Post 2708
- 11 years and 224 days since I started this blog -
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| August 3, 2021 at the Night Drop |
On my way to 'lunch' at Core today, I asked my friend Al what he was going to do while his house was being shown for sale.
He'd recently moved back into his house, very near my apartment, in order to prep it for sale. He'd relocated to his parents' farm, up North to help them through the pandemic closures, throughout which they were dealing with medical issues.
Al is the reason I've been in Syracuse since 2008. He reached out with a job opportunity here when I was in the depths of emotional and financial depression after my 2nd marriage failed.
I've known him as 'Saint Al' ever since. That was only the first time he effectively helped me out.
He told me that, after listing the house and showing it over the weekend, he'd gone to contract on an offer ten percent over asking. The house was on the market for a total of three days.
As overjoyed as I was for him - he'd worked really hard on the house for the entire ten years he lived there, and really busted his ass getting it ready to show over the last five weeks - there was a little wistfulness.
He'd recently moved back into his house, very near my apartment, in order to prep it for sale. He'd relocated to his parents' farm, up North to help them through the pandemic closures, throughout which they were dealing with medical issues.
Al is the reason I've been in Syracuse since 2008. He reached out with a job opportunity here when I was in the depths of emotional and financial depression after my 2nd marriage failed.
I've known him as 'Saint Al' ever since. That was only the first time he effectively helped me out.
He told me that, after listing the house and showing it over the weekend, he'd gone to contract on an offer ten percent over asking. The house was on the market for a total of three days.
As overjoyed as I was for him - he'd worked really hard on the house for the entire ten years he lived there, and really busted his ass getting it ready to show over the last five weeks - there was a little wistfulness.
He's moving away. I'll miss him. He has a particular place in my life, and that space is unique. He is unlike any of my other friends, in many ways, and yet, few people have had a greater impact on me, especially in the last fourteen years.
I have benefited from his friendship much more than he has benefited from mine, although I hope I have never faltered or let him down as a friend.
I feel loss. I will miss him, and the benefits of having a friend close by, which, in the case of this friend, were so many.
I'm beyond grateful for the friends in my life: They sustain me.
Food and Diet 
Today's Weight: 198.0 lbs.
I'm beyond grateful for the friends in my life: They sustain me.
Previous Weight (8/11/21): 198.1 lbs.
Net Loss/Gain: - 0.1 lbs.
Diet Comment
Food Log
Breakfast
1:50pm: Dinner for breakfast, for a change: Baked flounder with pesto sauce, roasted brussels sprouts with everything bagel seasoning and nutritional yeast, and buttered Flax sprouted grains toast.
Lunch
5:20pm, Corelife Eatery: Sriracha Ginger Tofu and Quinoa Bowl (roasted tofu, shredded kale, carrots, shredded beets, spicy broccoli, ginger, sriracha, carrot chili vinaigrette).
Dinner
8:10pm: Cheese and walnuts and a Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
1:50pm: Dinner for breakfast, for a change: Baked flounder with pesto sauce, roasted brussels sprouts with everything bagel seasoning and nutritional yeast, and buttered Flax sprouted grains toast.
Lunch
5:20pm, Corelife Eatery: Sriracha Ginger Tofu and Quinoa Bowl (roasted tofu, shredded kale, carrots, shredded beets, spicy broccoli, ginger, sriracha, carrot chili vinaigrette).
Dinner
8:10pm: Cheese and walnuts and a Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
Espressos: 2; Coffee: 0 oz.; Water: 78+ oz.; and a shot of Jameson's Irish whiskey, and another shot of Proper No. Twelve Irish whiskey
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