Y2 D357

So many thoughts in my tiny little head I don't know where to begin. How about 1/2 a gold star for me for last night? Can you do 1/2 a gold star? Does that count? Dunno. Okay, so I get 1/2 a gold star for making a somewhat good decision that probably saved a life. I called my 44 year old friend's parents and made them drive him home last night. He would have died otherwise. There's no question about it.

Let's start at the morning. Went to work even though I really have nothing to do. Sat there until about 9 after sending the client an email asking what he wanted me to work on for the rest of the week. He came over and told me he would get me something in about an hour. I politely told him that it was his hours and I would be happy to leave if he didn't want me to burn them. Indirectly he said it was cool, he know he was burning hours, but he didn't mind because it was me. Score. He did eventually give me some stuff to do and I was there the full 8 hours, but in reality I did about 4 maybe 4.5 hours of work.

During the day I got an email from my new boss. He had sent me the instruction docs for the product on Monday and I had asked what time he would like me to be there on my first day. His response? 'Oh 9:30 or 10 works. I am going to be out of town all week so we will just have you meet with our director of training'. Double score. Thanks to holidays and vacations I actually don't work a full week until June 13th. Not too shabby.

Went home around 3:30, and was settling in for a nice quiet night at home when I got an email from an old buddy I haven't seen face to face in almost 23 years. He actually dated X1's sister back in high school. He has been going through a rough patch with his wife and I had sent him an email inviting him out for a drink. Since I knew he had been going through some shit I agreed. We met up around 8 at one of my bars. I actually got there around 7 because I knew bar space would be limited. We had a good time catching up as we hadn't seen each other in 23 years. I had about 4 or 5 drinks. Was buzzed but definitely not drunk. Around 11:30 I suggested we call it a night. The whole time he was drinking beer so I wasn't worrying about him. Then he stood up. And proceeded to fall down. Okay. He was staying at his parent's place because of the shit between him and his wife and he had their car. Double okay. You're not driving buddy. Either you stay at my place, call a cab, or I call your parents. He decided to call his folks. After 15 minutes of bad directions, we found where parked and called his parents. They showed up shortly thereafter and drove him home. I wasn't quite ready to go home yet so I called a friend and we went and had pie. Nothing like pie at midnight. I wasn't in any big rush as I know the client probably doesn't have much for me to work on today. It's not only nice to have a friend who will answer the phone at midnight, but it doesn't hurt she is hot too. The stares I was getting at midnight from some of the patrons made the whole thing worth it.

In the end? Spent some money, minus points. Saw an old friend, plus points. Got him home safely, plus points. Overall, 1/2 a gold star.