Y11 D250

Still haven't fixed my machine fully. I still have GRUB hanging out on my mbr. I did download Herins and made a boot USB out of it but haven't run it yet. Too busy working until almost 7 last night. Fuck this 10:30 - 6:30 bullshit. Made for too long of a day.

Made shrimp and grits for dinner. Was good.

Have a pedicure today. Much needed and overdue. Is it the weekend yet? Can I go back on the road yet?

Y11 D249

I was up until midnight last night. I was trying to salvage a drive issue. The D drive on my laptop was lost. Luckily it was my "data" drive so the machine still boots but. It all started when I was doing a dual boot to ubuntu to test something for work (this is technically my work machine) and after testing I wanted to get rid of that partition. Since my D is a dynamic drive I ended up with 600gb of unallocated non-contiguous space. It wouldn't let me reclaim that space nor can I get grub off here. So now I am rebuilding my D drive (which I had 90% backed up) but more importantly, I still need to get grub off this fucking thing. Anyone who knows how to pull grub off a drive, let me know. I did a bootsect /nt60 /mbr but it didn't clear it. Sigh.

Spent the rest of my day teaching 15 people from Pru. Not a bad group. Some duds but enough people to keep me awake and going. Had leftover stew for dinner.

10:30 - 6:30 again today. Then tomorrow I might take the day off. We shall see.

Y11 D248

Yesterday ended up just being a long ass day. Because my class started so late I was thrown off all day. I had three students all of whom are other trainers. Well, one is another trainer, one is the person who does our webinars, and one is an annoying pain in my ass. It was this last one that caused the most problems. Thanks to them we didn't finish until exactly 6:30. They wouldn't shut up. Blah blah blah. Shut the fuck up. The time was good though. Found some typos in the material, refined some demos, need to make some clean up to things. Overall it was time well spent, but fuck it was long.

Snowed a little yesterday. Not enough to be a problem but enough to coat the ground. More is expected on Saturday when it's really supposed to dump. Good times.

B is still happy with her car and that's all that counts. Me? I'm going to spend the next year stressed out about every penny going in and out of this house. Hey, that's my lot in life, right? Sigh.

Y11 D247

Well we did it. We are a two car household again. We now own a 2017 Jeep Patriot High Altitude Edition. It's already made a positive difference in our life. B is helping a friend move and oh look, I still have a car here in case I need to go somewhere. Go me. The process was pretty painless. Took about 2 hours from the time we arrived until the time we left. That included test driving it, having it checked for the alignment (B swore it was off, I say it's a Jeep), paperwork, washing, gas, etc. So not bad at all. I spent the rest of the day getting prepped for today's class. New material, new software, new files, etc. Let's see how this goes today.

Leftovers for dinner. Dyed my hair. Watched some TV. Went to bed. Making a slow cooker stew today and need to get it in the crockpot in the next hour or so.

Weather has been warming up but I think that's a fluke. More snow should be coming this weekend. Fun. Same as last year though so nothing surprising. Just annoying. But hey, we have two vehicles that can handle it now. Go us.

Y11 D246

It's Monday. Ugh. Luckily I have paperwork today and no classes. Tomorrow through Thursday I teach. Horrible hours too. 10:30 - 6:30 Tues and Thurs, 9-5 Weds. Oh well. Work is work.

We did a little shopping yesterday. Nothing crazy. Went to a gamestop to get B some funko pops she wanted, old navy for some sale clothes. The big thing was we stopped at two dealerships and looked at cars. We found one that we're going back this morning to drive. If she likes it, we're getting a second car. 2017 Jeep Patriot with 22k miles for 14k. Drop 3k down on it, deal with the payment. We need this second car so it's going to suck, but there's not much we can do. It's a good deal and it looks clean. If she drives it and likes it, we'll do everything to leave with it. Our thought is we do it for a 60 month loan and pay it in 36-48. She should get a good 5 to 6 years out of it.

That was the big outing yesterday. She visited her mom to pick up a cat tree and went to Joanns for yarn. Luckily she had gift cards from Xmas still. I took a nap.

Had leftover for dinner. Went to bed kind of early because I was tired. That's about it on this end.

Y11 D245

I went to three different stores yesterday morning and took 2.5 hours but I got everything on our grocery list. There's something satisfying about an empty shopping list. We got all the groceries dammit. We have a full two weeks of menus planned out as well. Small victories.

When B got up we then went for more errands. We started at home depot because she decided to build an outdoor habitat for this neighborhood cat we keep seeing at night. We don't know if he's a stray or just gets out at night, but regardless, he now has a place to sleep if he wants it. Took trips to Home Depot and Target to get tubs, insulation, etc. Then we came home, assembled it, and took a break. Around 3 we had a mini-spa appointment. I got a lash tint and she got an eyebrow tint. It was a fluke this place had an appointment available but we were both very happy with the place, our stylist, and the results. Definitely go back.

She mad pot pies for dinner and then I went and picked up the friend, whom I have to drive to work in a little while. Speaking of people without cars, we are finally breaking down and buying a second car. We are doing our research and have found some options. More on that as it develops.

So today I am driving the friend, then we are probably driving around to dealerships. Whee.

Y11 D244

Got quite a bit done yesterday without meaning to. Just a productive day. Got my timesheet done, expense report, 4 loads of laundry, had a meeting with a coworker about some new materials, found a good mexican place, B and I had a long talk about some things that have been bothering both of us. She's been struggling and we think it's her meds not working the right way. I got some things off my chest, her as well. It was a good healthy talk. Paid bills. We might go look at a second car this weekend. Make things easier on both of us for sure. I guess I don't have a lot to report even though I feel like it was a pretty good day. Huh.

Y11 D243

Boy oh boy. I overslept. A lot. Apparently I was tired. I woke up an hour ago and was too groggy to get up. I didn't sleep on any of my flights yesterday so I was running on empty. Luckily I have nothing pressing this morning. I have an 11am meeting but otherwise I am good.

I left the hotel around 2 because internet died. I think that happened to me there before. Got to the terminal around 2:40 and sat. Got through security and boarded at 4:50. We were 20 minutes delayed out of Seattle so I freaked out a bit. Tickets for Pearl Jam went on sale 10am PST and we were going to land at 9:45 with the delay. Luckily they made up the time and we ended up getting in 2 minutes early. I got off the plane and headed to the club.

Got setup, logged into Ticketmaster and waited. 10am, boom. Got my tickets. I am going to Pearl Jam in April in Oakland. Row 14, seats 1 & 2. Only $100 a ticket. Not bad comparatively speaking. I mean don't get me wrong, I remember when $50 for a ticket was ridiculous. Yep. Me being a grandpa.

Still had 2 hours to kill until my flight. Waited, boarded, landed at 6:30pm EST. Driver picked me up because B was at the hospital. Her grandfather didn't get in to surgery until after 4. By the time they got him out it was close to 8. They all went and had some food and she got home around 9:30. Exhausting day for her but he made it out of surgery and everything is looking good.

Meanwhile, I unpacked, went through mail, took a shower, and waited. We went to bed around 11.

So one meeting today, laundry, clean the fish tank this weekend, shovel some snow, and that's that.

New show recommendation: Picard. It rocks.

Y11 D242

1:08am and I am off to an airport. I missed this for the last few weeks as strange as that sounds. The rush of getting up and having something concrete to accomplish.

Good day yesterday. This was a good group. They knew what they were doing, they had good questions, and they paid attention. I liked them. I would happily teach them again.

Got back to the hotel around 5:15, packed, ate, went to bed around 7:30. Not much else to say. Back home, B's grandfather is going in for emergency heart sugery today. He had an appointment yesterday and they decided to replace one of his stints like NOW. So she is of course stressed to the edge of it. AND our friend in Australia has finally been hit by the fires. Her family lost a lot of land, animals, and a storage facility on their farm yesterday. The house was spared but they lost years of stuff that had been in the storage shed. Sucks. They are devestated to say the least. I wish we could help somehow but it's not realistic.

On my layover today I am going to be trying to buy Pearl Jam tickets. Wish me luck.

Y11 D241

Not a whole lot to report to be honest. Got up, had breakfast, got to the client, waited, taught. 12 students. Not advanced at all. I did change the material up mostly to keep myself from going nuts. Everyone is okay. No issues. We did have a projector issue and they ended up having to replace the cable. But that was worst thing of the day.

Finished around 4:20, came back, had dinner, watched tv, went to bed. Need to check in for my flight in an hour. Whee.

Y11 D240

In Seattle. Well technically Lynnwood which is about 45 minutes north. But still, same area. Can't breathe. But what else is new. I was made for, and deserve to be in, the humid weather of places like Hawaii. Not the crippling death humidity of a florida. No, the gentle ocean tinged weather. Sigh.

9 hours of travel. Had to go down to go up. 49 names on the upgrade list in Dallas. Poor souls. 2 hour layover there. Got in around 1, hotel by 2:30.

Ate in the room.

Two days teaching, head home thursday.

Y11 D239

So the snow. We tried to shovel out and it was too frozen over from the rain that managed to fall and freeze. We ended up calling our lawn guy who has a truck. $40 to plow out my driveway and salt it. Son of a bitch. But it kept snowing and it didn't stick in our driveway thanks to him. No complaint.

We ran a couple of errands once we were freed from our confines but nothing major. B is still going through some shit. She has taken a few steps back with regard to her mental health. It's putting a strain on me but I am soldiering on because I know it's temporary. Plus I signed up for this. I will not put my needs first in this case. She needs help and support and that's what partners do.

Off to Seattle this morning so was in bed at 7. Slept like shit but hey, I got 8 hours of flights today. 3 1/2 to DFW then DFW to SEA. Go down to go up. Fun times. Home on Thursday. Late.

Y11 D238

Yeah, we're all snowed in. I tried to shovel the driveway yesterday but nearly died halfway through and said fuck it, I don't need to leave the house today. Unfortunately I DO need to leave the house this morning but the thought of going back out there and trying to shovel is filling me with dread. I don't have it in me. There's serious wind and it's in the single digits. I can't deal with that. I am not about to die from a heart attack because of snow. It is supposed to clear up around noon. We shall see.

So yeah we basically stayed in the house all day yesterday playing video games and not doing much of anything else. It does need to clear up enough so I can get to Seattle tomorrow. Cross your fingers for me.

Y11 D237

So yesterday turned out to be um, interesting. Yeah, let's go with that. It started with me having to drive the friend, again, suffered through a 4 hour meeting, flowed into a Shrek audience participation in a theater, and ended with us driving through the start of a major snow storm at midnight. See? Interesting.

As I mentioned, I was off in the morning. I managed to get through that by the end of the day. But it was the least of my issues for the day. Drove the friend, got groceries at 6:15 in the morning, came back, finished my new class (yay me), and then waited for the meeting.

I had asked for literally a 10 minute catch up phone call to discuss what had worked well in the last months. This turned into 7 people and four hours. Sigh. I did voice this on the meeting when it devolved into sales and marketing discussions for over an hour. I snapped. I was like no, this isn't why we're here. There are at least three of us on this call who give zero fucks about this. Back to the real reason we're here. At just before 4pm we finished. Ugh.

We had dinner, then we drove to Ann Arbor for a 9:30pm showing of Shrek. It was an audience participation kind of showing. So basically the whole audience of 20-30 somethings quoted the whole movie for 90 minutes. Fun for B, tolerable for me. Don't get me wrong, Shrek holds up after 2 decades but the audience stuff was meh. It's one thing when it's Rocky, it's another when it's Shrek. One is callbacks, one is people just quoting and singing. Different to me.

A snowstorm was scheduled to hit us today (there's six inches of snow on the ground that fell in the last six hours) and it was just starting as we left the theater around 11:15. Ann Arbor is a 35 minute drive with no issues, so it took us almost an hour because of the visibility and ice. Good times.

Got home, unwound, went to bed around 1:30. I will say I enjoyed getting out of the house. That part was good.

Now because of the six inches of snow on the ground, we aren't going anywhere today. Nope. Staying in all day. Just hope we keep power all day.

Y11 D236

I took care of packing. I am all packed up thank you very much. It took all of 20 minutes. It did look like I was going to have to change my flights yesterday. Their salesperson is really dropping the ball. He threw me under the bus too. No fucking way buddy. He screwed the dates up and them tried to blame me with the client. If it comes up while I am there, I am telling them the truth. You don't play that shit with me.

Spent the day working on my stuff. Have one last demo to work on today and I am done! A brand new class will be ready to go for when I get back from Seattle. Go me.

B made peppers for dinner. She has been having really bad anxiety this week and not going to bed until 2 or 3 in the morning again. She doesn't meet with her doctor until next week. Shit needs to get fixed.

I am off kilter a bit today. Don't know why, just am. Angry too at a bunch of little shit. This is going to be an annoying day.

Y11 D235

So I spend all day yesterday stressing out trying to come up with new material to fill two days of a class only to find out at 3:30 that it was all a mistake on the part of a different salesperson and that I didn't need new material. WTF? So this class next week is through that other group that I have mentioned before where they resell it to us. Well their salesperson who we now call Mr Fucknuts, screwed up, again, and caused us to go full blown panic mode. This is the same guy who caused me to have to go to Seattle only to sit in a hotel room for 2 days. He needs to be fired. Like now. The end result though is I did come up with some new material. Still don't have enough for a full two days, but I have enough to add to one of our other classes which was always a little light. So fine, not wasted time, but certainly stressful time.

While I worked, B went on a cleaning spree. She rearranged the hall closet, the guest closet, and got her office back in shape. So time well spent there too. For dinner I made coconut chicken. After dinner we played Pokemon Sword together. Well, she played, I back seat Pokemoned.

Went to bed around 11.

Need to go back and finish the other class today and pack. I haven't packed and I leave Monday. Probably should do that today, eh?

Oh and it looks like I will be flying to CA in April. Nope, not for work. For Pearl Jam. Tickets go on sale next Thursday. If I get tickets I am going. Why CA? Because no one around here wants to see them with me. I was willing to go to Hamilton Canada which is a 3 hour drive but not alone. The only person I could find who wants to see them with me is the kid. Fine. I will go to her. Pearl Jam in April, Ozzy in July. Now she wants me to go see KMFDM with her in August. Three concerts in CA in 2020? Why the fuck not.

Y11 D234

Fuck my co-worker pisses me off. He constantly sends emails at a time that's convenient for HIM and no one else. Which is like 9pm PST. So guess what I fucking wake up to EVERY. GODDAMN. MORNING? A ton of emails from him that I could have taken care of during the day. Instead I start my mornings off stressed out. Today is "oh by the way can you completely change the material you're supposed to deliver next week in Seattle?" Um, fuck? I don't know I have enough material to do that. Fuckity fuck fuck. Well there goes my morning.

Spent yesterday getting the new material almost done. I have like three more demos to write which I was going to finish up today but now, nope. Gah.

We had some drama in the morning. One of B's axolotls died. It's hard with these things. They're not like a regular fish because of their legs and personalities so she was hit hard. We ended up burying it in the backyard. Yeah, that's fun at 7am in the cold. But that set the mood for her for the rest of the day.

Made myself lamb last night for dinner. It was good. I was happy.

Bah. Now I am all discombulated. Fuck.

Y11 D233

I hate the line of cars that forms outside our house in the mornings. Sheep on their way to the slaughter. From now until until about 8:30 it's just a steady stream of it. Makes me think of: 

You get up every morning from your alarm clock's warning
Take the 8:15 into the city
There's a whistle up above and people pushin', people shovin'
And the girls who try to look pretty
And if your train's on time, you can get to work by nine
And start your slaving job to get your pay

Meh. Live and live. I'm still part of that machine, I just don't have to deal with the whole commute part. But I am still part of the capitalism factory.

Ah cynicism at 6:30am. What a time to be alive.

Worked on my stuff yesterday. B made meatloaf for dinner. We went to the mall after dinner to get out of the house. That was actually enjoyable. Everyone around here is still reeling from Christmas so it was dead as heck which works for us. She got a new hoodie from forever 21 and I got some candy from lolli and pops. Look out, we're wild.

She also got a crazy clean streak in her yesterday. Because we finally got the headboard hung up (still owe you a picture), it meant she got her office back. That triggered cleaning time. So now her office is put back together, the hall closet is reorganized as is the entire guest room. Okay. It all looks good and I got to stay out of the way with only minor assisting. I can handle that.

Today I would like to finish my new class. I think I can do it. B will probably go to bingo so not much else going on. One week until I leave again.

Y11 D232

I would have been up earlier but we were up at 2am dealing with a stray cat outside our window in the cold and snow. One of ours was howling at the sliding door in the kitchen because there was a strange cat outside and B of course tried to help it. She tried luring it into the garage, then setup a box, all efforts of course failed. She left the box. I haven't gone back out to check on it yet, but we shall see. NO we are not taking in another one.

Didn't do much of anything yesterday. I went out briefly to the vape shop and walgreens to get B some numbing cream for her legs. They are still bothering her from bowling on Friday.

Her dad and step-mom came over last night around 7 to finally help us mount the headboard B built. It looks good. I will take a picture later today. They stayed until around 9:30 or so.

More docs this week, then I leave. Have to pack at some point. Maybe today after I do laundry.

Y11 D231

Those buckets of rain I mentioned yesterday continued throughout the whole day and well into the evening. There were some cities where it was turning into ice and sleet and they shut down completely. All non-essential services were suspended. It wasn't quite so bad here, but I can tell it turned bad during the night because there is a layer of ice outside. Just ice. Not snow, but a shine. The kind of shine that cars and people go sliding on.

We dealt with water in the basement yesterday. Notice I am not saying flooding. There were plenty of people yesterday dealing with real flooding and I won't over blow what we had. One of B's friends has almost 2 inches of water in their house so what we had was no means a big deal. We had a small pool in the basement because our french drain outside was blocked and the one in the basement was blocked. Once we remedied those issues and mopped up the water, all was good. It was all isolated to the laundry room where the drain is and wasn't that horrible to deal with at all.

We did venture out in the evening for Indian food and groceries. That was our wild Saturday night. Woo baby.

Not sure what we're doing today. Probably nothing.

Y11 D230

The skies have opened and the rain is pouring down. Thank goodness it's not cold enough to turn into snow, but it may turn into ice and hail which is much much worse. But it is definitely coming down in buckets outside.

Had a decent day yesterday. Worked on my stuff in the morning, paid bills, then we went and had a birthday lunch with a friend. We took him to our favorite hot dog place which turned into a bit of an adventure. They were a bit frazzled due to one employee the night before deciding to quit and leaving everything a mess for them when they came in. Then their computers decided it was update time. We ended up walking to an ATM to grab them some cash but they were totally cool about everything and comped us like 25% of the bill because of how long and how much of a hassle it was. We were all good though. No one was angry or frustrated. Shit just happens. Karma man, it's real.

After lunch we took him bowling. B's step mom runs a bowling alley (she is second in command below the owner) and we got to bowl three games for free. Hurt my finger as always but we had fun.

Got back home around 3 something, B took a nap, I ordered us pizza for dinner. Then around 7:30 B headed out with her cousin to that shadow cast of Princess Bride. She got home around 1am and said she had fun.

Me, I stayed in and watched some TV. I didn't go because I was supposed to go to a concert Sunday. I say supposed because last night I got notice it was cancelled. That fucking sucks. I was looking forward to leaving the house and now, nope. Pretty bummed about it to be honest. It was my first real thing in a while. Add to that I found out Neil Peart died of brain cancer last night. Wow. Good times. I did have a good Rush listen with B out of the house. I cranked up some Tom Sawyer and reminisced.

I don't think we have anything on the docket for today. We shall see.

Y11 D229

Well, first pay period of 2020 and no raise. No bonus. Hell, I found out yesterday our big boss sent my coworker 3 lbs of bacon. Confused the fuck out of her. I explained that maybe he was trying to be clever because she is always "bringing home the bacon". She laughed and said that probably is it but it doesn't beat a fucking raise. I agree 100% with you on that. I did send my boss a snark filled message this morning after seeing my paycheck. Let's see what comes of that. Nothing probably. As usual. See the rock and the hard place for me is that while I do need some kind of increase (haven't had a COLA in years), it's not like I will find a whole lot of jobs here in MI that will pay me CA salaries. If I switch jobs I have been seeing 10-20% LESS for pay in most cases. Unless I can find a senior management position. But then I will end up working 70 hours a week and commuting like all these other schlubs. See? Rock. Hard place. Sigh.

Worked more on my new class yesterday. Got up late as you know so I worked late. Had dinner, went to bed. See, here's another reason why I need just a modest raise. I need a couple hundred more a pay period so we can get a second car. B took eggs out to her friend (axolotl eggs, not like store eggs) and was gone until 8pm. What could I do? Fucking nothing. Sit in the house and wait for her to come home. Couldn't go for a walk anywhere because it was 20 degrees and raining/icing outside. So I sat. In the house. Again.

Fuck. What a shitty way to start the day. Fuck this.

Y11 D228

I woke up at 5:45 and said no. Well I guess that was the right call because it's two hours later. I needed the sleep apparently. I am low-key sick again. Not like full on dying like I was, but more just general malaise and sore throat. If my body wants to rest, my body gets rest. Luckily I have one more week before I have to be on the road. I am hoping it will pass by then.

Worked on my new docs for half the day, then taught my class for the second half. That was pretty much my day from 7-4. B went to bingo so I made fish tacos, watched some tv, played video games, and went to bed around 10:30.

Sigh. Yep.

I have been trying to avoid the news for fear of getting angrier with the world. I have reached a point where I understand hermits. Locked away from the outside sounds like a good thing to me. But sadly I read some of what is happening right now. How do people see the destruction of another group of people as a good thing? How can they justify their actions the way they do? I truly can't wait for this current batch of old white men to die off. The ones who still hold on to the old values of warmongering and xenophobia.

More sigh.

Y11 D227

I turned the humidity back up and it was much better. Still not as high as I would like it, but better.

Rough, rough sleep. Lots of dreams but lots of waking up too. Not a good night. Had weird fucking dreams.

Worked more on my docs yesterday. Uncovered a bug in the product. Luckily there was a patch already out there so I wasn't the first to find said bug. But it still sucked. I spent like 2 hours thinking it was something I was doing only to finally uncover the patch file. They didn't make it easy.

Had chicken bake for dinner because B wanted it. Shit I think the pan is still in the microwave. Ugh. Alright, took care of that. We had the dish in there because one of the cats will not stop jumping on the counter. I researched last night how to make a sprayer because the commercial one is ridiculously expensive.

Went to bed. Class today. Whee. 17 people. This will be fun.

Y11 D226

Can't breathe this morning. B had me turn the humidity down a little bit because things were feeling 'damp' but I turned it down too much. I am dry, stopped up, and have the headache. I need humid climates. I'm moving to Hawaii. A place where I can keep the windows open all year long and just soak up the water in the air. What is with people who hate humidity? Like seriously, fuck places like AZ.

I wish in my lifetime I will see a device that lets us record, or at the very least recall better, our dreams. I had a myriad of them last night and am only remembering snippets but at the time I feel like some were really good and interesting. But alas they are lost to my waking mind.

Got the presentation portion of the new class I am working on done. Start on the demos today. Goal is to have the whole thing done this week so I can record it next week. I am confident I can do it. About 12-15 demos I have to come up with for the class. Shouldn't be too hard. I was thinking I fly to Seattle next week but still one more. Don't leave until the 20th. I really want an international trip this year. Somewhere good too, not Canada. I would love my NJ client to finally send me to Ireland or Japan or South Korea. Somewhere new to scratch off my map.

Installed a door in the laundry room last night. Nothing fancy. Just an accordion door to separate out the furnace area from the laundry area. B doesn't like the cats in the laundry room because they can get too close to the water heater and furnance. Well not any more. That's all blocked off from them now. Wasn't too hard to do either. Kind of fun.

Went to bed around 11. Oh, had leftovers for dinner. Trying to eat everything in the fridge. Almost there.

Y11 D225

Woo, back to the grind y'all! Got to punch my clock and work my 9er to 5er. I work 12 hour in hamburger mine to buy one rock roll record! Yeah, my vacation has ended. I have shit to do today and all day to do it. Yeehaw.

Didn't do much yesterday though thank goodness. Some errands here and there. It started snowing around 3pm and just came down for a few hours. Haven't looked outside yet but it was pretty white when I went to bed. Last year at this time it was doing the same. I have pictures from 1/17 where there's nothing on the ground and then 2 days later, there's six inches of snow. So we shall see.

That's about it. New classes, teach a class, record some updates. That's the extent of my week.

Y11 D224

Sunday. I think it's Sunday, right? My vacation has come to an end. I am back to the normal grind tomorrow. I have classes this week. A full one on Wednesday. 17 students. Whee. But that's it for next week. Then I fly to Seattle. Whee. Back to it baby.

Had a quiet day yesterday. Went to the store in the morning for some grocery items, took B to lunch when she finally got up, stopped at a hobby shop to look at stuff, came back home. Made tacos for dinner. That was about it. A rip roaring saturday if ever there was one. I miss having shows to do on a saturday. I miss being around people. Oh well.

Y11 D223

Holy crap, I slept for like 9 hours. Woo boy! There goes most of my morning. Oh well. It's not like I have any exciting plans for the day. I have to go to the store to get taco shells at some point for tacos for dinner, but otherwise, no plans at all. I can handle some sleeping.

As for yesterday, I had the best eye exam ever. Seriously. This new office I went to was so much more efficient, updated, and knowledgeable than where I went last year. I learned something huge. I currently wear my contacts monthly per my doctor's instructions. Well guess what? They were never meant to be monthlies. They're so supposed to be bi-monthly. The FDA has only ever approved my contacts to be worn for two weeks then replaced. Why have all my doctors said to wear them monthly? Humidity. Because the humidity is so much different where I've always lived, the lenses are okay as monthly. But since there is real changes to the weather here, especially during the winter, I should be changing them out every two weeks. This also explains why I have problems the last week or so of wearing my lenses. Even though I may have lived in a humid location, my travels put me in different places which tended to try them out faster. Add to that, the brand of lens solution I have been using can leave a film on the lens especially after 3 or 4 weeks of wear that can cause problems. Many of the things I have complained about for years, have all been due to lack of knowledge. I was so impressed with how they explained and did things at this new office.

After the eye doctor, went to target to pick up a prescription for B. Came home and she surprised me with a forgotten Christmas gift. It rolled behind something in her office and she had totally forgotten about it. It's one of those scratch off world maps to show where you've been. We went back out to the store, got some foam board, mounted it, and scratched off 90% of the US and the 11 other countries I have been to. Now we're going to hang it above my desk. Neat.

Got the brine shrimp setup and they should be hatching throughout the day today. Hopefully she has enough axolotl babies left. I know they had another set of eggs so this time we will be ready for them.

Made a nice piece of swordfish with a pineapple peach salsa last night. Came out really nice. Was happy about that. We watched some TV and went to bed. She's about 80% recovered. Another day or two and she'll be great.

That's about it. Hope everyone is tolerating the new year especially since Bush, I mean Reagan, I mean Bush 2, I mean stupidhead, has us in a war with Iraq and Iran this time. Good job fucktard.

Y11 D222

Man I slept like shit last night. Had the worst time falling asleep, then woke up multiple times, and had to be up early this morning for my eye doctor appointment. I've had maybe 4 hours of sleep. Ugh. When I get back from the eye doctor, I feel a nap is in my future.

Didn't do much again which was okay. I am starting to get bored with being home. You know how that goes. I can only take so much of it before I get restless. Just a few more days then I can go back to working on stuff.

Went to the grocery store, that was my big trip out. B is still sick but finally starting to turn a corner. She's able to breathe again at least. It took me a good two weeks to be back to full health and she's coming up on one week tomorrow. The difference is she has been diligently taking meds and staying in bed which is helping her recover faster. I'd say by the end of the weekend she will be good to go. We shall see.

Nothing else going on. Am excited for my eye doctor appointment. I always like a good eye exam. Weird that way.

Y11 D221

Man I slept late this morning. Didn't go to bed that late though. Was in bed by 11. Just was tired I guess. Oh well. I only have a few more days before I am back to it and might as well enjoy the sleep time.

Didn't leave the house once yesterday and it was great. I relaxed and did whatever all day. Watched some tv, read, played video games. Completely relaxing day. Christmas was already put away so I didn't have to worry about that like most people do on NYD. Nope. I had absolutely nothing to do and it was awesome.

Today more of the same. Tomorrow I have an eye exam so have to get up early, but no other expectations. I like this.

Y11 D220

Hm. Still has the old decade smell. Oh well.

I hope everyone had a safe, fun time last night and is doing alright this morning.

We had a nice boring night with a friend over. Played multiple board and card games, gorged on a taco bell dinner, had a 10 year old bottle of champagne at midnight, went to bed by 2. Nice and boring. Yay us.

Spent the day cleaning the house so we would have a new year with a nice clean start. Also made soup and mac & cheese for the week.

It snowed all day yesterday. Was okay except in the morning when I went to the grocery store, got to the check out line, realized I forgot my wallet, and had to drive home and back. That was not fun but I survived.

It's Wednesday isn't it? Weird week people, weird week. Couple more days then back to the grand. 19 more days and I am back on the road.