I spent all day by myself, imaging a lab and fighting with touchscreen drivers. This is my life now.

After lunch, I ran in to John in the hallway after seeing him at Apex on Saturday. He asked if I had a woman. Then said his wife had someone she wanted to set up with me. This is terrifying, because she knows less about me than John, and John knows absolutely nothing about me. Jesica was much more optimistic.

After work, I picked some fresh mint for the duck, and washed some socks. This is also my life now.

Death, when it comes, will have no sheep.

Busywork wore me out at work today. I got started on imaging another lab, and then Amanda and I went around the whole building removing SMART board speakers from the walls. Unmounting and remounting projectors and the accompanying cables was a pain, and mostly pointless.

For lunch, Allen, Jason, and I went to Taco Villa. I don’t understand the popularity of that place even a little bit. That’s not to say that I don’t like the food. I do. I just don’t know why. It’s served lukewarm with cheap ingredients, but somehow it just hits a special spot. I also hate their tiny dining area, but we ate there and consumed an entire bottle of their hot sauce.

After work, I picked up PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds to try with Johnny and Clint. I hated it. I knew I would hate it. Those types of games create a kind of anxiety in me that I just don’t need. I can’t even get a refund for it because I bought it from Green Man Gaming instead of directly through Steam.

What’s the Chinese version of Cinco de Mayo?
I’m Vietnamese.
Chinko de Mayo.
Now you’re on MY list.

I did nothing today. I’m not proud of it. It was awful. I hate weekends like this.

10119 Days, 13 Hours, 49 Minutes, 48 Seconds…

I woke up around noontime when Kevin called and asked me out to lunch. I met him at New China and ate too much, because I can’t resist a large variety of foods. I have to have all of the different things I like. I can’t just choose a few.

On the way home, I stopped by Apex to visit with Jesica for a bit, and to discover that she no longer wanted to go to Magic Springs with me to see Rick Springfield. By the time I actually made it home, I was tired and lethargic from sleeping too late and eating too much, so I never did make it out of the house again. I played some Heroes of the Storm, and watched some How I Met Your Mother, and now it’s off to bed I go.

Stacy’s mom, on the other hand…

Last night, I dug out my Google Glass so I could bring it to work to share with everyone. Nobody seemed to really care. Everyone was just really lethargic all day. I continued to work on my labs with Allen, but he along with everyone else just wanted to go home early. Jason sold several of us a $5 BBQ pork sandwich lunch that his church was offering, which tasted alright but was about half of what I expected. In the afternoon, Jason had everyone leave about an hour and a half early, but I stuck around for a bit after that finishing up my own project.

After work and getting some gas, I stopped by AT&T to visit with anyone there that would take the time to talk to me. I would have awkwardly stayed longer, but Ben called and asked me to go back by the central office at work after someone called him saying that the doors hadn’t locked at their scheduled time. It had started raining pretty hard, and by the time I got there, everyone was gone and the doors were locked.

I stopped by Arby’s on my way back home to get a couple French Dip & Swiss sandwiches, but the girl misheard me and had them make a couple Chicken, Bacon, and Swiss sandwiches instead. I told her not to worry about correcting it in an attempt to be nice/accommodating, but when I got home I discovered the sandwiches were mostly cold, and the chicken had been cooked too long and was nearly burned.

I played some Overwatch for a while, and was left sour after a match with a particularly toxic 4-man group that couldn’t work together to save their lives. We came to the agreement that everything was my fault. Later in the evening, I played Heroes of the Storm with a random to complete a quest for some loot, and that went much better.

It really just never pays.

I finally got to have my day of accomplishment at work, and completed multiple lab images. There were really too many of us doing it, but that seems to be how everyone rolls. I’m just glad I made some progress and was able to keep mostly busy all day.

There were Junebugs all over the front door of our office downstairs, so I collected a few after work to bring them home to the duck to see if the old saying has any merit. We’ve gone from just a few small bits of random greens to large mounds of greens, so the little duckie should be a big duckie in short order.

Finally, I caught a couple episodes of How I Met Your Mother before bed.

Daddy’s water burns.

I keep hearing about how this summer is abnormal for us at work, but I think more work is coming pretty soon. It’s pretty easy to tell who gets the lion’s share of the work around there. I try my best to stay useful. Some of the more outspoken there can get pretty aggravating, but they’re so deep in their echo chambers that it’d be nearly impossible to change their mindsets. It wouldn’t bother me so much if it wasn’t just so much negativity all of the time.

After work, I went to my parents’ house to return Dad’s live mouse trap so he could attempt to catch a rat that’s come around. I rummaged for some more greens for the duck, and had a bit of dinner, then came back home to upgraded the webcam and the streaming system I had set up for the duck. Now I’m able to keep a better eye on it, as well as share its adventures in its eight square foot duck condo.

Not much else to report, sadly. I wish the duck liked me more, but maybe not liking me will give it a better chance in the wild later on.

Magic Springs this weekend. Probably.

I grabbed the sample bottle of Coffiest Soylent for breakfast this morning. I’ve been wanting to try Soylent for quite some time, so I jumped at the chance for a “free” sample from Amazon. It had a bit of a grainy finish, but really it was smoother and thinner than I expected. The coffee flavor was relatively light, but enough to make it better than palatable. I may seriously have to consider getting some for the odd occasion that I need something quick to go.

I spent the afternoon re-imaging computers in a couple of my labs, and am still having trouble finishing them up. Several of them have failed each time, all by not joining the domain. I’ve broken down the number of simultaneous images, which has helped, but it’s still super annoying having to babysit. The side effect was getting to spend some time in a lab with some proper stereo speakers in the ceiling. I found a particular electronica song with true stereo that was made incredible by the extreme separation of the channels on opposite sides of the room. I think being mounted in the ceiling also helped.

After work, I fed the duck most of the remains of the veggies, so tomorrow I’ll have to go find some more. It’s nice having the webcam now so I can be sure it’s eating, and not just going crazy sitting on the bedroom all alone.

Tune in tomorrow: Same Duck-time, same Duck-channel!

I burned up last night in a major way. I first went to bed with a 100º fever, and felt progressively colder as the night went on. I woke up freezing about every half hour and kept drinking lots of ice water, knowing my body temperature was really high. Eventually I snapped and felt incredibly hot, and tried to sleep sprawled out over the covers.

I had started to install Windows on an old netbook, and continued through the different steps each time I woke up. By the time morning came, the netbook was fully installed with all of its drivers, and was completely up to date. When my alarm went off, I felt significantly better and decided not to call in to work.

After work, I stopped by Tractor Supply Co. to return the chick food supplement that I had mistakenly bought over the weekend, and then headed home to clean up and feed the duck. I spent quite a bit of the evening researching ways to host a duck cam on the site, and ultimately ended the night on a YouTube Live Stream using the netbook I had set up from last night. The webcam on the netbook is absolutely horrid, though, so I’ll have to come up with something better.

Waddle waddle… ’til the very next day.

Today is quickly becoming a blur in my ill-fated evening.

I got up early and played some EVE with Keno for a while before showering and getting ready to grill out for Father’s Day. It wasn’t until late in the afternoon that I was told we had a change of plans to make spring rolls instead. I felt a little bad because it’s not Dad’s favorite meal, but by the time Mom had dinner ready, I was too tired to fuss over it. Dad had smoked some pork loin that we ate in rolls instead of the boiled pork Mom usually makes. It turned out really great, but I’ve always really liked spring rolls.
 
I had been feeling a bit cranky without food all day, but by the time I made it home, I couldn’t miss the telltale body aches of some flu-like invader. I completely missed the possibility of salmonella, and jumped straight to avian flu. Either way, I assume I’ll be dead soon. At least I will have prepared the duck one last fresh meal before I go.

Can someone come destroy my RAID if I die, please?