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Grease is the Word

The girls were spending the day with their father, so Summer and I got ready and headed to Conway to catch Grease‘s 40th anniversary showing. I had only sort of seen it once before at Suzanne’s house years ago while she was having a party where people were doing things that kept me distracted from the movie, so it was nice to check it off my list proper.

After the movie, we wandered through Target for a while. She picked up a new swimsuit, and I loaded up on clearanced Easter candy. Then we found our way to Red Robin for dinner. It was pretty good, if not expensive, and really messy. Endless fries helped, but I didn’t think six onion rings were worth an upcharge.

That ain’t no shit, we’ll be getting lots of tit.

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Mildly Handy

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…

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Pancakes International

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

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Less is the New More

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?

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The Great Dying

Everything seemed perfectly normal up until bedtime.

It was a pretty slow day again. I ended up driving through McDonald’s for a late lunch Happy Meal. Nobody else has really been around all week. I guess it’s been alright to recalibrate my eating habits.

After work, I came home for just a little while before heading to Summer’s for dinner. Some of the tadpoles were hitching a ride on a piece of celery that was bobbing up and down in the water, so I made a funny video of it.

Summer made chicken and bowtie alfredo, then we all played a super long game of Uno before the girls went to bed. The rest of us watched an episode of The Office, and then I came home.

I checked on the tadpoles just before going to bed, and much to my dread, over half of them looked to have perished. There were just mounds of them on the floor of the fish bowl. I spent a couple hours trying to sort out the living from the dead, but they preferred to mingle. I rigged up a bigger container for confirmed live ones, then sank a smaller container with the rest of the mix so the live ones could swim out overnight, leaving the dead behind. We’ll see how it goes in the morning, I guess.

Everything was great until it wasn’t.

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Anniversaries Are Overrated

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.

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Odd

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!

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Harbor Freighter

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!

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Promo Gains

I got up this morning and went to PDQ to buy a couple drinks, which gave me back a promo $2.50 in points. Then I went to Chick-fil-A for a promo waffle fry and chicken sandwich, which I modified for a little over $1. Overall, it was a pretty good lunch that turned profitable.

I got cleaned up in the evening and stopped by Walmart for a couple things before heading to Summer’s for dinner. She made some chicken tacos that turned out really good.

We heard what sounded like three gunshots from relatively close by, followed a short while later by some sirens. Maybe we’ll hear about it tomorrow.

It’s just a prank, bro!

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Ready Player Three

Several members of our team were out today, so we didn’t have a meeting in the morning. Instead, we just worked in our buildings all day. Those of us that were there met up for lunch at Chick-fil-A. When we walked in, there wasn’t an empty seat in the house, so we left and went to Zaxby’s. Surprisingly, everyone seemed happy with the alternative. I saw John and Melissa, along with Jennifer and the rest of the family there too.

The other kids were spending the night with friends, so Summer dropped Eaddie off with me while she went to the gym after work. We went to my parents’ house to pick up some frog eggs my dad scooped out of the pool cover, then spent most of the rest of our time trying to find a small fish tank to put them in. I couldn’t find the one I had in mind, but had a fish bowl that suited them fine.

When Summer got here, we went to Conway for dinner and a movie. I still had a $10 birthday reward for Marketplace Grill, and then we watched the late showing of Ready Player One. The movie was pretty great, but I have a strong need to go back and watch it again frame-by-frame so I can find all of the characters and references. I’m sure someone will have a list by the end of the week.

Here’s the deal, Wade. You’re something called a ‘human being.’ That’s a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this planet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evolution, and you’ll learn more about it later. But trust me, that’s really how we all got here. There’s proof of it everywhere, buried in the rocks. That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
Oh, and by the way… there’s no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid. Deal with it.