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This morning went by pretty quickly. I found a couple slices of wheat bread in the lounge that were free for the taking, so I had them for a late breakfast before meeting Jesica at Stoby’s for lunch. She finally gave me my financial planner, and I got the same anxiety I always get when I look at this kind of stuff, and I wanted to sail away toward the horizon. My off-menu peppered burger was great, if a bit messy. I knew the waitress would go with a burger though.

After lunch, I solved a bit of a mystery that was keeping me from deploying some classroom management software to one of my labs. I think I gained just a little more approval from Ryan, so that was great. I stayed at work a bit late until the girls got home, then I went to pick up Summer to go to Ruby Tuesday for a BoGo deal I had.

When we got back to her house after dinner, we watched a couple more episodes of The Office before I headed home for bed.

I didn’t realize I had to get to level 11 and then complete a bunch more tasks!

It was yet another slow day today. I started out at Oakland and ended up going to Sonic to get grilled cheeses and breakfast burritos for the girls in the office. I eventually made it back to the shop for a while until lunch. It was Zach’s birthday, so we went to Fat Daddy’s where I shoveled meat and potatoes into my face with the utmost shame.

I went home to kill some time until Summer got home, then went to her house to grill burgers for dinner. They weren’t prepared for the level of decimation I offered in the game of Uno afterward.

No I can’t go back to what I know.

Today was a beautiful day for a ride, so I spent it at work.

I did at least ride to work, but it was still a shame to spend most of the day indoors. A group of us went to CiCi’s for a $4.17 tax-day buffet. I’ve had better food there during lunch, but it was alright. I wish I had gotten more salad and less pizza, because the salad was really good.

I spent a bit of the afternoon in Photoshop after seeing Jessica’s computer wallpaper. I didn’t actually get to finish it before getting called to Oakland to set up printers for kindergarten registration, but it turned out alright.

I went home for just a bit after work before filling the bike with gas and heading to my parents’ house for eggplant soup. Coincidentally, Mom stopped on Jurassic Park 3 that was on TV, and Jessica texted to say she was served an advertisement for the new Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

When I got back home, I discovered I had a new dog. It lasted for about two minutes, and then it left me just as suddenly as it appeared. I made plans for Avengers: Infinity War, then finished the evening in some PUBG with Keno and Aaron.

I was always floating around, head in the clouds.

We didn’t have much of a group day today. The weather threatened, but never really did a whole lot until some heavy rain in the late afternoon. We managed to make it through the whole work day without getting wet. I helped Zach with a door for a little while in the afternoon, but otherwise I had the day to myself.

After work, I came home and cleaned house along with a load of laundry before Summer brought everyone over. We watched The Spy Next Door and a part of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy before everyone fell asleep.

“Like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon, wrapped ’round a large gold brick.”

The weather today was perfect. Jason surprised me with a touch panel install scheduled for this afternoon at the junior high with Ryan and Allen. When I met up with Allen at lunch, he acted like he had no idea about it, so I directed him to his email. As he sat reading it, he kept saying he was trying to find who it was addressed to, and I had to remind him that he was the recipient because that’s how he was able to read it.

I ran home after we finished eating because my new Ticwatch E had arrived from Amazon. I scored a lightning deal for $121, and it definitely feels worth that. It’s a bit on the thick side, and obviously made of plastic, but the software is responsive. It did seem to drain my phone battery over twice as fast as usual, but that may have been a fluke due to still having my Pebble nearby. Tomorrow will be a better test.

We got the touch panel installed after school, along with some new cabling as well. Ryan was a huge help as always. I felt kind of bad for not being more prepared, but I found out about the install the same time they did. That wrapped up the workday, then I went straight to my parents’ house for some leftover fish soup.

When I got home, I waited for Clint and Jack to get on to play. Clint and I started with a few rounds of Overwatch before Jack joined us for PUBG. There was a new game mode with three teams of 10 that was pretty interesting. I didn’t love it, but it’s nice that they’re still trying new things.

Sleeeeep.

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…