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Reviews R Us

We managed to get out a couple minutes early today, so it would have been a good day to pick up breakfast, but I brought a frozen grilled cheese and banana instead. Eventually I’ll run out of sandwiches, but until then, I’m still living off of Two Rivers.

I had a couple phone calls, but nothing too pressing. I just kept tinkering with my new test VMs and Intune, with a Wendy’s break in the middle.

Summer was home a little before us, and she and Eaddie had gone through a bunch of stuff Eaddie “shopped” from Autumn’s hoard before she moves into some place she’s paying her father to rent for her(???). Summer and I ate our leftover Pasta Grill, and then we sat down to do a ton of reviews on the clothes and things I’ve gotten her on Vine.

As it started to get a little darker, I took Muad’Dib on a run. I ran the hose out from the basement but completely forgot to turn on the sump, so after we visited my parents and made it back home, I had to kick it off. I did at least figure out the garage door remote situation, so that was a win. I stayed up a little late cleaning up and finishing the basement, and then it was off to bed.

Make something up if you have to.

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They-Merch

Summer got up to make pancakes this morning, but realized that she had almost none of the ingredients she needed. Evidently she planned to have Eaddie go fetch what was missing when she left to go pick up her car that she didn’t bring home for some reason, and Eaddie didn’t get the memo that we were waiting on her to be able to cook said breakfast. I pushed Summer to call her back, and of course she didn’t answer her phone. By then it was nearly time to get ready to leave for our matinee of Masters of the Universe, but she insisted that she wanted to go pick up the ingredients herself and at least make eggs, sausage, and toast.

We had breakfast, I got cleaned up, and we left for Conway. We arrived with time to get snacks, upgrade Summer to a collectible cup, and catch the few previews that played between a bunch of other commercials.

I kind of wanted to see the movie, but I wasn’t nearly as excited as Summer. I still couldn’t believe she grew up completely unaware of the original movie, and I knew nothing of the cartoon. She only knew the cartoon. It was a fun movie that didn’t take itself seriously at all, though not to the extent that Barbie didn’t. It was entertaining, and the best role I’ve personally seen Jared Leto play.

After the movie, we headed to Sam’s Club to see what they had, and then we landed at Chuy’s for dinner. Summer loved how fabulous our server was, and we both had food to take home. Muad’Dib was incredibly excited to see us, so I let him run alongside me as I took the baby robot mower to my parents’ house. Then I took him on a short ride around the block on the Onewheel.

Summer had long been in bed, but I managed to get things cleaned up, fight with the garage door remote programming, and get ready for work in the morning in record time, and then headed to bed myself.

Life is a series of absurdities leading to infinite nothingness.

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Bloody Meat

I was pretty sure I had an anxiety attack in my sleep last night, but it may have been a dream. I felt like I had a mild headache when I woke up from it. Summer had to work for a bit today, so she left and I got up to write some reviews. I finished all of the stuff we had for salad for an early lunch, and then she asked if I wanted to take her out to a late lunch when she got off of work. I wasn’t sure how hungry I’d be, but by the time I got ready and Summer got home and took a bath, Eaddie said she wanted to join us. Eli had just come over but his mother was cooking dinner later, so we let him babysit Muad’Dib while we ate.

Summer wanted Pasta Grill, and we got there just a little bit before they were actually open, though there were a couple other parties already waiting inside to be seated. We got a table and I decided to try the prime rib cooked medium instead of medium rare. I think that helped with some of the toughness I’ve not enjoyed before. We all had leftovers to take home, and then Eaddie left with Eli.

Summer spent the rest of the night on the couch while I tried to do some more reviews and cleaned up a little bit. I eventually started draining the basement again and took Muad’Dib out for a run. We encountered another lady walking a couple of dogs, but one was off of his leash. I stopped to see if it was just a loose dog following her, but it was hers. We chatted for a surprising little while as we passed her the second time, and then we continued around, skipping the basin due to flooding again.

We visited my parents, but it was so humid out that I started not feeling well. I sat down there for a minute to get my heartrate down, and then we made a straight shot home. I had to cool down a bit again, but I eventually joined Summer on the couch for one more episode of Funny AF. I’ve gotten a few chuckles out of it, but overall I wouldn’t say I’ve really loved it.

As soon as Summer turned off the TV, Muad’Dib got up and kept leading us uto bed. I stayed up to do some more reviews, but finally had to get to bed around midnight.

What a pain in the ass.

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Kolache

Shipley’s has a free glazed donut with purchase every Friday this month, so I got us out of the house early enough to swing through for that and a kolache.

I spent all day playing in Intune and Hyper-V.

We took a late lunch to Taco Bell for a pretty sad meal, so we went next door to Arby’s for BOGO snacks to take back to the office. I only ate half of those.

It sprinkled just a little bit on the way home, but didn’t do much more than that. Summer got there shortly after we did, but we didn’t seee a whole lot of her.

I took Muad’Dib for a run and we encountered some E-bike/scooter kids at the basin, and a couple wanted to try the board. Then we continued to my parents’ house and helped Dad replace a bad light switch.

Back at home, Summer was still on the couch in front of the TV and playing on her phone. I went to my room until bed.

Best part of my day.

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The Ugg

I slept a bit more than usual last night and felt pretty good for it. When we got to work, we were greeted by another introduction email from our newest Dell rep – our sixth since I started 11 months ago. I kindly asked her to stop contacting us because I prefer to work with Howard, and she later called to get my rep’s information “to ensure we got our discounts.” I assumed that meant deal registration was a thing outside of the school world, and carried on.

We tinkered with Intune all day, aside from lunch at Sonic. One of the girls offered a pup cup, and then never returned with it. I don’t know if she was told not to, or if she just never had time since they were fairly busy running food in and out. We ate, then went back too continue tinkering with policies.

The drive home was irregularly fast when a couple large SUVs blew past me at nearly 100. I tagged along a ways behind, slowing down as I passed other cars, so as not to be a complete tool. Summer picked up some chicken to cook for salads and we had a great, healthy dinner before I started the sump pump again and took Muad’Dib out for his run.

We weren’t very far along when we spied Grant’s sister blow by us and start blaring her horn in their driveway. Concerned, we ran up to see if everything was okay. I did not expect her to get out of the car and come at me yelling. She made a comment about how many times she hadn’t hit us in the road, as though not committing vehicular manslaughter made her some kind of a saint. When their mom finally came out, I waved at her and let them be, but after we rounded the next corner, we saw her fly through the next intersection in a huff.

We finally made it to my parents’ house, and I pulled the pool robot out for a cleaning. We weren’t there long before it started to rain, so we left in a hurry. Of course the rain just came in harder and we arrived at home completely soaked. I sent Muad’Dib in for Summer to give him a bath while I went out to clean up the sump line. She was nearly done by the time I got back in, and then I took over drying him.

Eaddie was in and out, to see her grandparents. I rushed too get to bed, hoping for a repeat of a good night’s sleep.

And I thought they were ugly… on the outside!

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Leftover Day

I had an anxiety attack in the shower this morning, followed by a dull headache. I couldn’t tell if the headache was from the attack or just the lack of sleep, but it eventually went away. We got to work with some leftover chicken pasta and the expectation of a long day inside without much of a break.

I finally got a reasonably good combination of configuration profiles for my plant computers, but there’s still a little more tinkering I want to do. We ate in the office and then had a quiet afternoon until quitting time.

Summer had been working from home all day, but was upset that she was kicked out of another meeting due to some restructuring. Evidently they forgot to tell her, so she showed up without the agenda and then left.

We found some more leftovers for dinner, I started draining the basement again, and then I took Muad’Dib on a slow run. It felt really nice outside, so it was disappointing that he didn’t pick up the pace. We made it to my parents’ house and helped Dad get the robot out of the pool. Eli had come by earlier in the day to help drop it in, and it got most of the leaves out until they get the filter repaired and it stops spitting sand out.

We made it back to the house where the sump had actually finished, then cleaned up a bit before an early bedtime.

“on time”

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Drain It Again

I woke up around four to swap chargers and then had trouble getting back to sleep. We both met our charge limits, though. It was another quiet day at work. Summer had a meeting in Little Rock, so we met for lunch and I let our usual server pick my plate. Summer barely touched her food, so I ate the rest of it instead of ordering more myself.

The afternoon was a bit more productive until quitting time. About halfway home, there was a semi wreck being cleaned up, and then traffic was backed up going the other direction for miles. We got home without incident though, and I charged a bit while I waited for Summer to get home.

I had a bunch of Vine stuff to sort through. Summer was hurting when she arrived, so I ran her a bath and then had to start draining the basement again while I took Muad’Dib out for a run. He was very slow in spite of how nice it felt outside.

We visited my parents for a bit and helped Mom pull her water hose while Dad got Muad’Dib some leftovers. Then we made it back to the house and the water was still going. I waited for it to finish, then cleaned that up, had a salad, and raced for bed.

it over

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Child Labor

I had the hardest time falling asleep last night, and felt like I had been run over by a truck when I had to get up. We managed to make it to work, and Janice had left me a slice of banana bread, which helped. It was a really long day to myself after that.

The sun was out in full force for lunch. We went to Sonic because they had a couple deals that would stack for a lot of food. The sun was so bright, I would swear I got a sunburn just walking from the car back into the office. The afternoon was long as well, but we finally got to head home.

Eaddie had Eli and Ceci over at my parents’ house to uncover the pool and wash the cover, and they were all done by the time Summer and I made it over there. They left to shower while I started frying eggrolls, and then they came back to eat along with Julie and Kevin.

It was a big crowd for dinner, but it was staggered, and we worked around the space we had. Everyone filtered out and Summer drove home to deal with the newly diagnosed arthritis in her knee. I took Muad’Dib on the remainder of his run, and tried to hurry him along to avoid the incoming storm. We got a little wet, but it wasn’t too bad.

The kids came back over and watched a scary movie all night. Summer hadn’t been charging, so I had to stay up to juggle the cars around. She may just have to supercharge tomorrow morning, because like everything else in this house, the car charger doesn’t work quite right.

More noggin!

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Draining Weather

Summer got up and made us eggs and corned beef hash for breakfast. I slept in a little later than I wanted, but I was exhausted. We ate, and then I was consumed by one of the biggest Vine drops I’d ever seen. I didn’t blow all of my orders, but I did manage to pick up a cheap robot lawn mower, so we’ll see how that goes. I’m not expecting much.

After that, I cleaned and organized and processed a bunch of stuff, and worked on the Humble site a bit more. Summer felt overheated and worn out all day, but did some of her own stuff in her newly cleaned office nook. Eaddie cleaned around her room a bit, and eventually left to go to Autumn’s birthday party at their father’s.

I wasn’t sure if we were supposed to fry egg rolls for my parents, and when I asked, Mom said she wanted to clean up the bún bò Huế. I took the Onewheel with Muad’Dib, and Summer met us there to have dinner. Then I did some dishes before we left. I took Muad’Dib on the remainder of his run, which he did pretty well.

I still hadn’t drained the murder basement, so I went outside and found it to be the fullest I had ever seen. To top that off, it didn’t appear to have power, so I couldn’t get it draining without running an extension cord around the house. By the time Summer and I got that done, it looked like power was back, and I couldn’t tell when or why.

I was up fairly late trying to get all of that cleaned up, and eventually made it to bed.

There must be some way out of here.

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Goats of Music Past

Summer left the house super early this morning to run up Mt. Magazine. She decided to start extra early so she could join some other ladies, and let me stay home to sleep. I didn’t really sleep in much though, and got around to shower pretty early so we could have the day together. Eaddie left fairly early as well, to prepare for the celebration of life concert for Cooper and Shepherd. I had an anxiety attack after my shower, but fortunately it was super quick without any haze afterward.

When Summer made it home, she cleaned up and we went to La Huerta for lunch. Muad’Dib got to hang out on the porch with us, and it was just on the hot end of comfortable. The humidity had me sweating, so I wasn’t super thrilled to learn that we would be rushing to get to the concert. We ended up leaving Muad’Dib at the house, and barely made it to our seats as they played their tuning note.

It was a very long event, with four speakers sharing stories between multiple guest conductors. I didn’t realize that it was a community concert either, or I would have suggested we sit it out. Summer enjoyed it though, and then we waved Chance down as we were leaving, just to say, “hello.”

Muad’Dib was in bed when we got back, but he was excited to see us. Summer spent the rest of the day in bed while I cleaned up a bit around the house. It felt a bit late, so I took Muad’Dib out for a run. It was still bright and hot, and then my parents weren’t home, so we came back home for the evening.

I continued to clean and tinker, and then Dad asked me to come help unload some groceries pretty late, so I took Muad’Dib out for a quick run straight to their house where they had already unloaded. We came back, I tinkered some more, and then went to bed.

And I didn’t even get to meet Corey!