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Pooped

I woke up with a stomach ache and decided to just stay up for the day. Summer slept in a little bit longer, and then got up for coffee with me. As soon as she went out with Muad’Dib, she brought a couple packages in, so I worked on Vine stuff and then tried to reclaim some of the kitchen table again. I got a new shower splitter, but it ended up not working well for a number of reasons. I guess we’ll just have to wait for the other diverter I ordered.

Uncle Rick and Ginny came to visit my parents, so I eventually got cleaned up and took Muad’Dib over there on the Onewheel. It was super hot outside, so it didn’t take long to sap us. They were getting ready to leave, but then Dad took them out back to see his FPV drone for a bit. Summer came over once she could get out of the house, and visited for a little bit before they left.

After that, Summer started for the gym before having some stomach issues of her own that kept her home the rest of the night. Muad’Dib and I rode home, and we were pretty done with the outside heat when we got there too. Eaddie had gone to see her father, but came back and was home all day, though we didn’t see much of her.

After a bath, Summer came out and we watched Push, which was quite a bit worse than I remembered it from 2009. Of course then she was ready for bed. Eaddie had Eli over to watch The Office, and I ended up going to bed a little early for the weekend.

Hit the limit!

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The Other Marvel

Today was a quiet end to a quiet week. I still had no real luck with my tablet project, and frustrations with Microsoft mounted. We had our usual call scheduled for the afternoon, so we left slightly early to get some Chinese for lunch, then came back for a meeting that was just long enough to confirm we no longer needed meetings. Then Joel came by in the afternoon and said everyone was cutting out an hour early.

I ended up staying a little past my usual time because I brought a little display shelf up to assemble for my office. I eventually wanted to rearrange, but at least this got it out of the house for now. As I was finishing up, Summer texted to say she really wanted pretzel crust pizza and beer for dinner, so she ordered that and we met her at Little Caesar’s to wait and let Muad’Dib out to run around a bit.

When we finally made it home, we ate the prettiest Little Caesar’s pizza I’d ever seen (though somehow the slicing was comically bad), and then settled down pretty quickly to watch a movie. Eaddie left for the art walk, and we skimmed through Netflix for a while before I picked Kraven the Hunter. By all counts, the reviews were correct. It was terrible. The writing was bad. The animation was bad. Everything was bad. It made a fine popcorn movie to watch while Summer wouldn’t quit talking.

After the movie, Summer went to bed and I finished up. Eaddie actually got in before midnight, and everyone was off to bed.

They have to be legitimately trying to do it this poorly, right?

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Game Daze

I had an anxiety attack in the middle of the night, which was the first one I’ve been aware of in a couple weeks. I went back to sleep until it was time to get up, and had a fair start after that. We actually got to work a hair early, but then chatted with Teisha until people came in. I stayed fairly focused on my tablet project, and eventually found by complete chance that it was failing because it wanted a GUID instead of a tenant name. It all just feels terribly documented.

We took a late lunch to grab some quick Taco Bell, and then I think the salt made me dizzy immediately afterward. Evidently two burritos are more than your daily suggested intake, and I drowned them in fire sauce to boot. That feels like it shouldn’t be legal.

The afternoon went by fairly quickly and without much success after that. We left pretty close to quitting time since we had to get home for Eaddie’s first game. Summer was already home and ready to go, and left early to find herself a spot. She planned to stay through halftime, and I didn’t want to pay for a ticket, so Muad’Dib and I drove later.

We ended up getting stuck by a fire truck, and then a train, so we didn’t get there until most of the way through the pregame performance on the lawn. We didn’t even catch up with Summer, because she didn’t see my text and just went on in. Instead, we headed back home and I took Muad’Dib for an early run to my parents’ house to find some dinner.

My parents were outside watering plants, so I warmed up the curry and eventually had a bowl by myself. It was dark by the time I finished, and that was all before they finished, so I left just as they came inside. Summer stayed a bit later than either of us expected, but eventually made it home and straight to bed. I wasn’t long behind.

Buddahcup!

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Document It

I had been hopeful after recovering from the weekend, but I had a fairly predictably bad start this morning. I got out late, but made up the time. Luckily I had a banh bao I could take for breakfast. I picked at a couple things, but got pulled away before I could focus too much on my tablet project. Having grown quickly in volume but not staff, we’ve lacked the enterprise level documentation that I’m used to even at a public school district. Joel asked me a question that turned into another project, so I tried to let ChatGPT handle the legwork on that one.

Late lunch was a pretzel pub burger from Wendy’s. I tried to go a bit light in volume though. Our UPS driver was sat staring at the wall in the corner, so I went to sit by him and then realized he was on the phone the whole time after trying to talk to him. After that, I sat quietly staring out the window, at Muad’Dib, who was staring right back through my car window at me.

I got back into my tablet after lunch, but had middling success. Part of the problem was that my phone number was tied up in my account at my last job, but luckily Randy was able to clean that up for me. That seems like an oversight by Microsoft, but so many things are.

We left a little late, expecting dinner with Summer. She had been making a really big deal for a couple days about wanting to cook dinner since she would be home a few hours early. As soon as I walked in, I thanked her for cooking the broccoli that was starting to go bad. Then I realized I had accidentally sat on a Wendy’s chili hot sauce packet in my back pocket. That got all over my pants, and at least a bit into my car seat, so I had to clean all of that up before we could eat.

After all the fuss, dinner was a precooked fried rice from the frozen food section, along with some kind of Mongolian beef and shrimp that had been stewing in sweet juices. The rice was cold and mushy, and I didn’t understand getting frozen instead of just making fresh. Of course my questions just lead to a fight that I had predicted days earlier, and was a large part of why I didn’t want her to cook in the first place.

Summer went to the TV, and I took care of my packages before taking out the trash and recycling. By then it was getting dark, so I took Muad’Dib for a quick run to my parents’ house, and then a short bit around the Promenade. We didn’t have time for much else, because I needed sleep.

The hard way ’round.

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Full

I grabbed my leftover burrito from the fridge and we hit the road this morning. As soon as we got out of the car, Muad’Dib bolted out of the parking lot and out of the gate after something. I never saw it, but luckily he turned around and came back in before the gate shut him out. Everyone was there today, but I was still left to myself all day. I got distracted by a couple other tasks, but my main one was still Android management.

Summer had to leave early for her meeting, so we had a really early lunch. Our usual server is the only person I’ve ever met that gets even close to as excited as Muad’Dib gets when he sees me. He had our drinks at the table just seconds after we sat down, and then asked me, wide-eyed, if I wanted him to make my plate. Truth be told, I knew what I wanted, but I couldn’t turn him down. Moments later, he brought me a chicken taco salad, chili relleno, and a tamale and chili con queso, all with extra beef and cheese poured all over it. It was a lot.

We were in and out pretty quickly, but then it was a long afternoon with indigestion. I had some success with my tablet, but got caught up with some more Microsoft account nonsense. I ended up leaving pretty late, and then got caught behind some dummies on the way home.

Summer cleaned up, but then had some typical stomach reactions. I started to take Muad’Dib to my parents’ house, but had a flat about a third of the way there. We walked back so I could put some air in my tire, and then made it over to find them watering plants outside. It was getting late, so I microwaved some curry that still wasn’t hot from the stove, ate, and then headed home.

Summer was in and out of bed for a bit while I got my things ready for work in the morning, and then I finally made it to bed.

Reset

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Back to Trash

I wasn’t sure how today would go, but it started a little slow. I still didn’t want to start back on iron since I didn’t trust my stomach, but things started out okay. We ended up going by Shipley’s for a deal, and then Taco John’s for a different deal. I had a burrito on the drive in, then snacked on a donut later in the morning. It was super quiet upstairs because Janice was out, but I saw the other three a couple times. It was mostly Muad’Dib and me alone for most of the day though.

We took a late break to burn some points at McDonald’s before they expired, and then finished up the afternoon alone. It was slow getting back into tablet policies, but I really think working with the computer policies helped me get a grasp on Intune as a whole, and now I’ll be in a better position to implement this.

Summer worked late, so we stopped to see her on the way home. Then Dad called while I unboxed some things at home. He had the number of someone looking for a Fiero, and also wanted to try and get the Murano fixed up.

I cleaned up some more until Summer came home, and then we ate the healthiest thing I’d had all day for dinner – some fresh broccoli and ranch. I didn’t feel great the rest of the evening, but it was the normal kind of not great.

Summer cleaned up and I took Muad’Dib for a run to my parents’ house. Dad was out watering plants while Mom was inside, but then she came out and they were still split between the front and back, so I helped Mom in the back yard until he came back to help. Then Muad’Dib and I headed back home for a quick evening to bed.

Bleh!

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One for Many

Summer woke up wanting donuts, so I got up with her and we went to Shipley’s for a pretty large order. Unfortunately, it wasn’t one of my better experiences. The filled donuts barely had anything in them, and they gave me a sausage croissant instead of bacon like I asked. Eaddie never even got out of bed until mid-afternoon, so her stuff sat out untouched. Summer was cycling and had gone fully bird-brained, and then got upset about it. I tried to help by cleaning the kitchen, which upset her further, so she left for the gym.

I got a lot reorganized and did the dishes while she stayed gone a while. Her phone case came in, so I got that put together. When she got back, I stopped her for a talk before she had a shower. Then she worked on her laptop the rest of the afternoon. I ate the KFC she brought me the other day and then took a shower, but started to feel pretty sick to the stomach again. Eaddie left for a while, then came back briefly before leaving again. I ate some more rice and shredded pork, hoping it would settle my stomach a bit for the evening.

Muad’Dib was feeling pretty cooped up all day, so I took him for a walk up the cul-de-sac and back. Of course he wanted more, but I was already looking toward bed. Somehow Summer still made it there before me, but I went down a couple hours early.

Children!

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Get Up; Clean Up

Summer left early this morning for her run up Mt. Nebo. We were excited to go to the chicken fry afterward, but I was still feeling pretty crummy, and unpredictable at best. My fever did go down pretty quickly though, and slowly started to spend more time out of bed. By the time Summer made it home, I was up more than I was down, but still cautious.

Dad messaged that they had spaghetti, which I thought would be for lunch, so we cleaned up enough to go out. When I learned that they had planned on dinner, I relaxed a bit before getting back into some cleaning. Eaddie was actually home all day, so she came out and we got season passes for Magic Springs next year. She had been talking about wanting to go for Halloween, and the passes included the remainder of this year as well.

Eventually, Summer and I made it to my parents’ house to eat. We sat in the living room briefly afterward when Julie and Kevin showed up. She wanted to program her new car to open the garage door, so we spent a while trying to figure that out before she gave up, and then we could go home.

I continued cleaning for a while, but felt myself slowing down pretty quickly. As the evening got later, I sat down to watch some movie trailers with Summer. Eli brought Eaddie some food, so they disappeared to her room the rest of the night. After Summer went to bed, I saw the gecko climbing the side of his aquarium. That made me really happy, because I hadn’t seen him out of hiding since I brought him home. I think he’s been eating the moths I’ve been feeding him, so I just need to come up with a better container for him that I can take back out to work.

Lipstick on a pig!

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Down and Mostly Out

I threw up before going to bed last night, which I thought was from the amount of grease I had yesterday. This morning was a whole different story, though. My stomach wouldn’t stop rolling, and I ended up with a fever over 103ºF, so I stayed in bed all day. I did get a couple calls, from Johnny and then Tammy, but otherwise I could barely move and only got up to go to the bathroom. I was completely liquified, so I tried keeping water flowing in the best I could.

Summer brought home some KFC, which sounded awful after all the fried food yesterday. Once my fever started to come down and I could make it out to the kitchen a little better, I warmed up some rice to eat with shredded pork. Summer went to bed in preparation for her Nebo run in the morning, and I got up long enough to write about being sick all day before returning to bed.

Gurgle!

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Stuff ‘n Things

I tried to go by Shipley’s for some free donuts this morning, but their app refused to apply the reward to my order. I passed by the store angrily and continued on to work, but I was early enough to swing through McDonald’s for a steak, egg, and cheese bagel, since I didn’t have a Soylent with me. It was a quiet morning, and a quite day as a whole. I just tried to clean up some loose ends.

When lunch came around, I tried to go cheap and relatively light with some corn dogs, but I still probably ate too much. We got back to the office and I spent a lot of the afternoon digging through Copilot documentation, worried about the repercussions of enabling it across the tenant with notably loose permissions across the board.

At the end of the day, we left without fanfare and ran into some traffic on the way home. It looked like there had been a wreck, but aside from some glass in the middle of the road, there wasn’t much going on. We got home and waited for Summer to finish cleaning up, then went to Brown’s for Dad’s birthday dinner.

Eaddie didn’t make it, but my parents, Julie, and Kevin were there. Mom insisted on paying, so we ate and visited for a while. Afterward, I went out to get Muad’Dib and we all walked over to see Julie’s new 4Runner. I had the Model 3 drive over to pick us up, and eventually we dispersed. It was a short night after that, and I got to bed just a little early.

PU!