"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Khalil Gibran

It's now a little before 8 a.m. and I've been at my office for an hour. Nobody will show up for another 60 minutes (nine to five is the standard for full time employees). My head has been frenetically chewing some job-related issues and I needed to come in to the isolation and quiet of my office to work them more fully.

I just got an email with this pic that Pam took when she came out from the bedroom:

This morning Pam took this pic of Buddy in my chair. Where he's not supposed to be.
Buddy and I usually spend a few hours together, just the two of us, before Pam gets up and I leave for work. Our bonding time. Apparently he's not a fan of my leaving home early.
That's a "bad dog" but he's so stinkin' cute it's hard to be upset at that pic.

While I'm at my desk reading what I think is a key book relative to my job description (such as it isn't) I have Spotify playing a Bach channel. This just recently came up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZjlsyYY
I grew up listening to my mother play this on the organ at church. Her arthritic hands and feet have long since made that impossible but hearing it through my computer made me think how rich a musical heritage I rec'd in my childhood. (And why she was so horrified when my aunt gave me the Beetle's "Abby Road" album for Christmas one year.)
Yes, that's a very technically challenging piece of music Mr. Bach wrote.

Yesterday I got the final bit of MoHo's west side painted, so she's now looking fresh(er) Yes, it's still a white trash single wide but the new color helps in our opinion, and it also covers up some corrosion and other issues.
The north end, old: (To get a better sense of that lighter green think the filling of a mint Oreo with the darker color close to a forest green. Total '70s))

And here's the new, a medium gray and what I'd call an ocean (?) blue that's a little darker than it looks in this pic.

This north end was the least deteriorated of the four sides so it doesn't show how much cleaner and neater most of MoHo looks.

I took the new engine up to Ron in the back of the trailer. He called this afternoon to say the trailer was ready to pick up with the old engine loaded into it. When I went up to get it I talked with his son (mid-30s?) who's doing the swap. He said the "new" engine is in fantastic shape and looks like it's been gone through very recently. NO carbon, clean as a whistle as he looked through the intake and exhaust ports, and tight.
Me: "So, I got a good deal for $300?"
Him: "You got a steal for $300!"
Plus, they'd painted the whole thing Ford Blue before installing it, so now it looks factory fresh.
I'm eager to get it back and see how it runs.

It's been a busy day with lots of progress made on several fronts. We're about to leave for dinner at a place we've never been to with people we've never met. There's a story here (obviously) but I'll wait to see how this goes before I tell it.

Anon.