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I went out last night. Yep, in public and everything. Hated every minute of it. Allow me to elaborate. I will circle back to earlier in the day in a minute. First let's talk about my "night". I decided I was tired of being in the house. I looked up the city everyone keeps telling me to go to and found three choices of breweries/restaurants that would be acceptable for me to have dinner at a bar. Two of them are closed on Tuesdays so I ended up at choice number 3. We're already off to a shitty start, aren't we? Where I went is 14 miles from my house. That's issue number one because that meant I had to drive on the freeway and I went out at 5pm. Yeah. Let's focus on that for a second - I am very spoiled in where I have lived before. For too many years everything I needed was either within walking distance, a quick public transportation trip, or 5 minutes away on side roads. I loathe getting on the freeway if I am just planning on staying out for a short time. So last night was not off to a good start. Found a parking lot near where I wanted to be and paid the $3. That was easy. They have an app and I had looked it up before hand to be ready. I then walked around a bit to see where I was, what was near, and what I wanted to do. I did find a cool record store and had to constrain myself from buying stuff. That was tough. They had a great selection and I would go back to that record store if I needed something specific. I had trouble walking around though since it was all of 35 degrees out. This of course led to my frustration. The sun was in my eyes and it was freezing at the same time. My brain didn't like that. I found my food destination and sat at the bar. I ordered a local stout and it was awful. Just awful. I ordered a reuben but didn't read the description closely enough. It was a fucking turkey reuben. Imagine my disappointment. Then on my left I had old guy (my age to be honest) complaining about jukeboxes and how he hates the modern app based ones blah blah blah. On my right, two "businessmen", aka insurance guys or sales guys of some type in polo shirts thinking they're cool. Fail. I didn't finish either the sandwich or the beer. I then walked back towards the car. Stopped in a candy shop and got some stuff which was okay. A little pricey, but okay. Now, here's the issue why I had no fun doing all this - the whole time the specter of having to get back on that damn freeway and drive home loomed over my head. Plus it was too cold for me to wander around aimlessly. I just wanted to get back in the car with heat. I was also accosted by no less than three homeless people while walking downtown and that annoyed me because I was already in an unknown environment, frustrated with the weather, can't hear what they are trying to say to me, and just want to be off the street. In total, I was out for under two hours. I get very frustrated at not having pushed B for us to move closer to a downtown like this. IF we lived within walking or 5 minute driving distance to an area like this, I would most definitely have enjoyed myself more. I could have leisurely walked. Or, if we lived near there I could explore a little bit at a time. As it was, I was more worried about driving, parking, rushing, than enjoying myself.

But, hey, I went outside. That has to count for something, right?

Now back to earlier in the day. I had my dry run for my livestream. An hour of rearranging the room yet again, an hour of presentation, 2 hours of "feedback", an hour of rearranging the room back. I need to come up with a layout for this room that ends that part of things. I was very annoyed at having to move everything around again. My presentation went over mostly okay but I have to do tweaks on it today. Golly, what fun.

So there's my day. Bleh.