Y12 D339

Still not doing well. I slept horribly. I couldn't get warm enough last night. I was shaking from chills, then sweating. My head is pounding and I am still very achy and sore. I was doing okay in the morning because I rested, but then I used ALL my energy teaching a client. That did me in. I faked being okay for four hours and wiped myself out. I should still be in bed but guilt is a bitch. I have to go to the grocery store, pay bills, work on a document, have a meeting this afternoon. Etc etc etc. No rest for the wicked until we close our eyes for good.

Y12 D338

 I'm a bit out of it this morning. I got my second dose yesterday - HURRAH! - but this one is hitting me. I was feeling very "clunky" last night. Just major lethargy and disconnected. Still feeling a bit that way today. I only have a half day class in the afternoon so I can rest this morning and try to shake off the fuzz. I don't expect it to stay all day, but I've already spilled my drink and walked into the doorframe this morning so yeah. But I am happy to take this little setback if it means I am 100% vaccinated. I am woozy though and had a little rush just now. Must take it slow.

My new drive adaptor came yesterday. Got that all squared away. I now have a second internal m2 SSD. Ran benchmarks against it and am pulling 3.4GB reads with 2.9GB writes. Hitting the speeds as advertised. Very impressive. I moved 800GB from my one drive over. Took all bloody day. I spent the afternoon helping a client with a problem. Got about 90% of it solved but had to bounce it for some help on the last 10%. Let's see if they can figure it out. If not, then I don't feel so bad. 

After the session we went to get our shot. Less people than before. We were in and out within 25 minutes including the 15 minute wait. It literally took us longer to drive to the site than it did to get the shot. Go figure. On the way home we stopped at B's grandparents. Her grandfather called in some favors and got me a tonneau cover for my truck at a ridiculous price. It lists for $400 and he got it out the door for $220. Took three weeks to arrive, but who cares. I am very happy about that. I also borrowed a sander from him to start sanding my office walls. We then grabbed white castle on the way home. Yes, I said White Castle. Look, we couldn't let our bodies think we would start doing healthy shit, now could we? Just because we gave you the magic covid juice doesn't mean we're not going to keep fucking you up in other ways. 

While we were having dinner, my train arrived!! I am waiting for the weekend to set it up. I don't want to rush it so I am waiting until I have plenty of time to dedicate to it. Just happy it got here. I think that's about everything. You can see I had a busy freakin' day.

Y12 D337

Today's the day!! SECOND SHOT WOOO!! After this I will be fully vaccinated and per the CDC if I am in a small group and we're all vaccinated, no mask needed!! Slowly things are getting better. Slowly. This is wonderful news especially given I am living in the nation's biggest hotspot state right now because, well, people are fucking stupid. Plain and simple. I have a friend in Canada who is STRUGGLING to get a shot and I want to tell them to come right on over because we have shots going to waste because the mouth breathing maga loving morons here are refusing to take them. So ridiculous. How at this point can anyone in their right mind still be a denier? How?? Look at India. The largest country in the world and they are literally dying in front of our eyes. Everyone knows I am no fan of Indian sub-contractors or how they push their workers on the tech industry, but for cryin' out loud, the country is dying and bodies are piling up in mass graves. Only the truly heartless would see that and say nope ain't real Jeb. Let's go put some bleach up our assholes. 

Sigh.

Taught all damn day. Worked on emails before hand so ended up working from like 8 until 5:30. Lovely shit. Had sloppy joes for dinner that B was kind enough to make. One less thing I had to deal with thankfully. My new drive did come yesterday but the adaptor didn't so it sits on my desk until today. Train is also coming today. Plus some backordered Pops. Between now and 5/3, I have a bunch of shit trickling in. 

Got the walls of my office 90% done. Filled in almost all the holes. Next up will be sanding. Then I am going to get paint and do a test wall to see if I need to prime. If the coverage is good with 2 coats I will proceed to do the rest. That will just leave the carpet squares. I also am going to hang some shelves and add some fake plants to in here. Some of the artwork will go back up, but it will be more logically hung and more organized than before. May need to get some frames for some pieces. We shall see. If I am going to spend another year in this room, it's going to make me happy. Plain and simple. Just doing the walls is making me happy already. The rest will be icing on the cake.

Have some meetings today, but heading out at 4pm or so for shot. Should take about 30 minutes to get there, get situated, and head back by 5:30. Last time we were done at 5:23, estimating same. 

Let the day begin.

Y12 D336

Remember when I would wake up with a pounding headache and it was because I made the mistake of drinking too much on a weekday? Now I wake up with a damn headache it's because of the weather. Because there are real weather systems here and pressure systems that fuck me up while I sleep. Between a humidifier and the weather my nose hurts, my head hurts, and my ear is bugging me. Old age is a fucking trap for sure. 

Did my 10-6 yesterday. One person dropped due to a funeral so ended up with 3 instead of 4 students. They are all my age and they're okay. One is a little grumpy, but the other two are okay. Of the other two, one is PST so the morning was a bit sluggish for them but they did better in the afternoon. As far as students go no major issues. 

I got all the wood pieces torn off my walls in my office. I had to empty my bookcase and take all the art down, but it is accomplished. Now to slap on the joint compound, let it dry, pick up a sander, then paint, and when that's all done, carpet squares, and finally some shelves. I am going to make this room look good, professional, and a place where I will want to work. I even used a Visio clone yesterday to layout how I want the furniture to look when I am done. It's going to be an effective space when I am done I promise. It's a big project but I'm okay with that. I've needed a decent project to work on that is within my scope of skills and here it is. 

Neither of us felt like cooking last night and ended up at Qdoba. I guess we hit them at a bad time because B went and picked up the food and told me there were multiple things they had to change the trays out of while ordering. I could tell because every other chip was stale, there was hard rice in my burrito, and everything just kind of tasted "old". Lovely.

Randomly I put on the animated version of the Tick last night. B loves The Tick apparently. Not going to complain about that.

Played a little Nioh last night. I like it? I think? It's in Japanese and even with sub-titles I struggled to figure out what's going on. It has WAY too many controls and I know I am doing like half of what my character can do. Oh well. It's fun but complicated.

My new drive should be here today. Cross your fingers I get this one to work. I also have my train coming. Very excited about that. Can't wait to set it up. See?? I STIMULATED BITCHES.

Y12 D335

Had an okay day yesterday. I made the mistake of going grocery shopping at 9am on a Sunday. Ugh. I had to go to three stores like usual because no single store here has everything we need. Three times the mouth breathing assholes. Each store had at least one non-mask wearing or improper mask wearing fool. So exhausting. Took me almost two hours total. I was on edge when I got home.

My adapter showed up yesterday pretty much after I got home from grocery shopping. Unfortunately the drive was DOA. At first I thought it was the cheap adapter card, but when I plugged the drive into the on-board M2 slot, it didn't work either. Motherfucker. Had to box it up and take it to the UPS store to return. Now I have to wait until Tuesday for a replacement drive. Sucks. Also in the process I seem to have fucked up my onboard audio card. Not sure how or why, but can't get audio working which is pissing me off. I ended up having to plug my speakers into the back of one of the monitors as a short term solution. When I open it up to try drive number two, I will see if I can figure out what is going on. I don't feel like replacing motherboards right now. I also should probably do a backup just in case. 90% is backed up, but you know how that goes.

Had leftovers for dinner. Did B laundry. 

Teach today from 10-6 which sucks ass. 4 students. Same tomorrow. Yay.

Y12 D334

Acceptable Saturday. Started the morning off doing some light cleaning since we would have a guest later in the evening. Then when B got up we went and visited her grandparents for about an hour. Came back took a nap. Our friend came over, had leftover chinese food (except him, we had bought him his own stuff when we got it Friday). Then him and I settled in the couch downstairs and watched the new Mortal Kombat. I give it a C+. He was nicer than me and gave it a B-. It is what it is. I am a fan of the original movie which never took itself too seriously. This one was a little dark in places and some of the actors didn't quite fit the roles. Brutalities, Fatalities, and mayhem is all present and made the movie, but overall the story is flat and kind of plods along. Not horrible, worth watching for the gore, but as a movie it's just okay. I played Pathfinder for a good couple hours yesterday and am really enjoying that. My new hard drive came yesterday. Amazing that 2TB can fit into something just larger than a credit card. I am waiting for an adaptor (m2 to PCI-E) which is arriving today. Once I get the adaptor I can pop this bad boy in and see how it goes. My plan is to move a large chunk of my steam library on to it. Things like Cyberpunk 2077 that require immediate loading will benefit from being on there. Even if putting it on a PCI-E adaptor slows my transfer rate slightly, it will still be better than going against a SATA. Much excitement on that. I also ordered my train set. I expect it to go out tomorrow or Tuesday. It's coming out of IL so I would anticipate an end of next week arrival. We shall see. 

That's about it. Not a bad Saturday, not a super Saturday. Acceptable.

Today I am doing laundry. Heading to the grocery store. No other major plans.

Y12 D333

A fucking miracle happened yesterday. We got the third check. Sweet baby jeebus. Since we didn't expect to get it at ALL we decided to split it and consider it free money. We both have some things we want that were outside the budget so fuck it. Here ya go. I am getting my train set and I splurged on some video games. I also ordered a new 2tb m2 drive. That's my big purchases. There. I stimulated. Go me. 

Yesterday I spent the whole day helping two customers. Why? Because I am trying to do what the company wants and nurture relationships. It absolutely paid off with one customer immediately. He is going to be spending probably 10-20k with us over the next six months as a result of my giving him time. He's a nice guy in general and was worth the time. The other customer is going to be a little tougher and longer case, but I feel I can get some additional training dollars out of him by summer. Hey, this is what they want. Sorry if it takes my whole day.

We had a chinese food banquet last night. Have more than enough for another dinner and a lunch. We did it on purpose because a friend is coming over tonight to watch MORTAL KOMBAT! So we got him some food too and we have leftovers. Poifect.  After dinner I went to home depot and picked up a bucket of joint compound to keep cleaning up my walls. I want these walls solid before I paint and rip out the carpet. That's today's project. Covering holes and smoothing. By next weekend I will be able to buy paint, then lastly the floor. Goal is end of May to be finished. I should hit it.

After all that, I settled in to check out my new games. In case you're wondering - Nioh 2, Pathfinder, and Microsoft Flight Sim 11. The last one was the pricey one. I went with the deluxe edition. This is also why I wanted a new hard drive. I want stuff like that on an SSD. Am waiting to install it after I get the new drive installed.

Today we are going around noon to visit B's grandparents, then as mentioned, movie night tonight. Should be an okay weekend.

Y12 D332

 B's hormonal issues are getting to a crisis point. I got yelled at at 10pm last night for something I didn't realize I had done. I know that sounds like a bullshit thing to say it was hormonal, but you don't understand. All the fucking meds the doctors have her on right now are just fucking up her system. Even she knows it's irrational and hormonal how she behaves in some situations. Then spends the next hour in a major depression for acting the way they did. It's a horrible vicious cycle that needs to be fixed. The good news is B is working with doctors to get it fixed, but it's a rough road getting there.

Today is Friday. I owe you wednesday too, don't I? Our friend came over for their birthday. We had a nice dinner of steaks that I made, played games, and we each had our own pie for dessert. There. You got Wednesday, fucking happy?

Yesterday was last day of teaching this group. Went fine. Made biscuits and gravy with scrambled eggs for dinner. Dealt with being yelled at. Dealt with some other shit. Still not finding the world a good place right now.

People are getting shot. No correction - BLACK people are getting shot in the fucking streets. Republicans are literally trying to stop all progress because of stubborn stupid reasons. DC should become the 51st state. Now we need to do the same for Puerto Rico and Guam. I'm just tired. Tired of everything. We truly do need an adjustment day.

Y12 D331

 Fuck this world. It makes no sense to me sometimes. That's all.

Y12 D330

 Ah, April 21st, a lovely springtime day. NOPE NOT FOR YOU MOTHERFUCKER! HERE'S AN INCH OF SNOW! BOOM!

Oh how I wish I was joking, but there is in fact snow outside. It started around 1pm yesterday and went all night long. Good times. It is 28 degrees outside, yet ironically it will be 62 on Friday. Go figure.

Let's talk about the important news. George Floyd's murderer was held accountable on all three counts against him. For the first time a white cop is being charged and suffering the consequences for their actions. Good. Long overdue. It's not justice. It's not a turning point. But it's a positive sign that the people have had enough. I am sure he will get sent to a protective jail and not have to pay for his actions other than incarceration, but it's a start. One small step in the right direction.

Me, I taught. Two students. Good smart people. We finished around 4:15 because they had 100 questions. Plus I am letting them unmute and one of them is a talker. Could rival me. That's saying something. But they are alright. Engaged and eager to learn. Won't complain about that.

Afterwards, I went to the store. Initially I was just going to go to the smaller store and get stuff for dinner tonight, but then I looked at the list and said fuck it. It was still early enough that I beat the after work crowd. They were coming in as I was leaving. I did get lunches and food for B, steaks for tonight, and stuff like kitty litter. Worth the trip.

Second day of teaching, followed by cooking steaks for our friend's birthday. We should have a nice time tonight.