Author: gallopingcow

It was another uneventful day of testing at the junior high. I didn’t even get to any other campus because I had enough stuff there to keep me busy. I’ll have to be at Oakland tomorrow anyway.

I tried the McDonald’s app ordering again today, and I think it went better than last time. I parked in one of the curbside pickup spots and checked in, then received my food in less than half of a Fleetwood Mac song. In hindsight, I really missed my opportunity to get a Big Mac in half a Mac.

After work, I went to my parents’ for dinner, then to Summer’s to visit for a while before heading home to bed.

Promos on promos on promos.

Testing started again today at the junior high. I grabbed my toaster and slush on the way in, and was met with virtually no real trouble to speak of. With testing complete, I met up with Ryan and Dale at Subway, where I was greeted by a new way of doing things. I appreciate the saving of plastics, but it did make taking my leftovers a little more difficult.

Lunch didn’t stick around for long, and ribs for dinner at my parents’ didn’t do me any favors either. I didn’t feel like much of anything in the evening, so I stayed in and played some more PUBG with the guys. It’s testing day two of three tomorrow, but I don’t anticipate any more trouble than I had today. I’ll save that for Thursday.

Drop into work and get hit by a Hyundai.

I started out this morning with a bacon, egg, and cheese toaster and large cranberry slush from Sonic for $1.99. They’ve got this deal going on all week, so I’ll consider breakfast planned.

I didn’t have much going on today. I spent most of it at the junior high, but came home on my lunch break. I didn’t feel up to eating anything then, but I snacked on some shrimp chips at work in the afternoon.

After work, I went to my parents’ house for some phở, then came home to install my new shower head that came in the mail. Hopefully it sprays with some decent pressure, and not like the shower is peeing on me. Then PUBG carried me to an early bedtime for testing in the morning.

At least I can look forward to another toaster in the morning.

Summer wanted to invite my parents to her house for dinner today, so the kids spent all afternoon cleaning up. She marinated some chicken and made a pineapple mango salsa, along with some pico, guacamole, and a nice salad. I steamed rice, because stereotypes are humorous.

After my parents left, we watched some Primitive Technology until the girls went to bed, then I went home to play PUBG with the boys before heading to bed myself.

Taglines are hard.

I tried out McDonald’s new app ordering system today and picked up a pico guacamole quarter pounder for free with the purchase of some fries. Overall it went well, and I think I like the system. The ordering process could have been better, but I think the promo code is what made it difficult.

Keno got on, and we played some doubles for quite a while. Once he left, I spent an embarrassing amount of time shopping deals on Amazon. I didn’t accomplish much else today. I did make some popcorn with the new Flavacol seasoning I picked up recently, and it turned out pretty good. I feel like my kernels are a bit stale or something though, and I need to make some clarified butter for the future.

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School was cancelled due to plague. Custodial and maintenance were out fogging rooms with some kind of ionized saline solution as well as some other aerosol that seemed much more dangerous.

We got one touch panel hung before lunch at Fat Daddy’s out of town. I ate too much potato, but it was everyone else that was feeling worthless. Without any other group projects, we started drawing numbers to go home early. Josh wanted to get some food, so I met him at Stoby’s for a slice of possum pie.

Once home, we played some PUBG for a while, then I went to Summer’s for the evening. I was feeling a little wonky, so I took half a Nyquil to clear my sinuses for bed.

Early in; early out.

I took half a dose of Nyquil last night, and it killed my morning. I was groggy all the way through lunch. When I got to the shop, Sara was the only one there, so I assumed Raptor Jesus had come to take everyone else away. Eventually some others showed up, and we went to Wendy’s.

After work, I went to Summer’s for a little while before coming home for some PUBG with Clint and Jack.

We’ve had so many students and staff out on sick leave that they’ve decided to cancel school tomorrow, but I still have to go in. I guess that gives us all day to hang another touch panel.

Come on, weekend.

Summer was feeling much worse this morning, so I took half of a sick day to take her to the clinic. The best guess is a herniated disc in her lower back, so she got loaded up on drugs and we picked up some Frisco burgers.

I stuck with her until after lunch, then I got a little work done before heading back to her house in the evening. She was feeling much better on the meds, so we warmed up some leftovers for dinner and chilled on the couch for the rest of the evening.

Have I been here before?

Work went by pretty quickly today. I got my new touch panels functional at the junior high, including the Flappy Bird Android Easter egg, and fixed my printer at Oakland. Zach and I went to Wendy’s for lunch, and then I went back to Oakland to retrain employees on how to access their own software because it’s been too long since they last used it, even though the last time it even crossed my mind was when I trained them how to access it last year. At this point it’s not even memory. It’s a lack of any effort entirely.

After work I went to visit a still flu-ridden Summer. I went and picked up some Sumo for dinner, then put her to bed and came home for bed myself. With any luck, I’ll avoid this whole sickness thing entirely. I’m usually pretty good at keeping my symptoms minimalized.

Tuesday’s are usually pretty slow for me anyway.

With no school today, we took the opportunity to install a bunch of touch panels. My group got four done, but not without some attitude. The others got three in a greater length of time but with a longer drive. I wanted to be proud.

Jason, Allen, and I went to Big Red to try them out again for lunch. There was only one other table taken when we got there, so we had high hopes for speed of service. I got a 6-piece chicken strip dinner that I thought was pretty good. The strips were pretty large, and I probably would have gotten the 3-piece if I had known. With that said, one of my pieces was less than a third the size of the rest of them. I thought maybe they had given me two small ones, but they seriously gave it to me as one of my six, which really irked me. I felt too fat to complain about it there, but if it had been me cooking, I would have thrown that piece of chicken away before serving it to someone as a whole strip. It was embarrassingly small.

Ben let us go half an hour early, but I got on a roll with a printer issue and didn’t leave until later anyway. I stopped by my parents’ to clean up too much fish soup, then went to Summer’s to visit her miserably sick self. All four of them were there for a change, and we watched Serenity until the girls went to bed. I stood up at one point, forgetting I had put my phone in my lap, and dropped it face-down onto the hardwood floor. The tempered glass screen protector shattered in the bottom right corner and popped off the phone. Fortunately I didn’t get any scratches or anything else on the phone, and I had a spare at home. If the price goes down and I need another one, I’ll likely go for one with a UV-cured LOCA, because I go hard like that.

I guess it’s going around…