I am home! Been away so long I hardly know the place, gee it's good to be back home.
Some day will come when no one recognizes that lyric. Oh wait.
Regardless, I am home. Pretty uneventful trip home thanks to upgrades on both flights and it being early flights. Left for the airport around 2:30 as I had to stop for gas. Oh my. This particular gas station at 3am is um, interesting? You can tell it is the 'drunk stop' station. Everyone getting smokes or energy drinks dressed in what can only be described as club clothes. And then there's me. Trying to get gas to go to the airport. I just want to go home people. Out of my way.
Got to the terminal around 3:15 and waited. Not too bad. I got into security line around 3:40, was through by 4:10. Got to my gate and sat off to the side watching Wonderfalls. Cute show. Boarded and had a nice cozy window seat with no one next to me. I did witness a dick move and it happened too fast for me to say something. This big fat old guy who looked like the self entitled kind of guy as he was walking through to coach snagged the blanket off the seat next to me. Dick. You can just ask for one you know. They would have brought it to you. I watched some more TV on the flight as it was a whole 40 minutes long.
Got to DFW around 6 and had 2.5 hours to kill. Spent about 1.5 of them in the club. I have already spent enough time in the Admiral's Club that if I had purchased day passes, I am close to breaking even. 2 more visits to go. Headed to my gate, boarded, and we were off.
Had a nice quiche, a small nap, and while a bumpy flight, no other problems. There had been a dog in the waiting area but either it got on another flight or it was far enough back I didn't hear it. It was barking up a storm in the waiting area.
Landed about 11 and texted B. She had been having her own adventure. The main bridge we use is closed this weekend for repairs. While I was flying she was stressing trying to get the GPS to recognize where she was and that the bridge was closed. She had just arrived when I landed and needed to pee. But she parked in the wrong terminal parking and was looking for me 30 gates too far away.
We finally met up and then had to deal with the bridge closure issue on the ride home. 2 hours later we got home around 2. Unpacked, ate some lunch, took a nap. Woke up and made dinner. We were smart enough to pick something up when we were out earlier. Alas, B needed some other stuff and back to the store we went. When we got back I started catching up on email. No small task. Took a a while but I got through it. Relaxed a while with B, then started adding new shows from two weeks on the road. 140 shows later. Went to bed around 1:30. Haven't been up that long in a while on a non-show night.
Today I am doing nothing and loving every minute of it.
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Y6 D348
I waited until 2am where I am to make sure it was Saturday everywhere before writing this post. Not that there is anything exciting to really say. I taught all day, got back to the hotel around 5, slept from 7pm to 1am. Go me. I finally am going home today. I smell because I haven't done laundry in two weeks. I am ready to go home. I have bills waiting for me, laundry to do, expense reports, and time sheets. Wait, why am I excited to go home? Remind me.
Oh yeah. B and the cats. That's about the only reason. If I were still single and living alone, who knows if I would go home or not. I mean seriously. My cat would still be gone so there'd be nothing waiting for me so fuck it. But now I have something waiting for me and it feels pretty good.
Let's go check something real quick...
In 11 days my gofundme has raised....
ZERO DOLLARS!
YAY ME! Thanks for trying sis. We will give it a few more days and then shut it down. Fuck it.
Oh yeah. B and the cats. That's about the only reason. If I were still single and living alone, who knows if I would go home or not. I mean seriously. My cat would still be gone so there'd be nothing waiting for me so fuck it. But now I have something waiting for me and it feels pretty good.
Let's go check something real quick...
In 11 days my gofundme has raised....
ZERO DOLLARS!
YAY ME! Thanks for trying sis. We will give it a few more days and then shut it down. Fuck it.
Friday, May 8, 2015
Y6 D347
In roughly 24 hours I will be on a plane on my way home after two weeks away. Two weeks is too long. Optimal for me would be one week on the road for every 3 weeks at home. That would work for me. Long enough at home to get things done, but not so long that I go stir crazy. Enough on the road I can relax, but not so long I want to cut everyone. Back to back trips are hard. Plus I have been here for 8 days and it's just tiring.
Class was good yesterday. I like the group which is saying something. It's one of those rare times where we did the right classes in the right order to the right people. I have high confidence in this group's abilities after I leave. I think they will go far.
Got back around 4:30 and took an accidental nap which is why I am so groggy this morning. Screwed up the old sleep cycle.
Got into a discussion with B last night where I bit my tongue about some things because as I told her, I was not about to get into it at 10:30 at night via a chat window. Sorry you have been awake for 8 hours, I have been awake for 18. Go have your existential breakdown at a better time. It's a long story but the bottom line is I am right but I won't admit I am right because I just don't want to argue, especially when I am not home. Whatever.
Might do bills tonight. Got paid. Also finally got notice of two other things regarding money. One, the refund check for the TV is at long last getting cut. $564 on its way and should be here by the 22nd. Also got my Q1 bonus amount which we will see when that gets paid out. That's what started the above discussion by the way. If you've been reading, you know I have been saving to pay things off. I paid off the motorcycle, the bed, the couch, and one of my medical bills in the last month. That's a big deal. I have been avoiding 'fun' purchase for a while now to be able to do that. Plus I have enough saved for the deposit on the new apartment when we move. I made the mistake of saying I think I want to buy a PS4 when I finally get my bonus. Bad move. I didn't get anger in return, what I got was selfishness and self pity. Nope. Not in the mood for that.
I need to go check in for my flight. Twenty twenty twenty twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated...
Class was good yesterday. I like the group which is saying something. It's one of those rare times where we did the right classes in the right order to the right people. I have high confidence in this group's abilities after I leave. I think they will go far.
Got back around 4:30 and took an accidental nap which is why I am so groggy this morning. Screwed up the old sleep cycle.
Got into a discussion with B last night where I bit my tongue about some things because as I told her, I was not about to get into it at 10:30 at night via a chat window. Sorry you have been awake for 8 hours, I have been awake for 18. Go have your existential breakdown at a better time. It's a long story but the bottom line is I am right but I won't admit I am right because I just don't want to argue, especially when I am not home. Whatever.
Might do bills tonight. Got paid. Also finally got notice of two other things regarding money. One, the refund check for the TV is at long last getting cut. $564 on its way and should be here by the 22nd. Also got my Q1 bonus amount which we will see when that gets paid out. That's what started the above discussion by the way. If you've been reading, you know I have been saving to pay things off. I paid off the motorcycle, the bed, the couch, and one of my medical bills in the last month. That's a big deal. I have been avoiding 'fun' purchase for a while now to be able to do that. Plus I have enough saved for the deposit on the new apartment when we move. I made the mistake of saying I think I want to buy a PS4 when I finally get my bonus. Bad move. I didn't get anger in return, what I got was selfishness and self pity. Nope. Not in the mood for that.
I need to go check in for my flight. Twenty twenty twenty twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated...
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Y6 D346
I am very cranky this morning. Like grr argh cranky. Go fuck yourselves cranky. I don't know why. Lack of sleep? Ready to go home? Annoyed with stupid people? Disappointed with other people? All of the fucking above? Yeah. Let's go with that. Maybe it's the giant blister that's appeared smack dab in the middle of my right foot since I have been favoring it since wearing this fucking boot and it makes me want to scream every time I take a step.
I fucking hate life. It's just one goddamn thing after another. Whether it's my body falling apart, bills to be paid, people being dumb, it's something. I just want to go sit on a fucking beach in Hawaii for a while. Suck down mai tais and ignore the world.
Taught again. No shit, right? After work I decided to walk to a shopping area because it turns out there is a Lush nearby and I wanted a bomb to soak in to help my blister and leg. Yeah, that little .6 walk on paper? Turned out to be a bitch because it was 85 degrees with 80% humidity. I lost five fucking pounds on that walk. It took me longer to walk there than I spent in the fucking store. Got back to the hotel around 6, and waited until about 7:30 to go over to Walmart. I wanted to pick up some stuff for my class - snacks and prizes. I figured by that time it would be dead. Nope. Took me a fucking hour from the time I left until I got back. And it's across the street. Literally.
Watched some TV but wasn't in to anything. Went to bed around 10:30.
What's today? Thursday I think? Two more fucking days.
I fucking hate life. It's just one goddamn thing after another. Whether it's my body falling apart, bills to be paid, people being dumb, it's something. I just want to go sit on a fucking beach in Hawaii for a while. Suck down mai tais and ignore the world.
Taught again. No shit, right? After work I decided to walk to a shopping area because it turns out there is a Lush nearby and I wanted a bomb to soak in to help my blister and leg. Yeah, that little .6 walk on paper? Turned out to be a bitch because it was 85 degrees with 80% humidity. I lost five fucking pounds on that walk. It took me longer to walk there than I spent in the fucking store. Got back to the hotel around 6, and waited until about 7:30 to go over to Walmart. I wanted to pick up some stuff for my class - snacks and prizes. I figured by that time it would be dead. Nope. Took me a fucking hour from the time I left until I got back. And it's across the street. Literally.
Watched some TV but wasn't in to anything. Went to bed around 10:30.
What's today? Thursday I think? Two more fucking days.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Y6 D345
20 days until this year is over and I will have one more year of writing under my belt. I could have written multiple novels by now with the amount of words that have spewed forth from me. The problem is what to write? Here it's easy. It's the life and times of one dumbass depressed motherfucker. Doesn't make for a good novel though now does it?
Had a weird dream last night. I was at a Six Flags by myself. And I went to get on a roller coaster and as it started going I realized I wasn't buckled in and no one had come to check on me. The buckle would go together and the ride was already moving. What's the metaphor here? Life is a roller coaster with no straps and no one is going to help me or check on me? Too easy. There's got to be some deeper bizarre meaning, right?
Another day of teaching down. Finished around 4 and got back to the hotel around 4:30. Good thing too because around 5 the sky opened up and went insane. For the next 4-5 hours all it did was rain and thunder and lightening split the sky wide open. Kind of cool. Forget what a good rain storm looked like.
Ate leftovers that I pilfered from class. It was alright. It was food. Watched Warehouse 13 - done with season 1 - played some Diablo, and went to bed around 10.
4 more days and I am home.
Had a weird dream last night. I was at a Six Flags by myself. And I went to get on a roller coaster and as it started going I realized I wasn't buckled in and no one had come to check on me. The buckle would go together and the ride was already moving. What's the metaphor here? Life is a roller coaster with no straps and no one is going to help me or check on me? Too easy. There's got to be some deeper bizarre meaning, right?
Another day of teaching down. Finished around 4 and got back to the hotel around 4:30. Good thing too because around 5 the sky opened up and went insane. For the next 4-5 hours all it did was rain and thunder and lightening split the sky wide open. Kind of cool. Forget what a good rain storm looked like.
Ate leftovers that I pilfered from class. It was alright. It was food. Watched Warehouse 13 - done with season 1 - played some Diablo, and went to bed around 10.
4 more days and I am home.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Y6 D344
I am awake but very fuzzy right now. Which sucks because I originally woke up at 3:24 clear and sharp. I awoke from a weird ass dream where apparently I was 23 and kept telling people that because I didn't want to go somewhere and I wasn't a kid dammit. HA. I wish on all accounts. I am a whopping none of the above. 123 maybe. Anyway, I fell back to sleep and now I am groggy.
Yesterday was okay. The client is in a lousy location. It took me 25 minutes to go 6 miles. And today is more of the same. Yay.
The best part of yesterday was how easily I got into the building though. This is a government client three building down from the state capitol. I managed to get into a sealed garage, onto a keycard only floor, and be offered coffee by employees passing by. Never once did anyone ask for ID or my name. Amazing. Let's see how I do today.
The room is decent. The people are okay. Same group all week. They are bringing in lunch every day. Yesterday was spicy ass chicken which bit me later in the evening. Finished up around 4 and headed back. Took me 30 minutes to get back.
Ate leftover chicken for dinner, paid for it around 7. Watched some TV, went to bed around 10.
Still not doing any better internally. I did pay off the couch though last night. That's the third thing I have paid off in a month - bike, bed, and couch. It's going to make for a tight June, but come September when you add the rent savings plus the savings from these bills being gone, it will be about 600 a month which can go pay more. If you remember I said I would be doing okay by 2015. I was about 1 year off and will be closer to my goal in 2016, but I also didn't plan on moving twice, getting married, buying a new car, or needing leg surgery. Oh and my go fund me for my leg? After one week is officially at zero still!! Yay!! I am letting it go one more week then having her delete it. Fuck it.
Yesterday was okay. The client is in a lousy location. It took me 25 minutes to go 6 miles. And today is more of the same. Yay.
The best part of yesterday was how easily I got into the building though. This is a government client three building down from the state capitol. I managed to get into a sealed garage, onto a keycard only floor, and be offered coffee by employees passing by. Never once did anyone ask for ID or my name. Amazing. Let's see how I do today.
The room is decent. The people are okay. Same group all week. They are bringing in lunch every day. Yesterday was spicy ass chicken which bit me later in the evening. Finished up around 4 and headed back. Took me 30 minutes to get back.
Ate leftover chicken for dinner, paid for it around 7. Watched some TV, went to bed around 10.
Still not doing any better internally. I did pay off the couch though last night. That's the third thing I have paid off in a month - bike, bed, and couch. It's going to make for a tight June, but come September when you add the rent savings plus the savings from these bills being gone, it will be about 600 a month which can go pay more. If you remember I said I would be doing okay by 2015. I was about 1 year off and will be closer to my goal in 2016, but I also didn't plan on moving twice, getting married, buying a new car, or needing leg surgery. Oh and my go fund me for my leg? After one week is officially at zero still!! Yay!! I am letting it go one more week then having her delete it. Fuck it.
Monday, May 4, 2015
Y6 D343
Deep down, every parent wants their child to do better than them. Make better decisions, achieve more in life, find happiness - that sort of thing. But that doesn't mean it can't sting when they do. You're proud, but you can also be sad that you never got to achieve the same. That's why so many parents try to vicariously live through their children I think. That can turn dangerous too quick in my mind. Cause more of a rift than anything else.
What brought all this up? The kid and KBF have been looking at land. Like 10 acres of land. He apparently has the down payment needed to pay a large chunk of land, get a small pre-fab house, and grow fruit. I know technically that it's his and not hers, but she will have a real easy time of it if they go forward with this. Ten acres of land, a house, college debt paid, all before 30. Proud, yet saddened that my life has come to me sitting in hotel rooms worrying about paying for leg surgery. I can't tell if it's getting any better with the boot but it probably isn't getting any worse with the boot. The catch 22 of the week.
Just take my belt and throw it around the shower curtain rod. And swing.
B is still up. It's 4:48am where I am. She is still up watching GoT. How'd you spend your Sunday? Oh, doing nothing but watching TV even though I asked if you could please go to the office store to take some measurements on desks? No, that's okay. I will do it when I get home like everything else. To be fair, she did make pot pies and freeze them for when I get home so we don't have to cook next Saturday.
I'm cranky, angry, sad, depressed, in pain, and just plain fed up right now. Today is day one of five at the new client. I don't know what kind of hell I am going to be dealing with traffic wise so I am planning on leaving here an hour early to go 6 miles. I know that seems silly but it may pay off. I may also be sitting in a parking lot for a while.
I did jack shit yesterday if you can't tell. I went off to the fancy mall but everything was closed until fucking noon and I got there at 10:00. Whee. I found a place to eat some food which killed a little time but I wasn't going to sit there for another 40 minutes doing nothing. I have all week to do that.
What brought all this up? The kid and KBF have been looking at land. Like 10 acres of land. He apparently has the down payment needed to pay a large chunk of land, get a small pre-fab house, and grow fruit. I know technically that it's his and not hers, but she will have a real easy time of it if they go forward with this. Ten acres of land, a house, college debt paid, all before 30. Proud, yet saddened that my life has come to me sitting in hotel rooms worrying about paying for leg surgery. I can't tell if it's getting any better with the boot but it probably isn't getting any worse with the boot. The catch 22 of the week.
Just take my belt and throw it around the shower curtain rod. And swing.
B is still up. It's 4:48am where I am. She is still up watching GoT. How'd you spend your Sunday? Oh, doing nothing but watching TV even though I asked if you could please go to the office store to take some measurements on desks? No, that's okay. I will do it when I get home like everything else. To be fair, she did make pot pies and freeze them for when I get home so we don't have to cook next Saturday.
I'm cranky, angry, sad, depressed, in pain, and just plain fed up right now. Today is day one of five at the new client. I don't know what kind of hell I am going to be dealing with traffic wise so I am planning on leaving here an hour early to go 6 miles. I know that seems silly but it may pay off. I may also be sitting in a parking lot for a while.
I did jack shit yesterday if you can't tell. I went off to the fancy mall but everything was closed until fucking noon and I got there at 10:00. Whee. I found a place to eat some food which killed a little time but I wasn't going to sit there for another 40 minutes doing nothing. I have all week to do that.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Y6 D342
Slept in again. Not quite as late as yesterday, but still a decent time for me. It's almost 7am. I think I have been up for about 20 minutes or so. Not too shabby. Especially since starting tomorrow I have to be back up at normal times. I really need to be up early tomorrow as I don't know where I am going and need some extra time. I may explore today and see where the client is to save me from stressing tomorrow. Maybe. I looked yesterday to see about doing it but the traffic was at a dead stop on the map so um no.
What I did do yesterday was head out around 10. I found a bookstore where I managed to find one book I was looking for in a series. I had a light lunch of a sandwich while out. On the way back to the hotel I stopped at a comic book store for Free Comic Book Day. I was hoping to pick up the free Fight Club 2 Prologue but they were out. If anyone has one, I would love you forever for it.
Got back to the hotel around 1 and housekeeping still hadn't come. Bastards. They ended up coming at 3:15. Ugh. I left the room for a while, came back at 3:30 and took an accidental nap. Woke up around 5. Decided to watch some more Warehouse 13 and then I started a new show. There's only 7 episodes of it so far but I have to say, I like it. iZombie. It's cute, it's funny, it's a little cliche and corny, but it works. The characters are genuine and the stories aren't bad. I watch 5 episodes last night. I have two more to go. A new episode airs this week.
Talked to B for a little while. Went to bed. Today I really don't know what I want to do. I don't want to wander around aimlessly, but I also have nothing else to do. There's another mall nearby I could wander around and I might, but otherwise, I don't have a whole lot to do today. Oh well.
What I did do yesterday was head out around 10. I found a bookstore where I managed to find one book I was looking for in a series. I had a light lunch of a sandwich while out. On the way back to the hotel I stopped at a comic book store for Free Comic Book Day. I was hoping to pick up the free Fight Club 2 Prologue but they were out. If anyone has one, I would love you forever for it.
Got back to the hotel around 1 and housekeeping still hadn't come. Bastards. They ended up coming at 3:15. Ugh. I left the room for a while, came back at 3:30 and took an accidental nap. Woke up around 5. Decided to watch some more Warehouse 13 and then I started a new show. There's only 7 episodes of it so far but I have to say, I like it. iZombie. It's cute, it's funny, it's a little cliche and corny, but it works. The characters are genuine and the stories aren't bad. I watch 5 episodes last night. I have two more to go. A new episode airs this week.
Talked to B for a little while. Went to bed. Today I really don't know what I want to do. I don't want to wander around aimlessly, but I also have nothing else to do. There's another mall nearby I could wander around and I might, but otherwise, I don't have a whole lot to do today. Oh well.
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Y6 D341
Slept in until 8:30am. Listen to your body buddy boy.
My last post was title Yg instead of Y6. Thanks for letting me know people. Sheesh. Oh wait, I am thinking people actually read this. Ha. Silly me. This is and never has been about people reading it. At least not now. It started off that way sure. But now it's about me saving something for posterity. Maybe this is my legacy for death. 100 years from now someone will find a printed out copy of this and see how life was back in these ol' days. Or maybe it will be made into a hologram for the kids to watch on a trip to the moon! Gee willikers!
So I am in Texas. Whoop de doo. I left Tulsa around 3 for the airport. Had my upgrade on the first flight which was oh so exciting. I don't stress about getting the upgrade on the smaller flights now. It used to chip away at my upgrade balance and I would stress because I felt like I was wasting them. Now anything under 500 miles is a complimentary upgrade. I take a lot of those FROM DFW - Austin, Tulsa, etc. I read through the flight and finished a book. Sat in DFW for two hours and came to Austin. Slept through that whopping 42 minute flight.
Got here around 9:30 and decided to kill time. I went to my favorite vape shop in Texas - Drip and Rip and hung out there for a little while trying new flavors and new tanks. Ended up getting a new tank, the Atlantis 2. Holy crap. .3 coils, massive bore drip tip, and so much airflow adjustment. I have to use my stick at 40w to push it, but man is it worth it. I bet most of the people reading just saw a whole lot of gibberish in that sentence.
Went to Walmart next where I picked up some supplies including an extra shirt. I found a stain on one of my shirts last week and for $15 decided to replace it. Extra shirts, never hurts. I'm a poet and TOTALLY KNEW IT. Went to Red Robin next for an early lunch. I ended up arriving at the hotel around noon. I was going to do more but I didn't want to leave myself with nothing for today and tomorrow. By a small miracle my room was ready! Yay! I went up and took a nap for a couple hours.
Woke up around 2, ironed, hung out, then was going to go to dinner, but decided to order a pizza instead. I just didn't want to deal with traffic outside the hotel. Pizza was easier and will span multiple meals. I then worked on bills. I paid rent AND paid off one more credit card! I had our bed down low enough that I could pay it off in full. THAT felt good, let me tell you. I have one more I can pay off and I saved it for today so I can have the satisfaction of doing multiple over the weekend.
Watched a bunch of TV including 3 episodes of Warehouse 13. I decided to take advantage of my damn Amazon Prime membership finally. I may continue today and watch the rest of season 1. I also have iZombie on my machine to watch.
Did a video call with B for about an hour. She's doing better. When most people travel they get jet lag - that few days where their body needs to adjust. For her it's empty house lag. She needs a couple of days to get over her whole 'holy shit i'm alone' thing. She is doing much better. The cats are behaving which helps.
Went to bed around 11:45 and had a good night sleep. A little dry here and I woke up a little stuffed up, but not horrible.
Today I am going over to a big mall to kill time for housekeeping. Going to head out in about an hour or so. No rush. I am already too late for breakfast so fuck it. I will eat lunch out and I have pizza for dinner.
My last post was title Yg instead of Y6. Thanks for letting me know people. Sheesh. Oh wait, I am thinking people actually read this. Ha. Silly me. This is and never has been about people reading it. At least not now. It started off that way sure. But now it's about me saving something for posterity. Maybe this is my legacy for death. 100 years from now someone will find a printed out copy of this and see how life was back in these ol' days. Or maybe it will be made into a hologram for the kids to watch on a trip to the moon! Gee willikers!
So I am in Texas. Whoop de doo. I left Tulsa around 3 for the airport. Had my upgrade on the first flight which was oh so exciting. I don't stress about getting the upgrade on the smaller flights now. It used to chip away at my upgrade balance and I would stress because I felt like I was wasting them. Now anything under 500 miles is a complimentary upgrade. I take a lot of those FROM DFW - Austin, Tulsa, etc. I read through the flight and finished a book. Sat in DFW for two hours and came to Austin. Slept through that whopping 42 minute flight.
Got here around 9:30 and decided to kill time. I went to my favorite vape shop in Texas - Drip and Rip and hung out there for a little while trying new flavors and new tanks. Ended up getting a new tank, the Atlantis 2. Holy crap. .3 coils, massive bore drip tip, and so much airflow adjustment. I have to use my stick at 40w to push it, but man is it worth it. I bet most of the people reading just saw a whole lot of gibberish in that sentence.
Went to Walmart next where I picked up some supplies including an extra shirt. I found a stain on one of my shirts last week and for $15 decided to replace it. Extra shirts, never hurts. I'm a poet and TOTALLY KNEW IT. Went to Red Robin next for an early lunch. I ended up arriving at the hotel around noon. I was going to do more but I didn't want to leave myself with nothing for today and tomorrow. By a small miracle my room was ready! Yay! I went up and took a nap for a couple hours.
Woke up around 2, ironed, hung out, then was going to go to dinner, but decided to order a pizza instead. I just didn't want to deal with traffic outside the hotel. Pizza was easier and will span multiple meals. I then worked on bills. I paid rent AND paid off one more credit card! I had our bed down low enough that I could pay it off in full. THAT felt good, let me tell you. I have one more I can pay off and I saved it for today so I can have the satisfaction of doing multiple over the weekend.
Watched a bunch of TV including 3 episodes of Warehouse 13. I decided to take advantage of my damn Amazon Prime membership finally. I may continue today and watch the rest of season 1. I also have iZombie on my machine to watch.
Did a video call with B for about an hour. She's doing better. When most people travel they get jet lag - that few days where their body needs to adjust. For her it's empty house lag. She needs a couple of days to get over her whole 'holy shit i'm alone' thing. She is doing much better. The cats are behaving which helps.
Went to bed around 11:45 and had a good night sleep. A little dry here and I woke up a little stuffed up, but not horrible.
Today I am going over to a big mall to kill time for housekeeping. Going to head out in about an hour or so. No rush. I am already too late for breakfast so fuck it. I will eat lunch out and I have pizza for dinner.
Friday, May 1, 2015
Y6 D340
Happy May. Travel pisses me off. Here's why - I am up and writing this at 2:12am local time. If I got in the car now and drove to Austin I would arrive roughly around 9:40 at my hotel. Instead, I am leaving in about an hour to go to the airport, board at 4:30 in the morning after standing around for probably 15 - 20 minutes waiting, then arrive in Dallas at 6:20, take another flight at 8 and land in Austin at 9:20. Get my rental car and drive to the hotel and guess what time I should arrive? About 9:50. So. I could drive and do something or spend most of the morning bored off my ass and arrive at my destination at the same time. Whoever said air travel saves time never did the actual math.
Finished at client one. Off to client two. 8 days total in Austin. Need to pay bills and rent this weekend from the hotel. Have no other big plans for my wild time in Austin. I might try and find something to do tomorrow. We shall see. Today to kill time before I check in I am going to a vape shop and then to the outlet malls. Maybe. I may just push the hotel into checking me in early and save those things for tomorrow to give me something to do.
Got back to the hotel around 4:30, packed and went out for dinner. Ate at Delta Cafe, aka your standard homestyle cookin' kind of place. It was acceptable. Came back and slept from 6:30 until 9. Downloaded files. Slept from 11:30 to 1:30.
Shout out to my buddy and his tooth situation. Life sucks doesn't it? But it's better than the alternative? For me it is at least. While I may contemplate death, death scares the living fuck out of me. It's the moments like this where I understand why people cling to religion. It gives them the false hope they need to carry on every day. They truly believe they will go 'on to a better place' when they die. It gives them the no fear of death mentality that I can't grasp. Fuck death. I can't comprehend me without me. I know that when the lights turn out that's it. There is no more. No more conscious thought. No more rambling on here. No more sitting in hotel rooms. Just nothing. I shut down. I go away. I turn into worm food.
And that freaks the fuck out of me.
Finished at client one. Off to client two. 8 days total in Austin. Need to pay bills and rent this weekend from the hotel. Have no other big plans for my wild time in Austin. I might try and find something to do tomorrow. We shall see. Today to kill time before I check in I am going to a vape shop and then to the outlet malls. Maybe. I may just push the hotel into checking me in early and save those things for tomorrow to give me something to do.
Got back to the hotel around 4:30, packed and went out for dinner. Ate at Delta Cafe, aka your standard homestyle cookin' kind of place. It was acceptable. Came back and slept from 6:30 until 9. Downloaded files. Slept from 11:30 to 1:30.
Shout out to my buddy and his tooth situation. Life sucks doesn't it? But it's better than the alternative? For me it is at least. While I may contemplate death, death scares the living fuck out of me. It's the moments like this where I understand why people cling to religion. It gives them the false hope they need to carry on every day. They truly believe they will go 'on to a better place' when they die. It gives them the no fear of death mentality that I can't grasp. Fuck death. I can't comprehend me without me. I know that when the lights turn out that's it. There is no more. No more conscious thought. No more rambling on here. No more sitting in hotel rooms. Just nothing. I shut down. I go away. I turn into worm food.
And that freaks the fuck out of me.
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