Thought I saw her on the way home yesterday.
I was right.
Can’t shake it.
Can’t put her in a box.
Left me in one though.

Put a bullet to me. Bullet in the brainpan. Squish.

I don’t understand this lull.

Tried to play some games after work. Nobody wanted to play with me.

Jesica invited me over for a movie, but I was too tired to finish.

Wish I was sailing.

I can’t bear the way she looks like she’s in love with everyone.

It’s been hard waking up this week.

I stayed at work late to try and help someone that ended up leaving without me anyway. I guess I thought I was being more helpful than I really was.

After work, Jesica came over and we went to Dairy Queen for a couple Blizzards. I had the Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix. Cheese curds were also great. Then it was YouTube for a little while, then bed.

You have sadness living in places sadness shouldn’t live.

It’s that time of the year again when it’s hard to have both a motorcycle and a job. Driving between my campuses, I just kept wanting to ride away into the summer air.

Brandie called me to chat for a bit as I was talking to Ben after work, and I was tasked with scheduling a lunch for them. Afterward I went to my parents’ house and grilled some ribs and chicken, which turned out quite good I thought.

After getting home, I played a couple games of Heroes of the Storm with Clint before everyone left me.

Employment Wins!

Today wanted to be a lazy Sunday.

My aunt nearly set my entire lawn on fire, which could have easily spread to the trees, and at the very least my storage shed. She had been burning yard waste yesterday and apparently buried the coals under a convenient trail of dry leaves leading up to a huge pile of branches from the tree we had cut down a few weeks before. If I had gotten home even 10 minutes later, it’s likely that I would have been too late.

After putting out the surface fire, I had her help me turn the rest of the rubbish into a pile of mud, which to her protest was not nearly as nice and neat as her dry leaf fuse.

I’m not sure where the rest of my time goes, but it seems to be in a hurry.

WIN 14 FIGHTS TO GET INSTANT PROMOTION

I made myself get up this morning without too much sleep so I could sleep tonight. Not long after I got out of bed, Johnny called and asked if I could be ready to leave the house within half an hour. Normally I couldn’t, but he wanted to go to Conway to see Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. I didn’t even realize it was opening weekend, but it wasn’t too crowded.

When we got to Conway, we decided to go to the showing at 4 instead of 12:40 since the earlier showing wasn’t in 3D. We went to Eat My Catfish for lunch, which was good but expensive. Then we killed some time at Best Buy before driving out to see a house in Greenbrier that he lived in as a child. We made it back to Conway for the movie and got seats front and center.

On the way home, he stopped by El Parian in Atkins to eat. Then I did some laundry before bed.

My life, my lover, my lady is the sea.

Lots of stuff today.

My dad’s friend John got married this afternoon. Sixty three years, the idol bachelor died today. My cynical side wonders if it’s all for the retirement fund, but certainly there must be true and decent people left after all this time. It occurred to me that if I wanted to have a successful gathering of my own, I would have to arrange someone’s marriage. People seem to show up for that kind of thing, no matter how many times you do it.

I stopped by Apex on the way home and talked to Lori, Will, Eric, and Jesica. Never miss an opportunity to show up when you’re dressed out.

At 8:30, I went to the Dardanelle Club for Hope’s birthday party. I saw others waiting in the parking lot, but I was the first one to walk in and sit at the table. I knew our waitress Holly, but she wrote me down as “glasses pony” so I guess I didn’t leave much of an impression.

It took a while for people to start showing up, but inevitably we had to add tables for Miss Popular. The prime rib was pretty bad, but it was all in good company.
 
After dinner, we went to Front Street and met up with Jonell and her husband Chris. I also ran into my sister and her boyfriend. We pretty much all shut that place down and then went to the rebranded Club 40. It was like stepping back into the 80s with the indoor smoking. I somehow managed to find a table that wasn’t sticky and held it down the rest of the night. Nothing beyond the DC was really my scene. Front Street was awesome outside weather, but the 40 was loud and the air hurt my everything. We pretty much shut this place down too. No strip club, thank the stars.

I gave Jorge and Oscar a ride back to Kelsey’s house, along with a couple other guys I met tonight.

Always.

Last day of testing aside from makeup tests.

First time having lunch with people all week.

Ran into Sarah Hindsman and her daughter that I see in the halls all the time.

Didn’t have movie night again.

Give me a reason to make me smile, ’cause I think I forgot how.

Almost done with testing. It’s been a slow week sitting around waiting for something to break, but they fed us and I got to spend more time just socializing, which was nice. I think the people I support appreciate that I do that. I hope so, anyway. I are not smart, but I are nice.

Not much else going on today. Didn’t see little baby birdies when I looked up at the nest after work. Must have flown off.

They grow up so fast…

Shake my hand and call me friend. Hate will be the death of you.

Five days of testing just feels like too much. I’m getting lazy having to be “on call” to resolve issues as they arise during testing. I think I did finally finish my count of devices in the building, though. I knew it was a lot, but I think the number we’ll replace is actually pretty low. I could probably even work my way through them by myself in my down time, but I’ve completely put off my CompTIA certification at this point. I should just get it out of the way.

After work, I went by our resource officer’s parents’ house to help with a computer issue. They had an ATX mid tower case with the tiniest, completely integrated motherboard I’ve ever seen. It might as well have been in an ultra slim case, but for some reason it was designed almost completely empty.

After that, I stopped by to visit my parents on that side of town before going home. Baby birds were chillin’ when I checked in on them.

I’ve got you under my skin…