Got quite a bit accomplished yesterday. Had an early morning conference call with a client to show them how to implement security. Almost missed it because I didn't get up until 7:30 and it started at 8:30. But I managed to shower and be ready. That took me until 10. After that B and I took a quick ru to the store for some small items. Finished off a presentation for Vegas which went over well with folks when I got back. Ran some more errands. Played some video games. Made soup and grilled cheese for dinner. Made some cereal treats for a party we're going to tomorrow. By cereal treats I mean B bought BooBerry and FrankenBerry cereal a while back, decided she didn't like them and well they needed to be used somehow. Not a very exciting day but it was okay. The closet is fixed. And I have put stuff back in there and so far so good. I need to put the rest of it away today. My boss is out of town today and Monday and he basically gave me a green light to fuck around but be around if that make sense.
Well. Time to pay bills.
Friday, October 10, 2014
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Y6 D137
This week so far has just been interesting. First the closet issue, then yesterday I had a drive crash on me. I lost two VMs I use for work as well as a couple hundred pictures. The VMs I can deal with but the pictures bug me. I managed to get the majority of things transferred off the drive yesterday but I ended up baby sitting a drive all day.
I did do some work in between all that including some presentations for Vegas. I also learned that while in Vegas this year, I don't actually have to 'work' the booth. I am basically eye candy to answer random questions. I will give a 15-20 minute presentation each of the 3 days, then sit there all day just talking. Gee, I can handle that. I am looking forward to this Vegas trip now because after going over the agenda, I am going to have a lot of paid downtime.
Made a chicken casserole for dinner. Very unexciting day watching files move from one location to another. Whee.
I did do some work in between all that including some presentations for Vegas. I also learned that while in Vegas this year, I don't actually have to 'work' the booth. I am basically eye candy to answer random questions. I will give a 15-20 minute presentation each of the 3 days, then sit there all day just talking. Gee, I can handle that. I am looking forward to this Vegas trip now because after going over the agenda, I am going to have a lot of paid downtime.
Made a chicken casserole for dinner. Very unexciting day watching files move from one location to another. Whee.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Y6 D136
Boy what a day. I woke up and right around 9 I went to look in the office closet for the cat carrier. The closet door wouldn't open. Odd. I managed to push it a little and saw that the closet organizer system had fallen off the wall taking everything with it. Yep. The entire closet, clothes, records, other stuff stacked on the shelf - all now on the floor and blocking the door. And the worst part was I couldn't get the door open far enough to get anything out. I ended up having to rip the door off the hinges. I went to the office to tell them and they said maintenance would be there between 1 and 3. Sigh. Okay. We took the cat to the vet who it turns out on the surface is fine - just old. But he wants to run blood and urine work but I told him it would have to wait after they showed me the price. $300 for everything. Sorry cat, you will wait until payday. Got back from the vet and tried to organize the closet mess. I got rid of some clothes, used space bags on some others, and made it walkable in the office. Maintenance arrived at 2:58, okay technically before 3. The guy spent about 30 minutes and said "there! you can stand on that!". Okay. I put everything back but about 1/2 the weight of before. I skillfully rearranged things to minimize the weight. 20 minutes later? Crash boom baby. He basically missed all the studs with the new screws. Angrily I called back to the office. The main maintenance came by and he agreed, he missed all the studs. He is coming this morning to try and fix it again. We will see if he does any better. I made a pork loin for dinner. We watched some tv, relaxed, had the sex, then after neither of us was sleepy and we wanted to stay up for the eclipse so we headed to Jack in the Box for a late night post sex munchie box. This was around 11. We made it until 1 before both of us passed out. Sorry eclipse.
Today I am back to work. I have some presentations to get ready for our upcoming show in Vegas. Whee.
Today I am back to work. I have some presentations to get ready for our upcoming show in Vegas. Whee.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Y6 D135
Got sad yesterday afternoon. I blame it on the dream I had, I took a nap and had a really bad but all too realistic. I was cooking in the kitchen and there was poop on the floor. I started getting really pissed off about everything I do with no thanks from any one and how many times had I thrown a party like this with no one appreciating how much effort I put it. Gee, subconscious have a few things to say? Anyway it just bugged me and left me in a sour mood all night. Not a bad mood per se, just kind of sad and mopey.
I only left the house once yesterday and that was to get B taco bell and make an appointment finally for the cat. She is going in at 11am today for a checkup. Otherwise I organized another 600 files, played some Diablo, watched the Doctor, and relaxed. I did answer a couple of work emails but they were in relation to things I will be doing the rest of the week so okay.
That was day off number one. Let's see how day off number two goes.
I only left the house once yesterday and that was to get B taco bell and make an appointment finally for the cat. She is going in at 11am today for a checkup. Otherwise I organized another 600 files, played some Diablo, watched the Doctor, and relaxed. I did answer a couple of work emails but they were in relation to things I will be doing the rest of the week so okay.
That was day off number one. Let's see how day off number two goes.
Monday, October 6, 2014
Y6 D134
I slept for 9 hours. That's the longest I have slept in at least three months. Unfortunately I woke up to a very long email from my sister who it appears has been in the hospital the last few days. Hey thanks for calling or texting or emailing me everyone (not my sister obviously). I am just glad she is okay. I worry her head is just going to explode one day like X1's sister's did.
I didn't leave the house once yesterday and it was wonderful. I put together that bookcase. I rearranged books. I made a corned beef for dinner. I then spent like 4 hours organizing media. I still have about 600 files to go, but I organized almost 500 files yesterday. It was wonderful. My OCD has never been happier. I also had my foot wrapped in foam yesterday. That made it so much easier to walk. I looked like an idiot but whatever. Zero fucks given. We watched some TV on the floor a la slumber party mode. It was nice.
Today is a DAY OFF. A real day off too. Not just I don't have anything, no this is I am taking PTO don't fuck with me kind of day off. I am going organize more files, play video games, and hopefully have sex. A good day off.
I didn't leave the house once yesterday and it was wonderful. I put together that bookcase. I rearranged books. I made a corned beef for dinner. I then spent like 4 hours organizing media. I still have about 600 files to go, but I organized almost 500 files yesterday. It was wonderful. My OCD has never been happier. I also had my foot wrapped in foam yesterday. That made it so much easier to walk. I looked like an idiot but whatever. Zero fucks given. We watched some TV on the floor a la slumber party mode. It was nice.
Today is a DAY OFF. A real day off too. Not just I don't have anything, no this is I am taking PTO don't fuck with me kind of day off. I am going organize more files, play video games, and hopefully have sex. A good day off.
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Y6 D133
Woo! I slept in. Well okay, I still only got 4.5 hours sleep, but hey, it's better than 3.5 hours sleep which is when I originally woke up.
Very long day yesterday. We got up and B was craving pancakes so we decided to go to IHOP. Busiest IHOP ever, especially at 10am on a Saturday. On a Sunday I can see lines out the door, but on a Saturday? Luckily the majority of people in front of us were families and larger parties and we were able to get a table in about 10 minutes. After breakfast we decided to hit both Halloween City and Spirit to start checking out options for Halloween. That ended up leaving me very drained. The heel of my foot is driving me up a wall right now and part of the problem is how cracked and hard it is. I caught a piece of skin on my chair the other day and it hurt so bad. By the time we got home I was limping hard.
We got home around 1 and slept until 3:30. We then got ready to head out. We wanted to go to IKEA pre-show and have dinner with friends so we had to get ready pretty early. By them time we both were ready it was a little after 5 and we were on the road around 5:30. It took us almost until 7 to get to IKEA thanks to traffic but it was okay as we had major time to kill until the show. IKEA was PACKED for some weird reason. We did find the bookcase we wanted at a reasonable price which was good. We then met our friends at a mexican place around 8. Had a nice dinner but still had two hours to kill. We ended up at CVS followed by Target where I got some stuff for my foot. I am hoping it helps. You are supposed to use it twice a day for two weeks for it to really work. I tend to not be diligent about things like this but given the amount of pain I am in, I think I will be good. We rolled up at the theater around 10. The show itself went pretty well. A little bit of drama with one of the audience members but nothing involving us. An OLD cast member, like from 15 years ago, was in the audience and she was little drunk, a little loud, and a little too critical of us. She was talked to by our director which almost turned nasty. Luckily nothing major went down, but there was a moment where we though it could go either way.
Got the truck loaded up, hit the road around 3, and made it home a little after 4. Got the bookcase inside and hit bed.
Today is bookcase building and relaxing. I just put a corned beef in the slow cooker for dinner tonight. The weather is beautiful and life is pretty okay.
I don't think I have mentioned our newest family members. Apparently we have 'adopted' a stray cat and her kittens. All week they have been living on our porch. The two kittens are so cute. We set up a box with towels in it for them. I just fed them and they are happily chomping down. See? Life is okay.
Very long day yesterday. We got up and B was craving pancakes so we decided to go to IHOP. Busiest IHOP ever, especially at 10am on a Saturday. On a Sunday I can see lines out the door, but on a Saturday? Luckily the majority of people in front of us were families and larger parties and we were able to get a table in about 10 minutes. After breakfast we decided to hit both Halloween City and Spirit to start checking out options for Halloween. That ended up leaving me very drained. The heel of my foot is driving me up a wall right now and part of the problem is how cracked and hard it is. I caught a piece of skin on my chair the other day and it hurt so bad. By the time we got home I was limping hard.
We got home around 1 and slept until 3:30. We then got ready to head out. We wanted to go to IKEA pre-show and have dinner with friends so we had to get ready pretty early. By them time we both were ready it was a little after 5 and we were on the road around 5:30. It took us almost until 7 to get to IKEA thanks to traffic but it was okay as we had major time to kill until the show. IKEA was PACKED for some weird reason. We did find the bookcase we wanted at a reasonable price which was good. We then met our friends at a mexican place around 8. Had a nice dinner but still had two hours to kill. We ended up at CVS followed by Target where I got some stuff for my foot. I am hoping it helps. You are supposed to use it twice a day for two weeks for it to really work. I tend to not be diligent about things like this but given the amount of pain I am in, I think I will be good. We rolled up at the theater around 10. The show itself went pretty well. A little bit of drama with one of the audience members but nothing involving us. An OLD cast member, like from 15 years ago, was in the audience and she was little drunk, a little loud, and a little too critical of us. She was talked to by our director which almost turned nasty. Luckily nothing major went down, but there was a moment where we though it could go either way.
Got the truck loaded up, hit the road around 3, and made it home a little after 4. Got the bookcase inside and hit bed.
Today is bookcase building and relaxing. I just put a corned beef in the slow cooker for dinner tonight. The weather is beautiful and life is pretty okay.
I don't think I have mentioned our newest family members. Apparently we have 'adopted' a stray cat and her kittens. All week they have been living on our porch. The two kittens are so cute. We set up a box with towels in it for them. I just fed them and they are happily chomping down. See? Life is okay.
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Y6 D132
Ah hello weekend. Got through yesterday's class with just a couple of issues. One of the demos was giving me a hard time and one of the modules wouldn't start correctly. But I managed to work around it and deal. Finished up class around 1:45 which since one student was in Australia, and 2 were EST, they didn't mind. While I was teaching B was cleaning. This house is so spotless right now. She cleaned EVERYTHING. So much that I stayed out of the way because I thought she was going a little off the deep end. But I understand her need and desire to get it done.
B wanted to go to the crapmart after class and I went along with that. We picked up some food for guests, some stuff for around the house, and some groceries. The week caught up to me while we were there and my energy level crashed. I was dropping things, not moving quickly, and just being a grump. We got home and we knew we had a while before anyone actually arrived and she went to get ready and I ended up taking a baby nap. Like 30 minutes.
Friends arrived around 6:30 for a fun night of pizza and games. There were 5 who came over which was a perfect number for our place. The 7 of us had a great time talking, laughing, and game playing. It was cathartic for us as a group because we got to vent about some things and people on cast that are driving us nuts which is really good as we got it out of our systems before the show tonight.
Everyone headed out around 1 and we headed off to bed. We talked for a while about nothing in particular and fell asleep around 2. Good day with a good night. Now, it's a show night but we are heading down there early because we want to stop at IKEA. We may end up doing dinner with some friends. We shall see.
B wanted to go to the crapmart after class and I went along with that. We picked up some food for guests, some stuff for around the house, and some groceries. The week caught up to me while we were there and my energy level crashed. I was dropping things, not moving quickly, and just being a grump. We got home and we knew we had a while before anyone actually arrived and she went to get ready and I ended up taking a baby nap. Like 30 minutes.
Friends arrived around 6:30 for a fun night of pizza and games. There were 5 who came over which was a perfect number for our place. The 7 of us had a great time talking, laughing, and game playing. It was cathartic for us as a group because we got to vent about some things and people on cast that are driving us nuts which is really good as we got it out of our systems before the show tonight.
Everyone headed out around 1 and we headed off to bed. We talked for a while about nothing in particular and fell asleep around 2. Good day with a good night. Now, it's a show night but we are heading down there early because we want to stop at IKEA. We may end up doing dinner with some friends. We shall see.
Friday, October 3, 2014
Y6 D131
Not a bad day yesterday. My foot is hurting again now that my throat pain is no longer distracting me. Specifically it's the heel of my foot. I want to wrap my foot in a big giant foam cushion. Or some fuzzy slippers.
Taught all day. Class went pretty much up to the mark. 4 students so a good size class - where we make money but not so many I am stressing out. Everyone was able to keep up and follow along with all the demos. Also the questions asked were reasonable and logical. No bizarre wtf questions.
After class I took a little nap. I went and got mail and a gift I got for B had arrived. There's this place called diamondcandles.com and what they do is they have these really nice candles and embedded in them is a ring valued at anywhere from $10 to $5000. She showed it to me months ago and I decided to surprise her with one. She was so excited and started it at 4:30. At 10:30 it had gone down enough to reveal the ring. She got one I would say is worth around $15-$20 so hey not bad. Plus they smell good. Between about 4 and 6:30 I did the impossible. I OPENED THE LAST BOX. There are no more boxes needing unpacking in our house. I am so fucking happy I could poop. It's so nice to look around and not see a box anywhere.
When I was done I cooked dinner. I made a nice pasta dish with bowtie pasta, shrimp and a cream sauce with squash and garlic bread. We watched some TV and around 8:30 some friends came over to return my cane that they borrowed. We ended up talking until about 10:30 and then off to bed.
I was also productive in adding to our media library yesterday. I added all 200 episodes of Sailor Moon (Japanese originals, uncut and complete), M*A*S*H the movie, 2 seasons of Rookie Blue (I don't know, B wanted it), all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster, and my big score - all 10 seasons of Friends plus all the extras on the DVD box set. Boom. I am thinking that I am going to get another 5TB drive so I can dedicate one to TV and one to Movies then take my 3TB and dedicate that to Pictures and Music. That will put 13TB on the media server and give me 18TB total. BWAHAHAHAHA.
Okay. I need to make it through today and I will have FOUR DAYS OFF. Let's do this!
Taught all day. Class went pretty much up to the mark. 4 students so a good size class - where we make money but not so many I am stressing out. Everyone was able to keep up and follow along with all the demos. Also the questions asked were reasonable and logical. No bizarre wtf questions.
After class I took a little nap. I went and got mail and a gift I got for B had arrived. There's this place called diamondcandles.com and what they do is they have these really nice candles and embedded in them is a ring valued at anywhere from $10 to $5000. She showed it to me months ago and I decided to surprise her with one. She was so excited and started it at 4:30. At 10:30 it had gone down enough to reveal the ring. She got one I would say is worth around $15-$20 so hey not bad. Plus they smell good. Between about 4 and 6:30 I did the impossible. I OPENED THE LAST BOX. There are no more boxes needing unpacking in our house. I am so fucking happy I could poop. It's so nice to look around and not see a box anywhere.
When I was done I cooked dinner. I made a nice pasta dish with bowtie pasta, shrimp and a cream sauce with squash and garlic bread. We watched some TV and around 8:30 some friends came over to return my cane that they borrowed. We ended up talking until about 10:30 and then off to bed.
I was also productive in adding to our media library yesterday. I added all 200 episodes of Sailor Moon (Japanese originals, uncut and complete), M*A*S*H the movie, 2 seasons of Rookie Blue (I don't know, B wanted it), all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster, and my big score - all 10 seasons of Friends plus all the extras on the DVD box set. Boom. I am thinking that I am going to get another 5TB drive so I can dedicate one to TV and one to Movies then take my 3TB and dedicate that to Pictures and Music. That will put 13TB on the media server and give me 18TB total. BWAHAHAHAHA.
Okay. I need to make it through today and I will have FOUR DAYS OFF. Let's do this!
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Y6 D130
Two more days to go just two more days and I get two days off.
The first three days this week weren't bad. It's today and tomorrow I am not looking forward to when it comes to classes. The last three days I had my one student, she was intelligent, we finished early every day, and it's a class I enjoy teaching. These next two days, I have four students which I know nothing about and it's my least favorite class. So yeah.
My throat is 90% right now. Still a little scratchy, but livable. Especially since we once again started early and finished by 1. When class was over B and I decided to do something - rearrange the entire living room. We saw an entertainment stand at Goodwill the other day and it was brand new in the box for $120. While that may seem a lot for Goodwill, we saw the SAME ONE for $199 at Target the same day. After tax, that's a $100 difference. It seems that the Goodwill by us is a dumping ground for the local target for when they have too much of something or post-holiday, etc. No complaint here. We also dropped some flyers for the show off at the tattoo shop. We got back home around 2:30 and then spent the next 4 hours rearranging. This is all in anticipation of the couch which won't come for another 3-7 weeks.
I was exhausted by the time we were done and then I made dinner. Some chicken with wild rice and veggies. We then watched some TV and then I played Diablo for a little while. Ended up in bed around 11.
The cat is driving me nuts by the way. Since I will have Mon and Tues off, it will be vet time. Wish me luck on that.
I don't expect today's class to finish early, just the opposite. But I don't have anything to do tonight after work so no big deal.
Okay, need to shower now.
The first three days this week weren't bad. It's today and tomorrow I am not looking forward to when it comes to classes. The last three days I had my one student, she was intelligent, we finished early every day, and it's a class I enjoy teaching. These next two days, I have four students which I know nothing about and it's my least favorite class. So yeah.
My throat is 90% right now. Still a little scratchy, but livable. Especially since we once again started early and finished by 1. When class was over B and I decided to do something - rearrange the entire living room. We saw an entertainment stand at Goodwill the other day and it was brand new in the box for $120. While that may seem a lot for Goodwill, we saw the SAME ONE for $199 at Target the same day. After tax, that's a $100 difference. It seems that the Goodwill by us is a dumping ground for the local target for when they have too much of something or post-holiday, etc. No complaint here. We also dropped some flyers for the show off at the tattoo shop. We got back home around 2:30 and then spent the next 4 hours rearranging. This is all in anticipation of the couch which won't come for another 3-7 weeks.
I was exhausted by the time we were done and then I made dinner. Some chicken with wild rice and veggies. We then watched some TV and then I played Diablo for a little while. Ended up in bed around 11.
The cat is driving me nuts by the way. Since I will have Mon and Tues off, it will be vet time. Wish me luck on that.
I don't expect today's class to finish early, just the opposite. But I don't have anything to do tonight after work so no big deal.
Okay, need to shower now.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Y6 D129
Finally started feeling better yesterday. My throat isn't 100% but it's pretty damn close. Close enough that I wasn't in screaming pain. Hurray for not being in pain? You reach a point where pain becomes the norm and you don't know how to function when you're not in any. I give my throat another couple of day before it is back to normal but it is better at least. Good enough that I made it through class without any serious issues.
The last two days and today I have only one student in my class. This makes for a very flexible schedule obviously. We started class early and as a result finished early. I was done with class by 1pm. Took a nice nap, then decided I was taking B out on a date. We did dinner and a movie on a Tuesday night. Look out, we're wild.
We went out around 5, had dinner at Chili's because she likes it, then went to the movie theater. We saw Boxtrolls. It is a GREAT movie. However, people piss both of us off. Boxtrolls is from the same people who made Coraline and ParaNorman. Neither of which are really "children's" movies. BT is no exception. It is rated PG and really wasn't suitable for small kids. But there they were - families with kids 3-5 years old expecting some happy movie. The movie is about the extinction of entire species. Yes, it's a movie basically about bigotry, hate, and genocide. Perfect little kid fair. It's dark, it's creepy, and it is for younger kids, scary as hell. Once it started most of the little ones were either bored or terrified. It is also extremely well written and frankly I think the dialog was above the heads of half of the audience. We absolutely adored it.
There were some good previews too like Book of Life. I can't remember some of the others, but there was at least one other movie I want to see.
After the movie we tried to go to Foster's Freeze for dessert but they were closed already. It was after all a Tuesday. We got home around 10 and headed to the bedroom. A perfect date night it was. We both decided we need to do this more often. Not just the sex part, but the whole night for ourselves. On a Tuesday.
On the plus side, I have two days off next week. Not just no class, but completely OFF. I am taking Mon/Tues completely to myself. I am going to get shit done even if it kills me. This was confirmed by my boss yesterday but also came with the warning that I may lose my December to travel. Sigh. I am so fucking close to platinum this year on AA that I am willing to deal with it. I just need like 8,000 more miles after the two Texas trips. And as for Hilton? Fuck. If they don't give me a new super secret level after this year, well, poop.
Okay time to finish up my 1:1 class.
The last two days and today I have only one student in my class. This makes for a very flexible schedule obviously. We started class early and as a result finished early. I was done with class by 1pm. Took a nice nap, then decided I was taking B out on a date. We did dinner and a movie on a Tuesday night. Look out, we're wild.
We went out around 5, had dinner at Chili's because she likes it, then went to the movie theater. We saw Boxtrolls. It is a GREAT movie. However, people piss both of us off. Boxtrolls is from the same people who made Coraline and ParaNorman. Neither of which are really "children's" movies. BT is no exception. It is rated PG and really wasn't suitable for small kids. But there they were - families with kids 3-5 years old expecting some happy movie. The movie is about the extinction of entire species. Yes, it's a movie basically about bigotry, hate, and genocide. Perfect little kid fair. It's dark, it's creepy, and it is for younger kids, scary as hell. Once it started most of the little ones were either bored or terrified. It is also extremely well written and frankly I think the dialog was above the heads of half of the audience. We absolutely adored it.
There were some good previews too like Book of Life. I can't remember some of the others, but there was at least one other movie I want to see.
After the movie we tried to go to Foster's Freeze for dessert but they were closed already. It was after all a Tuesday. We got home around 10 and headed to the bedroom. A perfect date night it was. We both decided we need to do this more often. Not just the sex part, but the whole night for ourselves. On a Tuesday.
On the plus side, I have two days off next week. Not just no class, but completely OFF. I am taking Mon/Tues completely to myself. I am going to get shit done even if it kills me. This was confirmed by my boss yesterday but also came with the warning that I may lose my December to travel. Sigh. I am so fucking close to platinum this year on AA that I am willing to deal with it. I just need like 8,000 more miles after the two Texas trips. And as for Hilton? Fuck. If they don't give me a new super secret level after this year, well, poop.
Okay time to finish up my 1:1 class.
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