Author: gallopingcow

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Fortin’ Around

Summer got up and went to the gym this morning while I got showered and ready to go. We got to my parents’ house right before noon, and we all headed to Fort Smith. We dropped Dad off at the library for the magic club meeting, then the three of us went to a coffee shop and had a white people version of Vietnamese French roast coffee without all the drip gear. Mom and Summer ate cinnamon rolls, and then we went across town so they could get their nails done. I had just dropped them off when they called me back because there weren’t any openings, so we went to Sam’s instead.

When Dad’s meeting was over, we went to pick him up, then went to Red Lobster for dinner. Endless shrimp was a little slow, but we all managed to get our fill. Mom was presented with her live lobster before it was cooked for her, and I was left sort of wishing that more restaurants would do that.

After dinner, we hit up a couple of the oriental food stores before driving home. We considered stopping in Clarksville to cram the girls into the car, but the timing didn’t work out. We got back to town, ran by my house to clean up some things, and eventually found our way to bed.

Bye, Pinchy!

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It’s Wake ‘n Ache, and I Welted!

I kept waking up throughout the night with a massive headache, which I assumed was from a bad neck angle. I couldn’t shake it all morning. Summer got up and made French toast with bacon and sausage, then left me to be bored with the girls while she went for a workout. When she finally got back from that and the girls left with their dad, I started playing a Smarter Every Day queue and nearly dozed off in her lap. I would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for those meddling apneas.

After a while, I got up and we watched one of the last feel-good superhero movies, Superman Returns, and ate some potato skins.

We can always get out of the house tomorrow.

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Time Trials

Ben had us in the conference room first thing this morning to talk about PaperCut and testing rules. He got breakfast, which helped quite a bit. Then we actually got to do some group work for me!

I think Dale, Zach, and I set a new record for the fastest truck loading, delivery, removal, and mounting to replace a SMART board. It helped that we only had to drive to Oakland, but it helped even more that everyone on board was there to work. After the first one, we went to the arena to fix a board in a switch closet that had started to sag away from the wall.

Lunch was a big group of us at Western Sizzlin, and then Gary joined the three of us to hang a second touch panel at Oakland. That was all the group work I had to be a part of, so I spent the rest of the afternoon at Oakland before heading home.

I played Overwatch most of the evening to get the wins I needed for some special loot, and then I had to call SiriusXM when I realized they had charged me for another month of service after I specifically asked them not to! It was mostly painless, but I set myself up for having to call again in under a month. I really hate that company.

I made another quick call to Discover to find out the department I needed was closed. Then I went to get some gas and headed to Summer’s for the evening.

Hog Wild Wednesdays are back!

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L’orange Chiquen

Aside from a brief moment of VLAN switch fun, today was mostly more imaging. I got to spend some more time not getting paid to work on a laptop, and the prissy got sissier.

Ronda called and elated something about orange chicken in the cafeteria, so I met her and Summer for an early lunch. I had to get there a little earlier to fix the serving line computers, and Summer had to leave to meet a student for some lunch hour work, but I eventually made my way back to the library to eat with the others.

After work, I dropped the girls off at karate and waited for them at Oakland while I reimaged yet another computer. It took me the whole two hours to get everything set back up, and we grabbed a couple buckets of chicken on the way back home. Summer was down with a massive headache, so the rest of us made a mess of the kitchen and then disappeared into the night.

Maybe the cleaning fairies will get it.

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I’m Just a Regular Everyday Normal Guy

It was a pretty slow day at work, but I still didn’t make a whole lot of headway on anything. I’ve lost a whole lot of efficiency to this head cold. I ended up skipping lunch and just working at my slow pace all day until after work when I went to Summer’s for dinner. She had just left for the gym, so I helped Autumn start draining her turtle tank, then went outside and fought with the lawn mower for a while. I really am pretty excited to use an electric one instead of a gas powered one with all the nuances of a combustion engine.

After Summer got back and we all ate, I messed with her window blinds for a little while, then gave up and came home for the evening. It’s another early bedtime, and hopefully enough rest to improve my cold recovery time.

If you wanna mess with me I think you probably can, because I am not confident and I’m weak for a man.

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Ain’t No Party Like an Image Party

This morning flew by pretty quickly. I spent most of it with the sweats from moving around so much with a head cold. After the first few days of it using my humidifier, I went without last night to try and dry myself out. Now the cough is here to stay for a while.

I took a slightly late lunch and went to McDonald’s on the cheap. Then I spent most of the afternoon re-imaging half a dozen computers. I almost got out after work, but decided to stay home and rest instead. I’ll be glad to get rid of this sinus nonsense.

Cause an image party don’t stop.

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Harry Potter and the First MacGuffin

Autumn talked us into watching the first Harry Potter this morning while we ate breakfast. I’m a bit burned out on them by now, and I’ve got too many other things I want to get watched.

We finished the movie and I took them home, then spent a little bit of time messing with Summer’s lawn mower before feeling too sick to continue messing with it. I headed home, got the dishes cleaned up, and started some laundry. Then I spent the rest of the evening playing Gunpoint before heading to bed early.

Welcome to the seedy dark web of black market medical equipment for legitimate use.

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Dinner and a Shower

The girls went home this morning to clean house while I sat around the house with my head cold. Summer brought some potatoes back for me to bake for dinner, and once they were finished, I went to pick them all up and head to my parents’ house. We went for a swim until the charcoal was hot enough to start cooking, and I grilled some steaks, hot dogs, and Polish sausage. I thought that was it, so I jumped back into the pool, but then Mom brought some squash and shrimp out to grill too.

We decided to eat outside, so Mom brought everything out to set the table, and then we had to battle the flies. It would have been much easier to build our plates inside. We mostly finished without incident though, and fortunately everyone had just finished eating by the time we got a little shower of rain. It didn’t rain too long, but everyone was ready to come inside for dessert anyway.

When we got back home, we watched Tag to much delight, then went to bed.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Every being in the universe knows right from wrong, Mark.

I’ve been struggling with my head cold all day. I didn’t want to sleep in too late, but I wasn’t much use either way. Summer went home to try and mow, but had trouble with her mower. The most I could do was muster enough energy to take a shower in the late afternoon before going to my parents’ house.

When Summer finally got back with the girls, we all loaded up and went to visit my parents for dinner. Autumn, who turns her nose up at everything, had a couple ribs and some steamed rice while the rest of us had fish soup. I probably should have added some hot peppers to my soup to help with my congestion, but I just wasn’t up for the space tonight.

We stopped by Sonic on the way home for a couple drinks, and they seemed to have forgotten us for about 20 minutes, so I had to walk up into the building to see what was up. There, the kid told me their system had messed up and didn’t show that we had checked in yet, and I guess he didn’t bother to look and see. Back at home, we finished watching Mamma Mia, and then I put on K-PAX and watched it with Eaddie while everyone else went to sleep.

I wanna tell you something Mark, something you do not yet know, that we K-PAXians have been around long enough to have discovered. The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don’t know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.

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Hangin Around

I could have had most of the day for work orders. We were supposed to hang one of my touch panels in the afternoon. Instead, I volunteered to help Zach and Jason hang some security cameras at London. They had lost an extension cord somehow, so we first had to run to Lowe’s to buy a new one. At least I got to pick it out this time, and I chose an auto-retracting one that can mount to the wall or ceiling. It ended up being about the same $100 that we would have paid for one with a manual reel anyway. When we finally got to the school, Zach started putting cameras together, and Jason sort of apologized but mostly excused himself for sitting on a bench with a bum knee.

We worked through the first half of lunch and then headed to the junior high for chili dogs. The others finished pretty quickly and were ready to head back to the shop for some reason, so I wrapped up and we went back. Then they sat around the shop until it was time to go to the middle school to hang two of Allen’s TVs for him. Of course he took the day off so he could have a four day weekend.

I was supposed to work on some network configurations with Gary in the afternoon, but he wasn’t up to it, and I ended up just sitting there to run out the clock. Back at home, I felt my head cold slowly get worse through the night. Summer came over and we watched a few more episodes of The Office before I had to take a shot of Nyquil and head to bed.

Well, it looks like there’s going to be a clean-up on aisle five.