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Scratch That

I didn’t feel like I slept poorly, but I could barely drag myself out of bed this morning. I managed to get out of the house, but it just never got any better. I grabbed Burger King on the way out of town, and it was good, but it didn’t help. Nothing was able to perk me up.

We went to Sonic, but had a change of order. I had really been wanting to try their Tropical Heat Smasher, and they had cheap slushes, so I just built my own combo with some free onion rings. It cost more than usual, and I got less food, but it was good. While we were there a lady pulled out of the drive-through to park, and asked if she could give Muad’Dib some chicken. She gave him her entire order of chicken bites, then opened a bottle of water for him. I think she was the same lady that had done it before, because she again threw it all down at once and just let him have at it, and it was too hot and too fast for him to take, so I had to pull it away from him for a while.

The afternoon dragged on as well, even with taking a walk out to the shipping office. It’s still empty out there, so I don’t know what we’re waiting on. They never did reassemble the desk correctly. We made it to the end of the day, and arrived home to find a pile of stuff outside the garage. I had to go unbox all of that before I could even park.

Summer got home just after we got inside, and then assaulted me with loud conversation when I just wanted to crash. I eventually got some quiet, and then we ate some leftovers before I took Muad’Dib on a short run. When we got back, Summer got Muad’Dib all riled up in bed while I was laying under the covers, and he reared back and gave me a nasty gash right in the middle of my glasses, so I guess I really need to go schedule an appointment to get a new prescription anyway.

You eediot!

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Porky and Friends

I woke up super early this morning when the power flickered and killed my CPAP again, and decided to just get out of bed. That left me pretty tired the rest of the day, but the hope was that I would be able to sleep at night. Summer got up and we mostly lounged around. We watched a bunch of Wolves of Glendale videos on Youtube, and she eventually left for the gym while I cleaned up and showered. I didn’t feel great after that, but the only thing we really wanted to do was grill something for dinner.

It was pretty hot outside. I got my Anbernic RG DS from Vine and tinkered with it for a bit. We eventually made it to the Neighborhood Market to see what was on sale. We ended up getting some bone-in pork chops, potatoes, and a few more veggies to go with the zucchini and squash that had been on the counter for quite a while. As we were finishing up, Johnny called to say he was in town and wanted to know if I wanted to go out to eat. We had him over to join us for dinner at the house instead.

Summer prepped the veggies and made mashed potatoes while I got the grill started, and everything came together surprisingly well. Everything turned out super good, and the chops were some of the most tender I’d ever made. I had her slice up a fresh pineapple that I grilled on top of each one, so that may have helped them stay moist. It was a great dinner.

We didn’t visit for very long after that since Johnny had to run. I waited until it cooled down a bit more, then took Muad’Dib on a run to my parents’ house. It was gross outside and my Onewheel was slightly low on battery, so we took a short trip home, then got to bed quickly.

Don’t look down.

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Nowanna

We woke up abruptly this morning when Muad’Dib launched out of bed to meet Eaddie at the door. From what I could tell, she stopped in briefly to poop, and then left again. I was deep in the middle of a dream, and stumbled out of bed with a weird, lingering inner ear thing. I wasn’t really dizzy, but it was like my balance was hard set just a little bit off, so I kept wanting to lean to the right. It eventually went away, but it was really weird.

We didn’t really have anything planned, but Summer decided she really wanted to go see the live action Moana movie. I firmly did not, because I felt the original was too perfect to rake through a cheap, money-grab remake. I made myself a sandwich for lunch and then Summer went to the gym while I got cleaned up for the day. Then we eventually got loaded up for a late afternoon showing.

Muad’Dib ran to my parents’ house where Dad was passed out on the couch, and Summer and I made it to her movie. It was in auditorium four, so the screen appeared about as large as our bathroom TV from where we were sitting. There were a couple families with a boatload of kids, but I already wasn’t really invested in the show. It was expectedly bad, and then Summer had the gall to ask what I thought of it as we drove home. That eventually resulted in an outburst that needed to happen, but it’s exhausting living with someone that refuses to try and figure out her own feelings. We talked for a little while, and then I rode over to my parents’ house to get Muad’Dib.

It was getting late, but I wanted to get something resembling real food before we settled down for bed. I ultimately landed on Taco Villa so we could share an order of nachos outside with Muad’Dib. While I was waiting for our food inside, Jennifer walked in with a boyfriend. She took a selfie with me to send to Becky, and we talked for a bit until I took our food outside.

We ate, then headed home where Summer went to bed. I was up for a while longer doing a little bit of cleaning in my office, but tried not to stay up very late.

Shot entirely in a one bedroom apartment.

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A Different Sonic Blast

I received some docking stations this morning that we ordered from Amazon, and I was tickled to see the prior shipping labels were to Woot.com. I spent much longer swapping David’s docking station than I expected, but at least he was out. Back in my office, I had run out of space, so I decided to clean up and sort through all the laptops that had found their way to my desk. I was also notified that we had someone coming to do some data entry, but that turned out being less of an employee situation that would just be temporary. That got me tinkering with onboarding processes again though, since I haven’t had a secure way to onboard new users onto an Intune device without just handing over a temporary password. I really wanted to figure out how to use the Temporary Access Pass instead.

We had an Aptean call in the early afternoon, so we took an earlier lunch to go to Sonic. I don’t know what it was, but it upset both of our stomachs. Muad’Dib threw up everything he had eaten before we left the office, as well as what he had with me at lunch. I didn’t throw up, but I felt indigestion for the next several hours.

Near the end of the day, I got a call from one of the guys at Roy’s saying he loaded up the air conditioner at the old house with nitrogen to test for leaks, so hopefully we’ll see where that is and get it going again soon. By the time I was ready to leave, we had gotten locked in the office, so we left out the back. It was a quiet ride home, and I cleaned up a little bit while I waited for Summer to get home. She ate some leftovers, and then I took Muad’Dib out for a run while she bathed.

The weather outside felt great for the first part of our run. We made it to my parents’ house and I warmed up some fish soup for dinner. Then we didn’t get back home until after dark. I laid on the couch with Summer until she went to bed. Then I accidentally hopped into a Discord channel with some of the guys.

Johnny had called yesterday to say he was interviewing for the Pottsville IT Director position, and this morning he said they offered it to him about half an hour after he left. With school starting next week, his last day at Nabholz would be Monday. I typed at the guys while they chatted and played Rocket League. Then I tinkered with remote play on my Steam Machine, and I think it may be a viable option until I have room to set up a docking station for my old Steam Deck.

I was up super late toying with that, long after the guys had all left. I’m just super excited to have some options after so long without.

steamdeck

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Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring

We made it to work quite a bit earlier today, and it was super quiet again. I was actually super focused for the entire day because I was able to get up and move around a lot. I spent a bit of time in the upstairs conference room getting a laptop ready for Teisha to use for interviews. While I was up there, I cleaned up a bunch of the black dust that was getting in from the plant on the other side of the wall. I didn’t realize until later that it was continually blowing in quite quickly. Muad’Dib had laid on the floor and gotten it on him, and then it got onto my light colored pants when he laid his head in my lap.

I had my breakfast super late, so I ended up skipping lunch. I went downstairs to do some work, and Amanda had me look at an issue with her phone. That was my project for the rest of the day. While I was downstairs, I checked in on Rhonda and took Teddy out for a walk. Then I was upstairs the rest of the day learning all about RingCentral. There’s still my number consolidation to do, but I learned a lot of other stuff today.

I had to get Summer over to the old house earlier in the morning because the water leak was growing. Dad eventually got over in the afternoon with a plumber, and they found the leak. I made it home and Summer had just cleaned up and was agreeable to having dinner. She wanted Venezia’s though, which didn’t excite me.

We dropped Muad’Dib off with my parents, along with the Buick in case Dad needed a vehicle sometime in the near future, then went to eat. She enjoyed her seafood special, but my ribeye tasted microwaved and my angel hair was mushy. When we got home, I took the Onewheel to get Muad’Dib.

He got the zoomies and ran to the end of the road to meet me, then ran in circles around the yard when we got back to my parents’ house. We had a short ride back home, but I took a modified route to give him a little extra time. We encountered a couple of older guys talking over some lawn mowers, and I got one of them to try the Onewheel. Summer was in bed when we got home, and I cleaned up a bit before getting there myself.

Banana phone!

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Taking Requests

Starbucks had a deal, so I stopped in to grab a wrap on the way out of town. They were out of sriracha, which made the fact that nobody greeted me either time I walked into the store feel that much worse. We got to work and I jumped into my Dell SSO project briefly, but then switched gears to figure out the Admin By Request deployment. Evidently it just let people do whatever they want by default, but I figured out how to require authorization pretty quickly.

Casey’s had a surprise deal on wings, so I grabbed an order of boneless and bone-in, which were both heavily breaded, but still reasonably good. We ate that in my office, and continued tinkering with a desktop candidate for Heaven until it was time to leave.

The afternoon had been really quiet, so it was a pretty relaxing ride home. Summer went home early with a multi-day headache. I asked if she wanted to assemble a side table that had just been delivered, with the intention of putting it by the garage door for all the dog stuff, batteries, vallet, and other miscellany. She did eventually start that while I went to take Dad to the other house.

I had gotten an alert early in the day that there was a leak at the old house. Dad went over to investigate, and had eventually found the shutoff valve right by the house. Luckily, the water meter wrench I took him the other day included a petcock key that fit the handleless valve by the house. From the sound of it, though, we figure it’s in the yard somewhere. We left the water on at the curb to check for leaks later, and I dropped him back off at his house.

Summer was still working on the side table, so after it cooled down a bit, I took Muad’Dib for a run to my parents’ house. I started warming up the fish soup, we made it the long way around the block, and got back just in time to eat. We got home well after dark, took out the trash, broke down the recycling, and crashed.

Take it to the limit!

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One Flat

It was another super quiet day without much to say. I kind of spun my wheels on a couple different things, but hopefully got a step closer to improving my processes. Summer was having a slow morning and met me for lunch early. We had a new server at Ortega’s that I don’t remember seeing before, but Summer said she had seen him there. He was easily a contender for the best service we’ve had though.

The afternoon was long, but didn’t feel quite as long as the morning since I was moving around a lot more. When we finally left, I got stuck behind two out-of-state vehicles that were varying their speeds while parked in the left lane, and I couldn’t burst ahead of them in the loaner Model 3 due to the speed limiter. I pressed on, and found Summer laid out on the couch, not feeling well.

I got right to work building a chair I got for Eaddie’s bathroom. I’m not sure it fits as well as I wanted it to, and she may not like it, but Dad could take it. I continued to try and clean up a bit, and found Summer’s sunroof shade in the closet. I got that installed before it got a little cooler out, and then I took Muad’Dib on a run. We went straight to my parents’ house, and as soon as I rolled into the garage, my Onewheel went completely flat. I didn’t see a puncture anywhere, so I got the air compressor going and filled it back up. There was a huge difference, so I guess it had been super flat for a really long time. I could see some air bubbling out around the rim, so I don’t know if the seal there is bad, or if maybe it was just too hot on the pavement.

We ran a short bit more after we left there, and the board handled completely differently. I’ll have to check the air pressure more frequently. We got home just as it started to get dark, and Summer went to bed. I got some Triscuits out for chicken salad, and discovered where our moths had been coming from. I had only seen a couple, but the pantry was absolutely full of them, and a bunch of larvae were all wrapped up around the Triscuits. Luckily we had an unopened package that was untainted, so I had my snack before bed.

Can’t keep me down!

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Tribal Ignorance

I felt like I slept great after going to bed early. I didn’t have a great start, but I didn’t feel awful afterward either. We made it to work and then just had to pick a project. It was a relatively quiet day, which was nice for a Monday. The morning went by fairly quickly and we took a late lunch. I wanted to go a little light while still being cheap, and we ended up going to Taco Bell for a burrito, along with some fries from Arby’s. Muad’Dib had the booty scoots for some reason, but he seemed to get over it by the time we were done with lunch.

The afternoon got a little bit exciting when Rhonda had a question that turned procedural. I broke out the Traverse manual and possibly learned something that nobody had done before. I wish we could just have an expert come shadow everyone for a day, because I think that would be worth it to show us where we’re missing best practices. People have just been making it work for so long that nobody really understands the whole beast.

We left about half an hour late, and Summer wanted me to stop by the store to get some celery and an onion for the chicken salad she made for sandwiches. We ate, and then she showered while I did my Vine stuff. Once it cooled down, I took Muad’Dib for a pretty good run. Lots of people were out in the cooler air. We got lots of waves, we saw my parents, and then we made it home without having to carry my board home again.

Summer was getting ready for bed, so I cleaned the rest of the chicken off of the bones that she left. Then I quickly wrapped up for bed.

Where does all the space go???

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Lawn Boys

I felt like I slept okay, but the day sapped me quickly. I was up first, and tried to keep fairly busy. I warmed up the last of the pasta for Summer and made myself a sandwich out of some rye bread I found in the freezer. Then she went to the gym and I cleaned up and had a shower. I felt a bit worse after that, which slowed me down for a while.

Summer mentioned wanting the lawn done, so I texted Kevin to have him come by at his convenience. He and Matthi took care of the old house, and then came over to the new house. Dad texted that he was going to have a kid from church mow their lawn instead, so Kevin asked for $100, then backed down to $90 for the two they did, but I gave him the full amount.

I was up wandering around the house and cleaning up all day, so I was feeling pretty tired. Dad said they had fish soup, so I tried running Muad’Dib over on the Onewheel later in the evening. We got a couple blocks down the road and the board died again with a reported 35% battery. I carried it most of the way home, and then we drove over to eat.

Dad was out watering plants while Mom finished up inside. Then they both came out while I was sat by the pool with Muad’Dib. Once I realized how late it was getting, Muad’Dib and I went in to eat, and then headed back home. It was a short night after that.

Sleep it off.

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Babysitting

Summer went to the gym this morning while I had a rough start myself. She decided to try Eaddie’s shower when she got back, and much preferred the shower head in there. I gave it a try myself, and while the volume of water was better, I didn’t care for the space or the lighting. We eventually got things going and ran Muad’Dib to my parents’ house so he could stay there while we went to Conway for Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

We were both hungry, since it was after noon, so we started at Stoby’s for lunch. I thought I was going light by getting a Reuben, but the large cheese dip done us in. We arrived in Conway early, and went by Sam’s Club first to kill some time and hunt for snacks. We didn’t get much, and settled on a bag of Werther’s, then made it to the Cinemark.

The theater was filled with people, though our auditorium took a while to fill out. I fought Summer on getting popcorn, but she insisted. She also wanted an extra large for a refill, and a large drink. The movie was a huge shift in gears from any other recent Marvel films, but it was absolutely fantastic. It was definitely more emotional than any of the others, and brought you closer to the action with Spider-Man, especially in 3D.

Summer barely touched the popcorn at all, which caused some drama. I am not allowed to feel frustration. We headed straight toward home instead of having dinner. I dropped her off at her car that was parked at my office, and then beat her home so I could move the Buick out of the garage for her. She went out onto the porch with a big glass of wine, and I rode the Onewheel to my parents’ house to get Muad’Dib.

My parents were out watering plants when I got there, so he sprinted after me from a distance. I got his things, and we continued on a really great run in the fall-like air. It felt really amazing outside, so I was surprised that he shortened his run. Once we made it back to the house, he went to bed with Summer, and I did my own thing until bed.

Third time’s the charm.