Maybe I was just and excuse to use my Mac?

I am sure it will come back to me. Until then. Stay tuned?

I've got a story!

This morning, like every other morning in the mother, I woke up, got ready, left the house to drop the girls off at grandma's, and head to work. Then, I realized, I was low on gas, like dangerously low, I knew I was not going to make it to work, well perhaps, but it'd be a bad idea. Normally, I'd be like "YOLO, let's do it", living the dangerous life. But no, I am all talk these days.

Then panic kicked, I do not remember grabbing my Mag Safe Wallet. Is it in my backpack? As I was driving (don't do this kids) I reached out to where my wallet would normally be trying blindly looking for it. No luck. Yesterday we went out to eat, I know I paid, but in the middle of leaving, I don't remember if I grabbed it with me or Annie took it and put it in the diaper bag? Or I did grab it and threw it on the kitchen table, and I just did not take it this morning?

Well, I was down to two options, sort of. Go back to the house, get it and gas up, go to work. Or, go home, text my boss that I am working from home. Then I remembered I had my second wallet in the backpack. In this wallet, I have everything else that is either not important or just won't fit in my day-to-day wallet. Like, the health insurance card, or my company's card, stuff like that. Also in this wallet, I've got my Paypal Cash debit card, which I always forget I have. Then I remembered that even if there's no balance in my Paypal account, it is still attached to my bank account, therefore I can, or should be able to, use it still. If this did not work, then I would have to definitely go back to the house.

I drive by the gas station, park, insert the card... Authorizing... voilà! 

phew!

Now, I am here at work, with very little to do...

I should have driven home, it was a sign, and I ignored it.

I have posted about my photography workflow in the past. When it comes to editing photos, it changes from time to time.  One thing is mostly constant, I process on either my iPhone or iPad. Using either VSCO or Darkroom as my picture editors of choice. I always bounce between the two. I lock myself using one or the other for months, and then I switch back again. Today, I had a realization.  Although I very much enjoy using VSCO's Fujifilm filters, for color, I much prefer Darkroom's color options. When it comes to black and white though, I much prefer VSCO's options over Darkroom's. 

Why is that? 

I do not know. It just is.