Y2 D74

And I though Friday was long! I just went to bed at 3:40am. Back up 4 hours later. Hell 4 hours is a good night when it's decent sleep. Unfortunately, this wasn't. Bad dreams. Dreams about my parents, ex-wvies, work, the whole range of fucked up situations. Cest la vie. What is one to do, but weather the storm.

Why the late night? Did RHPS with the kid one last time before she leaves in a couple of hours. She is going out similar to the way she came in dammit. Roller coasters and Rocky Horror. A well rounded summer. In the morning her and I went to a street fair a couple of towns over. The art show she was supposed to go to last weekend with her grandmother that ended up being a car show was actually yesterday. We walked around, looked at the booths, looked at clothes, and generally had a nice day in the sun.

We were taking bets on what time her mother would show up. See it went from "I am leaving Friday night right after work! I will be there by midnight." To "Oh, I was too tired after work, I am leaving early tomorrow morning." To finally, "well we just got on the road. we are moving slowly" at around 9. I had 3:30 in our little pool. The kid had 2:30 - 3. I was closer. She showed up at 3:30. But it's cool because there was no rush. I took her to the park where they were doing that family picture thing around 5:20. I was told to be there at 5, but I knew better. I figured if I was there before 5:30 I was good. I was right. They didn't show up until 5:40 and the photographer didn't start taking pictures until 6:10.

It's weird being at things like that but after 15 years of being divorced, it's also irrelevant. It really doesn't phase me much. I dropped the kid off, asked X1 to bring her back around 9 and headed back home.

On the way home I called my brother to see how he is doing. His wife went back home with the kids. This means I can go visit him today without anyone getting in my way. We talked for a few minutes and decided I should come around 5 as his adopted parents typically come from about 1-3 and this way I won't run into anyone. We still don't want it to be awkward for any of those folks and I respect that. That is different than the shit his wife is pulling.

I then spent two hours straight cleaning and finishing the front room. I still needed to rewire all four surround speakers and clean. Man oh man that felt good. Took me two hours but I got it done. I then settled in to watch Burn Notice before they arrived. They got here about 9:20 which the kid told me later is because of how her mother drives. I was dreading X1 coming over because this was the first time she has been at my place since I moved. And the inevitable sticking her head in places and making noises about things I own occurred. The best part was when she saw my Jeroboam collection. "Oh my those are large bottles - and a lot of them". Well, yes, but I have been collecting some of those for three or four years. Most of my Jeroboam bottles are ones I won at auctions back when I could afford to go to things like that with X2. I save them because they are decorative and some of them are limited and signed bottles. The most recent bottle in my collection was the champagne I drank in AZ. Frankly that's probably the cheapest of the whole collection too. Anyway, she was giving everything the once over and finally left.

Once she was gone the kid gave me the scoop. "Oh my god - I forgot how horrible my mother drives. She had to talk to her boyfriend the whole time, she doesn't use signals, she almost went down a one way street the wrong way, and got us lost nine times". I was cracking up.

We got pumped up and headed out to the show. We were first in line this time!! Whoo hoo! :) Small victories. As we were waiting in line the kid saw one of her friends. Her friend was impressed that not only were we first in line but that her dad was taking her to show. We had a blast and of course pie afterwards. I talked to the folks who do the live cast and told them I was interested in joining. They have need for tech and security folks. Gee, I wonder which one I should do. I am waiting for the email from them that has all the disclaimers and waivers. Once I get all that taken care of, I am in. I will now have a hobby. Something to do on a Saturday night. Plus they do shows in other cities including a 7,000 person show in NV in a few weeks. If I can swing it, that would be a blast.

There you go. Long day. Kid goes in a couple of hours. I will be doing laundry and cleaning my kitchen and bathroom. Visit my brother, do some work, go to bed. A normal person Sunday.