Author: gallopingcow

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MOOvie Marvel II

I got up today and tried a few rounds of solo PUBG since nobody else was around to play. I made it to the top 5 or 10 in every game in which I didn’t get killed immediately, which made me feel like I’m really improving. After a morning of that, I spent most of the afternoon cleaning house in preparation for our second weekend of bingeing the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After everything was cleaned up, Josh joined for me for a round of doubles, which we won right off the bat. Then the girls got here right as we got looted in our second game, so I quit out and left him to fend for himself.

Summer brought a bunch of leftover Fat Daddy’s barbecue from a quiz bowl event today, along with a bunch of stuff to make for tomorrow. We made it through Thor and The Avengers with only one casualty to sleep. Tomorrow we’ll continue with Iron Man 3 and Thor 2, then see where the day takes us. We’ve still got some catching up to do before Black Panther comes out in a couple weeks.

It seems to be powered by some sort of electricity!

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The Catless Bag

I was greeted at work this morning with a mild interrogation about my social life. Evidently they don’t read the blog.

We had Brick Oven for lunch, then got to leave an hour early, but I ended up sticking around and talking to Ben for a while before heading home to play a few rounds of PUBG with Josh. I did pretty well, and ended up outlasting him in most or all of our games. I feel like if I had a new computer, I might actually stand a real chance.

Afterward, I grabbed some chicken fries from Burger King and headed up to Summer’s to hang out for the rest of the evening.

What were you saying?
Can we move the flowers?
Before that.
This meatloaf is dry.
Before that.
This is meatloaf?
Before that.
This fish is dry.

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Februwhaty?

Another week and another month over. Work has been pretty dead, so I’m down to just a handful of old work orders. Surprise cookies for breakfast, then I had lunch with the girls in the library. I almost won our last game of PUBG this evening while Jack, Josh, and Aaron watched in awe. Then I laid down and died instead of winning.

Second place is just the first place loser.

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Retrorito

Not much to report from work today. Summer took the afternoon off to take Autumn to the doctor, so the three of us had lunch at Stoby’s. I got my 8Bitdo N30 PRO controller in today, and I’m pretty impressed with the build quality. I look forward to loading up some emulators on my phone soon.

Summer made burritos for dinner, and we discovered how much of a pro-rito-roller I really am. I think I’ve found my true calling.

When fade into darkness, the light will keep strong and bright until itself dies.

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High Class; Low Society

You want the nicest house on the block. It’s better to have high class in low society than low class in high society. I visited a recently/currently renovated McDonald’s for lunch today that was a perfect example. The self-ordering kiosks weren’t functioning yet, but the mobile ordering works well. Service and food were great because the owner was there in his McVette. It was a little funny that the manager didn’t know what I was talking about when I said I wanted to pay with Android Pay. I’ve used that method to pay for ages, and now suddenly it’s a problem because of some new floor tiles.

Back at work, I successfully installed Neverware on an old Gateway laptop, essentially turning a slow Windows machine into a faster Chromebook. Ryan was impressed enough, but nobody else was around to bear witness. Another day.

After work, I headed home and lost track of time in PUBG land again. I actually intended to go out again, but it’s probably best that I didn’t, as tired as I was this morning.

But what do white people think about the “Black Panther” movie?

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No, Mister Bond. I expect you to retire.

Jesica came to town today to take me out to lunch on Arvest’s dime and talk about my retirement, or more specifically, how they would rather be the ones to hold on to it for me. It all seems a little morbid to plot out your money so that you ideally run out right as you die. For me, retirement seems more like a point in my life where I’ll reach “fuck-it” and sail away into the horizon after the sun. Presumably I’ll be raided by pirates and subsequently eaten by sharks. This seems okay.

After work, I came home and spent the evening with the boys playing PUBG. I’ve said it before, but that game really makes me want to upgrade my gaming setup. The only problem is that now I can’t stop thinking I should save every penny for retirement.

How exactly does one “win” the game of life?

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Wait, you mean like… for fun?!?

I woke up and started cleaning house today. It was pretty nice outside, so Summer wanted to go for a walk. I stopped by Popeye’s to pick up the biscuits they shorted me yesterday, then picked her up to go to Bona Dea. We made a short loop around the back side of the trail, then went back to her house to wait for the girls to get home. She made dinner, then I came home to do a couple loads of laundry. I managed to squeeze in a few rounds of PUBG before bed, but never did very well. I’m not sure I’m ready to go back to work tomorrow.

When’s spring break again???

MOOvie Night, Reviews

MOOvie Day

We continued our movie marathon today with The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, and Iron Man 2. We took a break in the afternoon somewhere between the movies and picked up some Popeye’s for a late lunch. As though the universe was teaching me a lesson for continuing to do business there, they shorted us our seven biscuits and all of our dipping sauces. On top of that, the spicy chicken seemed to not be spicy at all. Even more disappointing were the ghost pepper wings I decided to try again. I’ve seriously had ice cream spicier than those wings. At least the chicken was fresh and hot in temperature, unlike the fries that were cold and soggy.

By the time everyone left, I needed some time to unwind. Jack got on and played a few duos with me, and though we got close, we never won. I guess tomorrow I’ll clean house again. I don’t know why I thought chicken grease wouldn’t end up on all the things.

Don’t get crazy.

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Someone Who Does Family Nights

We didn’t have much going on at work today. I got caught up on a bunch of random work orders, then met up with everyone for lunch. A big group of us tried to walk to Madame Wu’s, but they were closed in spite of their open sign. I got a message kind of late saying to go home half an hour early, but I was too busy wrapping things up myself.

Summer brought all the kids over to start watching the Marvel movies, and we started with the first Iron Man. I had planned to watch The Incredible Hulk as well, but the kids wanted to play Drawful instead. We did that, then started some other Steam games until we settled on BattleBlock Theater. It was pretty fun, and worked fine to tire everyone out. We’ll continue our movie binge tomorrow.

Smoked butter?

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Buy One, Get One

It was my turn at Oakland for their second day of testing today. I had a couple things to do there, so it wasn’t a complete bust. Plus I like spending time with my girls in the office. Sheri bought a huge pot of chili from the Wesley Foundation, but hardly anyone donated, so I had lunch there to do my part. It was pretty good chili, but she had a ton to take home with her.

I made it back to the shop for the very last part of the day, but didn’t get any farther than that. I headed home after work and tried to clean up a little before the weekend. Bác Vân called with eggrolls, and I visited with her for a bit before the girls came by and completely demolished them.

After they left, I played a double in PUBG with Jack, and we both made it out alive with our chicken dinner. Then we played a squad game with Josh and Adam and won that one as well, making for back-to-back chickey chickey din dins. Our third game was sort of close, but I blame the loss of our fourth game entirely on Adam, because he did the exact opposite of every single thing I said.

Is this thing even on???