When:  Late-afternoon Wednesday
Weather: High 40’s!! Nearly Cloudless Sky
Observations/Thoughts

• On Your Right: (Parts of this telling could be fictional)  With temperatures warming up, the pathways were more crowded than the sub-zero yesterday.  As the bicycles come out, I tune my ears to the wheel sounds announcing their arrival.  When I fail to hear the courteous, “On Your Left” within the expected time, I have been known to announce, “On Your Right.”  It hasn’t caused any wrecks, but it does usually catch them off guard.  If our walking/biking paths cross again on the same day, there is usually no eye contact made OR I jump onto their side of the divided sidewalk and scream while waving my arms frantically.
• Busting Up The Park:  My walk has more overlap presently than it normally would.  The noise of heavy equipment was almost all I heard as the walk began.  The park is being entirely reconfigured or the maintenance guys just needed an excuse to operate some equipment.  The “old” walk should be resumable sometime in late winter.  The softball players will need their old/new fields back.
• Shift Swap:  One of my fellow employees usually works second shift.  Today, he needed to take his mother to the doctor.  I agreed to swap shifts with him.  My usual shift is from 6:00 AM – 2:00 PM.  His shift is not much different.  It runs from 7:30 – 3:30.  I knew traffic would be a little worse for second shift.  However, I still allowed myself an extra hour of sleep.  I felt like I was in command of one of the fastest functioning brains available to mere humans.  I think the later shift more closely aligns with the way my body would rather operate.  Eventually, a later shift could be permanent…maybe.