ANA Y4 D355

Scream

 Pressure is changing rapidly. Rain is coming in. And I am paying the price. Got my first paycheck. $200 difference BUT $107 of that was to my 401k. In reality I was about $120 less per check. I can make that work. Just have to be around long enough to get one raise and I should stabilize that. Now to pay bills and see how much it really hurts.

Read manuals yesterday. Same today. We had no water until about 6:15pm from 8am. Made burgers so I could minimize dishes and water needs. Went to the grocery store and spent $200 on food.

Just make it through today and I get three off. 

ANA Y4 D354

Silence

11 days until we start a new year. 17 years I have been writing this. My ramblings and thoughts. Some day I will rpint it all out.

Had a good day yesterday. We had a vendor sponsored lunch at a local pizza place and it was a good social time for me. I got to meet some of the other people on the team I don't normally interact with, learned about them, shared small tidbits about myself, and opened up dialogs. Even though I am no good to the vendor, it was useful for me to go. I also scored points with my boss as I found a good set of documents to read the next few days.

Made chicken for dinner. Watched some tv, went to bed. Five days of no commute. Let me at it.

ANA Y4 353

Silence

It came back yesterday on my ride in. The weather is all over the place again. Rain, hot, sticky.

Had my first 1:1 with my boss. Went well. I delivered more in three weeks than he had expected. I am doing okay. Went to the sample store and got some more stuff. Dinner was shawarna because my chicken didn't defrost. Went to bed.

ANA Y4 D352

Silence

My boss is finally back in the office. He was unavailable yesterday as he had over 600 emails to get through. But him and I are meeting at 9am today. This should be interesting. I worked on my scripts, did some reading, came home, made Birthday Dog her steaks, went to bed. 

ANA Y4 D351

Scream

It's hot in here. Whole house is hot.  Head screaming. Not in the mood to drive an hour. 

ANA Y4 D350

Scream

We had a BLAST last night. It was so much fun seeing a band in a small little venue. There was maybe 150 people there. So intimate. The band spent half the time in the audience versus the stage which made it even better. Okay, well the guitarist and the singer. Not the WHOLE band. Duh. The day itself was uneventful. Did laundry, cleaned the house. Ordered a pizza for dinner.

Nothing on the agenda for today! 

ANA Y4 D349

Scream.

Finished revamping my script code yesterday. It works and I am in compliance with company standards. Good way to end week 3. Did my laundry so one less thing for today. C took care of a leaking tire. Got her new meds too. Slept poorly.

Raining right now but it better stop as we have a concert tonight! Hell's Belles at a small club. Very excited about it. 

ANA Y4 D348

Scream

Well Cat has a new machine. $2300 we didn't have but we figured it out because that's what we do. Now she has the nicest machine in the house. AMD Ryzen, 5070ti. I went to bed while she was still setting it up.

I broke down yesterday. Everything finally caught up with me and I just had a good crying session. Very cathartic. On the workfront, I got OpenAI access yesterday. Big hurdle crossed. Had a vendor meeting. Did emails. Business business business. 

Week three of 520 almost done. 

ANA Y4 D347

Silence so far.

Cat's machine died last night. Like dead dead. No boot, no beep, no nothing. It's just dead. We don't have the money right now to buy her a new one. I don't know what we're going to do. This is so fucked up.

Work was fine. 

ANA Y4 D346

Scream. Yesterday's silence turned into scream too.

Busy day yesterday. I made progress in my attempts to get data. I set a meeting with a vendor to understand their stuff. I dealt with IT.