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The Kayak Hunt

We got up this morning and decided to go to Conway to hunt for a kayak. I texted Mom to see if they wanted to go to Sam’s, and Summer and I went to get some pork chop biscuits from Hardee’s for breakfast. She headed to the gym while I got ready, and then we went to pick my parents up when Dad got home from church. We went to Old Chicago for lunch, and the poor girl flipped my slice of pizza face-down on the table while trying to serve us. I don’t think I’ve ever had them serve the first slice, so it was a bit odd in the first place. I think I’d rather just figure that out on my own.

After lunch, we headed to Sam’s Club and wandered around. We ran into Steven there, and Summer and I started video chatting Ronda on Marco Polo while she sat in the car waiting for him. We didn’t buy a whole lot, but I did pick up a Bug-A-Salt gun, and I’m super excited to ruin some pest lives during our next cookout. I may even season some food with it. The salt. Not the bugs.

From there, we went to Dick’s to check out the kayaks. We ultimately decided to wait for a proper deal, so I’ll just have to keep watching online for a great price. We walked to Old Navy to spend some bonus money I had, then went to Marble Slab for some ice cream before heading home. We stopped for just a minute at Walmart to look at their kayaks before taking my parents home. It’s back to group projects tomorrow, and I’m less than thrilled. Vacation is coming.

Shop ’til you drop.

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Got it Covered

We woke up late this morning and went to my parents’ house to help Dad clean the pool cover. We had tentative plans to grill with Jesica, but she didn’t get back in touch with me until late in the afternoon, so we swam and had soup for dinner with my parents. Summer worked up a wicked headache on top of her already injured neck, but rehydrating seemed to help that quite a bit.

When we got back home, we watched a few episodes of The Office before bedtime. I wanted to get to Maria’s sweet sixteen, but it just didn’t work out. It would have been nice to see that whole gang again.

Sick burn, dude.

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Like Day and Night

I rode the bike to work today since Summer was still having her alternator replaced. It was a pretty good day for it, particularly in the morning. It wasn’t too hot on the ride in to work in the morning, and the afternoon was cool and overcast with just a few sprinkles on the way home.

Work started out a bit awkward without any real plan of action. We didn’t have enough cable on hand to do the line pulls I needed, so we started blowing out computers and projectors instead. I helped out at Dwight with Jason and Allen while everyone else found something better to do.

The three of us managed to stretch that out until close to lunch, then went to La Plaza Restaurant. Jason forgot his wallet at the shop, so I’ll have to remember to collect next week. After lunch, we swapped Allen for Amanda and went to her buildings to check the status of some rooms. The painting wasn’t done, and the electricity hadn’t been run, so the entire afternoon was basically a huge bust. Then we left half an hour early.

I made it home and started on some laundry. Summer eventually made it back and we went to get her car. While we were out, I wanted to stop by Harbor Freight to check out their sidewalk sale. In the few hours we were there, I picked up a pair of gloves to throw in the car for an emergency. Then it was back home for more productivity.

My sheets ended up getting bleached in several places by some skin cream. I was super angry about it, but in reality nobody looks at them anyway, and they still feel the same. We’re a little over halfway through The Office. It didn’t seem like it ran for this many episodes when I was watching them as they came out. I guess time really does fly.

Learn the lesson and move along.

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Bet they don’t reprimand their froggers!

I thought we might get a break from pulling cable today, and I was at least partly right. Amanda called in after what we had to go through yesterday, and evidently Jason and Allen didn’t get anywhere near finished with Sequoyah, so they wanted me to come help them finish it. I had some things to do for summer school though, so I went to Oakland first to take care of that. I checked on the tadpoles while I was there, and was greeted with a wave.

When I finally got to Sequoyah, I saved the day by fixing where the cable boxes were to reduce friction, and also punched a bunch of cables through a wall that Jason couldn’t seem to get through. We finished up there, and I don’t even know how much excess cable they pulled, but it was a frustrating amount. It’s almost as if they had never done it before. I fished the ends through where they needed to be, then let them finish up after lunch.

We had lunch at Dairy Queen, and Summer met us there just to stare at me. I’m now remembering that I had forgotten to get my 99 cent cheese sticks from Sonic in the afternoon. After lunch, I was instructed to go get serial numbers from 108 iPads so we could deploy a paid app to them for summer school. Gary volunteered to help, and we managed to knock out 85 in about two and a half hours. So many frustrating things could have been completely avoided with some better management, preparedness, and maybe a dash of testing things before committing to them and demanding resolutions at the last minute.

After work, I went by Superfast to get Summer because they were looking at her air conditioner again. We made it home and I started some laundry before having to go to her house to pick up something for her neck pain. Back home, I managed to get one round of PUBG in before server maintenance, and then it was off to bed.

That was scary-fast.

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Double Date with Folks

Work was supremely frustrating today. Amanda and I were sent to pull Ryan’s cables at Jason’s buildings, and even if it was unintentional, we had the distinct feeling that Jason was selectively assigning difficult jobs to others so he wouldn’t have to do them. I’m covered from head to toe in fiberglass insulation, and now my skin hurts everywhere.

I went to New China for lunch with Allen and Kristen, and we met Summer there. It was an interesting time, and Kristen wants to hang out with us as couples now. Life is strange.

The afternoon was finishing up the bullshittiest cable run I’ve ever had to do, and then Ben cut us loose at 4. I refused to let Jason beat me out the door, so Heather, Gary, and I all left a few minutes earlier.

I went home and started charging Summer’s Amazfit Bip before she got there to go swim at my parents’ house. Dad came out to join us in the pool for a bit until Mom got home from work, and then we all went to Ruby Tuesday for dinner.

CONGRATULATIONS.
UNITED NATIONS

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A long, long way to run.

Amanda and I spent most of the day pulling phone lines at the junior high. It was annoyingly long, but still one of the easier runs. Lunch was finishing up some leftovers from the team cookout.

After work, I came home and set up my new router. I’m hopeful that it resolves my frequent loss of internets, but if it doesn’t, I’ll have to have my modem exchanged again.

I got really frustrated with my 55-gallon tadpole tank after several larger tadpoles died out of nowhere. The water quality seemed pretty questionable, so I spent quite a while doing a water change and finally burying the plants I picked up when I went floating recently. I had some trouble getting the canister filter running again, but it’s back to normal now.

You don’t get to have a quinceanera and a sweet sixteen. That’s just blatant double-dipping.

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Summer with a K

I was exhausted from all the driving this weekend. It didn’t even really feel like we got a weekend. I’m excited to do it again over the course of a couple weeks, but even then the first day will be a solid block of driving to get there in time. I don’t understand why I can’t just scroll down to zoom out and then just zoom back in where I want to be.

We didn’t have any group projects, so I spent all day at Oakland working on a few things I had open there. I met Allen and Summer at KFC for lunch and ate too much, then went back to Oakland. Ben let us off a few minutes early, so I went home and started cleaning up around the house.

Summer came over after a while and we watched Jumper after I had expressed my desire to bend space-time on our drive home from St. Louis. I fear more group stuff tomorrow since Jason’s out for a single day of vacation again. Funny how the hard work always coincides.

Wham, bam shang-a-lang.

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Home for the Evening

Work was dreadful and exhausting today. Jason and Allen took the day off and left us to pull a ton of cable. No surprise. I ended up with Ben and Ryan, who ended up spending quite a bit of time fighting with some phone cabling issues with the change we were making. It was hot and sweaty, and my foot has been hurting worse from what I assume is some bruising from dropping my kayak on it last weekend.

After work, I felt so gross and tired that I wanted to go swim for a while. The girls just got home from church camp, so Summer brought them over to swim a while too. Then I picked up some Little Caesar’s on the way back to their place before coming home to prepare for the trip. At least they’ll have one night at home before heading out again. I wish I had more time to sleep though.

Gotta find the lobsters on the walls.

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Let’s go somewhere good instead.

I bounced around a bit at work today. At one point in the morning, a group of six of us went to hang a touch panel at the high school. There was actually more to do than just that, but it still seemed like overkill until Jason ended up on a ladder asking for someone to get something for him, and realized everyone was actually busy doing something. Typically anyone beyond the two required for the work would just be playing on a phone or sitting idle.

Summer came downstairs and ate some leftover potluck stuff with me for lunch, and then I spent more of the afternoon running around doing non-group stuff. Eventually we finished out our full day and I headed home. Elementary summer school won’t start until next week, so it’s still pretty slow for me in spite of having both summer school campuses.

After having her hair cut, Summer came over and we went to get some things from my sister’s house. Then we went to Ruby Tuesday to use a BOGO coupon. As we walked in, I expressed how I always feel like I would almost always go somewhere better, even if I had to pay full price. The slap in the face came at the end of the meal when I was told the food I ordered didn’t qualify for the promotion, so I ended up paying twice what I expected. I’m sick to death of it with that place.

Boom, roasted!

 

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Changing States

Today was the first day of summer projects. I was sent with Dale and Ryan to swap spinning drives out in favor of about six grand worth of solid state hard drives for a couple high school labs. The part that killed me was that we were only doing it because the teachers complained about the speed of the computers, and we only planned to use them for another year. For some reason I couldn’t get the same for the junior high. Maybe it was because I didn’t push for it. I didn’t even realize it was a realistic option, especially a temporary one.

After work, I went to check on Summer as she finished mowing her lawn. She was covered head-to-toe in grass because the mulch guard had broken off of her mower. After a quick shower, we went to my parents’ house to swim some more and to clean up some more leftovers. It’s only two more days until the weekend, and I’m ready for a proper one this time.

Totes bresh, brov.