Author: gallopingcow

I woke up this morning and had to head home to shower before meeting up with Jesica for our trip to Red Lobster for lunch. We got there about mid afternoon for Lobsterfest and got our fill of immortal crustaceans. We didn’t really have time to do anything else before she had to get back home for a tattoo appointment, so it was just a lunch run.

Once we got home, I cleaned house for another weekend of Marvel movies. Summer brought everyone but Autumn because she didn’t want to come this time, so I vowed never to invite her ever again, and we took on Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and we started Guardians of the Galaxy to fall asleep to, since everyone had seen it a handful of times recently. Tomorrow we may pick that up, or we may jump right into the other straggling characters.

You never know but you hope for the best and you make due with what you get.

I got up extra early today so I could bake potatoes for our potluck at work. I think I baked them a little too hot or too long, but they weren’t bad. Heather’s husband made chili for her to bring, and Jason brought three sleeves of crackers. Dale brought a chopped onion. It was almost as though they were having a contest to see who could get out the cheapest. Gary threatened to bring salt and pepper, but he brought Fritos.

After work, I went home and played a few rounds of PUBG by myself because nobody else was around. When Summer got home, I headed to her place. Then I dropped my phone onto her hardwood floor for the second time, and this time my screen protector didn’t take the hit. I shattered the top right corner of the screen.

Fortunately I took up the insurance, but it’s agonizing all the same. I’ve never broken a phone like this before, plus it’s a hundred bucks I shouldn’t have to spend. Not having specific places to put my phone makes me erratic. I try to leave it in my pocket when I’m there, but then sometimes that’s not practical when I’m laying around. I thought I was being more careful after what happened last time. In fact, I was actually placing it onto the table to try and keep it from falling off the bed when it slid off, which is what was so incredibly frustrating about this.

At least the insurance claim was painless to file. A quick chat with Fi customer service got me an email to agree to terms, then an email with a link to order a new phone. I ordered another pair of screen protectors as well, though I thought I’d try a different brand from the last pair I got. I guess we’ll see how long this lasts. This is, without a doubt, the most fragile phone I’ve ever owned.

Current Mood: Stewing

Nobody seemed to be up to much today. I’m still fighting netbooks, and can’t image them over the network without imaging them first with a flash drive, then adding them to the domain to be seen by SCCM. Once I do that, though, it’s like the network port remembers that it should be allowed to image the next device, and I can chain my network imaging together. It doesn’t really make any sense, but that seems to be what’s happening in practice.

I was going to come home for lunch, but a bunch of people went to Taco Bell, and I wanted to try their new fries. They weren’t bad. The Nacho Fries Bellgrande left something to be desired, what with only fries, cheese, a little bit of meat, tomatoes, and a little squirt of sour cream, but they had some good spice to them. Still nothing to compare with Potato Oles from Taco John’s, though.

After work, I came home for some PUBG until I had to wash some potatoes to bake in the morning for our putluck tomorrow. Then we played one last round before bed, and I might have actually lead our team to victory if I had only had just an ounce of cover from the fire coming in from opposite directions. C’est la vie.

What’s taters, precious?

I got called to the junior high today for an “emergency” situation with a computer they needed to restart. They figured it out by the time I got there because my new assistant principal has moxy. I’m about over them crying wolf.

A bunch of us went to Brangus for lunch, and I had the best beef spud and service I’ve ever had there. Gary’s food was lukewarm because it was Gary. Then I was off to finish up the day by myself.

After work, the girls came by to help with the leftovers. After they left, I made a quick trip to Walmart for some cat food, and potatoes to bake for Friday’s chili lunch. Back home, we tried to play some PUBG but the servers went down for maintenance right as everyone got online. Keno and I had a couple rounds in Overwatch instead, and then we all called it an early night.

We’ll be departing Procrastination Station a little behind schedule.

I felt a little lost at work today, but I managed. I just haven’t really had any momentum in a while. It’s been tough finding things to learn.

I had lunch in the library, and didn’t even leave the building until near quitting time when it was raining. At least I didn’t get stuck working on something for hours after work. I’ve been tired as well, so I just came home and played some PUBG for a while until bed.

It’s not that we’re scared. It’s just that it’s delicate.

This morning was mostly a cluster of people being frustrated at one another for lack of forethought and planning. Everyone had a role to fill, and desperately few had put enough thought into how to best complete the task in an efficient manner. Partially too many hands in the cookie jar, and partially overloaded leadership with too many tasks pulling them in too many directions at once.

Remembering the giant pan of cheesy potatoes in my refrigerator, I came home for lunch. Then I couldn’t help but to play a solo round of PUBG with my remaining time. I don’t know what’s gotten me on such a kick lately. I think partially it’s that the game is running better with patches, and partially that I’ve gotten noticeably better, and I’m enjoying the practice without others screaming in my ear in frustration. For so long, I’d forgotten what it was like to just enjoy a game.

My afternoon and evening got swallowed up into more work, and after staying a couple hours late to finish a task, I finally made it home to start a load of laundry. Summer came by to help with the leftovers before heading home for the evening, then I played a few more rounds of PUBG with the guys before bed.

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