Two weeks since I’ve had an Alex day, but late in the afternoon I have one at last.

I don’t know exactly why they’re so important. I do know that they are.

As I do in any case I wander the property, noting what needs to happen. Unimportant things–rake here, polish there.

The important and the unimportant get boiled down to 100 square feet of office lab. To my right there’s a glass topped table where categories of the most important each have there own piles. Here are the bills to be paid. Here are the strategies for amplifying the cash available to pay them. Here is what my heart wants to do. Here are the organizational strategies for making sure it gets done.

It’s not as though it’s any quieter; in fact I am free to bellow, and let video streams pour out at full volume with no headphones.

I’m choosing each part of the noise, or to shut it off, and I am creating an environment conducive to thinking. It’s true that sometimes cats will be ignored, but they’re cats and they generally ignore me too. We understand. The atmosphere fills with felinity in the purest sense.

It’s a very good thing.