Y12 D229

 You know what I'm enjoying? Watching the idiots from Wednesday getting caught and watching them freak out that their lives are now ruined as they get charged with federal crimes. "'I didn't think they would eat MY face' says the person who voted for the cheetahs eat your face party'. I wish people would stop equating this to BLM protests. "But they burned and looted things!!" There's a big difference between storming the fucking Capitol and storming a Target. One is a billion dollar a year corporation and the other is Target. What? I'm fucking hilarious. In all seriousness, what did they think would happen? We're talking about old white people. Had the morons succeeded in burning or destroying the votes, they would have been "heroes" but you didn't. Ya fucked up and now you're going to jail. Of course the very same people who sent you in there are going to turn on you. Generals gathered in their masses, just like witches at black masses. Maybe you need to remember the rest of the lyrics to that song? Maybe this verse in particular:

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor.

Never forget that morons. You are pawns. Kings and queens hide. Pawns die. The best part to me is that these are federal crimes. No more voting. No more getting a job. You're fucked. Have you also noticed the states they're from primarily? AR, AZ, AL, FL. Not the sharpest crayons in the box coming out of those places to begin with. Enough of that. On to more relevant things.

I got a shit ton done before 9am yesterday. Went to two grocery stores for all the groceries. Gave myself a manicure. Did the dishes. Did laundry. Touched up my hair. Finished the fishing tourney in ACNH. Planned out dinner. I was pretty happy with everything I got done in the morning. Took a nice nap. Made steaks for dinner, went to PetSmart after dinner for some stuff for B, played video games, and went to bed. A nice productive Saturday for sure. Today nothing is planned. B is going to make us soup. I don't know what kind, but it means leftovers and I am okay with that. I don't have anywhere to go today and will enjoy lounging around in sweatpants all day. I am trying to allow myself that freedom on weekends. If I don't have to go anywhere, why do I need to get all uncomfortable in my clothing? It's a small thing, but will help improve my mood. I do find my anxiety slowly coming back down to a manageable level now that things seems to be stabilizing. Of course I did read yesterday that Kim Jong Butthole is going to ramp up his nuclear program again because cheeto will be no more. Lovely. Just when I thought things were getting better. Oh well. At least that's a threat I can wrap my head around. Unlike some moron from Alabama stealing a podium. That's too surreal for me. Duh'merica. Long live.

Y12 D228

 Is it just me or does everyone have a toothpaste issue? What I mean is, you're in the bathroom brushing you teeth and you're like 'oh, I am getting low on toothpaste, I should buy a new tube'. You buy one and then SIX FUCKING MONTHS LATER you're still on that original tube. There just always seems to be one more squeeze out of the old one. But you don't dare wait to buy new toothpaste because the one time you decide to push it, there will be no more one last squeeze. Sigh. Toothpaste. 

And now we return you to your regularly scheduled end of the world...

The orange one has been banned from the tweeter. Wah wah. It's about fucking time. I do so love all the assholes trying to claim free speech. Not what that means idiot. My favorite shit from yesterday is all of the morons claiming that cheeto's "concession" speech was a deepfake created by AI. Um, you obviously don't work with computers do you? Go watch Mandalorian if you want to see what that would have looked like. No I am not spoiling. It's been two months. I'm outside the spoiler window. 

What else is going on, hmm. Oh yeah, he will probably be impeached a second time. Double wah wah. If you think that's not an important thing to do, remember this: if he is impeached a second time it costs him:

• lifetime 200k per year pension
• lifetime secret service
• 1m a year travel expense account
• and most importantly, he can never hold another federal office

Yeah, worth it in my book.

As for me, I taught day two. Good group. We got through the material. I showed them some extra stuff, answered some questions and sold them on additional training. Well done all around. For dinner we had chinese food and then took B to urgent care.

Wait, what? Yep, you read that right. She was having kidney pain and it was bad enough for us to spend time in the urgent care. Technically she went in, I had to wait in the car. COVID and all. Because lest any of us forget, it's still out there killing people. I know, it's easy to forget, but it's still a-happening. Anyway, no infection, pulled muscle or muscle spasm in the kidney region. Take drugs, go to bed. That was the verdict. Ok. That's what we did. We came home, she had some flexerall and went to bed. We will see how she's doing today.

Today is groceries and laundry. My version of GTL - groceries, tired, laundry. Look out, here comes the excitement train.

Y12 D227

 Last I checked, that thing was still holding office. Lots of bluster from lots of people, but no action. That's a shame. I don't care if it's 12 days or 200 days. He must be held accountable for his actions. Same goes for "Florida Man" who stole the podium. Does anyone else remember the executive action enacted last year that stated any destruction to a federal building is an automatic 10 year sentence? Let's see how many WHITE people involved in this week's shenanigans face that. That act was put in place specifically to target BLM protestors would be a shame if it backfired in their faces and was used against "patriots" gosh golly. Oh and for those of you who never understood why 4 years ago most of us were in tears at the state of the world while you all cried "they're the same it won't matter if I vote", go fuck yourself. Would things have been great under her? Probably not, but we sure as fuck wouldn't have had a fucking coup. Done. Done with all of you complacent, blind, old, stubborn, white people  men. 

Speaking of that, I was thinking last night of people and things I have left behind in my life. I often wonder if that's just the psychopath portion of my brain. I hear about people who still talk to their friends from 20 or 30 years ago and I am puzzled. Especially when these same people complain about the people they've stayed in touch with all these years. If you don't like them, if they don't fit into your life now, why? Part of it for me is just time and distance. I've never been good at maintaining social relationships in general, but the other part is like just confused. For example, why would I want to maintain a relationship with my father when he is one of them? I don't need that in my life. Or why would I want to talk to the person I went to college with now? We have nothing in common any more, we live thousands of miles apart, and there's just no point. Then again, I'd be happy just living here in my dark room and not talking to anyone ever again. But hey, that's just me.

Taught from 10-6 yesterday. Two students but both are sharp and good. I should be able to finish up early with them today. No issues on that front. I did have some bothering from our admin. Some client got a hold of their email and was asking all these questions. Instead of just passing it along to one of us, they tried to play middleman. In the end I had to respond directly at 7pm. Pain in the ass.

Made moco loco for dinner last night. Came out pretty good in my opinion. Nice change of pace from regular meals. Since today was payday (and all the bills are paid), tonight is Chinese food. Going to the same place we went to at Christmas. I am excited about that for sure! Damn good food. Yeah, that's my life. I am excited about a meal happening 12 hours from now. 

Go me.

Y12 D226

 Normally I read the news after I have made my daily post. Not today. There was too much at stake and I need this entry to be as accurate as possible. Yesterday we saw a coup attempt in our country. Domestic terrorists stormed the Capitol, destroyed property, and attempted to overthrow the democratic process of the US. Any headline that isn't that blatant is a lie. This was a coup attempt plain and simple. Four people are dead as of this morning. This was a disgusting shameful act egged on and supported by a delusional tin pot dictator. He should be removed from office and held for treason. It was a shameful 14 hours of this country's already tarnished reputation. I am embarrassed to be living in a country that would allow this type of person to remain even if it is only 2 weeks. We were the laughing stock of the entire world yesterday. Adjustment Day had arrived. 

As of 4am EST, the elected officials had finished their job with many of the republicans finally backing down and not trying to thwart the process. We finally have a new leader. While he won't be the savior we all are hoping for, he sure as hell won't be what we've had for the last four years - a lying, thieving, manipulator. May all of his supporters who engaged in treason yesterday get what they deserve. Be that judicially or through the power of karma. I have stated it before and will emphatically state it now: if you are one of the people who directly or indirectly allowed this clown to take office 4 years ago or seem to think he continues to belong in office, never, ever, speak to me again. You are part of the problem. May god have mercy on your soul. Because I sure as fuck don't. 

In better news, GA came through. We would like to all say hello to Senate MINORITY leader Palpatine. Saw a great joke yesterday; a Jew and a black guy walk into the senate and tell Mitch to sit the fuck down. Preach. Maybe now things can get accomplished. Step one, rejoin the Paris accord. Step two, speed up vaccines. Step 3, get all the money. No wait. That's underpants gnomes. 

I went to the eye doctor yesterday. All is good. .25 change to my script which is not unexpected. Right what I figured it would to be. Eye health is good. 

Came home, recorded material for B, had meeting with my boss, watched the coup. Ever wonder why people my age are afraid to turn off the tv? We started with Kennedy getting his head blown off and we've been afraid to turn it off ever since. Yesterday was proof in the pudding. I will say Twitter at least shut off his account for 12 hours and is threatening a permanent ban. Zuckerberg has his head too far up either his own ass or Cheeto's ass to do the same. Old Vlad was probably having a laugh last night. 

I played more FC5 last night. Talk about an appropriate game for the moment. I have never enjoyed taking out bad guys as much as I did last night. 

Two days of classes remaining. Then it's the weekend. Groceries on Saturday unfortunately. But I will take a nice nap for sure.

Y12 D225

 I beat my alarm by 8 minutes this morning. Mostly because I slept like shit last night. I had a rough time falling asleep, kept waking up. Too hot, too cold, cats in my way, blanket issues, B's phone light, ears bugging me, too many thoughts - you name it, I kept waking up all night long. Bleh.

Did some recording yesterday. Finally got the green light to move ahead on a class I have been slowly doing on the side anyway. Lucky for me I have been because now we have a client who wants it by next week. I will be able to finish my portion by midday today and hand it off to B. Also answered a ton of emails. Everyone back in the office playing catchup. I still haven't really had a chance to do that myself. I have a bunch of little stuff to knock out. Hopefully today because I am busy tomorrow and Friday. 

Made tacos for dinner. Watched TV, played games, attempted to go to bed. Such is my life.

Now to go see if GA let us down. Plus today is the scariest day of this whole election process. I am going to be on edge all day until things are either in flames or officially over. God help us all.

Y12 D224

I've never understood the whole desire of facetime or video chat with someone. I really don't want to see you. Just a concept I don't get. What brought that on? I was looking at something on Amazon and there was an echo 8 on sale and it's like oh look, we can video chat with grandma! Fuck that. I don't want to see anyone while I am talking to them. I know that makes me the outlier in this situation, but whatever. Just a thought from my head.

Anyhoo...

Had my first day back to work. It went better than previous sessions from this particular group. I think because both me and the rep from the originating company made a clear statement at the start of class of what will and will not be covered in this session. Unfortunately at least 5 people missed it because they showed up late. From that perspective I was annoyed at this group. I know it was the first day back for people, but it still annoyed me. Mostly because they weren't even apologetic about it. They just came in late and started asking stupid questions. I did snap at one by saying well if you had shown up on time you would already know that answer. Suck it bitches. Also, I was supposed to have 18 max and 22 showed. I spent the first 15 minutes of the day kicking people off. I have a limited number of logins to my server not to mention the performance hit. Buh-bye now. Once we got settled in, we did fine and managed to finish up about 4:25pm. I spent another hour after answering emails that came in during the day. Fun stuff.

We made pasta for dinner. Just some rotini with veggies in a vodka sauce. Very acceptable and resulted in leftovers.

I finally had two packages that were supposed to be here by the 24th arrive yesterday. Thanks for nothing. Look, I can be frustrated and angry at USPS as an entity, and still like my local delivery person. I am annoyed at how behind they are and still have one more package unaccounted for in the great nether. Annoying. 

Watched some TV, watched some videos on B's phone. I am trying to understand her fascination with Tik Tok, but nope. Most of it is just stupid as hell to me. I guess we all get our 15 seconds of fame these days?

Been playing Far Cry 5. Given the situation in the US right now, it's hitting very close to home dealing with fanatics and lunatics. Speaking of that, don't let us down today GA! Do your duty!

Admin stuff today. Setup for an upcoming webinar, new private class in Feb, that kind of stuff. How yesterday should have been.

Y12 D223

 And the work week starts. I just went through my list of classes for this month and it looks like as of right now they are all happening. This is good. 13 out of 20 days I am solid and booked. I can handle that. Some of them have just 2 or 3 people, but a couple are in the 15-18 people range. Makes for a good January. Nobody to bother me hopefully. Today I have 18 from the financial industry. This is the only day I am 'worried' about because people from this group in the past have been challenging to say the least.

As planned, I didn't do a lot yesterday. It snowed heavy in the morning and I ventured out to the store at the start of it. Got some groceries for the week. Mostly produce as it's the one thing I can't buy too far in advance around here or it just goes to waste. I was the only one out on the road for the most part thankfully as it was slipping and sliding time. Even our plow guy came last night and shoveled the driveway. I think mostly because he's felt bad that he hasn't had to do it yet. He owes me 10 between Dec and March and this is the first one and it's already Jan. B says that if he hadn't have done it, the driveway would have frozen over. It's supposed to be above freezing the next few days so meh on that one to me.

Made coconut chicken for dinner. Watched some TV. Played Far Cry 5. Still pissy about having to create an Ubisoft account, but the game's story is pretty good. A little too close to home in some respects and I can see how when it came out it caused some stir. 

I am very nervous about this week. Especially since cheeto decided to try and bully, beg, cajole, intimidate, and pretty much every other illegal word you can think, the poor folks in GA. He should be in jail right now for the phone call he had with the voting people in GA. Disgusting. Will he go down as the first president to not concede that he lost? Will he throw a tantrum up until the last moment? I am nervous about Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Tuesday because of the runoff elections in GA and Wednesday because of the spoiled babies who plan to hold up and disrupt the electoral process. It's a spectacle and a waste of time for all. Treason is what it is and what it should be called. They all should be fired and sent to jail. Mostly I am worried because the orange one keeps calling to his base to protest. The reason no one ever shot him during these four years is that the kind of person who would do that sort of thing is in his base, not the other side. Which also makes me scared for 1/21. What kind of nonsense will these idiots get up to? It's going to be a rough January.

Time to start a server and pretend like I care. Gee, it's good to be back at work.

Y12 D222

 I need to rant about something for a moment. I really hate when video game companies force you to create an account on their stupid social website in order to play a damn game that I bought from Steam. I get it if I bought the game directly from them, but to make me have a separate account on a site I'm never going to use, pisses me off. Yesterday I finished the first Bioshock. Really enjoyed that for what it's worth. I then decided to switch genres and tried playing RDRII. First thing was Rockstar made me create an account for their site "for online play and socializing". Two things I will NEVER fucking do. I go through all the steps, finally get the game loaded and I fucking hate it. Here's my second gripe - I can always tell when a game was made for console first. Autosave versus save anywhere is usually the first giveaway. Then a control scheme that was obviously meant for a controller and is kludgy at best on a keyboard. Strike two. Then no character modification, no skip of cut scenes, and way too many cut scenes. Strike, strike, strike. Played for 20 minutes (most of which were cut scenes) and that was that. I then later in the evening tried Far Cry (3 & 5. 3 was disaster, 5 so far is tolerable.) Same issue. You must log in first. Ugh. This one really pissed me off because no more than 5 minutes after creating the account I started getting login notice emails. Seems someone was immediately trying to hack my account. Thankfully I turned on TFA but wow, what a waste of my time. Very annoying. Okay, rant over.

So that was my day. Video games. House cleaning. We need to get our vac serviced. It just isn't sucking like it used to when we got it. But hey, it's six years old and has never been serviced. Did some work on fish tanks for B. Filter issues. She had to run to her grandparent's house so I had her pick up pizza from the place nearby we like. That was a good decision. 

We watched some TV. We're watching Uncle. BBC show. Very enjoyable if you are looking for something good to watch. 

It's snowing outside but I need to hit the damn grocery store. This will not be fun. Last day off. Have a class in the morning with a horrible group. What a way to start the work year.

Y12 D221

I was confused most of the day as to what day it really was. I kept thinking it was Saturday but it wasn't. The sky didn't help as it snowed about an inch or so which just gave the sky the same color all day. Great. Now I don't know what day or time it is.

Didn't do anything yesterday. Last two days off you'd better believe nothing is getting done. Slept in yesterday and today. Enjoying it while I can. I will open email tomorrow to see what kind of nonsense I have been missing. 

We made chili for dinner and leftovers. Watched some TV together. I honestly didn't do anything yesterday. Oh, I gave myself a manicure and did some foot maintenance but really that was it.

I haven't read the news yet but maybe something exciting will have happened there? Otherwise, even on that front, same ol', same ol'. We are three days away from a meltdown in the Senate. 17 days away from hopefully a new president. Next week we might see Palpatine lose his grip. God I hope so. That would be a nice way to start the year.

Y12 D220

 OMG It's Jan 1 2021! LOOK A MIRACLE HAS HAPPENED! Why the world's problems all went away! My skin has cleared! My crops are harvested! Oh wait. Nope. Just another Friday. Whee.

Went grocery shopping yesterday. Did a load of towels. Made dinner. Made a meat and cheese platter around 9pm and we watched Soul in bed while eating it. That was the best part of yesterday. We stayed up until midnight. Listened to idiots shoot fireworks outside. Fell right to sleep. Yep. Three more days and I have to teach. I teach Mon, Thurs, Fri next week with an eye doctor appt on Wednesday. Today I am going to clean out my email to be ready for a whole new year's worth. 

I hope you had fun doing whatever you did last night.