Y10 D339

I was thinking last night before I went to bed about how much of an asshole I used to be. I used to say mean and hurtful things without realizing just how horrible a person I was being. Picking on other's flaws and insecurities in a way to mask my own insecurities. Ah the signs of adulthood. To recognize that you're a dick. Some are fortunate to realize this early in life and grow out of it sooner than others. Some never grow out of it, heck they even can become president in this country. While I am not proud of my past behavior, I would rather at least acknowledge it and learn to grow than to continue to be a dick. So if I ever was a dick to you in the past, I'm sorry. It was a childish way to deal with and handle my own doubts, fears, and issues. You didn't deserve it.

I was also thinking about my dreams before I fell asleep. How certain themes always replay themselves; the following come up more than normal: parking garages, fucked up elevators, concerts, office buildings with weird layouts, being in a loading area of some place, and department stores. These are the ones I thought of while falling asleep. I am sure there are other reoccuring ones if I pushed the thought, but damn it would be fun to study why these topics come up so often.

Had a productive day yesterday. Got through 3.5 of the 7 tasks I need to complete. Plus I nailed down delivery dates for three sets of training here in OH for June. Between now and end of June, I will take 5 trips. Fun stuff.

Side note - you ever notice the people who espouse the joys of working in open concept floor plans never actually have to work in one? Just saying.

Was onsite from about 7:30 until 4 something. Got fried chicken on the way back to the hotel. Stopped in a less than nice neighborhood for it. Why are so many of my clients in such horrible locations? Damn.

Ate my chicken, watched some tv, went to bed around 10:30. Rinse and repeat today kids.

Y10 D338

Ah the joys of two hour chunk sleeping. Why do I suffer from that in hotel rooms so much? Is it the bed? I don't do it at home any more. Just on the road these days. Fear of waking up on time? I should do more research into that.

Left the house early to get B groceries for the week, came back, waited for her to wake up. We headed out around 11 to drop me off at Avis. By the time I had a car and was on the road it was about 11:45. I got to OH about 3:30. Lots of construction and rerouting unfortunately. Found myself in a lot of one lane situations with semis around. Didn't slow me down too much, but I think the GPS rerouted me a couple of times that weren't really needed.

Checked in, unpacked, ironed, had dinner at Red Lobster. It's right next to the hotel plus I was craving a bit of seafood. Came back, watched some tv, played some games, went to bed. Nothing exciting there.

Three days of custom work. This week is a bit different than normal. Not actually teaching this week. I am here because this client can't get their shit together and give me remote access. Just like the folks down in Monrovia. So, I have to be onsite. I have three days to get stuff done. Hopefully it will be enough time. We shall see.

Y10 D337

Spent the day inside because of rain and the small child being here. B and her worked on a bunch of different activities including building a popsicle stick house. They did some other craft type stuff too. The kid ended up being here until almost 6pm which was a lot later than I thought she'd be. Oh well.

I hired an exterminator yesterday. They will be here next Saturday. 1 year waranty on the ants and six months on all other critters.

Driving to OH today. Going to the grocery store first though to get B things for the week and me stuff for the week.

Y10 D336

Who loves last minute schedule changes? Not me, but that doesn't matter because they happen anyway! Yay! Okay, so I was supposed to go to OH tomorrow, then NJ, then home for two weeks, then back to OH. Now? Add a trip to Seattle where the second OH was, push that out a week, and add a trip to OK after that. Oh and now I have to schedule all my own public classes for 3rd quarter. The upside is I am pissing marketing off. They have this stupid webinar they want me to deliver and as I have told them in the past, my schedule changes too frequently for me to book out for shit a month or more in advance. Sorry. I gave them all the material, all the demos, everything. ANYONE can present this shit. You don't need me. Asshats.

So yeah. Even with everything going on at work and all the changes, I have work at least through 3rd quarter as expected. After that, who knows.

Meanwhile, B spent the day out helping a friend who doesn't currently have a car thanks to a nasty accident. He needed to get to some doctor appointments to check his back and shit so she drove him around. He did offer to put gas in the car but the poor guy has $10 to his name since he can't work right now. Meh, it's karma. When we need him, I feel he will be there.

B also brought home one of her sisters for the weekend. Fun times. They played board games, we ate pizza, and watched a movie. It makes them both happy to spend time together so it is what it is.

Today they are going to do some craft stuff. I am going to stay out of the way. It's what I do best.

Oh, did I mention B captured the garage mouse a couple weeks ago? We've had it down in the basement in an old 10 gallon tank we had. Turns out it was pregnant and we now have like 6 mice in the cage. Don't know what I'm going to do with that. Not really happy about being the mouse king. Sigh.

I'm actually looking forward to going on the road. I need to get out of the house for sure.

Y10 D335

Guess where I am going on Sunday? If you guessed OH, ding ding ding. Yes, after wasting yet another day, at 3:45pm the decision was made that I am driving to OH next week and spending three days onsite because there is no way these people can seem to get their act together for remote work. Fun time. It's 3 hours away and not worth flying. I am picking up a rental car Sunday at noon and heading out. Hey, I need the hotel nights so what the hell. Plus I have been home too long and am starting to lose it.

During the day I got tired of sitting around and B and I went to to hobby lobby. Her sister is spending the night and she wanted to get some craft stuff for her to let them do a project together.

That was my exciting day out. Whee. We ate leftovers for dinner. Watched a bunch of stuff on the bon appetit channel, went to bed.

Only 30 days until a new year starts. Amazing. Over 3600 entries in this thing. I need to do a backup sometime soon.

Y10 D334

Another day of no access. I sat around all bloody day doing nothing. So annoying. B was gone most of the day visiting a friend, then she went off to bingo. So she left from 11ish until 10:30. So yeah, I spent the day alone, no car, waiting. Fun. Ate leftovers for dinner. Went to bed.

Y10 D333

My client told me to sleep in so I did! No, seriously. I had a meeting around 2 yesterday with my contact in OH (who was working from home thanks to a head cold) and she apologized profusely for me not having access yet. She updated me at 4:30 telling me not to bother getting up early as she still had no word. Okie dokie.

That was my day yesterday. Waiting. My boss is now officially busy for the next like three weeks which means I am on my own. He is teaching the next three days in San Diego, then off to New Orleans, then Sydney, then London. Going out with a bang. I am off to NJ, then OH, with a group in Los Angeles in between. May is going to be very packed and busy.

B's cousin came over last night to visit and have dinner. We had peppers. She stayed until about 9. It was a nice time. I made them crepes for dessert.

My life. Whee.

Y10 D332

Let me tell you a funny story. We got B a new hamper yesterday. It's an open bag style. We put it in the corner of the bedroom out of the way. Around 10 last night B was in the bedroom and I was in the front room. I hear her call my name in one of those loud whisper kind of voices. She needed me in there quick. Okay so I go in and she points at the hamper. "Possum!" Um, wtf? No. I open the hamper and yes, it's one of the THREE CATS IN OUR HOUSE. Why her brain went to possum, we don't know. The stupid cat is just looking up at me like "hi. i find new hole". Stupid cat.

On another note, I also realized last night, I like our house. Don't get me wrong, I am not crazy about MI, the job possibilities here, the people, B's family, etc. But even with the things I want to change, I like our house. It works for me.

Spent the day waiting for word from OH. There was none. One day gone.

Around 5 we headed out to visit with one of B's bingo friends who is in the hospital. She broke her leg and her bingo bitches (that's what they call themselves) decided to surprise her with an impromptu birthday party. I tagged along because I needed dinner which we had near the hospital. For the most part, I stayed in the patient lounge watching Criminal Minds while they gabbed.

We got back home around 9 and that was the day. Another day of waiting for OH begins.

Y10 D331

So I tried to take care of that 'missed payment' bullshit but they are in LA and only opne M-F 8-5PST. Fuckers.

Next item on my fuckers list? USPS. This is the worst fucking mail service here ever. I just fucking hate them.

10:30 last night, flatbed with two cars on it parks in front of my house, blocks my driveway, proceeds to unload a car, then drives away? WTF? I went to bed at 11 with it still in front of the house. More fuckery.

B had a good day yesterday. I didn't. I was just frustrated and angry most of the day. Story of my fucking life. Notice it has not improved.

Dealing with fuckers in OH today. Even more fuckery abounds.

Y10 D330

FUCK. I just got a "missed payment" from something because it was tied to my old debit card number. It's for the stupid pet care plan which I pay $50 for fucking nothing because we haven't used it and now they want to charge us a $25 missed payment fee. On a $50 payment. Um FUCK YOU? Goddamn it. What a fun thing to wake up to at 5:40am. Happy fucking easter.

We did have a good day yesterday. B's friend is having a rough time of things right now too so we spent the day with her. We went to the arcade, dyed easter eggs, had chicken pot pies for dinner. Basically I did everything I could to take B's mind off her stupid fucking family and it helped.

She's going to her grandparent's house today for easter. I am staying home. That's that.

Y10 D329

Yesterday was moderately better until the evening when the childish antics of the adults overshadowed everything. By that I mean B's parents started in again. She is really upset and I don't know what to do or how to handle it. It's causing arguments between us too which is really pissing me off. I know we're not mad at each other, we're just frustrated about the situation and it's got no outlet except yelling at each other. I am two steps away from giving them both a piece of my mind which will not end pretty. Asshats.

In other news, we took a step towards change yesterday. It's been rough not having a local bank to do business with around here. I have been with Wells longer than I care to admit, but the nearest branch is 152 miles away. We need a local branch to do things in like cash a check, get cash without fees, etc. We heard Wells bought Flagstar but it turns out it was the other way around. Flagstar bought 52 of Wells' locations to get them into 5 more states - WI, OH, IN, IL, CA. So in addition to MI, they have this whole area plus NorCal covered. We ended up opening an interest bearing checking and a credit card. Let's see how the relationship goes with them. I may end up moving more over to them over time.

Went grocery shopping but still ate out. We tried a new BBQ place. It was good BUT. The but is that it's a very pro-military, pro-police place with posters and slogans all over. Fuck that. Fuck the police (and a 502). Food good, ambience bad.

Watched some tv, made marshmallow cereal treats, B made pot pies for dinner tonight and a spare for the week.

Today I don't what. Let's see how much it rains.

Y10 D328

Happy "Good Friday". Soon the Lich King will rise on Sunday and throw eggs at all the unworthy children. The cover them in chocolate and eat them. So is the circle of life. I got the story of "Easter" right, didn't I? It's not like it has anything to do with spring or some goddess or some rituals of fertility. No no. It's all about the Lich King. I know my history!

Yeah, I am up late today. After the day I had yesterday I needed to sleep. Didn't get to bed until almost midnight due to some shitstorm here. The battle between B and her mom hit a NASTY head and exploded last night. The latest is that her mom is trying to get her dad arrested for 'making threats' against the mom's bf. And while he did make some comments on the phone that were heard by B's 13 year old sister, the real story is that the bf egged him on and tricked him into saying things and tricked him by putting it on speakerphone when the sister would be right there and here. Everything was taken out of context, but the courts don't care and now he has to go to trial to explain, the sister has to testify, and he may lose any custody of his kids. B is livid. She can't believe her mother is so vindictive, petty, and childish to do all this. Especially after her dad has been working his ass off to make things right with people. It's affecting his health to the point he is coughing up blood. Been there. It sucks. It's been six fucking years since they divorced. He's trying to grow up and do right, the mom is a spoiled insecure child who won't let go. She reminds me so much of X1 it's not even funny. The same behavior patterns, the same childish bullshit. Anyway her and B had it out last night and the end result was the dreging up of six years of crap to which her mom denied most of it. That just caused B to lose it. It was a rough night. I don't even know what time she went to bed. I had to go before I collapsed.

On top of all that, the group in OH has decided they want me to rewrite all 57 demos and 300 slides of their upcoming training. I will have 4 days to do it. Are you fucking kidding me? While I did finally get to talk to my boss about him leaving, it was completely overshadowed by a conversation of how to manage this bullshit client.

THEN at 7pm the one company boss who just got bought out calls me to tell me personally. Yeah, like I don't already know. I was eating so he had to leave a voicemail, but wtf.

Anyway it was a drama filled rough night that also included flooding in the garage from the non-stop rain. I need to go check that soon.

I needed the sleep. I need more.

Y10 D327

And the award for stupidest family goes to... B! Wooo. Her parents are just the worst. Seriously. Six years after being divorced they're still fighting each other. Her dad may serve some jail time because her mom is a vindictive child. What a clusterfuck and guess who gets to be right in the middle dragged in at every turn even when she says don't drag me into your shit. Sigh.

Taught my class, finished, cleaned the closet in my office, ate every leftover for dinner, watched tv, went to bed. Me? I'm boring. Boring good.

Y10 D326

Tired this morning. Could use another couple of hours of sleep. I am groggy right now. Woke up in the middle of a REM cycle. Hate that.

Taught. Finished around 3:30. We started early. For that reason I like small groups. I have more flexibility in convincing people to start earlier. Doesn't always work, but in this case I was able to get them both to start 30 minutes earlier and it helped. One last day today. Then maybe on Thursday I will hear from someone and know what's going on around the company. Maybe.

Ate out last night because we were both too lazy to cook. Had Happy's. Wings for her, ribs for me. It was good. Then B decided she wanted to play one of the Lego games. Ok. I ended up setting up the PS4 for her. I need more room on our 'tv stand'. It's really a buffet we got from her aunt and it sucks. No shelves, no holes. It's over-crowded and drives me nuts.

Easter is this weekend. Ugh. B said I don't have to go to her family's. I probably won't.

Y10 D325

I had two very interesting dreams last night and I am losing them so I need to see if I can capture them down before they're completely gone. The first, from which I awoke at 1:35am, was the more interesting one. Somehow I figured out how to go between two dimensions. Parallel earths. Think Fringe. Everything looks similar but little differences. Like there were two different captain Kirk in this dream. I know weird and dumb right? The big difference was there was no Tony Hawk in this other world. No one had every did any of the skateboard stuff of the Z boys, none of it ever existed. So no video games based on skateboarding. My brain said I would introduce them all to it and be a billionaire. The second dream was also dystopian alternate world stuff but this time about how you choose your path for work. Like you have until a certain date to do your 'presentation' of why you should be in a field. I guess like a PHD thesis presentation but for anything, cooking, auto repair, etc. Welcome to my brain.

Taught day one of three yesterday. Only a couple of students but the classic one is an idiot and one is smart and bored because of the idiot. Oh boy, two more days of that.

After dinner here's the scene at 7pm last night:

B: I'm bored.
Me: OK, what do you want to do?
B: Want to play a game?
Me: Sure. We could play Mario Party.
B: I know! Let's rearrange all the furniture.

Ugh. And there started the next two hours of our life. It does look better, but not how I would have chosen to spend my night. Oh well.

Went to bed around 10:30 and had above described dreams.

How about that Notre Dame fire? Woo boy. That's some shit. Luckily it's not as bad as everyone is saying. I read some articles and history last night and this isn't the first time shit has been damaged. A lot of the statues had already been moved and most of it is stone. Still sucks though.

Time to get ready.

Y10 D324

You know what? Rain here is cold. That sounds so stupid, but yesterday it struck me that for the most part I am used to it raning when it is slightly warm out. It usually isn't 35 degrees and raining anywhere I have lived. 60, 65, 70 degrees. No, the rain here chills you to the bone. Makes you angry and cranky. We went out ONCE yesterday and it was horrible. We needed some stuff at the grocery store. Awful. I got soaked. I was freezing. 0 out of 10. Bleh.

Rest of the day spent indoors with the heater on. Had soup for dinner.

Three days of classes this week and then maybe I will get some insight from my coworkers on what the fuck is going on. 

Maybe.

Y10 D323

Hello.

Would you like to play a game?

How about thermonuclear war?

It fucking snowed again last night. No seriously. Argh.

AND it's raining right now. Which really pisses me off because I spent an hour outside yesterday morning, washing my car. Son of a bitch.

Went to a home and garden show yesterday. I was disappointed. Not like ones I have attended in the past. First off, very very little 'garden' but even the 'home' was wtf? Either they didn't have enough vendors to fill the space, or we have different ideas of what a home show is. The whole back section was filled with craft type boots - homemade soaps, purses, fucking kiosk skin care people, bread venors?!?! Just a lot of stupid ass things. As for the floor space, the majority of it was taken up by no less than 5 hot tub vendors. Jesus fucking christ. So yeah, we were a bit unhappy with the experience. 

I DID however buy some clippers there. Yeah, I know. But we tried them out when we got home and they worked really well. We got a lot trimmed in the backyard that has been bugging me. So there's that. Silver lining and all.

We had spaghetti and meat sauce for dinner and then after we went to B's old work, the Handy Dip and had ice cream.

Came home, watched some tv, went to bed.

No plans today except for some slow cooked chicken fajita soup.

Y10 D322

Slept in again. Woke up at 5, peed, and went back to bed. Why the hell not? I'm old and need my sleep.

I waited patiently all day yesterday for someone to reach out to me. Nada.. Nothing. Zip. Talk about feeling like the red headed step child. Luckily I do have classes next week so it's not like I will be sitting around waiting. But I'd really like for someone to tell me what the hell is going on.

I am still moving forward with looking for new opportunities. I found out about the Daimler location near me. They are right up my alley. Now to find a contact inside.

We worked on and finished a puzzle yesterday. Unfortunately it was missing two pieces. I am pissed about that. It wasn't our normal brand of puzzle to start and we hated the piece shape and size. But to have two mssing? No way. I left a message with customer service, let's see what happens.

Made chicken for dinner. Watched some tv. Went to bed.

Not sure what we're doing today. Might go somewhere. Might just hide inside.

Y10 D321

Slept in this morning. Don't care. My boss still hasn't bothered to call me to clue me in on what's going on and I am not supposed to know so I will play dumb and just keep on trucking.

I did work all day yesterday. I worked on the materials for an upcoming webinar. It really did take me about 7 hours to build. I started around 7 and finished around 2. B went over to her grandparents and helped them out by cleaning. They paid her $70 for about 5 hours of work. In the grand scheme of things, not a great wage but she wasn't expecting them to pay her anything. So there.

Made tacos when she got home. Then we decided to work on a puzzle. Things were going fine until B had a breakdown. She was having an irrational day where she was playing worse case scenarios in her head. Once again, the catalyst for all this was her mother. God what a piece of work. It's like being near and dealing with X1 all over again. Childish, narcissistic, ridiculous.

Oh it snowed yesterday. Yeah. Fuck that, right? It's supposed to rain for the next few days. That I can handle. But fuck your snow.

Made a pedicure appointment for May. Two months to almost the day. Let's see if she approves of the improvements my feet have made. I am happy with how they're looking, but I don't count.

Not much going on today. Let's see if anyone calls me.

Y10 D320

I ended up going almost 41 hours straight yesterday. I finally crashed a little after 10 and just slept for almost 8 hours. What happened to me? I used to go 40-50 hours straight, sleep for 5, and be good to go. Oy, old age sucks giant hairy monkey balls.

I did finish the custom stuff for the client in OH so it was worth staying up. That's the good news. No, no bad news. I guess one typically doesn't say the first part without there being bad news but in this case, nope.

B went to bingo. I ate leftovers. She won $180! Good job!! She was having a rough day because her family is being stupid again. Dragging her into their fights. I see so much of me and X1 in them it's not even funny. I just want to tell them both, when the kids are grown, it all changes. But they've got 9 more years. God, I couldn't imagine that. They will be 60 when the last one is out. I can't express how happy I am we didn't have one. It would be like 2 or 3 right now and I would be a wreck. No thank you.

Today I have to work on a webinar. My biggest concern with my boss leaving is that people will start paying attention to what I am doing. He gets that you leave me alone and when you need me, I will come in and do my job. Don't try to 'fill my time' on stupid tasks. It's already starting and it's pissing me off.

I did expand my linkedin network as well as send some requests for reviews. I even sent a message to one of my contacts at Daimler to see if they know of anything here (there's a Daimler office right down the street). Let's see what comes of things.

Y10 D319

I didn't sleep. I have been working straight through the night. It's been a rough, weird 24 hours.

Yesterday during the day, I worked on this custom training class from about 7 until noon. I then took a nap since I knew I would be up late teaching the Japan class. I had dinner with B, then came down to teach.

Class went well, no issues there. 15 students from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. It was actually kind of cool having a broad group like that.

The issue came around 11pm. My coworker texted me to tell me she had news. I called her at midnight. We then spent the next two hours talking about the shit storm that is approaching. Seems our boss has officially quit and will be out by the end of May. Fuck me. We are both worried and scared of what's to come. Needless to say I was too worked up after that call to sleep. I started working on stuff while I was on the phone with her and just kept going.

I don't know what I am going to do. Based on our conversation some major changes may be coming down and I won't be interested. I guess after almost 10 years, it's time for me to look for a new job. Fuck. I don't want to go back to corporate america. But I am faced with no choice. Time to seriously job hunt in fucking Michigan.

I may never sleep again.

Y10 D318

I had the weirdest dream last night. I was at a party and someone was trying to find SVU on tv making the comment that since it is the longest running scripted nighttime show they could prove it was on some channel some time. While doing that we came across this documentary about this cult in the 30s or 40s that murdered its members. Freaky stuff.

I know I haven't been going into a lot of detail lately and I don't know why. I guess I just don't feel like rehashing every tiny part of the day right now? Although today, I feel like I have a lot to share.

Got up early to drive the kid to the airport. We were out of here around 4:45 and I dropped her off at 5:20. She got through security and to her gate with no issues. I was back home by 6 and laid back down on the couch until 8. I was scheduled to be off yesterday and while I had considered working, I said fuck it. I have an 8pm class for Japan tonight so the hell with everyone.

After I got up, B called me into the kitchen where we discovered we have ants. Big old black massive scary fucking carpenter ants. Ew. We tried foam filling what we believed to be the entry point and that seemed to work for a while. We found more in the evening so went to HD and got some caulk and raid. Let's see if that helped. I haven't been into the kitchen yet this morning. Nor have I turned on a light.

The kid made it safely home around 3 my time. No issues there. Thank goodness.

We had leftovers for dinner then HD, then dealing with caulking and spraying. Went to bed around 10:30.

Today I have to work on the docs for OH for about 4-5 hours, then a break, then 8pm Japan class. Good times.

Y10 D317

Another packed day. This time at the Henry Ford Museum. I wasn't expecting to enjoy myself but it ended up being really cool. So cool we became members. We were there from around 10am until almost 3. We had a nice lunch while we were there.

Came home, ordered pizza, the kid packed. After dinner we met up with B's dad and step mom as they were the only two people the kid hadn't met and we didn't want them to feel singled out. The kid was a trooper about meeting so many people.

Got back home and we all went to bed by 9:30. I have to leave here at 5 to drop her off at the airport but then I am coming home and taking a nap. I slept horribly last night. The temperature is starting to rise and the bed has way too many blankets. Plus the sheets we bought recently do not breathe at all and I hate them. A lot. We need better sheets. And less blankets.

Y10 D316

BUSY day yesterday. We did so much that I just slept for 9 hours. Insane.

We got up, had some breakfast, then at around 10 we went over to Marvin's Mechanical Museum. It's basically an arcade, but they have machines going back to the 1800s. Old love machines, kinescopes, new stuff, old pinball, new pinball, etc. It was really cool. We've been wanting to go in there since we moved here and this was the perfect chance.

After there we had lunch at a Coney to give the kid the full experience. Then we went and visited B's grandparents (dad side). That was a nice visit. We came home and me and the kid headed downtown. We got down there around 2 and walked around. We saw Comerica park, the music hall, got chocolate, waved at Canada, had food in Greektown, saw the people mover, and walked and walked. It was great.

On the way home we picked B up at her other grandparents where Jackie met the mother side and B's sisters. They were having a BBQ because it was almost 70 here yesterday. We've had perfect weather the last two days and I couldn't be happier.

Finally got home around 7 and we all just kid of collapsed. We relaxed and I showed the kid pics from Australia. Around 9 B went to bed, and around 10 me and the kid went to bed.

Our last full day with her here. Got to make it count.

Y10 D315

Yesterday was a good day. I left the house aorund 5:10 to head to the airport. The kid landed around 7. We had a great time catching up and talking on the way home. Boy have I missed her. We got back to the house and she relaxed for a while. Around noon we headed to Frankenmuth for the day.

We shopped, we ate, we talked. It was a really nice time. We also had super nice weather for once. It was mid 50s which while still chilly, the sun was out. We had the big ol' chicken dinner. Got home around 8 and everyone crashed. The kid went right to bed and I was in bed by 9:30.

It was a good day.

Y10 D314

I'm up. Heading to the airport soon to get child. Let the weekend of the kid begin!

Found out can't go to Ozzy in July because he's fucking old and cancelled all of his tour dates. They are telling me to hold my ticket until 2020. Okay.

Can't go to the misfits in la in june because tickets are $200 a pop.

There goes all of my birthday plans.

Fuckers.

Worked on my doc. Had indian food. Have heartburn. Such is life.

Slept for four hours. Sigh.

Y10 D313

Tomorrow, the kid will be here tomoroow. Neat.

Had a rough class yesterday. 14 students but only like 5 were paying attention. One completely no-showed and funny, I think the same person did this before. Asshat.

Got through the day. Finished at 4:50. Had dinner, took a soak, watched tv, went to bed.

Whee.

Y10 D312

Only two more days until the kid is here! Wooo! It's going to be a crazy weekend but it will be worth it. I just have to make until then. That might be a challenge.

Yesterday was a bit rough. I got dumped on by my boss who doesn't seem to be wanting to engage with any work. He is 'delegating' things that he used to handle which isn't a problem in of itself. No, the issue is he is dumping these things with no warning, no background info, and no assistance. And there are other people expecting results. Asshat. I did manage to finish the first part of the custom work I am doing for the group in Ohio. Tomorrow I need to finish the next part. Today, I teach a NJ group. Also last night I ended up working very late because starting at 7pm I assisted the group in Japan with connection testing. Good times.

B's sisters did come over last night. We made little pizzas, played some game, made cookies, then I went to bed and have no idea what else they did.

It looks like I might be going to LA at the end of June for personal reasons. My buddy invited me to come join him to see The Misfits and the Distillers. Okay. Why the hell not. He is going to let me know what tickets cost tomorrow. Go me.

Train keeps a rollin all night long.

Y10 D311

I am so screwed up. I don't know what day it is. I thought I had a class this morning but in fact it's tomorrow from 9-5. Son of a bitch. One, I could have slept in a bit more as I had another rough night, and two it means I told B the wrong info and she is getting up earlier than needed. Damn it.

I did have some VERY interesting dreams last night. One started with me being part of a Scientology cult center luring other people in and like taking their passports so they couldn't leave. That morphed into me sleeping at the house of Glenn from superstore who woke me up too early - OMG I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING!! In my dream I was yelling at him that I didn't work at 9am but 9pm! I wonder if my brain actually knew I didn't have class today and it was trying to tell me that?!?! What a trip. So I go into 'work' and next thing I know it's a giant skateboard park and I am killing it. Cool. THAT morphed into me being at work with one of my old bosses and we're having weird conversations about things and people. Very vivid and clear dreams for sure. I remember them all perfectly.

As for yesterday, I worked on my document which apparently I can finish today and not on Wednesday as I thought because I am an idiot. I worked from 6 until about 3:30. Made dinner, and we watched some tv. We also started prepping and planning or the kid's arrival on Friday. WOOO! We have an agenda all planned out. I am super excited.

That's about it. I believe B's sisters are coming over tonight. Joy.

Y10 D310

Woke up to a message from my tax guy. Looks like we owe about $100 total to federal and CA, and will be getting a refund from OR for $600. Not sure about MI. not enough residency possibly to have to file. That's the kind of news I like to wake up to on a Monday morning. Boo. Yah. Playing the game.

Yesterday was not good. B's mother was the primary issue in our house because of the fucking dog she got. "why don't you want to come see it??" blah blah blah. Then she goes over to her grandparent's to visit her cousins and they don't acknowledge her. This one I had trouble with. She's 10+ years older than any of them, more like 15+ for the majority. Of course they don't see you as one of them. You're an adult like their parents. You brought donuts and bagels. That's what adults do you silly. But of course that led to a rough day in our house.

She wanted comfort food for dinner. Went to a 'mexican place'. Yeah no. I ate like four bites. It was such a disaster the poor server was worried and showed my plate to his manager. Sorry your food sucks? Look I tipped him well because it's not his fault the chicken was dry, the ground beef was boil in bag, and the "taco" was harder than a calculus test. It just was bad midwest food. The 'salsa' was tomatoes. Like literally tomatoes. You covered the entire enchilada in it. Disgusting. Your mexican cheese was monterey jack. This is not good food. But again, didn't take it out on the server. B thinks they thought I was a food critic or inspector the way I picked everything apart. LOL.

Came home, watched tv, went to bed around 10. Tossed and turned until forever. I remember seeing 3 on the clock at one point. I had a shit night. Oh well.

My new bank card should be here today. Let me rephrase, it better be here today.