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I had scheduled a meeting with Sara and a teacher from another campus this morning to help her trim a video for the National Board. Sara was out sick and had forgotten, so I managed by myself. Turns out, she just had to read the instructions, and it would have provided a link to free software.

I made it to the junior high and kept myself mostly busy, but I’m sure it looked like I wasn’t doing anything at all. I ended up having an early lunch with Ronda and Jennifer, then ran to get Summer some Taco Bell because she had presumably forgotten what solid food was like.

I wrapped up the afternoon by swapping ceiling tiles in a couple of classrooms in order to move an old sound system for use in a different room. I’ve still got to figure out the actual wiring since I don’t have power in the ceiling for an amplifier, but I’ll figure something out. I managed to get all of this done by myself, so there’s not really any need to wait for a group day.

After work, Josh came over to show off his new Whitestone Dome Glass for his Pixel 2 XL. We managed to finish the whole process in a relatively short amount of time, and with great success. The installation hardware was perfect, and the end result was great. I wasn’t positive the adhesive had fully cured because it still seemed to ooze liquid from the sides, but time will tell.

From there, I went to eat leftover fish soup with Mom on her birthday. Dad had to work late for outage, and I’m sure Julie did as well, so maybe we’ll take her out to eat over the weekend or something.

When I got back home, Clint and I played the new Overwatch: Retribution event until Aaron joined us and we switched to PUBG. Apparently people are calling it Plunkbat, which is supposed to roll off the tongue better. Whatever. I’m playing hooky tomorrow.

Tic tic tic tic…

Work was really slow, and I’m guessing it’s just everyone winding down again. I had to make a couple trips to the shop because the lamp I grabbed was mislabeled with the wrong projector model. I guess I can’t be too mad when we’re confusing part numbers like 1141 with 1411. It was super annoying to have to interrupt two classes, though.

I met Dale and Allen at Arby’s and had a gyro for lunch. They’re pretty good, and more filling than I thought it would be. The sun was out in the afternoon, and it almost felt like spring again.

After work, I went straight to my parents’ house for fish soup. While I was there, I managed to get my taxes filed online. I don’t know why my adjusted gross income were different on my tax forms and what the IRS had, but at this point I can’t be bothered to care. If they audit me, at least I’ll know what it should have been. There are few things that make less sense than income tax. Rules for the sake of rules, and I hate it all. I should retire somewhere far, far away.

Back at home, I played some PUBG with the guys. I made it to the end of the round once and cleared an entire team by myself, but ended up getting sniped from across a field at the last moment. Then during one of our later games, I was taken out by a team, and Clint made friends with them over proximity chat to try and gang up on the team across the street. Nobody could believe it actually worked.

Let’s go into tomorrow with more sleep this time…

I slept in this morning after another long week of little sleep. I spent the afternoon on laundry and cleaning up the kitchen, even taking a moment to reroute a drain hose on my dishwasher. Hopefully that will help with the water coming back in after the cycle is over.

The evening took me to Summer’s for some pizza and The Office before bed.

They decided to send me to management training.
Anger management, technically, but still…

I got up about half an hour early this morning so I could have things ready to go for my touch panel install at the very beginning of school. We ended up not getting into the classroom until just a few minutes later, and Zach kind of made a big deal out of it for some reason, but we got it done in no time.

I was craving a hamburger, so several of us went to CJ’s for lunch. If I ever eat there and am not charged with transporting everyone else, I’m totally picking up McDonald’s fries on the way and eating them while I stare into the eyes of the employees there. Someone should rub their noses in the soggy potatoes they’re making, and it might as well be Ronald.

The afternoon brought a whole bunch of rain and another touch panel install at Center Valley, so we had to use a leaky trailer to keep things mostly dry. It went alright, and we were dismissed just a few minutes early afterward. Summer’s 5K was cancelled earlier for all the rain, even though it had actually completely let up before the event was set to start.

I went home and played a game of Overwatch and then PUBG before she came over and we went to IHOP for dinner. Neither of us had been there in years, and it was a delicious return. It was expensive, but I ate about three times more than I needed.

VERY IMPORTANT, INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PANCAKES

It was another super slow day at work today. I spent most of it staring at group policy. I grabbed a couple McGriddles for breakfast, but had to go in to pick up my app order because some assclown parked in the order pickup spot and left their vehicle. I think next time I’ll just pull up behind them and wait for my order there.

I had to play catch-up for lunch because everyone went without me. Taco Bell changed their app, so you don’t have to check in any more. It would have been nice to know that before I placed the order from work and had to drive all the way there. Overall, my online app ordering went pretty poorly today.

After work, I came home to check on the tadpoles. I don’t think I lost too many more, but I still had to clean out the corpses. I had a few living that I couldn’t sort out, so I dumped everything into a bucket of water outside so they could figure it out on their own.

The evening was PUBG and beer, because it’s a long day tomorrow.

Where does the night go?

I was still off a bit this morning. I went by Chick-fil-A to redeem another reward for breakfast this morning. Then I had lunch with the girls in the library. Overall, that’s about all I did today.

After work, the girls came by again to check out the tadpoles. Just about everyone had moved out of their eggs today, and I spent some time changing water and trying to find something they might eat. I played a few competitive games of Overwatch with Clint.

I just realized I just passed the year mark with the new blog. I guess that’s exciting. It didn’t seem like that long ago.

Viral.

I woke up this morning and immediately got my GoPro set up on the frog eggs. It only ended up lasting a couple hours, but the new time lapse was still pretty interesting.

Work was mostly quiet, and slow, but steady. Ronda brought me some leftover pizza from Old Bank which was a pretty good, if overfilling breakfast. I ended up skipping lunch because of it. I finally left right before school let out and drove through Sonic for a free birthday strawberry shake and some onion rings. I ate them in the parking lot at Oakland before going in to wrap up a couple work orders. I ended the day at the shop, without much going on.

I met the girls at my house so they could check out the frog eggs. They had grown quite a bit just over the course of the day. When they left, I went to my parents’ house for some leftover bún bò Huế. On the way home, I was followed by the ghouliest of ghosts, which bumped me off course for a while. I finally made it home for some PUBG with the boys before bed.

Run!

I got up this morning and tried to clean up around the house a bit. Summer came over in the afternoon while the girls were with their father. I was busy filing some old important papers into highly flammable filing cabinets in the room with all my electronics. It was a late lunch, but we went to Burger King for some Whoppers, then went to Harbor Freight for something to do and to check things out.

I decided that I want to learn to do things with my hands, so I should start a YouTube channel dedicated to learning woodworking and other trade skills using only Harbor Freight tools. If I have the production value to make it a hit, I can get sponsored by Harbor Freight and get them to provide any future tools I need, and I’ll eventually learn to build a boat from scratch. Then I can sail away and continue to make videos about living on my boat, the Harbor Freighter, and find an island of my own to set anchor in what will be named Freight Harbor.

When we got back home, several of the frog eggs had started to wiggle more, so I decided to set up the GoPro for a timelapse video while I started some laundry. I managed to get a three second video made before the battery died, so I’ll have to start it fresh in the morning after it’s charged again.

To wrap up the weekend, Aaron flipped his TV remote to choose between Overwatch and PUBG, and we played PUBG with Clint and Keno until bedtime.

Risen? April fools!