Clients like this bug me. The ones that have this sense of entitlement that we do everything their way and treat my time like it has no value. Examples:
--- majority of class was late
--- majority of the class spent more time checking email and dealing with other issues than paying attention
--- people coming in and out
--- having side conversations all day long
--- telling me to change my scheduled lunch and break times to accommodate them
It's little shit like this that makes for an unpleasant day for me. I feel like why did you have me come out all this way if you're not really interested in what I have to teach you? I was so annoyed most of the day. But I got through it. We finished around 4:45 and I got out of there as fast as I could. I am going to try and keep my cool yet again today but no promises.
After class I met up with some friends for dinner. That was enjoyable. Had a nice dinner, talked for a while, and got back to the hotel around 8. Watched a little TV and went to bed. I go home tomorrow which is a bit of a pain. I wish the trip was one day longer. Just one more day. I feel trips like this are too quick. I never get to settle in. At least it isn't a trip halfway across (or all the way across) the country. It's a 2 hour flight back home and my day will be done by noon. That I can handle. Just have to get through today.
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Monday, February 27, 2017
Y8 D277
As far as travel days go yesterday wasn't bad. Mostly because it was a quick flight with no stops. I had an okay seat but it was a full flight and there were a lot of children on it for some reason. There were some technical issues along the way. First Alaska's computers were down which led to a delay in boarding. That wasn't so bad but it did delay us for about 20 minutes. Let me back up. Got up at 4:30, my driver arrived at 7. Yes, I got up way too early. My alarm was still set for classes from last week and I forgot to adjust it. I sat around for a bit doing nothing. Got to the airport about 7:30, got through security but not until they ran my bag three times. That pissed me off. I use the same bag every trip with the same things in it. Why was it "suspicious" this trip? Nothing different in there buttholes. Got to the club and my current Admiral's club card is expired. Not my status mind you. I renewed it, but the card is expired. SO I had to dig through emails to find my renewal. Luckily I saved it. Smart move on my part. Got to my gate, dealt with the delay and got in my seat.
The bigger issue was Avis' computers were also down. I ended up in a Toyota Camry which I hate. I then 45 minutes after getting my car, get an email saying my car is ready. I had to call Avis to make sure they synched their shit up so I wasn't flagged as being in a stolen car. That was fun.
Got to the hotel around 2, got my room, and ironed. Then I decided to pick up pizza to have food for the week. I now have lunch/dinner for the whole time I am here. One thing done at least.
Didn't do much else. Stayed in the room. Started watching Westworld. Made it through the first two episodes. Went to bed around 9 as I was tired. Slept okay. A lot of tossing and turning. Too dry as usual in the room.
I don't have to be onsite until about 8 this morning, but I also don't want to sit in traffic. I am going to go down at 6 for breakfast and leave right after. I would rather sit in a parking lot than sit on the freeway. Got to get my head into onsite training mode. Let's go brain. Let's go.
The bigger issue was Avis' computers were also down. I ended up in a Toyota Camry which I hate. I then 45 minutes after getting my car, get an email saying my car is ready. I had to call Avis to make sure they synched their shit up so I wasn't flagged as being in a stolen car. That was fun.
Got to the hotel around 2, got my room, and ironed. Then I decided to pick up pizza to have food for the week. I now have lunch/dinner for the whole time I am here. One thing done at least.
Didn't do much else. Stayed in the room. Started watching Westworld. Made it through the first two episodes. Went to bed around 9 as I was tired. Slept okay. A lot of tossing and turning. Too dry as usual in the room.
I don't have to be onsite until about 8 this morning, but I also don't want to sit in traffic. I am going to go down at 6 for breakfast and leave right after. I would rather sit in a parking lot than sit on the freeway. Got to get my head into onsite training mode. Let's go brain. Let's go.
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Y8 D276
We went for a drive yesterday. Spent more time in the car than at our actual destination. The majority of my saturday was spent in traffic. Lovely. But the drive was useful for a purpose I will get to in a moment.
Got up, took care of scanning and organizing all my tax documents. Sent them to the tax guy and wrote him a check. I then went and mailed that check. At least that's done.
Waited for B to get up. She needed to have her bracelet and ring inspected before the end of the month and we wanted to check out a particular area to see if it was for us. Kill two birds with one stone. The ring portion of the trip was successful. The area, not for us. Although a little bit east of there wasn't too bad. The problem was getting there. Traffic was horrendous. Took us an hour and forty minutes to go 31 miles. I was ready to kill.
For dinner she wanted outback. We went at 5 to try and miss the crowds. Nope. It was packed already. We essentially got the last free table. When we left it was waiting room only. Fuck that. Got back home and watched a little tv, then went to bed at 9 since I had to get up this morning for my light.
I leave in 2 hours. Get in at noon. I am looking forward to this trip even if it is short one. Get my ass out of town.
Got up, took care of scanning and organizing all my tax documents. Sent them to the tax guy and wrote him a check. I then went and mailed that check. At least that's done.
Waited for B to get up. She needed to have her bracelet and ring inspected before the end of the month and we wanted to check out a particular area to see if it was for us. Kill two birds with one stone. The ring portion of the trip was successful. The area, not for us. Although a little bit east of there wasn't too bad. The problem was getting there. Traffic was horrendous. Took us an hour and forty minutes to go 31 miles. I was ready to kill.
For dinner she wanted outback. We went at 5 to try and miss the crowds. Nope. It was packed already. We essentially got the last free table. When we left it was waiting room only. Fuck that. Got back home and watched a little tv, then went to bed at 9 since I had to get up this morning for my light.
I leave in 2 hours. Get in at noon. I am looking forward to this trip even if it is short one. Get my ass out of town.
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Y8 D275
Spent the day getting prepped for my trip. Did laundry. Packed. Made sure I knew where I was going. Had the car washed. Picked up groceries for B. Paid bills. Productive needed shit accomplished. Dealt with client issues. Dealt with sales person issues. Had Hawaiian for a late lunch. Didn't eat dinner. Went to bed.
Friday, February 24, 2017
Y8 D274
I weep for this world.
I weep for the people who can't use a bathroom because people are ignorant.
I weep for the dead Indian guy in KS and his family because people are ignorant.
I weep for children not eating lunch and watching it be thrown away because people are greedy.
I weep for people of non-Native descent screaming get out of MY country.
I weep for a country that tells me to be tolerant of Nazis and racists.
I weep when people say Jesus was a white man.
I weep.
I'm tired. Tired of living in this world full of stupidity and commercialism and greed. It pains me to get up in the morning and deal with emails telling me who I owe money to for things that aren't even tangible. Enough. Let me have some peace.
I weep for the people who can't use a bathroom because people are ignorant.
I weep for the dead Indian guy in KS and his family because people are ignorant.
I weep for children not eating lunch and watching it be thrown away because people are greedy.
I weep for people of non-Native descent screaming get out of MY country.
I weep for a country that tells me to be tolerant of Nazis and racists.
I weep when people say Jesus was a white man.
I weep.
I'm tired. Tired of living in this world full of stupidity and commercialism and greed. It pains me to get up in the morning and deal with emails telling me who I owe money to for things that aren't even tangible. Enough. Let me have some peace.
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Y8 D273
At least four of you asked the same questions of me yesterday or some variation so for clarification:
--- Yes, I do qualify for an FHA as the rules states you can't have bought a home in 7 or more years
--- Yes you can qualify for an FHA loan after a short sale, 3 years is the waiting
--- A 203(k) is a 110% loan allowing you to cover the mortgage AND any repairs needed
--- The property must need at least $5000 in repairs and can be as much as an entire rebuild or redevelopment of the plot
--- It was created to get rid of foreclosures and/or to update aging homes in neighborhoods where they want to get rid of eyesore homes
--- I don't know what kind of rate I will qualify for but at least it's worth a shot to try
So there. When I get back from my next trip I will go speak to the mortgage lender, see how much I pre-qualify for (if anything), and then take it from there. We found one that we like about 12 minutes from where we are right now but that's just from the outside. We don't know anymore about the inside or anything else right now. It looks like it's being used as a rental property.
Taught my class, worked on docs, B went for a haircut, ate dinner, went to bed. Lifestyles of the fat, poor, infamous, and boring. Is Robin Leach even still alive?
--- Yes, I do qualify for an FHA as the rules states you can't have bought a home in 7 or more years
--- Yes you can qualify for an FHA loan after a short sale, 3 years is the waiting
--- A 203(k) is a 110% loan allowing you to cover the mortgage AND any repairs needed
--- The property must need at least $5000 in repairs and can be as much as an entire rebuild or redevelopment of the plot
--- It was created to get rid of foreclosures and/or to update aging homes in neighborhoods where they want to get rid of eyesore homes
--- I don't know what kind of rate I will qualify for but at least it's worth a shot to try
So there. When I get back from my next trip I will go speak to the mortgage lender, see how much I pre-qualify for (if anything), and then take it from there. We found one that we like about 12 minutes from where we are right now but that's just from the outside. We don't know anymore about the inside or anything else right now. It looks like it's being used as a rental property.
Taught my class, worked on docs, B went for a haircut, ate dinner, went to bed. Lifestyles of the fat, poor, infamous, and boring. Is Robin Leach even still alive?
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Y8 D272
Yay back to up early. Oh joy.
I got some advice from a rather unexpected place yesterday. It turned out to be some pretty useful advice too. A while back I had asked X1 for some real estate advice. Look, of all the things I have seen her do in the last 35 years, this one she seems to be good at doing. What the hell, right? If you have a cousin that you hate who's a doctor, it's still sometimes easier to ask him questions instead of paying the copay. Know what I mean? Anyway, I asked for some help, she responded, that's that. Well yesterday I get a text from her that she is sitting in a seminar and she is learning about something she thinks could help me. It's called a 203(K) FHA loan. It's meant to streamline and help get foreclosures or otherwise damaged property off the market. It allows you to finance up to 110% of the appraised value of a home in need of a minimum of $5000 in repairs. We have seen some fixer uppers that we just don't even look at because we didn't think we'd have the money. If we can leverage this type of loan to get into something maybe a little less put together then that's a good option. Not great mind you, but good. For the first time I have some hope that being in a home isn't a pipe dream. There's actually a chance. We shall see what comes of this.
Help comes from the weirdest places sometimes if you're just open to it.
Spent the day working on my docs. Got one class 100% complete and about 10% on the next one. I should get to 60% or so by EOD Friday. We shall see. After class I ate some food as we needed to leave at 6 for B's group. She is REALLY benefiting from this group. I once again sat in a car for two hours watching stuff on my tablet, but it's worth it if she finally has found some folks who can help her with some of her HSP issues. I am really happy about this.
Got back home around 9:30 and I pretty much had to go right to bed. I ended up going to bed at 10 and tossing and turning until 11 so I am going on about 5 hours of sleep right now. Whatever. I can deal with it. 1/2 day class 15 people today. Wish me luck.
I got some advice from a rather unexpected place yesterday. It turned out to be some pretty useful advice too. A while back I had asked X1 for some real estate advice. Look, of all the things I have seen her do in the last 35 years, this one she seems to be good at doing. What the hell, right? If you have a cousin that you hate who's a doctor, it's still sometimes easier to ask him questions instead of paying the copay. Know what I mean? Anyway, I asked for some help, she responded, that's that. Well yesterday I get a text from her that she is sitting in a seminar and she is learning about something she thinks could help me. It's called a 203(K) FHA loan. It's meant to streamline and help get foreclosures or otherwise damaged property off the market. It allows you to finance up to 110% of the appraised value of a home in need of a minimum of $5000 in repairs. We have seen some fixer uppers that we just don't even look at because we didn't think we'd have the money. If we can leverage this type of loan to get into something maybe a little less put together then that's a good option. Not great mind you, but good. For the first time I have some hope that being in a home isn't a pipe dream. There's actually a chance. We shall see what comes of this.
Help comes from the weirdest places sometimes if you're just open to it.
Spent the day working on my docs. Got one class 100% complete and about 10% on the next one. I should get to 60% or so by EOD Friday. We shall see. After class I ate some food as we needed to leave at 6 for B's group. She is REALLY benefiting from this group. I once again sat in a car for two hours watching stuff on my tablet, but it's worth it if she finally has found some folks who can help her with some of her HSP issues. I am really happy about this.
Got back home around 9:30 and I pretty much had to go right to bed. I ended up going to bed at 10 and tossing and turning until 11 so I am going on about 5 hours of sleep right now. Whatever. I can deal with it. 1/2 day class 15 people today. Wish me luck.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Y8 D271
I slept in this morning. My last day to do so for at least a week or more. I decided to take advantage of that and not rush myself out of bed. Tomorrow I will be starting a class at this time.
I finished the class I needed to write. Today is final review day. I have to do it as a dry run from start to finish to make sure everything looks good. Then I have a new one to start in on. We are almost done with the conversions and new class creation. It's been a pain in the ass but if we don't start offering these new classes, we won't make any money.
While I worked yesterday I listened to The Wall and Tommy. The world needs more rock operas. When was the last time someone put out a good story album? I mean MCR came close with their last one but it was more a story if you watch the videos. Downward Spiral? Mr Roboto? I miss the days of good epic stories. Paradise Theater for example. Regardless, I was surprised at how applicable the lyrics to Waiting for the Worms ("would you like to send our colored cousins home again, my friend?") are 40 years after being written and given it's a song about WWII it makes it even worse. 70 years and we haven't learned shit. Good job human race.
Finished around 2, helped B clean the house, made mahi for dinner, watched tv, went to bed. Tonight is B's group again. I am going with her again this time to make sure she knows how to get there. She will drive, I will be there just to help.
A few more days and I get to go out of town. Mixed feelings on it. It's to an area I am apathetic about, to a client, who I looked up yesterday, I will definitely be apathetic about, for two days and back home. I need a good week long gig in like the middle of OH. Maybe if I finish these classes it will happen.
I finished the class I needed to write. Today is final review day. I have to do it as a dry run from start to finish to make sure everything looks good. Then I have a new one to start in on. We are almost done with the conversions and new class creation. It's been a pain in the ass but if we don't start offering these new classes, we won't make any money.
While I worked yesterday I listened to The Wall and Tommy. The world needs more rock operas. When was the last time someone put out a good story album? I mean MCR came close with their last one but it was more a story if you watch the videos. Downward Spiral? Mr Roboto? I miss the days of good epic stories. Paradise Theater for example. Regardless, I was surprised at how applicable the lyrics to Waiting for the Worms ("would you like to send our colored cousins home again, my friend?") are 40 years after being written and given it's a song about WWII it makes it even worse. 70 years and we haven't learned shit. Good job human race.
Finished around 2, helped B clean the house, made mahi for dinner, watched tv, went to bed. Tonight is B's group again. I am going with her again this time to make sure she knows how to get there. She will drive, I will be there just to help.
A few more days and I get to go out of town. Mixed feelings on it. It's to an area I am apathetic about, to a client, who I looked up yesterday, I will definitely be apathetic about, for two days and back home. I need a good week long gig in like the middle of OH. Maybe if I finish these classes it will happen.
Monday, February 20, 2017
Y8 D270
I went and took those light bulbs back yesterday morning and had the most pleasant exchange with the woman at the customer service desk. I went in and told her I need to swap the bulbs out and she told me to go get the new ones. I come back and she bloops everything and says "oh no were the original ones on sale?" I told her I believe they were and she is all upset because the new ones aren't and cost more. I am in my head bracing for $10 or $20 more. She is like wait! and finds a coupon to scan. She seems happier but is so sad to have to tell me it's $2. I laughed and thanked her for trying to soften that blow. In the end I got the new bulbs I wanted and the light in here is great. The living room looks like daylight now not some weird ass yellow sulfur light. It's fascinating how light can change your mood without you even realizing it.
Didn't do much of anything yesterday. Went out for a little while including Barnes and Noble but that was about it. B talked to her friend in Australia for awhile and I played some video games. We watched some TV and I went to bed around 11.
Weird week this week. I have two confirmed days of private training Weds and Thurs with two possible 1:1 private trainings Tues and Friday. Today is getting that last 10% done on the new class.
Hey it could be worse. I mean things could be like they are in Sweden. Sweden. Who'd have imagined it??
Didn't do much of anything yesterday. Went out for a little while including Barnes and Noble but that was about it. B talked to her friend in Australia for awhile and I played some video games. We watched some TV and I went to bed around 11.
Weird week this week. I have two confirmed days of private training Weds and Thurs with two possible 1:1 private trainings Tues and Friday. Today is getting that last 10% done on the new class.
Hey it could be worse. I mean things could be like they are in Sweden. Sweden. Who'd have imagined it??
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Y8 D269
Stayed up until midnight again. Slept until 6:45. Fancy. Finished all the dresser stuff yesterday. Super consolidation of clothes. One bag of stuff either old or damaged or stained that went into the trash. I actually can get to my clothes. What a miracle.
Went to the grocery store. Bought some stuff for the week. Not too much. I will go again before I leave on Sunday. Oh, I just remembered - need to make my car reservation for next week. I always do it one week in advance now that he wants payment up front. Don't want that floating around out there too far in advance.
B and I went to the store last night to get some light bulbs. We both realized this weather is messing with our heads. Plus our bulbs all throw off a yellow tinge except in the office. I use daylight bulbs in here and it makes a difference over 'soft white'. Unfortunately I thought I grabbed daylight but didn't. Need to exchange them this morning.
Not much else going on. Same on tap for today.
Went to the grocery store. Bought some stuff for the week. Not too much. I will go again before I leave on Sunday. Oh, I just remembered - need to make my car reservation for next week. I always do it one week in advance now that he wants payment up front. Don't want that floating around out there too far in advance.
B and I went to the store last night to get some light bulbs. We both realized this weather is messing with our heads. Plus our bulbs all throw off a yellow tinge except in the office. I use daylight bulbs in here and it makes a difference over 'soft white'. Unfortunately I thought I grabbed daylight but didn't. Need to exchange them this morning.
Not much else going on. Same on tap for today.
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Y8 D268
I don't know if any of you have picked Pokemon Go back up with the release of 2nd Gen this week, but we have. And it's a good thing. We both forgot how much this game makes us walk and gets us outside. We went to the mall last night and got some walking in because of it. We both have about 10 of the 80 new ones. Plenty to go.
I worked on my stuff up until about 3. I have it at 80% complete which was the goal for the week. I need about 2 more days to finish it up. I was supposed to have those next week but now it looks like I will be doing some 1:1 training a couple of days. I already have two days of private for Pru next week so this will be good with a full four days. After working on my docs I started in on the 'closet project'. I managed to get part one done which was move some stuff to the garage and get things transferred out of the old and into the new. The goal was to end up with at least two empty drawers in the old, I managed to make 3 1/4. Next up is taking some of the hanging stuff, transfer it to the old dresser. Did I mention I put the old dresser in the closet as storage? You probably were wondering what I was talking about. Sorry.
Had a quiche for dinner then around 7 headed to the mall. Got back around 9. Watched a little tv, played a little wow. Finally got a restless shadeling which only pops at midnight exactly. Went to bed right after that. I got some new nose plugs to help with my snoring and I think they did okay. I feel like I slept better. The real question is did B. I will ask her later.
Right now off to get groceries and then no other plans. Work more on the dresser.
I worked on my stuff up until about 3. I have it at 80% complete which was the goal for the week. I need about 2 more days to finish it up. I was supposed to have those next week but now it looks like I will be doing some 1:1 training a couple of days. I already have two days of private for Pru next week so this will be good with a full four days. After working on my docs I started in on the 'closet project'. I managed to get part one done which was move some stuff to the garage and get things transferred out of the old and into the new. The goal was to end up with at least two empty drawers in the old, I managed to make 3 1/4. Next up is taking some of the hanging stuff, transfer it to the old dresser. Did I mention I put the old dresser in the closet as storage? You probably were wondering what I was talking about. Sorry.
Had a quiche for dinner then around 7 headed to the mall. Got back around 9. Watched a little tv, played a little wow. Finally got a restless shadeling which only pops at midnight exactly. Went to bed right after that. I got some new nose plugs to help with my snoring and I think they did okay. I feel like I slept better. The real question is did B. I will ask her later.
Right now off to get groceries and then no other plans. Work more on the dresser.
Friday, February 17, 2017
Y8 D267
This class is going to kill me. I am about 65% done with it. There are so many little changes that have to be made. One step of a demo buried in 50 has to be updated to reflect a change in the UI. Such a pain in the ass. I am hoping to finish the majority of it today. We shall see. Worked on it until 4 yesterday.
We then went out to a consignment store we like. I have been looking for a new inexpensive dresser to make some room in here and that's where we found B's dresser and they are willing to negotiate. Score! Found a tall dresser marked $129 but got them down to $100 even. Compared to anything else in the price range I have found it's perfect. 5 full drawers plus two small. It's still in the car because I needed to rearrange everything in here first before I can use it. Before coming home we stopped for some ice cream because we're adults dammit! B was craving the corn ice cream she gets from this one place and it happens to be right next store to the consignment store so ice cream was had by all!
Got back home and I started in on rearranging the office while B cooked dinner. She made chicken fried rice which was pretty darn good. We ate, watched some tv, then I went in to finish the office. Got it all set and ready for the new dresser. Going to go bring it up in a little while. Went to bed around 10:30.
No plans for the weekend this time. Quiet time at home. Save some money and not leave the house. One more week and I go out of town. Thank goodness.
We then went out to a consignment store we like. I have been looking for a new inexpensive dresser to make some room in here and that's where we found B's dresser and they are willing to negotiate. Score! Found a tall dresser marked $129 but got them down to $100 even. Compared to anything else in the price range I have found it's perfect. 5 full drawers plus two small. It's still in the car because I needed to rearrange everything in here first before I can use it. Before coming home we stopped for some ice cream because we're adults dammit! B was craving the corn ice cream she gets from this one place and it happens to be right next store to the consignment store so ice cream was had by all!
Got back home and I started in on rearranging the office while B cooked dinner. She made chicken fried rice which was pretty darn good. We ate, watched some tv, then I went in to finish the office. Got it all set and ready for the new dresser. Going to go bring it up in a little while. Went to bed around 10:30.
No plans for the weekend this time. Quiet time at home. Save some money and not leave the house. One more week and I go out of town. Thank goodness.
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Y8 D266
I am going to kill my phone. I can't tell if it is the cable or the connector but it is having charging trouble. It will make the charge noise then stop then make the noise then stop then make the noise... you get where this is going. It's also been sucking battery life again. I can't afford a new phone right now and this one is still under contract for another 10 months. Not going to happen. I am watching the Pixel XL. I am hoping that it will have a gen 2 out by the time I am ready.
Worked on my docs yesterday. Got a bit done. I am about 40-45% complete. Not as much as I would like but more than I expected given that this is the driest class known to man. Worked on it until about 4 and then we went out for dinner around 5:30.
Going out of town the 26th-1st. Thank god. I need out of the house. I need to be around people. It's to the Bay Area and unfortunately it's moving day for the kid. We will cross paths. I was hoping to see her one more time before she moved. Oh well. I am going to hang out with one group of friends. I will be in a different area than normal so I am keeping my being there to only a small group. I don't want anyone feeling bad but it's only a couple of nights and I don't want to stress out. Got that all booked and squared away. The hotel cost was through the roof for some stupid reason. $300 a night. I almost stayed at a non-Hilton. Give me the good mid-west hotels for $100 a night.
B read, I read, went to bed around 10:30. Ah the glamorous life we lead.
Worked on my docs yesterday. Got a bit done. I am about 40-45% complete. Not as much as I would like but more than I expected given that this is the driest class known to man. Worked on it until about 4 and then we went out for dinner around 5:30.
Going out of town the 26th-1st. Thank god. I need out of the house. I need to be around people. It's to the Bay Area and unfortunately it's moving day for the kid. We will cross paths. I was hoping to see her one more time before she moved. Oh well. I am going to hang out with one group of friends. I will be in a different area than normal so I am keeping my being there to only a small group. I don't want anyone feeling bad but it's only a couple of nights and I don't want to stress out. Got that all booked and squared away. The hotel cost was through the roof for some stupid reason. $300 a night. I almost stayed at a non-Hilton. Give me the good mid-west hotels for $100 a night.
B read, I read, went to bed around 10:30. Ah the glamorous life we lead.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Y8 D265
100 days to go and this year will be over. I have decided once I am done with year 10 I will compile all of this and print it out. Curiosity mostly. Just how many damn words have I written?
Worked all day on the new class. Got the outline and general feel for it done. Going to try today and fill in the gaps. I should be about 80% by Friday which is the goal. Worked all the way until about 3 yesterday. At 5 I ate since we had to go out at 6:15.
Took B to her first support group meeting. It started at 7 but it was about a 25 minute drive especially since neither of us had been there before. The meeting was scheduled from 7-9 and while I debated on going back home, I didn't know how she was going to do and wanted to be nearby in case she wanted to make a hasty retreat. I went to target near by for a couple of things but was back waiting at 7:30. Yes, I sat there from 7:30 until 9. Luckily I brought my tablet and watched a show and read.
Her group turned out to be really good except for one person who really mistook HSP for something else. They are having trouble with criticism and it becomes anger which is not what HSP is about. They too were new last night and B conveyed how she could sense that the group wasn't fully comfortable with them in the room. If you are wondering what HSP is, look it up. It's one of those things that I don't understand fully, but I don't have to get it to support my wife. Especially when it doesn't cost me anything. According to her it was time well spent and that's all that matters.
Got home around 9:30, unwound, and went to bed around 11. Nothing else exciting going on. Yes, we did celebrate Valentine's yesterday. It was a Funko Pop day. I got two Doctor Who ones and she got Fantastic Beast ones. Our collection is growing (sadly). We both have to be really careful because it's easy to go overboard with those darn things. Worse than pins. We are both sticking to ONE line right now and that's it. I know she will want the HP ones at some point too unfortunately. But we will cross that bridge when it comes. For now, life is good. I have three little Doctors sitting on my desk and I like them.
Worked all day on the new class. Got the outline and general feel for it done. Going to try today and fill in the gaps. I should be about 80% by Friday which is the goal. Worked all the way until about 3 yesterday. At 5 I ate since we had to go out at 6:15.
Took B to her first support group meeting. It started at 7 but it was about a 25 minute drive especially since neither of us had been there before. The meeting was scheduled from 7-9 and while I debated on going back home, I didn't know how she was going to do and wanted to be nearby in case she wanted to make a hasty retreat. I went to target near by for a couple of things but was back waiting at 7:30. Yes, I sat there from 7:30 until 9. Luckily I brought my tablet and watched a show and read.
Her group turned out to be really good except for one person who really mistook HSP for something else. They are having trouble with criticism and it becomes anger which is not what HSP is about. They too were new last night and B conveyed how she could sense that the group wasn't fully comfortable with them in the room. If you are wondering what HSP is, look it up. It's one of those things that I don't understand fully, but I don't have to get it to support my wife. Especially when it doesn't cost me anything. According to her it was time well spent and that's all that matters.
Got home around 9:30, unwound, and went to bed around 11. Nothing else exciting going on. Yes, we did celebrate Valentine's yesterday. It was a Funko Pop day. I got two Doctor Who ones and she got Fantastic Beast ones. Our collection is growing (sadly). We both have to be really careful because it's easy to go overboard with those darn things. Worse than pins. We are both sticking to ONE line right now and that's it. I know she will want the HP ones at some point too unfortunately. But we will cross that bridge when it comes. For now, life is good. I have three little Doctors sitting on my desk and I like them.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Y8 D264
I decided to sleep in this morning. I am taking advantage of the fact that I don't have classes this week to catch up on some sleep. Why the hell not, right? I finished one of the two classes I am working on this week yesterday around 3 so I have four days to make progress on the next one. It's a big one with lots of material to sift through, but I feel I can get it at least 75-80% complete this week.
Follow up to my Sony issue - I called them yesterday morning and managed to get ahold of someone in customer support. Miraculously he was able to help me fix my headphones instead of having to send them back in! There's a serious of buttons to push to 'hard reset' them. I guess they got overheated during a charge and it threw some type of internal breaker switch and the reset took care of that. I have to repair them with all my devices but at least I don't have to replace them. Kudos to the Sony Support guy for knowing his shit.
B wanted to go to Jo-anns in the afternoon for some supplies. She needed some fabric cut and we ended up behind this woman with 20 bolts of fabric in her cart. All B needed was 1 yard of muslin too. She used it with a needlepoint bracket to make a pin board for herself. She has started collecting these enamel pins from different artists and she wanted a way to display them. Looks pretty cool actually.
We got back and decided to go back out and get Indian for dinner. A pre-valentines day dinner if you will. She knows I will not go out tonight for food. Ever. Tonight we are actually going to a support group for her. It's for HSP and she found it through meetup. I am going to drive her and hang around while she goes to the meeting. Even though guests are allowed, it's her first meeting and we both felt I shouldn't be there, but she wants me to drive her because she's not sure where she is going and the meeting is making her nervous already.
Got back around 6:30, relaxed, watched some tv, went to bed around 10:30.
Happy Valentine's Day to those of you who acknowledge today. To the rest, happy Tuesday.
Follow up to my Sony issue - I called them yesterday morning and managed to get ahold of someone in customer support. Miraculously he was able to help me fix my headphones instead of having to send them back in! There's a serious of buttons to push to 'hard reset' them. I guess they got overheated during a charge and it threw some type of internal breaker switch and the reset took care of that. I have to repair them with all my devices but at least I don't have to replace them. Kudos to the Sony Support guy for knowing his shit.
B wanted to go to Jo-anns in the afternoon for some supplies. She needed some fabric cut and we ended up behind this woman with 20 bolts of fabric in her cart. All B needed was 1 yard of muslin too. She used it with a needlepoint bracket to make a pin board for herself. She has started collecting these enamel pins from different artists and she wanted a way to display them. Looks pretty cool actually.
We got back and decided to go back out and get Indian for dinner. A pre-valentines day dinner if you will. She knows I will not go out tonight for food. Ever. Tonight we are actually going to a support group for her. It's for HSP and she found it through meetup. I am going to drive her and hang around while she goes to the meeting. Even though guests are allowed, it's her first meeting and we both felt I shouldn't be there, but she wants me to drive her because she's not sure where she is going and the meeting is making her nervous already.
Got back around 6:30, relaxed, watched some tv, went to bed around 10:30.
Happy Valentine's Day to those of you who acknowledge today. To the rest, happy Tuesday.
Monday, February 13, 2017
Y8 D263
Another lovely day. No flair ups in my ears either. I'm at like 48 hours without a problem. Man it's nice. Of course, now that we're home and all the noise and stress from here will be coming back, I am sure I will have a problem today.
We got up and had breakfast at the hotel around 8, then headed to Seaside. The aquarium opens pretty early and we were able to find great parking being there early. Fed seals, looked at fishies, and then wandered around the shops. At 11 we went to Norma's, our favorite food place in town. It's diner food and nothing fancy, but we like it. Headed home around 12:30. Nice drive. Not too much traffic, no major slowdowns. Got home about 1:10. B took a little nap, I unpacked, did receipts, and put things away.
When B woke up we went out to Best Buy. My Sony headphones purchased 3/17/16 died. I was hoping to just either get them replaced or have BB handle the service. Neither of those things happened. I have to send them into Sony. I tried calling the number yesterday but "We are closed, please call again during operating hours". I would if you actually left some. Idiots.
Had dinner, watched some TV, headed to bed around 10. Slept alright. Today and this week is document writing. I have two manuals I need to get done. Shouldn't be a problem.
We got up and had breakfast at the hotel around 8, then headed to Seaside. The aquarium opens pretty early and we were able to find great parking being there early. Fed seals, looked at fishies, and then wandered around the shops. At 11 we went to Norma's, our favorite food place in town. It's diner food and nothing fancy, but we like it. Headed home around 12:30. Nice drive. Not too much traffic, no major slowdowns. Got home about 1:10. B took a little nap, I unpacked, did receipts, and put things away.
When B woke up we went out to Best Buy. My Sony headphones purchased 3/17/16 died. I was hoping to just either get them replaced or have BB handle the service. Neither of those things happened. I have to send them into Sony. I tried calling the number yesterday but "We are closed, please call again during operating hours". I would if you actually left some. Idiots.
Had dinner, watched some TV, headed to bed around 10. Slept alright. Today and this week is document writing. I have two manuals I need to get done. Shouldn't be a problem.
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Y8 D262
BORK BORK BORK
That's all I am hearing right now. We made the great decision to go to Astoria during sea lion mating season! Yes, outside our room our hundreds of sea lions on rocks just barking up a storm. All day, all day. They never stop. It's not so horrible to be honest. When you in bed you can't even hear them funny enough. As you move closer to the door to the balcony you hear them more. Regardless of the sea lions I had a really good day yesterday. For the first time in weeks my tinnitus wasn't bothering me. I could actually function. I needed this trip out of town it would seem.
Went to the store before we left mostly to put in gas and mail a package for B. Got back and we headed out around 10. The drive was relaxing and nice. Still plenty of snow in the mountains but it's on the side. Pretty to see not in my way. Just how I like it. And humans most of the time. We stopped at Tillamook Cheese Factory for lunch, souvenirs, ice cream, and of course cheese. Then we took the drive up the coast to Astoria. From where we are it's kind of a triangle to these places. If we take one highway we end up in Tillamook, the other Astoria. Or we do the whole triangle by driving up the coast between the two. It's about a 60 mile drive but it was a good one this time. Through all the beach towns and small woodsy towns. One I really like is Nehalem near Cannon Beach. Just a nice little town.
We got to the hotel around 2:30, relaxed, went downtown around 6, had sushi for dinner, wandered around, went for a drive, and got back to the room around 8. We spent the rest of the night in bed and fell asleep around 11.
Today we are driving to Seaside to feed the seals at the aquarium then heading home. Should be home by 2 or so. A good weekend so far.
That's all I am hearing right now. We made the great decision to go to Astoria during sea lion mating season! Yes, outside our room our hundreds of sea lions on rocks just barking up a storm. All day, all day. They never stop. It's not so horrible to be honest. When you in bed you can't even hear them funny enough. As you move closer to the door to the balcony you hear them more. Regardless of the sea lions I had a really good day yesterday. For the first time in weeks my tinnitus wasn't bothering me. I could actually function. I needed this trip out of town it would seem.
Went to the store before we left mostly to put in gas and mail a package for B. Got back and we headed out around 10. The drive was relaxing and nice. Still plenty of snow in the mountains but it's on the side. Pretty to see not in my way. Just how I like it. And humans most of the time. We stopped at Tillamook Cheese Factory for lunch, souvenirs, ice cream, and of course cheese. Then we took the drive up the coast to Astoria. From where we are it's kind of a triangle to these places. If we take one highway we end up in Tillamook, the other Astoria. Or we do the whole triangle by driving up the coast between the two. It's about a 60 mile drive but it was a good one this time. Through all the beach towns and small woodsy towns. One I really like is Nehalem near Cannon Beach. Just a nice little town.
We got to the hotel around 2:30, relaxed, went downtown around 6, had sushi for dinner, wandered around, went for a drive, and got back to the room around 8. We spent the rest of the night in bed and fell asleep around 11.
Today we are driving to Seaside to feed the seals at the aquarium then heading home. Should be home by 2 or so. A good weekend so far.
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Y8 D261
We bought that new humidifier the other day and well it works a little too good. I woke up this morning at four and the sheets next to me were damp as hell. I first thought the cat had peed until I realized what was going on. Turned that thing right off. Was able to fall back to sleep at least. I wanted to try and sleep in until at least 6 today because we are going out of town and it will be a busy day.
Unlike yesterday. The only cool thing about yesterday is we went and saw John Wick Chapter 2. Holy shit balls is that a good movie! It's better than the first one which is saying a lot. The first one was this unadvertised little sleeper hit and it looks like the second will do the same. I didn't even realize it was opening this weekend. We originally were going to see Lego Batman but when I went to buy tickets I saw JW and was like yeah we're going to that instead.
I love the theater we go to these days. Assigned comfy seats. Food delivery to the seat. I had a steak and cheese while B had pulled pork tacos. Not bad for the movies. They aren't totally expensive either. I really do feel like I am getting more for my money than just ordering a $7 popcorn.
I did some work yesterday, attended a webinar, and planned out next week. It's light for all of us. Only one class and I am not teaching it. So next week will be new material time. For dinner we ate whatever was in the fridge since we were both full from the movies. We went to the movies in the mid-afternoon which threw off our food schedule. I am glad we did though. It was still pretty busy given the time of day.
Did laundry, paid bills. Fun stuff.
I am down to four connections on Facebook. Four. And those four have not responded to my request for alternate contact info. If they have not responded by Sunday night, they are gone. I will be free of that site Sunday night. Boom.
Need to run some errands before we leave. Time to get ready.
Unlike yesterday. The only cool thing about yesterday is we went and saw John Wick Chapter 2. Holy shit balls is that a good movie! It's better than the first one which is saying a lot. The first one was this unadvertised little sleeper hit and it looks like the second will do the same. I didn't even realize it was opening this weekend. We originally were going to see Lego Batman but when I went to buy tickets I saw JW and was like yeah we're going to that instead.
I love the theater we go to these days. Assigned comfy seats. Food delivery to the seat. I had a steak and cheese while B had pulled pork tacos. Not bad for the movies. They aren't totally expensive either. I really do feel like I am getting more for my money than just ordering a $7 popcorn.
I did some work yesterday, attended a webinar, and planned out next week. It's light for all of us. Only one class and I am not teaching it. So next week will be new material time. For dinner we ate whatever was in the fridge since we were both full from the movies. We went to the movies in the mid-afternoon which threw off our food schedule. I am glad we did though. It was still pretty busy given the time of day.
Did laundry, paid bills. Fun stuff.
I am down to four connections on Facebook. Four. And those four have not responded to my request for alternate contact info. If they have not responded by Sunday night, they are gone. I will be free of that site Sunday night. Boom.
Need to run some errands before we leave. Time to get ready.
Friday, February 10, 2017
Y8 D260
I'm sick. I had a rough night and as such so did B. I just got up and she was on the couch. I already knew it too the minute I woke up. I could just tell because I had been waking up regularly because I couldn't breathe. Still can't. Fuck this shit.
Taught day two yesterday and it went okay. Finished up around 2:45 and was already feeling the effects of this flu. I assume it's flu since I don't have a cough. Just a weakness in the body, blocked nose, and I feel warm. Look at me, I'm a bloody doctor. Speaking of degrees, the kid's finally arrived in the mail yesterday. She is officially a college graduate with the paper and everything. Now on Monday she goes to see about her job in the new area and if that goes through she gets the apartment she is looking at and will be moving at the end of the month. Good for her!! I am so proud of her. Such independence. At least I did one thing right.
Ate a giant bowl of chicken soup for dinner. Watched some tv, read my new Neil Gaiman book, and tried to lay down around 9:30. Mostly worked. Today I have a webinar to attend but otherwise going to try and take it easy as we are going out of town tomorrow.
As for other stuff, I am down to 20 friends on FB. These are the last few people for whom I need an alternate contact. If I don't hear from them shortly I will be sending personal messages telling them I either need some way to reach them or buh-bye. It's actually pretty liberating being off that stupid site. Between doing this and closing Instagram I am happier. Social media my ass.
Taught day two yesterday and it went okay. Finished up around 2:45 and was already feeling the effects of this flu. I assume it's flu since I don't have a cough. Just a weakness in the body, blocked nose, and I feel warm. Look at me, I'm a bloody doctor. Speaking of degrees, the kid's finally arrived in the mail yesterday. She is officially a college graduate with the paper and everything. Now on Monday she goes to see about her job in the new area and if that goes through she gets the apartment she is looking at and will be moving at the end of the month. Good for her!! I am so proud of her. Such independence. At least I did one thing right.
Ate a giant bowl of chicken soup for dinner. Watched some tv, read my new Neil Gaiman book, and tried to lay down around 9:30. Mostly worked. Today I have a webinar to attend but otherwise going to try and take it easy as we are going out of town tomorrow.
As for other stuff, I am down to 20 friends on FB. These are the last few people for whom I need an alternate contact. If I don't hear from them shortly I will be sending personal messages telling them I either need some way to reach them or buh-bye. It's actually pretty liberating being off that stupid site. Between doing this and closing Instagram I am happier. Social media my ass.
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Y8 D259
In order to make sure I didn't have a repeat of the whole "why did you unfriend" me thing, I sent an email yesterday to 34 people. I got back replies from 30 of them. All of them were okay with being unfriended. Surprising was the amount of people who said they wanted to do the same thing but just couldn't. Um, why not? This is why I was never one of those people with 300, 400, or even 500+ "friends". If I didn't actually know you in real life, I wasn't going to connect with you. I see people where it says they have 800 friends and it's like really? Who knows that many people directly. That's just looking for an audience. I will have my list down to about 28 today and will work on getting rid of those soon enough. The remaining people are ones who either didn't respond to my email or I don't have an email for them. I will need to figure out how to reach them. But once it's done, it's done. No more.
Taught day one of my class. Three students but this is an advanced class and I am grateful for the small class size. A few more would have been nice. I am a little nervous about how thin my schedule is for the next few weeks. We were supposed to have more stuff from the group in NJ but they keep moving things around. I will talk to my boss on Friday to see what I can do to fill in some of the gaps.
After class I went out to the store looking for a filter for our humidifier. I went to 5 different stores and at the last one got so frustrated I ended up just buying a new one. I made sure to buy one that has no filter so as to never be in this situation again. I spent almost 90 minutes driving around trying to find a damn filter.
Got back, made dinner. Had some nice mahi with little potatoes and a salad. Watched some tv with B, went to bed around 10. That's about it. One more day until payday and then we are off on a weekend getaway. Excited about that!
Taught day one of my class. Three students but this is an advanced class and I am grateful for the small class size. A few more would have been nice. I am a little nervous about how thin my schedule is for the next few weeks. We were supposed to have more stuff from the group in NJ but they keep moving things around. I will talk to my boss on Friday to see what I can do to fill in some of the gaps.
After class I went out to the store looking for a filter for our humidifier. I went to 5 different stores and at the last one got so frustrated I ended up just buying a new one. I made sure to buy one that has no filter so as to never be in this situation again. I spent almost 90 minutes driving around trying to find a damn filter.
Got back, made dinner. Had some nice mahi with little potatoes and a salad. Watched some tv with B, went to bed around 10. That's about it. One more day until payday and then we are off on a weekend getaway. Excited about that!
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Y8 D258
I have been slowly deleting people from Facebook in an attempt to separate myself from that site. B was abrupt about her discontinuing usage of it and just dropped her account. I am doing it in steps to be able to handle a situation like I woke up to this morning. I received what a late night message from someone who didn't see any of my posts regarding my deletion of my Instagram account and my eventual deletion of my FB account. They thought it was against them personally for something that happened back in December. While I was pissed about what happened back then, my anger was at another individual who is peripherally attached to the person who sent me the message. By leaving my account active, I was able to respond to them. Hopefully they will get my message and understand that my actions were driven by other reasons. Why am I going into all this here? Because in case any of YOU find yourselves unfriended from me on FB you know why. It's in an effort to whittle down THAT account, not a personal attack. People I have alternate methods of reaching such as phone, email, text, twitter, etc I am less worried about disconnecting from on there. You know how to get a hold of me. I am keeping the less technical savvy people or the ones I don't want to offend. Mainly so I don't have to deal with messages like I received this morning.
So B's birthday was yesterday and we didn't do a whole lot per her own desire. She watched movies of her choice, napped, and we had Taco Bell as it was what she wanted. I spent the day teaching. Decent class. Only one person was a bit of a bump. It was a long class running all the way up to the end of day.
Not much else going on. Two day class up next, payday on Friday thank goodness. I had to pay out $600 to insurance which put a dent in things as it was the beginning of the month. Can't wait until Friday to get things back in balance. This weekend we are going out of town as part 2 of B's birthday. That should be a fun time. Going to Astoria for the weekend. Leaving early saturday morning, heading to Tillamook first, then Astoria. On Sunday taking the coast back and stopping in Seaside to feed seals. A little mini vacation to chase away the winter blues and blahs.
So B's birthday was yesterday and we didn't do a whole lot per her own desire. She watched movies of her choice, napped, and we had Taco Bell as it was what she wanted. I spent the day teaching. Decent class. Only one person was a bit of a bump. It was a long class running all the way up to the end of day.
Not much else going on. Two day class up next, payday on Friday thank goodness. I had to pay out $600 to insurance which put a dent in things as it was the beginning of the month. Can't wait until Friday to get things back in balance. This weekend we are going out of town as part 2 of B's birthday. That should be a fun time. Going to Astoria for the weekend. Leaving early saturday morning, heading to Tillamook first, then Astoria. On Sunday taking the coast back and stopping in Seaside to feed seals. A little mini vacation to chase away the winter blues and blahs.
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Y8 D257
B woke up yesterday not in the mood to do anything birthday related. She is having some medical issues and barely could get out of bed let alone consider going and sitting and painting for three hours. Instead I made her breakfast and she watched Space Jam and took a nap. I did manage to convince her to go have the dinner she wanted so we ended up at Benihana as she likes it there. I swear I have eaten there more since we moved than in the last 20 years. Whatever. She likes it and birthday rules are in effect.
I did some scattered work. I had planned on taking the day off because of the birthday plans but that left me open for the day. I did calm down a sales person who was having a crazy time. I worked on cleaning up my music library. I have a bunch of m4p files in my library which won't open on plex so I had to work on converting them to either mp3 or flac. I am trying to do more with flac as I plan on buying a decoder for my birthday in July. I have been slowing replacing major artists material over to that format.
When we got back from dinner we relaxed and watched a little tv. Went to bed around 10 as I have to be up early the rest of the week. 6 today, 3 tomorrow and Thursday.
A word of advice - if you want to wish my wife a happy birthday today, Facebook messenger (not on Facebook as she has no direct account but messenger still works), twitter, text, and snap are the best ways. She will not be answering her phone and it will go directly to voicemail. And don't rely on me to pass it along. I have work to do.
I did some scattered work. I had planned on taking the day off because of the birthday plans but that left me open for the day. I did calm down a sales person who was having a crazy time. I worked on cleaning up my music library. I have a bunch of m4p files in my library which won't open on plex so I had to work on converting them to either mp3 or flac. I am trying to do more with flac as I plan on buying a decoder for my birthday in July. I have been slowing replacing major artists material over to that format.
When we got back from dinner we relaxed and watched a little tv. Went to bed around 10 as I have to be up early the rest of the week. 6 today, 3 tomorrow and Thursday.
A word of advice - if you want to wish my wife a happy birthday today, Facebook messenger (not on Facebook as she has no direct account but messenger still works), twitter, text, and snap are the best ways. She will not be answering her phone and it will go directly to voicemail. And don't rely on me to pass it along. I have work to do.
Monday, February 6, 2017
Y8 D256
I wonder how many readers I lost or pissed off due to my rant yesterday. Hey, I put it in a private place. I didn't "publicly" post it. So my right.
If I didn't piss off my sister - is our grandmother still alive? How old is she this year? 90? I was randomly thinking about her last night because I was thinking about B's great grandma who turns 96 this month. Random, I know.
I slept really well last night. Well enough I clearly remember my dreams. They involved me and Danny DeVito walking my property to test the sprinkler system to get rid of the yard sale that popped up on the edge of the property line. Hey, I didn't say they made sense just that I remembered them. There was a fireball but luckily because I was testing the sprinklers it put it out. Then I was in a spa until 5am. That made no sense. Weird snippets of things. Then I was moving and trying to pack my stuff but the neighbors had a flood light and I couldn't sleep. Whatever. I slept well.
We didn't do anything yesterday and it was glorious. We had leftover chicken noodle soup for dinner. Watched some tv, read a little, and stayed inside listening to the rain. It was supposed to turn to snow from about midnight to 2. Let's go look outside...
Nope. None out there. Either it warmed up too much or it never happened. Good. No more thank you very much.
I don't need to be up this early today, but I do the rest of the week so I figured what the heck. I'm awake. We are celebrating B's birthday today since I have to teach the rest of the week. Yes, her birthday is tomorrow. Remember she is no longer on book of faces so text or email or snap or instagram if you want to wish her a happy birthday. I think that's enough alternate locations to find someone, yes? Fuck facebook. I am still culling names and should have it down to zero soon enough. I am hesitant to pull it completely because it is the only way I can reach some people. They don't check email and don't respond to texts. I have it down to 57 people right now. A reasonable number. I was hoping to get it under 50. I think I can trim a few more.
We are going to the craft place today. That's what she wants to do and that's what we're going to do. Oh, I just remembered another snippet of my dream. I ran into someone I used to work with years ago. We were both in a circuit city type store and I was telling him how I have a new job just doing tableau development but managed to keep my same pay and just bought a house. I think that's when it segued into me walking my property with DeVito. Groovy.
If I didn't piss off my sister - is our grandmother still alive? How old is she this year? 90? I was randomly thinking about her last night because I was thinking about B's great grandma who turns 96 this month. Random, I know.
I slept really well last night. Well enough I clearly remember my dreams. They involved me and Danny DeVito walking my property to test the sprinkler system to get rid of the yard sale that popped up on the edge of the property line. Hey, I didn't say they made sense just that I remembered them. There was a fireball but luckily because I was testing the sprinklers it put it out. Then I was in a spa until 5am. That made no sense. Weird snippets of things. Then I was moving and trying to pack my stuff but the neighbors had a flood light and I couldn't sleep. Whatever. I slept well.
We didn't do anything yesterday and it was glorious. We had leftover chicken noodle soup for dinner. Watched some tv, read a little, and stayed inside listening to the rain. It was supposed to turn to snow from about midnight to 2. Let's go look outside...
Nope. None out there. Either it warmed up too much or it never happened. Good. No more thank you very much.
I don't need to be up this early today, but I do the rest of the week so I figured what the heck. I'm awake. We are celebrating B's birthday today since I have to teach the rest of the week. Yes, her birthday is tomorrow. Remember she is no longer on book of faces so text or email or snap or instagram if you want to wish her a happy birthday. I think that's enough alternate locations to find someone, yes? Fuck facebook. I am still culling names and should have it down to zero soon enough. I am hesitant to pull it completely because it is the only way I can reach some people. They don't check email and don't respond to texts. I have it down to 57 people right now. A reasonable number. I was hoping to get it under 50. I think I can trim a few more.
We are going to the craft place today. That's what she wants to do and that's what we're going to do. Oh, I just remembered another snippet of my dream. I ran into someone I used to work with years ago. We were both in a circuit city type store and I was telling him how I have a new job just doing tableau development but managed to keep my same pay and just bought a house. I think that's when it segued into me walking my property with DeVito. Groovy.
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Y8 D255
Oh look, another day where I slept in. Darn, too bad. If the body needs and wants the sleep, let it have it. I have nowhere to be today and nothing to do so who cares. Went to bed close to midnight so the amount of sleep is proper. Not like I slept 10 or 12 hours. Why was I up so late? Playing Pandemic with my woman!
Yesterday I was reading an article from Wil Wheaton on good two player board games. When B got up we went over to the local game store and looked at all of them. It came down to Pandemic or Baker Street. While in the same little strip mall we went to a used bookstore where I found an excellent copy of an out of print book by an author I like. We then went into the Franz bread outlet in the same location and got some english muffins and assorted bread stuff. A successful jaunt outside. Came back and watched a movie together. B felt like watching Brave so we did.
Made peppers for dinner and then around 8 settled in to save the world. Took a little while to set everything up and go over the rules but two hours later we lost. Notice I say we; Pandemic is a cooperative game which is why B chose it over some of the others. She gets frustrated when games are too competitive and instead of having to play against each other, we can play as team and our decisions impact the whole group. We did manage to cure all four diseases and eradicate one, but we ran out of cities before we could eradicate the rest. Fun game. A little heavy on the setup but once you've played it makes more sense and has good replay. That's important for me. I want to be able to play it again and have a different experience.
Speaking of playing games (you like the segue?) today is one of my least favorite days of the year. StupidBowl. One of the biggest wastes of time, money, and energy in this country. Millions spent on watching grown ass men chasing around a ball. And hitting each other. "I only watch it for the commercials". Well good for fucking you, you capitalist sheep. I personally go out of my way to AVOID being told what to buy and what to do, but you go right ahead and make a fucking party around COMMERCIALS. Hm. Let's see - let's glorify violence, tell people what to buy, and at every turn shove it down their throats. Oh and let's make fun of or criticize or heck even beat up people who don't watch it. Because they're just "un-american faggots". Yes, that's what I have been called in the past for expressing that I dislike football. And you can cry me a river and say that people have a right to like what they like. You're right, they do. But don't shove it down my throat every turn. Don't make me go to the store and have it splayed across everything. Don't treat it like some kind of national holiday and harass those who don't fall in line. You don't see people having a national Sims day do you? You don't go to the store and have sales around Fallout or crocheting or bird house building. Those are all perfectly decent hobbies that other people like. But no one EVER has gone to the store and had to put up with signs of CROCHET DAY SALE! No one has ever been raped, beaten, or killed because their favorite speller didn't win this year's Spelling Bee finals. There's never been a city where a bench was thrown through a bus window to "celebrate" their choice on Top Chef winning. THESE are the problems I have with this stupid day and this stupid sport. Right now millions of people are drinking already, overeating, and planning their lives around the TV and a game THEY AREN'T EVEN PLAYING. No, they're going to yell at a TV and get angry when Big Guyblowski doesn't do what they think they should have done. Then they will throw a bottle at their wife and blame her because she didn't make the right onion dip. How I wish I was exaggerating. Fuck this country and fuck this 'sport'. If the same amount of time and energy was put into some of the real things going on, maybe there wouldn't be children stranded at airports right now. Maybe we wouldn't have a nazi and talking cheeto controlling our government. Ponder that while you watch people chase that fucking ball.
Yesterday I was reading an article from Wil Wheaton on good two player board games. When B got up we went over to the local game store and looked at all of them. It came down to Pandemic or Baker Street. While in the same little strip mall we went to a used bookstore where I found an excellent copy of an out of print book by an author I like. We then went into the Franz bread outlet in the same location and got some english muffins and assorted bread stuff. A successful jaunt outside. Came back and watched a movie together. B felt like watching Brave so we did.
Made peppers for dinner and then around 8 settled in to save the world. Took a little while to set everything up and go over the rules but two hours later we lost. Notice I say we; Pandemic is a cooperative game which is why B chose it over some of the others. She gets frustrated when games are too competitive and instead of having to play against each other, we can play as team and our decisions impact the whole group. We did manage to cure all four diseases and eradicate one, but we ran out of cities before we could eradicate the rest. Fun game. A little heavy on the setup but once you've played it makes more sense and has good replay. That's important for me. I want to be able to play it again and have a different experience.
Speaking of playing games (you like the segue?) today is one of my least favorite days of the year. StupidBowl. One of the biggest wastes of time, money, and energy in this country. Millions spent on watching grown ass men chasing around a ball. And hitting each other. "I only watch it for the commercials". Well good for fucking you, you capitalist sheep. I personally go out of my way to AVOID being told what to buy and what to do, but you go right ahead and make a fucking party around COMMERCIALS. Hm. Let's see - let's glorify violence, tell people what to buy, and at every turn shove it down their throats. Oh and let's make fun of or criticize or heck even beat up people who don't watch it. Because they're just "un-american faggots". Yes, that's what I have been called in the past for expressing that I dislike football. And you can cry me a river and say that people have a right to like what they like. You're right, they do. But don't shove it down my throat every turn. Don't make me go to the store and have it splayed across everything. Don't treat it like some kind of national holiday and harass those who don't fall in line. You don't see people having a national Sims day do you? You don't go to the store and have sales around Fallout or crocheting or bird house building. Those are all perfectly decent hobbies that other people like. But no one EVER has gone to the store and had to put up with signs of CROCHET DAY SALE! No one has ever been raped, beaten, or killed because their favorite speller didn't win this year's Spelling Bee finals. There's never been a city where a bench was thrown through a bus window to "celebrate" their choice on Top Chef winning. THESE are the problems I have with this stupid day and this stupid sport. Right now millions of people are drinking already, overeating, and planning their lives around the TV and a game THEY AREN'T EVEN PLAYING. No, they're going to yell at a TV and get angry when Big Guyblowski doesn't do what they think they should have done. Then they will throw a bottle at their wife and blame her because she didn't make the right onion dip. How I wish I was exaggerating. Fuck this country and fuck this 'sport'. If the same amount of time and energy was put into some of the real things going on, maybe there wouldn't be children stranded at airports right now. Maybe we wouldn't have a nazi and talking cheeto controlling our government. Ponder that while you watch people chase that fucking ball.
Saturday, February 4, 2017
Y8 D254
I slept in. I needed the sleep. Went to bed around 10 so 9 hours. That's a lot for me.
Had an odd day yesterday. The weather was weird; it was never quite sure if it wanted to rain or not. Then it finally did and it wasn't sure if it wanted to snow or not. Everything felt out of whack. I went out in the morning and went to the post office. Took care of renewing my passport. First time in almost 20 years I will be without a passport for more than a few days. Last time I renewed it I went to the big processing center in LA. I got in line at 5 in the morning and had it done right then and there. Cost me an extra fee but I didn't have to be without. This time I mailed it and it won't be back to me for 4-6 weeks. Like foreeeeevvvveeer. Ugh. The process at the post office wasn't too bad. I went to the one downtown (not major downtown, my little city downtown) and was in and out in less than 10 minutes. The employee was really nice too.
Worked on some stuff for clients. Random stuff that came in. Nothing solid. Little things. Around 3 we went to the grocery store to get stuff for dinner. We made a giant pot of chicken soup and cachapas. Those are corn pancakes. Everything came out really nice. Comfort food if you will.
We watched some tv and then I almost murdered the neighbors. When the parents aren't home, the children run around like crazy. The tear through that apartment bouncing off the furniture. Around 9 I was so close to going down there. But the problem is the adults don't speak english. I would have to tell the kid to tell the parent that the kid is making too much noise. Fuck that.
They finally stopped making noise and I was able to sleep. Not much planned for this weekend. Both B and I are hiding on Stupidbowl Sunday. Waste of time, money, and energy. This is why this country stays so fucked up. Atrocities being committed right and left, freedoms being stripped away, corporations taking over BUT DON'T TOUCH OUR FOOTBALL! American priorities.
Had an odd day yesterday. The weather was weird; it was never quite sure if it wanted to rain or not. Then it finally did and it wasn't sure if it wanted to snow or not. Everything felt out of whack. I went out in the morning and went to the post office. Took care of renewing my passport. First time in almost 20 years I will be without a passport for more than a few days. Last time I renewed it I went to the big processing center in LA. I got in line at 5 in the morning and had it done right then and there. Cost me an extra fee but I didn't have to be without. This time I mailed it and it won't be back to me for 4-6 weeks. Like foreeeeevvvveeer. Ugh. The process at the post office wasn't too bad. I went to the one downtown (not major downtown, my little city downtown) and was in and out in less than 10 minutes. The employee was really nice too.
Worked on some stuff for clients. Random stuff that came in. Nothing solid. Little things. Around 3 we went to the grocery store to get stuff for dinner. We made a giant pot of chicken soup and cachapas. Those are corn pancakes. Everything came out really nice. Comfort food if you will.
We watched some tv and then I almost murdered the neighbors. When the parents aren't home, the children run around like crazy. The tear through that apartment bouncing off the furniture. Around 9 I was so close to going down there. But the problem is the adults don't speak english. I would have to tell the kid to tell the parent that the kid is making too much noise. Fuck that.
They finally stopped making noise and I was able to sleep. Not much planned for this weekend. Both B and I are hiding on Stupidbowl Sunday. Waste of time, money, and energy. This is why this country stays so fucked up. Atrocities being committed right and left, freedoms being stripped away, corporations taking over BUT DON'T TOUCH OUR FOOTBALL! American priorities.
Friday, February 3, 2017
Y8 D253
The kid turns 24 today. I swear I was just celebrating my 24th birthday. Feels like yesterday. I can remember being that age. Scared, broke, already married, baby on the way. Fuck all that.
Taught two very stressful sessions yesterday. Funny enough the afternoon session with less people was a little rougher. The morning session had a good energy level and was interactive even with the bigger group size. Go figure. There was one person in particular in the afternoon session who I felt didn't like me. Or maybe it's my transference onto them. They work for a company that I think is a bunch of BS. It's a meeting management company teaching people 'how to have better meetings!' or some nonsense. To me it's all common sense and I can't believe people pay money for things like this. Whatever. I know I did my best. Nothing more can be done.
Finished around 5:30. Dislike the late classes. By the time I was all settled it was after 6. Went and checked mail, then came back and made noodles for dinner. Some chicken, some noodles, some broth. Not soup because it was more ramen than soup. Watched TV with B and went to bed around 11.
Here's something cool from yesterday: Plex has Alexa support now! It's basic but it works. That means I can access my entire movie, tv, and music library via voice. It will play, stop, and suggest right now, but again, but than nothing and I know they will be working on improving it this year. Voice support for my entertainment system. The Future wooooooo!
Today I slept in because I could. I need to take care of my passport. I have the photos, just need to fill out the form and get an envelope to mail it in. I want to make sure it goes right so I may go to the post office and ask them. That's about it for today.
Taught two very stressful sessions yesterday. Funny enough the afternoon session with less people was a little rougher. The morning session had a good energy level and was interactive even with the bigger group size. Go figure. There was one person in particular in the afternoon session who I felt didn't like me. Or maybe it's my transference onto them. They work for a company that I think is a bunch of BS. It's a meeting management company teaching people 'how to have better meetings!' or some nonsense. To me it's all common sense and I can't believe people pay money for things like this. Whatever. I know I did my best. Nothing more can be done.
Finished around 5:30. Dislike the late classes. By the time I was all settled it was after 6. Went and checked mail, then came back and made noodles for dinner. Some chicken, some noodles, some broth. Not soup because it was more ramen than soup. Watched TV with B and went to bed around 11.
Here's something cool from yesterday: Plex has Alexa support now! It's basic but it works. That means I can access my entire movie, tv, and music library via voice. It will play, stop, and suggest right now, but again, but than nothing and I know they will be working on improving it this year. Voice support for my entertainment system. The Future wooooooo!
Today I slept in because I could. I need to take care of my passport. I have the photos, just need to fill out the form and get an envelope to mail it in. I want to make sure it goes right so I may go to the post office and ask them. That's about it for today.
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Y8 D252
Not much to say today. I taught a long class yesterday until 4, we went to Popeyes for dinner, stopped at Costco, came home. Worked on training the cats to use the wheel (not going well). Today is 28 students (they keep adding more) in two sessions. I won't finish until after 5:30 tonight. Tomorrow is the kid's birthday. Then B's next week on Tuesday. I am dedicating Monday to her. Whatever she wants to do. Then next weekend we are going to Astoria for early VD, late birthday trip. Just need to make it through another week of this fucked up world.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Y8 D251
I always feel bad when I get up and I see B on the couch or a blanket on the couch. That means she was sleeping out there or still is because I was snoring. And I snore because I am a fat disgusting pig. If there's one thing I miss about being way too skinny it's that I didn't snore. I need to stop eating. Just fucking stop.
I am definitely in a depression cycle. I spent most of yesterday in a sort of malaise just getting by. No motivation to do anything. No interest. I went out in the morning and got passport photos done, got some groceries in the hope it would cheer me up, came back, worked on some stuff for today, and that was about it. Just blah all day.
I made crepes for dinner. They turned out okay at least.
I am definitely in a depression cycle. I spent most of yesterday in a sort of malaise just getting by. No motivation to do anything. No interest. I went out in the morning and got passport photos done, got some groceries in the hope it would cheer me up, came back, worked on some stuff for today, and that was about it. Just blah all day.
I made crepes for dinner. They turned out okay at least.
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