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Today was moderately busy for being the first day back. First thing in the morning, I had a switch blow up in my face. The PoE circuit blew, throwing sparks out the front of the switch as smoke billowed out. Fortunately, Gary had a spare that he was able to put into place before lunch.

Most brought lunch, so I ended up at Arby’s for some buffalo chicken tenders. They weren’t bad. I still don’t know how I feel about their switch to Coca-Cola products.

I got a good amount of stuff done in the afternoon as well. Then after work, I went to my parents’ house thinking I had to clean up leftovers. I ended up sitting outside for about an hour and a half waiting for anyone to get home. I tried getting the stray three-legged cat to come over to me, but the best I could do was to get it to eat the food while I stared at it.

After dinner, I went to Summer’s to try and wash my plush mattress topper in her oversized HE washing machine. I don’t know if it was my fault for loading it incorrectly, or a fault of the design, but the top of the laundry load would not have gotten wet at all if the water had not been filled from the top. I had to push the whole thing under water to submerge it in the first place, and then it spent an hour and a half swirling the thing around in circles while the water soaked the bottom half. When it finally finished the load, it spent over five minutes in a spin cycle to drain the water that didn’t even touch half of the load. It was absolutely infuriating.

I didn’t want to stay too late, and I hadn’t decided whether to try and take the stupid thing to the coin laundry in the morning, so I headed home and ultimately threw it in the dryer just to finish something. I didn’t realize how much of a difference the topper made until I didn’t have it any more. I guess if I can’t get satisfied with the wash job, I’ll just buy a new one, because fuck savings when I can sleep better tonight instead.

It’s like giving it to your cat and letting it lick it clean.

We slept in until lunch time today, then went to Arby’s with a powerful hunger. Summer went home afterward, and I started to clean house. I spent over eight hours fighting a stain, and I’m thinking I should just learn to let things go.

Sorry, Leesa.

I spent most of the morning feeling like I was stressed out over nothing. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been putting some things off, but I decided to do my taxes since it couldn’t hurt. I was thinking I had done something wrong last year, but now I’m not sure it was the same wrong I had been thinking it was.

Mom texted about dinner and Summer dropped the girls off at her mother’s, so we went over there and had leftover smoked turkey and pork. I had them look at my taxes too, and I ultimately decided that if we’re going to keep income taxes as a thing, then we should just audit everyone every year so nobody has to actually file anything. If everything’s done for you the correct way, then nobody has to worry about it. Jobs created. Boom. Economy fixed.

After dinner, Summer and I came back to my house and watched The Hitman’s Bodyguard, which I thought was excellent in spite of its 40% on Rotten Tomatoes. Then it was a couple episodes of The Office before bed.

#unblessed

The girls spent today with their father, so Summer and I went to Colton’s for a late lunch. Afterward, we went to Staples so I could spend a promo $10 that I had received from there. I found a Cross fountain pen marked down from $57 to $16.50. I’d been wanting a fountain pen to play with, but never bit the bullet, so this was as good a chance as any.

From there, we came back home and talked to Bác Vân while she was outside digging holes. She made me cut a branch, then Summer and I went back to her place to receive the girls. We played a game of Monopoly where I went from a little dicey to complete and total annihilation of everyone else. The girls went to bed saddened and heartbroken as they should have, and I helped Summer set up a Steam account. She played a game of Worms to get started, and I’ll have to find her something else she might like.

I did not realize how much work owning a pen could be.

It’s the last day of work until spring break, and overall it was a pretty light day. It was supposed to warm up, so I rode the bike in through the cold sprinkles. Ben and Max helped me pick up a couple SMART boards from Oakland, and that was it for group work. We packed everyone up to go to Western Sizzlin for lunch, and the clouds finally let up in the mid afternoon to warm things up.

After work, I came home to do some laundry and finish digitizing my fuel logs. I was super tired and didn’t feel like doing anything else at all. I managed to stay awake long enough to play a few rounds of PUBG with Clint and Keno, then it was off to bed.

Why not? I deserve a break!