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First and Last

This morning was productive for me. Gary babysat me while I played around in some of our network switches, and I think most of what I was doing stuck with me. At least I should have log files if I get lost in the future.

After work, I went to my parents’ house for lunch. Dad had taken Mom some food for her lunch break and got back home just after I finished my taco salad. I got my Walkera Runner 250 spinning, but it was too cold to be outside flying. I managed to call a cat from across the yard while I was inside the dining room, impressive to the point that I felt like maybe I’ve missed a personal calling somewhere. Nowhere useful, but a calling nonetheless.

From there, I went to Summer’s and crushed them in a flip-floppy game of Monopoly. We picked up some Whatta-Burger for dinner, then I finished the evening dead last in a game of Sorry. Bác Vân called and offered eggrolls, so I took some to share with Becky, then came home for some PUBG with Josh, Clint, and Aaron. I even contributed.

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Don’t Be a Chicken Dinner

I picked up some jalapeño kolaches for the four of us at work this morning. It went over pretty well, but nobody wanted to do anything together. Instead, I went to the junior high and completed the projector inventory.

I left at lunchtime and played some Overwatch until Summer finished up at the gym, and then picked up some Zaxby’s before heading back home to meet up with Josh. We watched Bo Burnham’s Make Happy, then I ran Summer home before coming back and Chromecast and Chilling with Josh.

Eventually Josh went home so we could play some PUBG with Clint and Aaron. I made second place once, but before that I spent some time on the phone with Sprint to try and help Josh unlock an Essential Phone he picked up from someone else, but they were aggravatingly difficult to communicate with. I wasn’t even calling for anything difficult, and I was aggravated to the point of wanting to drop their service. Everything is awful.

I could get used to not working…

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Soul Crusher

I woke up early this afternoon super hungry, so I went to my parents’ house to find some leftovers. I had forgotten they had to go back to work today, but Julie and Andy were there with a surprise replacement of the garage overhead lights. I stuffed a couple rolls with ham and turkey down my gullet, then came back home to play some Overwatch and shower.

Once my parents got home from work, I went and had dinner, then went to Summer’s to play a game of Monopoly. Nothing makes me happier than extinguishing that tiny glimmering light of hope in someone’s eyes as they make their way around the gauntlet. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed as maniacally as Summer though, as she left us all cold and desperate in the wake of her Trumpian victory.

Now the trick is to fall asleep as quickly as possible so I can go to work in the morning.

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Burger? I hardly know ‘er!

I spent most of the morning earning winter loot boxes in Overwatch. Around 11 o’clock, Mom asked if anyone was awake and said she was preparing chow mein, so I gave her three hours before heading over there to eat. She was still preparing it, and at that point I still needed to take a shower and wasn’t in the mood to wait, so I left.

After my shower, I found myself in a mood, but Summer invited me over to grill burgers. We ate, played some Bingo, then watched The Rocketeer. One more day, then it’s back to work for a couple half days.

Oh, slow down. I think this shit is killing your brain.

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Left Over

I slept in today without too much guilt. I’m happy for the extra time off.

My afternoon was spent cleaning up around the house. I did a couple loads of laundry, then settled in for some PUBG with Clint, Josh, and eventually Jack before the night was over.

I did manage to clean up almost all of my leftovers today, so I should be prepared for the Christmas binge.

If your life was bad to you, just think what tomorrow will do.

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Double Trouble

We only had to work a half day today. Ben sent us to inventory projectors in our buildings, and I was able to finish both of my buildings thanks to the overly detailed inventory I took at the beginning of the year.

A few of the guys went out to lunch together, but I had plans to meet Brandie at Stoby’s. I had shunned her for a year after failing to invite me to the Asurion Christmas party last year. She said they didn’t even have one this year, so I let her off the hook with an apology for underestimating my love for hors d’oeuvres. She also gave me a tiny Lego-ish Christmas tree. That’s two trees for me this year, somehow tripling my previous high score.

After we ate, I helped her pick up some 90 ounces of refried beans from Taco Villa so she and her family could make homemade bean burrito things. I still don’t get why they didn’t just refry their own beans, or even buy some cans. It would have been significantly cheaper, and less weird than carrying a box full of drink cups filled with refried beans. She also finally returned my PS3 that I had loaned her years ago. I’m not really sure what to do with it now, though.

From there, I went to Summer’s place and hung out with her for the rest of the evening. She made Frito taco salad-y stuff for dinner after we picked up some things from Walmart, then we played The Game of Life with the girls before settling in for Aladdin. I kept dozing off, but it’s okay because it’s Christmas break!

To make things even better, I got my USB ethernet adapter in, so my PC is back in business.

Instead of having a Christmas rush, could we just.. not?

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The Great Christmas Teardown

It’s the last day of school before Christmas break. I spent most of the morning at Oakland visiting with people before they all left. Sheri gave me a big plate of cookies, then went to the shop for a few hours before lunch. I had planned to go to the junior high for their luncheon, but Ben was out a vehicle and wanted to go somewhere. We went to Guerrero’s Mexican Food to check it out since they moved into an actual building from a food truck. It was decent food, but wouldn’t be my choice over the food truck in Dardanelle.

After lunch, I went straight to the junior high and did a little climbing into the ceiling before making some rounds there. Almost all of the kids were already gone, so those that were there were either making up tests or watching movies. We got to leave an hour early, and when I walked outside, our winter solstice had turned into mid-May. I thought about taking the bike out, but instead got the lazy-bored eats.

When Josh finally made it home, we played some of the newly released PUBG, which ran significantly better than it ever has before for me. We never made it very far, but it was a fair amount of fun for the lack of aiming I was doing.

You got it bad, huh?

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“I’m Next?”

This week has gotten progressively quieter every day. Oakland has been caroling all week, and kids at the junior high are getting checked out of class as soon as they finish semester tests. Most of the teachers just have their kids playing games or watching movies in their down time. While I was at Oakland, Becky gave me an incredible painting of a cow that she made, complete with a hidden cow patty on the back. It’s one of the greatest gifts anyone has ever given me.

I went to my parents’ house for lunch, then came back and plowed through wiping a bunch of old computers and cleaned up my office. Josh and Aaron wanted to meet at Ci-Ci’s for dinner, so I stayed at work a bit late until it was time to catch up with them.

Josh and I got there well before Aaron, so we walked to AT&T to kill a little time and so he could check out the LG V30. While we were there, I recognized Griff shadowing Vanessa. I eyeballed him until he recognized me, and he ran over and hugged me. I haven’t seen him in nearly 15 years since he moved to the northern states, but evidently he’s back. We’ll have to catch up now. What are the odds?

What? I’ll do your taxes!

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Recalibrating….

It’s been a mostly drizzly day. I ended up having lunch with Jessica in the library, but nobody else came along for it. After Ronda got back from upgrading to an iPhone X, I ticked her off by throwing it into the trash as a joke. Nothing Sarah McLachlan and a handwritten apology can’t fix though.

After work, I played a few rounds of Overwatch: Yeti Hunter before Summer summoned me for some company. It’s a little too early to say for sure, but based on size alone, I’m a little jealous of her computer monitor.

Calibration complete.

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Payback’s a bitch…

Kevin saw me walking up to the junior high this morning and managed to sneak into my office before I got there so he could jump out and scare me. I don’t think he realizes what he’s started. Obviously I can’t go sneaking around myself, because you never jump-scare the guy with a taser, but I’m more of a long-con kind of guy anyway.

Nighttime shot using the Pixel 2 XL’s flash. Impressive!

I had lunch with the girls in the library, and later in the afternoon, Jennifer did an all-call for me over the intercom. It wasn’t even work-related, so it was hilariously annoying to have been paged at all when an email would have been more than sufficient. She didn’t even try my desk phone at all, which I would normally be happy about, but I would have actually been on-site to answer it.

After work, I headed home to meet Dad because Tori trucked Bác Vân’s freighted Christmas present to her house for us. I guess I just don’t get the display case trend this year. I keep trying to lighten my load, not acquire more things to show my other things.

After I made it back inside, I installed the dbrand skin on my Pixel. I was surprised to see that there was no cutout for the glass skin, and instead I was to place the glass skin on top of the back skin. It looks pretty good, and I could nitpick it, but I think overall I’m happy with it. I just needed something to keep it from getting scratched. I went with the marble back and woodgrain glass. I ordered a multicolor G logo, but ended up not using it at all because the cutout for the stock G is perfectly aligned for the shiny metal to show through.

I ended the night with a round of PUBG and an all-night queue for Newegg customer service chat.

SHUNNNNNN!