Y6 D36

Yesterday was a serious comedy of errors and the one company that did nothing wrong was the only one that apologized. Go figure. So, I left the house at 4. They didn't send my normal driver which sucked because I like him and he knows how to drive. Not that it really mattered. I was so tired from being up all night that a unicorn could have driven me and I probably wouldn't have noticed. Got to the airport around 4:20 and things were looking positive. I was the only one in the first class line and made it through security in 3 minutes. Got to my gate and was like the third one on the plane. The plane was incredible. It was a brand new plane. Still had that new plane smell. These were the nicest first class seats I have ever been in on a plane. Comfy, squishy, all automated - nicer than the ones I had in business class international. For a domestic flight they were great. They even had tablets built into the headrests. I started playing around with it and started to watch a movie. Yes, they were operational prior to take off too. Then the fun started. Turns out said new plane was broken. A fire safety light wouldn't go off. We ended up deplaning and waiting for a new plane. That's where the fun started. AA's automated system went ahead and booked me on a later flight since I wasn't going to make my connection. Okay, nice of you. BUT by doing so, I lost my 1st class seat. Well shit, you could have warned me. Then my original connecting flight got delayed 2.5 hours so the system put me BACK on it. Then it looked like my original flight was going to be longer so the system once again bounced me. In the end I went back and forth without my permission between two different flights. When I finally got to Dallas I went to a gate agent and had her put me back into my upgrade seat on the original flight. I arrived 3 hours later than originally expected. Not horrible, but frustrating. But then I get to the Avis counter and my car is gone because I was 3 hours late. EVEN THOUGH I called Avis and warned them I would be late. Now I am in some POS Chevy Captiva. I didn't want a SUV thank you. Granted it is a 2014 and has 1000 miles on it, but that's not the point. It's not what I reserved. During all this, I tweeted Hilton that I was going to be late. Their response? "We called your hotel, let them know you're going to be late, made sure you have a nice room ready and we're sorry for all the trouble you've been having today". THE ONLY ONES TO APOLOGIZE and they did everything right.

I arrived at the hotel around 5. Unpacked, ironed, and grabbed Raising Cane's for dinner. I watched some OITB while trying to stay awake. I finally gave up around 9:15 and crashed. I got 8 hours of sleep finally. Much needed. The messed up part is that between yesterday and Wednesday, it will have taken me longer to get and go home than the actual amount of time spent training. Ridiculous.

Alright, I have 3 hours now until I have to be onsite. I might go get some breakfast.

Y6 D35

I only have a little while before the car gets here so I need to do this quick. B made it home safe, yay!! Got up, did last minute cleaning, got some lunch, headed to the airport. She arrived around noon and we were home by 1. There was an attempt at the sex, but she had only 1 hour of sleep so it turned into a nap. She woke up around 5, I was up earlier and started getting ready for the show. Made dinner and then spent 2 hours getting ready. I looked good. Damn good. We got to the city around 10 and everyone looked wonderful. We had a Gaston, Ariel, Jafar, Merida, Tarzan, Tinkerbell, Peter, Alice, and the best ever URSULA. We all looked fantastic. It was a good show. We had to leave early so I could get home and change.

I will have more time Monday morning to write more details. Right now, off to OK. Whee?

Y6 D34

B comes homes today! YAY! Of course I leave in 23 hours for OK so yeah, that's irony for you. I am sitting here trying to remember what the hell I did after class yesterday. I know I went out, but I can't for the life of me remember where or why. How sad is that? Seriously, I taught until about 2:30, but then I went somewhere. It'll come to me. I got up yesterday at 4, did all the laundry, cleaned the bathroom, cleaned the kitchen, organized the current media folder, fed the kitties, took out garbage, and got stuff ready for the show. All of that before I even started class at 7. Taught class, oh now I remember! I went to the pet store and best buy. I had a $15 gift certificate for Best Buy and found a stick blender on sale for $20. Mine burned up a while ago and I have been wanting a replacement. I needed to get kitty litter and food too. I grabbed Chipotle while I was out for an early dinner. Around 6 I got bored and took a ride on the motorcycle for some frozen yogurt. This is my life now. No sitting getting drunk at a bar at 4 in the afternoon until whenever. Nope. Now I get yogurt, come home, watch TV, play Diablo (got my witch doctor to 60, almost there!), and go to bed. And honestly I am not complaining. A lot healthier for me mentally and physically that's for sure. I also turned in our notice of leaving form to the complex yesterday. That was kind of enjoyable. Talked to B but she went to bed early as she had to be at the airport at 5. As of right now she is in the air and on her way to Dallas. She should be landing here in about 7 hours. Goddamn this makes me happy.

Today is going to be rough. All day with B, show, then straight from the show to the airport at 4. I probably will not sleep again until tomorrow night. This is going to be interesting.

Y6 D33

I got up early this morning to start taking care of shit as B will be home in 32 hours! YAY! This has been a long two fucking weeks. Even when the kid lived here at least I had someone else to talk to at night.

Taught all day. Part 1 of a two day class. Today is the finale. After class I went out to get some stuff for my costume on Saturday. Saturday is a special theme show. We will be dressing as Disney characters. That of course means I am going as Snow White. I needed to pick up some makeup for this outfit as I didn't have anything that would work. I also picked up a corset to where underneath as I am fat as hell right now and need to make it look less lumpy. Both of those trips ended up taking about 3 hours. On the way back home I picked up dinner from which wich. That was a mistake as I am paying for it right now with heartburn. Ate, talked to B, watched a little TV, got my demon hunter to level 70 - only one left and I will have every class at 70 - then went to bed. Boring night but whatever. Only one more and I won't be alone any more.

I need to clean and straighten before B gets home tomorrow. I will probably do most of it tonight so I can be stress free in the morning. I need to check her in for her flight in 2 hours, then tomorrow morning check me in for mine. I also made my next set of flights/hotels. August 4-8 I will be in St Louis. Fun stuff.

Y6 D32

I am so behind this morning. I am exhausted. I need more sleep. I don't think I slept very well at all last night. I remember waking up a few times during the night. Bad dreams, apnea, you name it, it all woke me up last night. I just don't feel like I slept at all.

Got through day 3 of my class yesterday. Went until about 2 something then I took a brief nap. Woke up, and went to the grocery store for some food for dinner. Had salmon with rice. Watched TV, talked to B, played Diablo, went to bed. That's it. Nothing exciting. Same is scheduled for today. Class. Food. Sleep. Whee.

Y6 D31

Yesterday felt like a very long day. One of those days where you feel it is much later than it really is. I taught until 3, then went to the bookstore to get a book for my upcoming trip. Got back, watched some TV, and felt 'wow it must be like 6:30 or 7.'. No, it was 5:21. Son of a bitch. Okay. Packed some boxes. Made an egg sandwich for dinner. Tried watching a movie. Tried playing Diablo. I say try because I just couldn't get into anything. Didn't feel like talking to anyone. Exchanged a couple of texts with B because I just didn't have the energy to talk. Ended up going to bed around 9:30. Fuck it. I have reached that point. The point where I either need to do something or she needs to come home. Being alone has lost its allure. I am done.

Y6 D30

B had a bad day yesterday and not me. Mostly it was her mother sticking her nose where it doesn't belong. B and her bridesmaids went to try on dresses yesterday. First her mother tried to bring the kids which did not fly at all and B straight up told her no way. Then she gets a sitter and shows up as they were done picking out and trying on dresses which caused her mother to get all butt hurt about it. They yelled at each other blah blah blah. Her mother is a pain in the ass plain and simple. She wants to be involved but yet is trying to make it all about her. No. Not happening. And don't give me this she's the mother of the bride crap. She has offered no help on anything which means she gets no say in anything. It's that easy.

Me? I taught and then took care of something. I have been trying to figure out what to do with the couch this whole time. We were going to put it in a storage unit once we moved because I don't want to get rid of it, but I don't really have room for it. It's a nice couch (70+ years old) and works, but it belongs in a sitting room or nook not as a primary couch. In the end I convinced the kid to take it. Her and KBF came over and are now my 'couchstodians' until I have room for it again.

What a difference that made in clearing out the front room. Looks so empty but I am cool with that. I still have a couple more rooms I want to pack up before B gets home on Saturday. We will see how much of that I get accomplished. I also on Friday need to call the new complex, give notice here, and make sure the house is clean for her arrival. Until then, I teach, I sleep, do it again.

Almost Disney time.

Y6 D29

Another week ready to start. Whee. At least this week is very structured for me. Three day class starting today, two day class Thursday and Friday. I have three students for this one, five for the next. Logical, straight forward. I can get through these with no problem. I hope.

Yesterday was an interesting day. I got up early and was out by 6:30 to go wash the car. Finished that up and hit the store. I needed to get a few things still for dinner last night including a cast iron pan. I made the foie the kid bought me for Father's Day and I wanted to make sure I did it right and didn't screw anything up. Was back home by 9 and started the roast in the slow cooker. I then spent the next three hours packing and organizing the house. That was followed by a small nap. Got up, played some Diablo, packed some more, and then started prepping for dinner. The kid and KBF arrived around 5:30. The foie came out perfect. As did everything else. A nine hour slow cooked roast, baked mac and cheese, and veggies. Everything worked well. I was happy. The left around 8. I Skyped with B for a while, did some random stuff, and went to bed. It was warm last night so I slept okay. Not great but okay.

One more week.

Y6 D28

Is it my birthday yet? Soon people, soon. How much longer? Hmmm... Why it would be 14 days. Yay! Where am I going for my birthday? Where else? And this year we have friends joining us. They confirmed their plans with me yesterday. They will be spending Monday and probably Tuesday with us at Disneyland. This will be a hoot! That's why I mention it. It was part of what I did yesterday. I got up, ran some errands which included Target, finding a new snow white wig for our upcoming Disney show, confirming plans with our friends, and getting groceries for tonight's dinner. I am making the foie tonight. Here's the menu - seared foie with fig sauce, slow roasted tri-tip, spiral mac and cheese, and brussel sprouts. With caramel sea salt ice cream for dessert. A sunday meal at its finest. Oh yeah.

Got back home and found that the poor cat threw up. She threw up all over the bath mat and it was not worth saving. I ended up going back out later to replace it, but not before I took a two hour nap. For dinner I made Joe's Special which gave me enough leftovers for the week. Problem is I have a dozen eggs that I have to use this week before they go bad. I will probably eat them for lunch this week. That will at least get me through five or six of them and I won't feel bad if I have to throw them out. While eating dinner I watched the first X-Men movie. I have all of them including the new one, but I don't want to watch it until I have refreshed and caught up on the older ones. I never saw 2, 3, or Origins so I figured what the heck. After that I played some Diablo. Talked with B a couple of times during the day. She was having a frustrating day (gee, what a shock) because she found out her cousin is getting married the day before us. Which means all the relatives are going to be busy the night of our rehearsal. She is considering asking her cousin to change his date since he has nothing planned yet. We will see how well that goes over. Add to that her mother is being a bitch about B's dad being there and walking her down the aisle. She is passively aggressively joking how SHE will walk her down the aisle. Boy, I can't wait for these people to meet me face to face and realize I am not some young kid who will roll over and do what they want. The last issue was them trying to force an officiant on us who will not do it unless we include a bible passage. We have both already agreed that the one person not invited to our wedding is Jesus. Fucker can wait outside. He can come to the reception but not the ceremony. That of course pissed off B's mom because she 'was going out her way to help us'. Want to help us? Pay for something you cheap ass bitch.

Sigh. See even thinking about them gets me angry too. I can't imagine what it must be like to be with them in person.

Went to bed around 11. I am up early because I want to go wash my car and I like the car wash when it's dead. I am going to head out around 6:30 to take care of that. Then I need to pick up a cast iron pan for tonight, make a car reservation for Monday, and work in the bedroom. That's everything up until about noon. From there, who knows?

Y6 D27

Yay me, I slept in until 7. I bit by force as I woke up first at 4:30 and then again at 6. But each time I refused to get up. I wanted to sleep gosh darn it.

Had a little bit of a rough day yesterday. We started early so I was already tired when we began. (Oy I was gone for a while right now. Had a week's worth of pooping in one sitting. That was some major bathroom time. Thank god I am home alone). Anyway, things were going okay with class until we hit one demo and the sample file on the server wouldn't work. Shit shit shit. I came up with an alternate way of doing the demo, problem is that I lost two of the less competent students doing it and they got frustrated and I got frustrated because it wasn't that hard. Sigh. We got through it and finished up class about 1:45. After class I went over to home depot and got what I needed to finish painting. I painted the one wall that was yellow. I don't need to paint, but at the same time I don't want to give this place any excuses when we move out. "Oh you painted it a dark color and we had to use multiple coats to cover it so we're going to charge you". Bite me. It didn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be not yellow. Now it is not yellow. When I was done, I cleaned up and had a few minutes before my buddy arrived. Him and I went out for sushi and then I worked on his laptop. He bought a new laptop and I cleaned house for him. Got rid of all the pre-built in bullshit apps and icons. He was very grateful for that. The funny thing is he got a touch screen laptop and neither of us realized it. Until at one point where the screen was yelling at me to swipe. WTF? HEY! You have a touchscreen! He headed out around 10:30. I talked briefly to B for a while. I should also mention that while I was waiting for my buddy to show up I did something for B. She has been having me listen to songs for the wedding for 'our song' and so far I have hated every single one of them. We just have VERY different musical tastes. We can both enjoy the random pop song, but when it comes down to it, we do not like the same things. Well since I have been shooting down everything she has proposed it is upsetting her. She sent me one before she left and I finally got around to listening to it. It was okay. Honestly, it was okay. It was some twangy country song. But it worked and I basically said it exactly like that to her. Bad move. I am not taking it serious enough. This is important. Yadda yadda. Fine. I sat down and spent 90 minutes going through 53,000 songs. I came up with a list of 23. How much you want to bet she hates every single one?

Today is NOTHING day. I have to run to Target but otherwise, I am on my own. I am going to pack some stuff, watch some movies, and play Diablo. My exciting life!

Y6 D26

Slept through all of my alarms this morning. Finally got up when the last one was going off. This is why I set multiple alarms. I was supposed to be up 30 minutes ago. My class is starting an hour earlier this morning as all my students are east coast and they all agreed to start earlier. Plus side is we will be done an hour earlier, downside, I am awake.

Taught yesterday. Good group. Only one of the persons was a pain in the ass out of six so I dealt with it. B was bugging me to be honest because she had nothing planned as was sitting around. Random texts about things and then she wants me to remote into her mother's computer and 'fix it'. Yeah, that's easy enough. Sure let me 'fix' something I am 2400 miles away from and don't even know what is wrong with it. One of the big problems is her mother doesn't have internet in the house. I don't know how you live without a home internet connection but whatever. We are almost at our limit for the month and I am tripping out about it. I looked yesterday and it turns out it was the kid sucking down our bandwidth. I don't know what the fuck her phone is doing but she had 4gb while B and I had 1 each. WTF? I talked to her and it looks like she wasn't switching to wireless when she was at home. She better fix that or I will drop her off my plan completely.

When class was over I went to the eye doctor to pick up my contacts. They managed to get them in in one day. I was seriously impressed over that. Got back home and decided to start cleaning. I managed to get the bathroom, kitchen, and bedrooms cleaned. That's less I have to do tomorrow. I then started painting. I needed to repaint the things I painted over the years so they don't try to charge us when we move out. That ended up distracting me for a while. For dinner I made myself a chicken breast, some rice, and veggies. Watched a little TV, then went to bed around 9:30. Still wasn't enough sleep. You don't know how much I am looking forward to tomorrow. I have absolutely no obligations, no plans, and can sleep as long as I want. I say I will make it to 7. Let's see.

Almost time for class. Need to shower.

Y6 D25

Yesterday was odd. I got up after a whopping 5 hours of sleep and settled in to do some work stuff. That part was fine. Around noon I headed over to the mall as I needed to order new contacts. Still okay. When I got back though it was starting to get strange. Why? Because the house was empty and I really didn't know what to do with myself. That feeling just got more and more prevalent as the day went on. Around 5 I was really just like off. I tried cleaning a bit but gave up pretty quick. I plan on doing a major cleaning on Saturday to keep myself busy. In the end, I played some Diablo, watched some Arrow, and pretty much did nothing. That's how the next few days are going to I assume. At least starting today and all next week I have classes. That will focus me from 5am to 3pm at least. After that though? 8 hours and two weekend days where I will be twiddling my thumbs. I do have plans Friday night and like I said, the weekend will be spent cleaning and packing so that's that. Otherwise, meh. Went to bed around 10 last both out of being tired and partially being bored. I did talk to B for about an hour last night. She went and checked the venue out for us and took a ton of pictures. She likes the place which is all that matters. Time to get ready for class.

Y6 D24

Made it home. Got home around 2 something and was in bed around 2:30. Managed to sleep for 5 hours so that's not bad. I spent yesterday doing the class and then afterwards I slept for 3 hours to prepare myself for the drive home. Talked with B for a while when I woke up from my nap. I was sitting around trying to figure out why I originally planning on leaving at midnight. My initial thinking was skewed because of driving the other way and having to wait for the park to open. Part of it is traffic too. I could see the freeway from my hotel room and I just kept an eye on it to see when it died down. Also during the day we got some of the dates for my next trips sorted out. I will be going to Tulsa, Columbus, St. Louis, then back to Columbus. That last one will be for two weeks. 5 out of 8 weeks on the road. Damn. Well, I will get some good miles and points out of it, that's for sure. Speaking of points, yesterday the manager of the hotel called me, they added 10,000 points to my account to apologize for the noise issues. Cool. Got on the road around 8 and it was an uneventful drive. Leaving earlier made it a little easier. I didn't start getting tired until around midnight and by then I was a good part of the way home. The house was in good shape. The kitties happy to see me.

Today I need to unpack, clean, do some work stuff, order contacts, and relax. It's weird being home alone that's for sure.

Y6 D23

Last night was incredible. Not the smartest decisions made all around, but still an incredible night. Which is good because the day part was awful. Like really bad. I got up around 5 and set up my work area for the class which was scheduled to start at 7:30. I went downstairs and had breakfast. No issues yet. I am all setup and ready to go when class starts. First issue - the instructor is from Argentina and his accent is so thick I am getting one in four words. I was going to be good and actually follow along with him but after 15 minutes I couldn't. I said the hell with it and jumped ahead. He left off on Chapter 7 last night, I am on Chapter 9. The other big problem is that the book and the material he is showing on the screen don't line up. The manual is written in paragraph format whereas the presentation was slides. I couldn't figure out where he was on certain things and that was annoying as hell. BUT that pales in comparison to what the hotel did. Turns out they are remodeling the entire 4th floor. Which was not mentioned on their website or the reservation. At 8am, the amount of banging, hitting, etc that came from above me was intolerable. A few times the entire room shook like an earthquake. I started going off on Hilton on twitter. People can laugh at twitter and its inane posts but I have come to realize that it is an excellent medium when you need a company to respond. And respond they did. By 2pm I had a new room with an upgraded floor plan and a balcony. We shall see today if the noise issue is gone.

During the class I exchanged emails with my boss. We made dinner plans and I got my next trip all booked. I am going back to Tulsa for two days. I leave the day after B gets back which means we will see each other for about 15 hours before I am gone. That part sucks but it gets me more points and miles.

When class was over I got ready for dinner. My boss decided on Mastro's which I haven't been to in a long while. It is one of the best steak and seafood restaurants in the world as far as I am concerned. They only have a few locations but man it is so good. I got to the restaurant around 5:30 and my boss showed up about 20 minutes later. Got seated right away. We then proceeded to order:

2 bottles, 2010 Gigondas
Couple of cocktails
Him: 33oz Tomahawk cut Waygu steak, seared ahi appetizer
Me: bone marrow app, wedge salad, 22oz porterhouse (black and blue)
Truffle mac and cheese
Sauteed asparagus
2 cherry crisps
port
Dolce dessert wine

Damage? $495 before tip. We left a $100 tip. So yeah, the two of us spent 3.5 hours having a $600 dinner for 2. Like I said, not the smartest decision. But I think we both needed it. He has an almost 2 year old at home and I have been stressed out a lot lately. Now we didn't 'pay' for it which makes it easier, but it will still be hard to explain to our big bosses why we spent that much. We decided he is going to submit it as '2014 Department Xmas Party'. Yep. I am good with that.

Got back to the hotel around 9:30, talked to B for a little while, and went to bed. Once again I had an excellent night's sleep. Time for day two of class. Then I am going to head home around 9 or 10 tonight. That way I get home at a semi-decent time and can sleep like a normal person.

Y6 D22

Yesterday was a nearly perfect day. It was only missing one thing - someone with whom to share it. I arrived in town around 6, went to Denny's for breakfast, then headed to the parking lot. I was first in line at the parking gates when they opened at 7. Ended up with first spot of the day. A great way to start the day. Since there was still an hour until the park opened I walked over instead of taking the shuttle. That worked to my advantage as I only waited a little while before they opened the main gates. The first thing I noticed was the lack of crowds at the gates. That got me in a positive mood from the outset. Once inside I went straight for the collector's pins I was hoping they still had. Score! I picked up both of the Father's Day pins and the two World Cup pins. From there I decided to wander around. Since I was alone, I figured what the heck. Time to go on some rides that B doesn't care for, specifically Tower of Terror. When I went over there, the CM informed me that the elevators were down for repair but the lobby and library were open for pictures. Okay! I went in and this was a great chance to take some pics that normally you don't get to do because there's a line of people. While I was in there taking pictures one of the CMs asked if I wanted to be a Bellhop. YES PLEASE! I got to put on the outfit and take pictures. So much fun. After that I went and had ice cream for breakfast at the Ghirardelli store. Then I did some pin trading and went on Golden Zephyr. I had an entire Zephyr to myself. After that I went on Screamin' which had a 4 minute wait. I went on Arial next with a zero wait. Next up was Monsters. GOD I love the parks when they are 'empty'. Empty of course being relative to a beautiful summer day weekend. Did more pin trading, took pictures, and then headed to downtown Disney around 10. I did some more shopping including picking up a Malificent apple, some dish towels for B, and more pins. Way too many pins, but what the hell. I then headed over to the hotel grounds and went to Trader Sam's for lunch. That was a blast. All sorts of Tiki drinks and food were consumed. I left the park around 1:30 and got my hotel around 2. B didn't wake up until about 11 as she was up until 3. I hate when she goes back there because she slips back into her old schedule. After I checked into the hotel I slept from 2-4. My room btw is very nice. Double the size of a regular room with a completely separate front room. This will be great to work from today and tomorrow. When I woke up I headed to Del Taco for dinner. One of those places I miss as we don't have any around us. Came back, ate, and watched some TV shows on netflix until about 9. The day finally caught up with me and I went to bed around 9:30. Slept until almost 5. Finally a good night's sleep. So needed.

The weather was wonderful. The park crowds were perfect. The shopping was great. Everything about yesterday made me so happy. I just wish I didn't do alone. But then again, there was some satisfaction in being there alone, I won't lie.

In side news - I received some nice Father's day messages from folks, got great responses to things I posted on social media throughout the day, and even caved in and sent my dad a Father's Day email. It was the least I could do and it made him feel good. Why not. Didn't hurt me any. B was dealing with her mother being a bitch about her seeing her dad. We both agreed she needed to chill the fuck out because it was Father's Day. Put aside petty issues for a day and just be nice.

Today I am attending a class from 7:30 - 3:30. Then I am supposed to meet my boss for dinner. Other than that, no plans for tonight. I will probably try to get another full night of sleep. Let the day begin!

Y6 D21

Sitting in a Denny's at 6am. 2 hours until the park opens.

Yesterday was long and is bleeding into today. I was up at 3 to take B to the airport. Got back home around 430 and of course I stayed up. I rearranged the office, packed boxes, cleaned the kitchen, vacuumed, and tool care of packing. All before 7am. At around 8 I went to target. Came back, did my hair, and putzed around. B got stuck in Chicago with an hour delay. I stayed awake until I knew she was on a plane to Detroit. At 2 I fell asleep until 5 then I got ready to have dinner with the kid. That was fun. We got to talk and just hang out. Good dinner too. Lousy service but good food. Got home around 9 and slept until 1130. Then I drove all night and here we are at Denny's. Today will hopefully be fun.

Y6 D20

Oh look, 3am. On a Saturday. Shoot me. No please, shoot me. I swear once I get back from the airport in a little while I am going back to bed. It might not achieve anything, but I will feel better that's for sure.

Taught until 2 yesterday, took a brief nap (like 20 minutes), then helped B get all of her stuff ready for today. Didn't leave the house once yesterday. I did spend some time copying files over to a portable drive for one of her friends. I printed out boarding passes. Did laundry. Made Chinese food for dinner. Watched some TV and then she went into the bedroom around 8. I didn't fall asleep until 10 unfortunately. The next two weeks are going to be weird to say the least. Especially since tomorrow this time I will be enroute to Disneyland. Disneyland by myself on Father's Day. Fun. Tonight before I leave I am having dinner with the kid. That should be fun.

Time to wake up B and get her butt to the airport.

Y6 D19

Happy Kraken Appreciation Day! It's the fourth year of our made up holiday. Tonight shall be spent having Chinese food and rum while watching Clash of the Titans! Yeah, it's a dumb 'holiday' but no worse than the others people create to amuse themselves.

Got through my class with no issues. Finished up around 1:30. B got home around 2 and we got ready to go out to the memorial service. We got to the house around 4 and helped get things ready before going off to the church. Our friends were very grateful we arrived early as we were the only ones who went to the house before the service. We got to the church around 4:30 and helped with everything there too. It was B's first hard core Catholic funeral and she is not eager to go to another. The priest was not very good to be honest. It seemed like he just graduated from seminary the way he kept having to read his notes. He was doing everything by the book. It was kind of annoying. Most of us were put off by him unfortunately. It was a good service regardless with a good turnout. We got back to the house around 7 and then ate and drank and had a good time. We got home around 10:30 and crashed.

Today is the last day of this class. Tonight is an early night because we have to be up at three tomorrow for B's flight. Then I will come back home and go back to bed for a while. We need to get laundry and packing done today after class. And eat Chinese food!

Y6 D18

So tired. I realized this morning I won't get a chance to 'sleep in' until next Saturday at the soonest. Up at 4 today, 4 tomorrow, 3 on Saturday, drive all night Sunday, up at 5 Mon-Fri. NEXT Saturday, I will be able to sleep as late as I want. I need a fucking break from this early morning shit. Or be able to go to bed earlier. I am just dying right now. I want more than 5 hours sleep. If you're supposed to get 7-8 per night, I am running a 15-20 deficit on an average week. B and I discussed this last night and I need my vacation more than people know. Just a few days where I am not getting up to an alarm.

Taught my class yesterday. Private remote training for a single client with 12 students. Same thing today and tomorrow. Because it's a private training and east coast, we started early. Upside is we finished early. But I had a ton of things to do after class. I made mac and cheese for the memorial tonight, ironed clothes, and got things prepared so that the minute class is over today, we can drive over to the memorial service.

B got home around 5 and we had leftovers for dinner. She read for a while and then we went to Target because she realized she needed something for her outfit for tonight. When we got back we were both dead tired. On top of that her nose was acting up due to allergies. It was a rough night for everybody.

Soon, soon I will have a break. Just got to make it until next Saturday.

Y6 D17

In a better place today. I figured out yesterday afternoon what was eating at me. It's the chaos in the house right now. I like be in control of things (duh) and with all the boxes and the next few weeks up in the air it's got me all thrown off and out of sorts. I have no control over things at the moment. But now that I have identified the problem it is better. It brings in to focus what I need to 'fix' to get things back on track. Frankly, I will have some time in the next two weeks while B is gone to get things in order. Even if that means more packing. Because then I will have everything packed rather than be all over the place. That will help.

I did a bunch of shit yesterday but felt like I accomplished nothing. I helped one client with some follow up work, did a webinar, worked on some docs, had an appointment for a lash tint, and did some organizing. When B got home we went out for some dinner, hit Target for her trip, and then came home and started getting her ready. Neither of us is ready for our respective trips next week. We are doing laundry on Friday so we can't pack until then. I think next week will feel better. She is doing alright about her uncle having a day to process things.

All over the map is the best way to describe this morning thoughts. I need some focus. The rest of this week will do that. Three days of early morning classes, afternoon document writing, evening recuperation. Plus I need the sex. Neither one of us has been in the mood lately but I think that should change tonight.

Here's hoping the rest of the week goes smooth.

Y6 D16

Meh. That's how I am this morning. Just a giant ball of meh.

Yesterday was a crappy day. Nothing was working right on any of the servers. It was too damn hot to get comfortable. Too many random emails and phone calls. Just a frustrating day. At the same time, I was also still copying things over to the new drive. Finished copying music, 51,000 files for almost 300gb of music. Insane. I know there's a lot of duplicates out there which sucks. I may actually break down and buy a utility I found that will scan through and clean house.

B came home and was fine for about 30 minutes until she discovered her uncle had passed. The really shitty part is she found out on Facebook. Yeah. Nice of her family. You'd think she would have gotten a phone call but no, she had to find out two hours after his death through social fucking media. This of course put her in both a sad mood and mad mood at the same time. She ended up hiding in the other room all night because she didn't want to talk about it.

So basically we spent the evening in separate rooms. Just a lousy fucking day all around.

Y6 D15

I'm getting to it dammit don't rush me!

Okay, yesterday. I got up at 7 because the blanket monster stole all of them. Fine by me because I started my file copies. Took a little over 2 hours to do movies. TV took the rest of the day. Now that I have everything copied over I have to rebuild the libraries on the other machine which is going to take time. The trick is keeping the two systems in synch before I get everything finalized. It's going to be a couple of days before I have everything done so I have to make sure I keep everything the way I want.

B got up around 11 and I made her breakfast. She wanted to go out and pick up a couple of flash drives to bring on her trip to give her sisters some movies while she is there. We headed out around noon and went to the store. By that point the heat had started. It was 93 here yesterday and we were both dying. We stayed out in stores because they had air conditioning. We got home around 3 and both of us crashed partly due to being tired but also due to the heat. I slept for about an hour, she slept for 3. When she woke up we got ready and headed over to our director's house. We had a movie night over there and since they live at the beach it was like 25 degrees cooler. So nice. We stayed and hung out until about 11.

A good day with friends and family. Nothing major happened, I got some things accomplished, and we had a nice day. Other than it being too fucking hot, it was alright. The weather today is supposed to be the same and I am not looking forward to it. I am going to hide in the house and work on updating one of our classes.

This is her last week at work and then she heads out to MI on Saturday. On Thursday we have the memorial service. Then I am off to that training class and Disneyland. I can make it through the week dammit.

Y6 D14

I have a splitting headache this morning. Not from drinking but simply from lack of sleep. I went to bed at 3 and it's only 7. Why am I up? Ask my wonderful fiancee who just decided to grab handfuls of the blankets and roll herself up like a burrito. Zero exaggeration on this one people. Ugh. The shock of the cold morning air woke me right up.

Had a busy day yesterday during the first part. I got up with B and was ready to go out around the same time as she left for work. Unfortunately nothing was open at that time and I ended up packing for a while. I finally headed out to the store around 9:30. I first went to Target to get household stuff. Then I hit Best Buy where I got the 5tb drive. It was even on sale! $199 for 5tb. Insane. Sorry just got distracted by something.

Finished up at Best Buy and hit the grocery store. I got some stuff for last night's dinner, some things to make a fun thing for B (and cast), and for the memorial service we have to go to on Thursday. I am brining bacon mac and cheese for that and needed to buy a ton of macaroni and bacon. Got back home around noon and took care of some stuff. I didn't start the drive stuff yet as I knew I would need a few hours and I want to rearrange things. Instead I did a playlist for the show, cleaned out some boxes, and made cheesecake stuffed strawberries. Yeah, that was fun. I made a mess, but it was totally worth it. When I was done with that I took a nice nap. Got up, watched some TV, worked on my puzzle and waited for B to get home. When she got home we had dinner and hung out until it was time to go to the show.

The show went well. I felt like I was doing more than my share, but whatever. There were no major issues, we had a decent crowd and we managed to get out of there pretty quick. That's about it. Got home at 3, fell asleep and here we are. Now it's time for me to rearrange these machines so I can start the process of copying terabytes of data. Woo.

Y6 D13

Doing better. Mentally at least. My right arm is in pain because last night I tripped and slammed it sideways into the edge of a wall. I have a serious bump and bruise right at the elbow. Hurts to bend it. I think I hit a nerve because my fingers hurt too. I'm falling apart. Yay me.

Taught my class, got through it with no issues thank goodness. I now have a few days before I have to teach again. After class I worked on a puzzle. Take a break from the damn computer. When B got home she decided she wanted to try and finish watching the Matrix trilogy. We got an hour through the second one before she realized how stupid it is. I didn't say anything and let her come to that decision on her own. I'm sorry, but some movies should just never have sequels. That's one of them. The second one is an hour too long and makes no sense. The third one is just a bad Jesus movie. When she finally gave up we went out to grab some dinner. I convinced her to go to a Peruvian place I like. She did okay there. She managed to find something she liked and it was fun. After we stopped at Best Buy because I am looking for a new hard drive. I found a 5 (FIVE!) tb drive for $219. I am going to go back today to pick it up. That will give me 12tb across my machines. Insane. 10 years ago no one had more than 1 or 2tb if they were high end. Now 12?? Loving it. I also looked at new stereo receivers. Mine is now 7 years no wait 8, and the HDMI port doesn't work, I've lost the remote, and it is out of date for today's tech. I found one I like for $400. I don't know about that though. Mine still works and I am not dying. I may just wait until mine finally dies completely. It was just good to see what was out there. I also may look online. I might find something better for less.

I paid ALL the bills yesterday. All my normal bills plus paid off three cards as planned. THAT felt good. Damn good. Also paid one of my DMV bills. Early for the first time in five years. That felt even better. No fees, no fear. Just bam.

When we got back B took a nice hot bath and I worked more on the puzzle. We headed to bed around 11.

Today I have errands followed by a show tonight.

Y6 D12

I should be happy this morning but I'm not. I am in a lousy mood. No, I don't know why. Just all angry inside for some reason. Started last night after dinner and I haven't shaken it yet. But at least it's Friday?

Why *should* I be happy? Because the IRS finally got through all of my paperwork and my federal return finally came back. I logged into the bank yesterday expecting to see about $500 to last me until today. Not great, but much better than a few years back, yes? I was proud that I had all the bills paid and was not going to stress and imagine my surprise when I logged in. At first glance I saw 5120 and thought cool, right on the money. Then I realized there was no decimal place. It wasn't 512 as I expected. Nice. So I went ahead and paid some more bills. And today I get to pay IN FULL two of my credit cards. You know how fucking good THAT feels? I am going to send out money for that and for my DMV fees. For the first time in years I am paying my DMV not only on time, but early for one. Hot damn. See? I should have been happy all day. I was for the most part.

During class break I did laundry. After class B and I went out to run some errands. While we were out we decided to get KFC. I also picked up a puzzle to keep me entertained while she is gone for two weeks. We got home, ate, watched some TV, and that's when my mood shifted. I don't know if it's because the food didn't sit right or what but I just got all angry about everything. I went to bed around 10. She stayed up reading. We didn't fight or anything, because I think she knew I wasn't mad at her specifically.

My friend called during that time. Her interview went well which I am glad about. I just didn't feel like talking to anyone unfortunately. But she knows I am happy for her.

I think part of my problem was the 17 emails I got between 4 and 7pm all work related and like 3 actually things I needed to read. I am so fucking sick of 'reply all' people. So useless.

Okay. One last day. Six people. Then I get a break for a couple of days. Maybe my mood will change before the day is out.

Y6 D11

So sleepy. Need another couple of hours of sleep. But yesterday I had a student comment on something that really goes to the heart of why I get up so early. She commented on how she loved my energy level "even at the start of class". Yeah, it's because I have been up for 2.5 hours before you people even arrive. Just so I can be the energy when you get here. Got through class with no issues thank goodness. Finished up around 2 and took a brief nap. B had the day off and napped with me. Although her idea of nap and mine are very different. Hers is 3 hours where as mine is 45 minutes. Which means I got up around 3 whereas she got up around 5. I keep trying to explain to her that 'naps' that long will screw up her nighttime sleep schedule but if I try to wake her up after an hour she is too grumpy and it just isn't worth it.

After she got up I made us dinner. Pork chops with veggies and some left over potatoes. After dinner I helped a friend out by doing a mock phone interview for her. She is putting her feelers out to see how the market looks for someone with her skills but it's been a while since she had to interview with anyone. It went pretty well. I hit her with a couple of questions that she wasn't ready for which I think helped. She now has answers prepared. We also went over some common questions and how to answer them in the best manner.

Once that was done, B and I continued her moviecation. We watched The Animatrix. Yeah, I know but in order to have the full experience she has to watch them all. You can't bitch about what you haven't seen. While she mostly enjoyed the stories, some of the animation was not to her liking. I can respect that as I don't like some of it either. When it was over she watched an episode of something and Diablo'd for a little while. We got into bed around 10:30. Of course she wasn't tired. Gee what a shock. Around 11 after keeping me awake she got up. I promptly fell asleep. I have no idea what time she came to bed.

Two more days of classes. Today and tomorrow are one off - a basic class followed by an advanced. I only have 3 students today but all 3 will be in Friday's plus 4 more. This has been a good week for me in terms of class sizes and revenue. This is one of those weeks where I have made my entire month in 5 days. I figured it out last night. This week has made the company $25-$27k. Which means I could do nothing the rest of the month and we would still make numbers. BUT I have at least 9 more days left this month where I am training out of 11 available. So yeah, good month.

Man I wish I could just go back to sleep for a little while. Sigh.

Y6 D10

Yesterday was just a series of clusterfucks. First was the issue in the bathroom which took forever to clean up. Mostly because I was half awake while I was trying to do it. Then there were issues with my class. I had 9 students scheduled and at 2 minutes before start time I only had 2 users connected. This is typically indicative of a problem with the link or the connection. In this case it was the link. We had to quickly troubleshoot what was going on. It looks like gotomeeting changed something on their side and the URL we have been using fine up until now no longer works. I ended up having to get everyone connected manually which caused class to start 20 minutes late. But that wasn't the worst part. When we hit the first demo 9 out of 10 servers all failed. They are all ghosted images and for whatever reason they decided they weren't going to work yesterday. Sweet. I managed to get through it and finish on time thank goodness but what a hoot that was.

After class I needed to get out of the house and went to Target. We needed food and other stuff. Took care of that and got home 20 minutes before B. B finally heard back on her grandmother's upcoming surgery. She will be having her surgery on the 13th so B is going to go back home the 14th - 28th. Her last day at work was originally supposed to be the 14th but she called her boss last night and moved it to the 12th. Two weeks I will be living alone. That part actually is going to be interesting. Of course 4 of those days I will be out of town taking a class, but still that's a week and a half where I will be all alone. Let's see how that goes. While she is back there she talked to her old boss and is going to pick up some shifts at the ice cream place. It won't be a lot of money, but it will at least keep her from going stir crazy and give her some spending money while she is there.

After we took care of her travel arrangements B did something that surprised me - she wanted to watch one of the movies on her list of 'moviecation' movies. Someone posted something and she didn't understand the reference and decided to do something about it. We ended up watching the Matrix. Yep. I totally enjoyed it even 15 years later. Of course now I have to get her to watch the other movies in the series, but the fact that we finally watched a movie and BOTH enjoyed it was satisfaction enough. She only had a few questions throughout and ended up liking the movie. When the movie was over she was tired and got into bed. I played Diablo for a little while. I am almost through Act V with my Witch Doctor. I will get that toon to 70 come hell or high-water. I want the six toons at 70 achievement and I am so close. My Witch Doctor is almost there and my demon hunter is at 66. Just finish them off and bam achievement mine. Yeah, I know it's stupid but it keeps me occupied.

Part 2 of the same class today followed by two one day classes and this week is over. Just three more days.

Y6 D9

My morning is not starting off good. I was in the bathroom and when I went to leave I turned and slipped and knocked an entire shelf off the wall sending makeup and perfume bottles flying all over the bathroom. I just spent the last half hour trying to pick everything up. Plus I hurt my elbow in the process. Good morning to me.

Yesterday was okay. I did a custom training for a group of 25 people. That is about double what we normally allow on a remote class. We were told they were only going to have 16 but they ended up adding some people without telling us. Gee thanks. It was like herding cats all day. Worst part was it started later than my normal classes. I didn't start until 9 which threw my whole morning off. I was pacing for most of the morning bored out of my mind. I did get some more stuff done in the closet including pulling out all of the kid's stuff she left here. I finished around 4 and the kid came over at 4:30 to pick her stuff up. That made a huge difference in some of the piles that were in the house. For dinner we ordered pizza because there are no groceries in the house.

B didn't hear anything on her grandmother which is messing with her mind but at the same time she doesn't want to call because she doesn't want to deal with any bad news. Catch-22 in action. She was all mopey due to that and a headache. She ended up going to bed early. I stayed up dealing with emails and some other work BS stuff.

Went to bed around 10. The rest of the week are full classes but at least normal time. And no one shit outside our window which is always a plus.

Y6 D8

How did you morning start yesterday? I bet nowhere near as much fun as ours! We woke up to someone taking a poop outside our bedroom window. Yes, you read that correctly. So I got up around 9 and was doing my morning stuff. About 11:30 B comes into the other room and says "Someone is taking a shit outside our window". It took my brain a minute to even register what she was saying as it was so unbelievable. I rushed to the bedroom, looked out the window and there was this old lady just going to town. I was flabbergasted. I stood there for a minute not knowing what to do. I finally snapped into action as she was moving. Grabbed my phone, and went down to take a picture of her. I found her petting someone's dog nearby. It was great. I walked up and took her picture. The person with the dog was like WTF and I looked at the old lady and said "YOU DEFECATED OUTSIDE MY WINDOW". She started stammering about I will clean it I will clean it. Don't care. You pooped outside my window. I went to the apartment office and showed them the picture, where it happened, and put in a service request to have the side of the building cleaned. I mean this lady sprayed the whole damn building. Yeah, let's see how YOUR day started in comparison. It was actually pretty damn amusing but so damn weird. I mean she wasn't homeless, she had bags with her, but yet she felt the need to poop right there, right then. Wow. Humans.

Needless to say we were both up at that point. I made us some lunch and then we started working on cleaning and packing. I got a huge amount done in the office yesterday. I packed six more boxes and went through all of our plastic storage tubs. I filled an entire garbage bag with junk. We have roughly 50 something days to get this whole place packed. 3-5 boxes a day is the goal. I am teaching today, but after class, more shall be done. I think I want to get the three linen/coat closets done today. That would be a major win. I also still want to go through the glasses and plates to see what I can get rid of as well.

We watched some TV and had mexican for dinner. Nothing exciting unlike the morning. We went to bed around 11 and talked in bed until almost midnight. B's birth control is causing her trouble and we talked about her going to the doctor to see what they can do.

This week is a full week of training. Should be a good week with no major surprises or issues. Of course now that I said that, there will probably be a line of people pooping outside my window.

Y6 D7

Guten tag gentle readers!

Yes, I am in a better mood today. Maybe because I slept like a log. Had interesting dreams too. One included a Russian mobster who owed me money. That's always fun. There were others but they are fading already. I do remember at one point thinking 'hey now this is a cool dream'. Regardless, even though I had less than six hours of sleep, I am doing okay.

Yesterday was a lot of things. I got a bunch of stuff accomplished including going to U-Haul and buying a box kit with 20 boxes, tape, etc. Picking up lunch for B. Packing all the books and a little bit of the kitchen. Getting newspapers for packing. Having lunch myself. Making dinner. B and I got into a little bit of a row before the show but she apologized for it later. We talked through the issue. I was packing up kitchen stuff and she was getting frustrated by the sheer quantity of stuff I have. When she moved last year it took her less than a car full of stuff to move across country. I have packed over 30 boxes already and its barely made a dent. She was a bit flustered because it reminds her where she comes from and some of the stuff I have is not the kind of stuff someone from that part of the world would buy let alone have the money to buy or even knew existed. Especially some of my kitchen stuff. Also add to that I have things that are collectibles or special occasion items, like my Franciscan plate set. I only use those on holidays or special events. Certainly not going to pull them out when it's a bunch of 20 somethings over to drink and play cards. She was also frustrated because her comment was 'I've never seen you use that!'. Well true. But the problem stems more from me living in an apartment and not having the space to use some of my stuff. If I had a real kitchen again maybe I would use more of these things. Regardless, we got through it and I promised to do my best to relieve of us anything I can.

We left for the show around 9:30. Show went well. It was a light tech crew but a full house. We did good on audience numbers this week which is great. We have missed quota 4 times already this year on our other theater. Two more and they will cancel us. That would be a huge blow. I am confident things will pick back up now that summer is here, but it did lead to the inevitable pre-show meeting about inviting all your friends, blah blah blah. It's the same thing every year. At some point she is going to realize most of us don't have other friends. Or the ones we do have won't go to a midnight movie. Nothing can be done about that.

Got through the show with only one minor injury to my right shin. I haven't checked it this morning but at 3 it was already starting to bruise up. Should look right purty this morning. Got home about 3:15 and was in bed by 3:30 and fell asleep around 4.

Busy week ahead. Training all week. Monday is a private class and the rest of the week is all public stuff. Today I want to do more in the kitchen and maybe throw some stuff out.