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Something is eating my damn phone battery again. Some rogue process killing off 70% of my battery in 8 hours. No, wrong. I hate that shit. It's usually something trying to send data on the network without my knowledge. I just turned off a bunch of shit. Let's see if that makes a difference.

Another night in a hotel. But the upside is these are my Gold nights. 20 more and I have another year of Diamond. Booya. Why is that so important to me? The wedding. I am trying to stockpile enough points and status for when we check in to that hotel in MI next May that I won't pay a single dime out of pocket. Right now I have enough points for us to stay two nights, the photographer one night, and almost enough for the officiant. I would like 2 nights for everyone and I am almost there. Shit I am getting married in 8 months. Wow. Six years from that fateful day. Well at least I took my time this time around.

Yesterday was a serious clusterfuck. It is a good thing I can think on my feet. I got to the client around 7, and checked into the training room. At first everything seemed fine. I hooked up my laptop, I tested the connection to the remote server, started up the powerpoint and everything looked good. Or so I thought. When the students went to try and do the first demo, their machines died. All 17 of them. Basically the external site was being blocked by the client's firewall. I thought I was on the same network with my machine, but I wasn't. I had to sing and dance until lunch when their IT department punched a hole for us. There was some serious hell raised to get that resolved too. I know there are a shit ton of IT people who don't like me right now because I made them escalate and jump through hoops. Tough. But for two hours I had to work around network issues. That was fun.

Finished up right around 5 and headed to the hotel. B texted me at one point around then to let me know she had a bad migraine and was going to lay down. She texted me again around 10 but I was half asleep already. I watched some more House of Cards. I like that show. Almost done with it. B has been watching Misfits. I have seasons 1-3 but I know she is going to want 4 and 5 too. I may take it with me to St Louis so I can be caught up. I would love to have a day where I power watch shows. I haven't done that in years since Buffy and Heroes. I totally remember watching like 8 episodes of Heroes in a row. I did it with something else on the road recently too. And by recently I mean sometime in the last year.

Went to bed around 10. Not the best bed, but it works. Two more days at this client and I get a little break.