Y12 D239

 Today is the day!! At noon EST today the ceremony is scheduled to begin and the past four years of the reign of the cheeto can be in theory behind us. The scars and damage done by this administration will not heal quickly nor will his ilk fade away overnight, but now we can move forward. It won't change the fact that were still under vaccinated, people are still dying, and piece of shit racists still walk among us unfortunately. But hey, we will rejoin the Paris Accord, hopefully provide stimulus to more people, and not be subjected to blatant lies and spoiled tantrums on a daily basis. So there's that. Of course there are still 6 hours left so who knows what kind of bullshit might happen. 

Yesterday was rough for me. I ended up with 19 students total. BIG class with varying skill levels. Luckily it is an engaged, excited group of people. I was able to work with them and have fun even if it was draining and tiring. 9 of them will be in today's class, then we go back up to 15 on Thursday. Today should be smoother. We shall see. I didn't finish until nearly 6pm last night. Ate dinner (chicken soup B made), watched a tiny amount of TV, and literally collapsed in bed. 

B's friend had their bearded dragon pass yesterday. Chief was 13 years old. Very sad day. It's always sad when you lose a companion you've had for nearly half of your life. Plus in recent times this person has lost their grandfather, another animal companion, and dealt with testing positive. B tried to offer support but with distancing and mask restrictions, it's hard. Still, she was able to give him some of the soup and offer what condolences she could. People don't realize I think how important pets are to keeping a solid state of mind right now. The cats drive me nuts, but I couldn't imagine not having them during this last year. It would have been much worse to handle.

Three hours until class starts. I'm hungry. Maybe make a nice egg sandwich.

Y12 D238

 Took the car in for its last service yesterday morning. The lease is up in July and I will get rid of it probably in March or April. Therefore, this was the last service I had to worry about. I had them do just the bare minimum to keep it good. I warned them in advance that this would be the last service so don't tell me about things like the cabin filter or other optional stuff. I got out of there for $45 and in 37 minutes. Not too shabby. I decided that since the rest of the week is going to be hell, I would take the morning to myself. I came back, took a nice nap, and just lounged until about noon. Then I prepped for my afternoon class. My six Indians from Friday had a half a days worth of material left. Only five of them bothered to show up. Gee, thanks. Got through the day. They are behind me once more. 

Made tacos for dinner. Started a new show with Nick Helm called Loaded. Not quite as good as Uncle, but pretty good regardless. British shows for the win. Played some video games, went to bed. 

Now comes three days of hell. Oversold classes. 18+ people depending on the day. Material that is far from perfect. This is going to suck. Just need to make it through the week. I can do it. I believe in me.

One more day until we evict the orange one. The next couple of days might be either very scary or very boring. Let's hope for the latter.

Y12 D237

 Two more days. Can we make it? Can we hold on? The number of arrests they have made in DC so far is crazy. One guy walking down the street with a semi-automatic weapon, extra rounds and he says oops it was an accident, I forgot I had those. Or the lady who showed a silver coin and pretended to be a law enforcement officer AND a member of the administration. Yeah. Okay. Thank goodness we don't live near the capitol here. Nut jobs. I just don't understand how they are so convinced they're in the right. That's the part that gets me. Could you be any more blatantly racist, idiotic, and foolish? Ugh. Stupid people abound.

Did a big water change on the big tank. Touched up my hair. Got stuff for dinner we ended up not using. B had a craving for Taco Bell so we had Taco Bell. Whatever. Not the end of the world. Not much else done. Played video games. Finished Far Cry 5, started New Dawn. Same game, same world, different bad guys. We finished watching Uncle. REALLY good show. We both loved how it ended. I wish there were more than three seasons. The kid in that show will one day go on to make a great Doctor Who. He is perfect for it. 

Car service this morning. Then a 1-5pm class. Then T-Th, 9:30 - 5:30 bullshit teaching 18 people a day PBI. Not looking forward to the rest of this week for sure. But take it one day at a time. It's all we can do right now.

Y12 D236

 Had two very weird dreams last night. One was scary and caused me to wake up at 1am stressed. Alien body snatcher type dream. Very not cool. The second one I went from being the CEO of a new company that created this new product to being in an airport to being in Japan. Weird AF. Nothing bad in the second one just weird.

Grocery store excursion yesterday morning. Got everything we need. Made stew for dinner. The axies got moved into a new tank finally. We got a cycled tank, yay! It was supposed to snow all weekend but we haven't had anything. Some freezing rain on Friday and that's it. It did look like some flakes this morning but nothing is sticking. Didn't really do much of anything else yesterday. Pretty boring day in general.

Three days until the transfer of office. Three days where something can still go wrong. A nation holds its breath.

Y12 D235

 I really hated the group I taught yesterday. I gave up trying to have any kind of conversation with them like three hours in. They were the worst. You want to know what's wrong with my industry? Here's the names of who I taught yesterday:

- Jitendra
- Ram
- Ramya
- Venkat
- Vinod
- Rakesh

See the trend?? Plus over half of them were LITERALLY in India. 10.5 hour time difference. It was 2am for most of them when we finished. But the bigger problem was half of them didn't want to be there at all (we already know everything), the cultural difference, and the language difference all made for a fucked up 8 hours of my life. Fuck them and fuck this client in general.

So yeah, that was my day. Made mini-waffles, eggs, and bacon for dinner. Helped B do some work on her island. Finished the book I have been reading. Goal for 2021 is 12 books. 1 down. Have at least 4 on the shelf to go. 

The world is still burning. We've got a redneck piece of shit wanting a pardon because he thinks he is a shaman. We've got less than a week until the orange one vacates and they're already stealing the furniture. No, really.

I'm off to the grocery store. Pray I don't just lose it completely today.

Y12 D234

 Rough sleep last night. Was super dry due to the expected snow coming this weekend. I woke myself up at one point with my dry mouth. That's when you know it's bad. Plus weird ass dreams. Of course they're all lost to my morning brain but at the time it was odd. I do remember one of them there was something about temperature and how it was 1100 degrees outside. Yeah, that's not good. I have been reading this book which has some huge natural disasters in it so that probably influenced that dream. 

Did a webinar yesterday. Went over well. Couple hundred people all listening to me go blah blah blah. It wasn't anything exciting but made marketing happy. That's all that matters sometimes. Also worked on organizing 2021 materials. New PPT template for the new year. Whoop. 

Made honey soy chicken thighs on rice with fresh broccoli for dinner. That came out better than anticipated. 

Have a full day of teaching idiots today. It's the internal group for the ones I really don't like. I can't pronounce a single name of the students who are going to be on this class. Lovely. But it's Friday and if I make it through the day it will be the weekend. I will be teaching pretty much solid from here on out until Feb so the weekend has some meaning for once. Man I just wish I could travel again. I need to get out of this damn house. I need to be somewhere else. Anywhere else. I might take a drive this weekend. I don't know where, just somewhere.

Y12 D233

 I had a really bad dream last night. I was in a mall and a cacodemon from doom was chasing. Yeah, the round ball guys. Not a lovely thing to have chasing you for sure. I am sure there's some symbolism in that but lost on me for sure. I did kill it with what looked like a tv remote but it was pretty unnerving. Yay dreams. The heavily smudged, dirt covered window of the soul.

So, who here's been impeached TWICE. Oh, just you? Must suck to be you. Now don't go throwing a tantrum and try to blow us all up or ban any other countries like you did to Cuba the other day. Just go and hide for six days you spoiled man-child. Go now, shoo. What a time to be alive. This impacted my class yesterday. A couple of my students were having trouble following along because they were watching the news at the same time as trying to pay attention to me. Hey, I get it. I even let them go to lunch five minutes early to watch the proceedings. Totally understandable. Other than that, class went fine and we finished up around 4:20. Now I get a break before another private training with a group of assholes. I also got word that I will be doing three weeks back to back without a break. Every day for the next three weeks I will have a class. Fuck me. I have a webinar to deliver today but otherwise this is my only break until Feb 8th. I am going to be tired and cranky come then. Upside is I will be fully billable and no one can say I am not earning my keep. Need. Raise. Now. If Feb and March are similar, I will be asking for a raise at the end of the quarter. Once again my coworker and I are the ones keeping things humming. I know she is booked solid for the next few weeks as well. This is a good thing, just tiring.

Had Qdoba for dinner last night because neither of us wanted to cook. It was actually quite tasty. I am very surprised with how much better it is here than it was in OR. The one in OR was just awful. This one is not so bad. 

That's all that's going on for me right now. Time to check the news and either laugh, get angry, or both. Both is probably about right.

Y12 D232

 I don't know what's going on this morning. Not in a bad way, just kind of out of it. Not tired. I actually woke up before my alarm by 2 minutes. I'm just kind of apathetic to the concept of being awake? Yeah, that sums it up.

Taught all day. Finished around 4. Three students, all good. No issues or problems with any of them. It's a tough, technical class this time around but everyone got through it with no problems. That was the majority of my day. Found time to read. Had leftover soup and grilled cheese. Watched some TV. Honestly that's about it. The state of the world hasn't changed much. One week until we have newly elected leadership. In the meantime we have the threat of violence hanging in the air. Both from the current powers and the minions on the local level. That's always a good time. So tired of people. Is my cave in the woods available? Please?

Y12 D231

 Been awake for a while but just laid in bed because I knew it was too early to get up. I woke up around 4:45 and just laid there until the alarm went off. I don't know. I just didn't feel like getting up yet. 

Semi-productive day yesterday. Had a good working session with my colleagues where we walked through our new litmos system we will be using to distribute materials to our students. It was a practical use of time. We finished up around 4:30. Had leftovers for dinner. Watched Uncle. Read. I am trying to carve out more time for reading this year. So far so good. I am really enjoying the book I am reading which makes a difference. What day is it? Tuesday I think. I have a class today and tomorrow. So yeah, it must be Tuesday. No, no joke about Belgium today. 

The world is getting rather interesting out there. Threats of violence at all 50 capitol buildings between now and the 20th. This is going to be one long week, isn't it? I expect it here because of the number of idiots. Some states will go unscathed I feel as there were less idiots protesting but states like MI, AZ, GA, FL - I expect to see some scary shit. Hold on to your hats kids, it ain't over yet.

Y12 D230

 Monday has come around again. Joy.

Video game Sunday. My equivalent of "sports day" I guess. I got pretty far in FC5. I am through 2 of the siblings and halfway through the last. Soon it will be time to take on the father. I am trying to do as many of the side missions as well because I do enjoy those. I have 8 left in one region and 12 left in another. Don't know how many in the 3rd yet because still on main missions in that region. I am enjoying it enough that I am that far into it. Says something about the game. Still have 114 left to go through at least once. 

I really didn't do much of anything else yesterday. Didn't leave the house. I steamed the floors in the kitchen, helped B make potato soup for dinner. We watched some TV together. I read a bit in one of my new books I got for Christmas. Enjoying that - All the Birds in the Sky. Really good. 

Otherwise, nothing exciting going on. The world is pretty much the same as it was. More and more morons being arrested for committing acts of violence. More and more stupid people not understanding why they're in trouble. Here's hoping today the leaders act in an appropriate way and push forward the impeachment. With 9 days left, article 25 is out the window. But if they can put a supreme court judge on the bench in 8 days, they can impeach this fucker in 9. Failure to do so sends the wrong message completely. I really do fear for what the 20th looks like here. One more milestone we have to hit before we can truly put the last 4 years behind us. Let's see how that goes.

Three days of teaching this plus a 3 hour team work session today and a webinar on Thursday. Full week. Good.