Yesterday turned out to be a rather insane day. I woke up later than I wanted so I was already off in the morning. I didn't sleep much either. I was not off to a good start. I headed off to the dentist around 11am after doing some morning work. The dentist went both good and bad. Turns out I am a bit of a celebrity there. I wrote a glowing recommendation for them after my first visit and well, apparently no one ever says anything nice about the dentist. They printed out my review, enlarged it, and put it on their breakroom wall. Oy. The main dentist and practice owner came to see me and was just so excited to meet me in person. Weirdest experience ever. Good news - my teeth aren't as bad as I feared. Bad news, I need scaling and a deep clean. One quadrant at a time, $200 a pop. Okay. But if I do it and go back to having regular visits, I can keep my teeth a long time. Works for me. I am starting this process in April. I did leave with my teeth feeling the nicest they have felt in a long time. Still very much love this dentist.
Got home around 1, worked until a 3pm meeting. Went to get on the meeting and my mic was dead. I tried to fix it and lost keyboard. Then mouse. It was a comedy of errors. I unplug one everything works. I plug in the mic I lose everything. I am troubleshooting this while on the phone for this meeting. Crazy. I finally get it disassembled and discover from years of unplugging and plugging back in, the connector is shot to hell. When I would plug it back in it was shorting everything else out. Motherfucker. I teach the rest of the week and this was NOT the time for my mic to die. I had no backup that was suitable. I look up online and Best Buy near me has ONE in stock that will work. I switched to the slightly better Yeti X model. I didn't need to replace the boom arm, just the head so good. We get there after fighting commute time traffic and guess what? None. The whole shelf is bare. The employee is so overworked she can't even take the time to help. Fuck this. Out of here. Got in the truck, found the next closest location that supposedly also had one in stock. 35 minutes away. Fine. Ordered for pickup. Traffic is a nightmare. Get there and it's ready to go. Now we have to drive back home. In traffic. We didn't get back until almost 6:30 for a simple mic pickup. Still had to make dinner. Because of the dentist, I didn't eat all day either. I was hangry at this point.
Got home, made dinner, watched Top Chef and then had to hookup the new mic. Then I had to test. I had my coworker join a Zoom meeting but I needed to wait until they were free. It was almost 9 by the time I was all done. We then watched the last two episodes of season 3 of top chef. Got into bed around 11pm. LONG day. I also got constant posts from B on their birthday. Annoy. Once more, I must say, the longer we're apart, the more I see our incompatibility. Their day consisted of painting ceramics, Benihana, and who knows what else. That's not a birthday to me. But it's not my day so I have no place to say anything. I hope they had fun.
Teaching in 3 hours. Back to the old grind.
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