Author: gallopingcow

I got up this morning and decided to go out for breakfast, which I hadn’t done in a long time. I had a free breakfast reward from Chick-fil-A, so I got their Hash Brown Scramble with chicken nuggets. I thought it was pretty decent, but probably not worth nearly what they charge for them. Freebie wasn’t bad, though. For my $4, I’m actually kind of getting to the point where I’d just prefer a Soylent.

I’m down to the last few teacher computers at my office to deploy, but I still have a handful more that I have to get from the shop for some of the administrative folk. At least the end is in sight. I ended up skipping lunch because I wasn’t hungry until late, and I filled up with an afternoon coffee instead.

After work, I went to my parents’ house for dinner. Mom was late getting home from work and frustrated from having been switched to an iPhone by my sister, so we went to Morelo’s for Mexican. I ordered what I thought would be a smaller dinner combo because I wasn’t super hungry, and ended up gorging myself trying to clean my plate. If I were to play this smarter, I could probably take advantage of a shrinking stomach.

Once home, I did a load of laundry and wasted the rest of the night on Reddit.

She don’t got a lot to say, but there’s something about her.

I spent all day at the junior high today. I didn’t really stress too much over anything. I only got a couple new computers deployed, but got several more pre-staged and ready to go. I’m almost done with the ones I have in my office now.

I took a slightly late lunch and went to Wendy’s to try out their Giant Junior Bacon Cheeseburger combo, and was quite pleased with the experience. At first I was a little disappointed in the size, but in the end it was a good amount of food for five bucks. I finished with some time left and decided to swing by Apex to see who was there. Eric is working out his last few days before starting at HP in Conway, but he’ll be commuting, so I’ll still have the chance to not ever see him around even though he lives in town.

After work, I went by my parents’ house to help clean up some fish soup, then came home to do another load of laundry. I found out my Play Store credit from doing surveys expires at the end of the month, so I spent all evening on and off browsing through the store to find the perfect few apps to buy with my $9 worth of credit. I’m still stuck around $5, so I’ll have to obsess over it some more tomorrow before finally choosing something I was eyeing early in my selection process and ultimately feeling buyer’s remorse after the purchase.

Such is the life of an obsessive.

I slept pretty well last night after such a long day. I probably should have gone to bed earlier to avoid waking up so late, but at least I felt well rested. I had a brief inkling of ambition toward cleaning the house, but as usual I squandered the day away to who knows what.

I got out of the house for dinner at my parents’ house, but found myself frustratingly unsatisfied with the shrimp soup my mom made. I’ve found myself in a trend of getting unnecessarily annoyed or aggravated any time I go to my parents’ house, and I don’t fully understand why. A part of me thinks it’s the anxiety I get from driving across that part of town and the broken nerves I get when I expect to run across the wrong person along the way. Another part of me wonders if I just see too much of the past and how I don’t feel any progression in their lives as they’ve fallen victim to a lifetime of routine that I’m trying my best to avoid falling into myself. All I know is that I feel overwhelmingly unhappy when I visit sometimes, and it doesn’t necessarily have anything at all to do with either of my parents. I actually really enjoyed having them over to watch an entire movie the other night. I think it’s just an unfortunate combination of a lot of different things.

When I made it back home, I did a couple loads of laundry to bring today at least a little bit of accomplishment. In the middle of that, I found one of my containers of vegetable oil had sprung a leak in my garage. I transferred the oil to a different container and spilled oil everywhere in the process, but I got most of it cleaned up. Fortunately I had some old kitty litter that soaked it up perfectly. I guess I’ll get rid of all that oil I was keeping, since the fry oil diesel vehicle dream is dead in favor of having fewer things.

Maybe I’ll have friends again when it’s cooler.

Work left me exhausted today. We started out making more Chromebook carts before going to CJ’s for lunch. When I got back to the junior high, Ben was waiting to help me run cable, so we ran a total of three relatively long runs. I was drenched in sweat from the humidity, so I came straight home. Julie called me on my way home to invite me out for dinner for Andy’s birthday, and explained why she hadn’t invited me previously. I was too tired to go out anyway.

After they ate, my parents came over because my mom thought I upgraded my speakers again, but I explained to her that I had only ordered two more towers like the four I already have. She seemed unimpressed, so I put on Life of Pi to let her watch it with 3D and theater sound. I love that movie, and though confused, she seemed to enjoy it as well.

Tomorrow is Bikes, Blues, and BBQ with Allen and some of his friends, so I’ve got to manage some sleep somehow.

I like watchin’ the puddles gather rain.

I just wasn’t feeling it this morning. Or most of the day. I got several machines deployed and fixed some other things, but for the most part I just wasn’t into any of it.

I took a late lunch and went to pick up my Nanoleaf Aurora and Rhythm upgrade module for which I paid way too much. It’s neat, but holy shit. These are features that should have come with the original device out of the box for the original $200 I paid. No way is it worth a $50 upgrade module. I feel mostly stupid for buying it, but it’s kind of neat.

After work, I just came home and watched Man of Steel. Superman was always my superhero growing up. I loved Christopher Reeve in the old movies, and I loved this version as well. I even loved Superman Returns, and evidently many people didn’t care for it.

As the movie ended, Josh wanted to play some Rocket League, and I got on to play with him after I worked out a massive leg cramp. We couldn’t catch a break to save our lives, so I called it early to get ready for bed.

You took for granted all the times I never let you down.

I spent all day at the junior high, and finally feel like I can see the end of the deployment. I still have so much to do, but at least now I don’t feel like I’ll be doing this until I die.

I skipped lunch again, and used a second Soylent to power through some more work. I should be able to turn around and sell a lot of the discarded computers just as soon as I’m done deploying the new ones.

After work, I went by my parents’ house for dinner, but left right away because UPS made a delivery for me. I finally got the matching center channel speaker to my tower set. It’s significantly smaller than the old one, but I’m glad to have a completely matching kit, aside from the sub since that would be too much of a downgrade. I figure I don’t really need the large speakers for the center as much if I’m surrounded by six of the towers anyway.

Once I got the new center set up, I loaded the two old towers and old center into the car and took them back to my parents’ house for them to use, then had some leftover fish soup. When I finished dinner, I came back home and played some Rocket League with Josh until my laundry finished.

Now, hopefully I’ll be able to fall right to sleep to some folk metal.

I woke up today and happened to talk to Alexa to find out that it was Talk Like a Pirate Day. She sang me an awesome shanty, which was apparently an original composition. I had been saving my Aaarrrgyle shirt for the occasion, but I never took off my work polo to even show it off. It was a secret fun shirt.

After work, I went to my parents’ house for some fish soup, then came home to some rum and Rocket League. Gotta keep the pirate thing going, I guess.

I hate gnats.

Today got hot and clammy really quickly. There’s a tiny chance of rain just about all week long, and Bikes, Blues, and BBQ is this weekend. I hope it cools off by then.

I had talked to Zach about lunch, but when the time rolled around, he slid out with the others. I kind of let it bum me out for the afternoon, so I had a Soylent and powered through some new PC deployments. I’m making a noticeable dent in it now, at least.

After work, I went by my parents’ house to help finish up the eggplant soup, then came home where Bác Vân had some leftover fish soup to give me. I talked to her for a little bit and mentioned my Soylent, and she wanted to try some, so I gave her a cacao to try. Nobody else has really been interested, so I was happy to share.

I capped the evening with some PUBG and Rocket League that didn’t go very well. Tomorrow will be more of the same of everything.

Nothing good happens here.

I made myself get up before noon today, but it didn’t help me make anything of my day. I watched Rogue One and ate a can of soup, which would have been the highlight of my Sunday, had I not left the house to eat leftover curry at my parents’ house. Oh, I did encounter a massive spider in a web in my garage as I left, so I relocated him outside.

I guess I also cleaned my laundry room and did a couple loads of laundry, but that hardly counts for anything.

Rut rut rutty ruttin rut.