I managed to keep busy with a relatively slow pace today. Nothing too urgent came up, so I even took some time to help Allen with a few of his work orders.

Mollie gave me a French braid, then I met Summer at Sonic for 50-cent corn dog day. It was an early lunch, and I was worried it would make the afternoon drag on forever, but it wasn’t too bad. I had my own things to do, but I took the opportunity to steal a couple of easy things from Allen’s queue to boost my close count. I was more annoyed to find things that we had already done together weeks ago that were still open in his queue.

After work, I went home and had to call Suddenlink because they tried sneaking in a $15 increase on my bill without any kind of warning. It only took me about an hour on the phone, but I couldn’t get a straight answer as to why my bill went up 27% overnight. I ended the call without completely avoiding a price increase, but was promised only a $5 increase for double the speeds. At this point I don’t even need the speed, but I have nowhere else to go for service here.

He seems like a fungi.

I had forgotten how horrible traffic gets around Tech. I managed to make it to work roughly on time, but it made me appreciate how easily I normally get there. I decided to hook the failing sign computer back up, and to the contrary to how it’s behaved since I’ve started messing with it, it loaded the presentation fine. I spent all morning at Oakland before meeting Dale and Ryan at Popeye’s for lunch, then took some biscuits to the girls in the office afterward.

I spent some time at the shop chatting with Gary, and set up the little Zen waterfall to give him some peace. Eventually I made my way to the junior high and wrapped up a few things there. For being such a low-key day, I felt pretty accomplished.

After work, I headed home to clean up and feed the turtles before heading to Summer’s for the evening. We had leftovers and watched Iliza Shlesinger’s new special, Elder Millennial on Netflix.

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It was a pretty relaxing day at work now that everything is in full swing. I had new work coming in, but it was easy enough to keep up with that and close out a few old work orders at the same time. I felt like I had more of a plan today than before.

I took a late lunch at McDonald’s and actually got to witness someone walk in and use the ordering kiosk. He almost completed the whole process, but then instead of paying there, he printed a receipt and went to a cashier to pay out. I wanted to ask why, but was just left confused instead. 

After lunch, I spent some time at the shop waiting for a Dell tech to show up and repair a computer under warranty for us. I don’t know why they didn’t just send the part like they usually do. Ryan hosed me down with some a fireman’s hose worth of hardware knowledge while I waited, but the tech never showed.

I finished the day at the junior high, and spent some time in the core closet gaining more knowledge through experience than I have most other days. It was nice to actually be successful after all that Googling.

Summer made some pulled pork for dinner, but they got home too late to do much else, so we called it a night.

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I’ve already started to wander a little aimlessly at the junior high. I have so many work orders that are waiting for something that I feel overwhelmed and bored all at the same time. I’ve just got to dig in, I suppose. I didn’t even take a lunch again because my half Soylent lasted through most of lunch. Then Ronda walked in with an uneaten soft taco for me. I feel like such a mooch, but at least I didn’t dig it out of the trash.

I helped Ryan and Dale hang a touch panel at the high school in the afternoon, which ended up lasting until quitting time. Then I just went straight home, ate some cheese dip, and killed the entire night. And my bank account.

This feeling of stuck has me spending unwisely.

This morning we had a meeting with the assistant to the superintendent to go over the new sexual harassment policy. I got my couple of jokes in, but she did a pretty poor job of making it a serious talk anyway. She kept saying things like, “two can keep a secret if one of them is dead” like we could harass someone if we also kill them. Maybe it wasn’t quite that crazy, but I still found it funny. I only cracked once, and that was because everything was so “hard.”

I spent the rest of the morning at the junior high, but I didn’t have a whole lot of time before a slightly early lunch. It started pouring rain which quickly flooded the parking lot, so my feet were wet the rest of the day. I met Dale at Arby’s to try their new meat sandwich. It was pretty great. Allen met us there a little later, but I’m not sure why because he ended up taking the afternoon off to drain his pool before it overflowed and broke.

After lunch, I went with Dale, Zach, and Amanda to hang a touch panel at Allen’s building. At least it was a quick job, but it also made the afternoon feel that much longer. Once on my own, I got quite a few things closed out, so at least I got to leave for the weekend on a relatively good note.

Dad said they were making egg rolls for dinner, so I came home to change and wait for Summer to get there. Bác Vân was mowing her lawn, so I went to the gas station to fill up her gas can for her. As we pulled up, the clerk was outside tidying things up around the gas pumps while smoking a cigarette. In nearly immediate hindsight, I should have pulled right back out of the parking lot, but laziness got the best of me..

Finally, we went to pick up Eaddie from her grandparents’ house, then went to my parents’ house for egg roll salads. We watched a few YouTube videos on the TV afterward, then headed home to sleep.

Dot dot dot…

I got way more sleep last night, but still woke up tired. I’ve got so many work orders that are open but waiting on something that I’m feeling a little edgy all the time, but I guess that’s just the way it goes. I’ve got things I could close, but also others that are more important.

Summer said she heard on the radio that it was cupcake day somewhere. I didn’t bother confirming it because she debunked it herself, but I still went by the Neighborhood Market and picked up some strawberry shortcake cupcakes for us. I lived on that and a Soylent all day, skipping lunch again.

I stayed and chatted with Ben and Gary for a while after work until I went to Summer’s for dinner. We started watching Mama Mia! until she had to pick Autumn up from the Back to School Talk where the kids get together and don’t dance.

Back at home, I helped Bác Vân hook her car up to my battery charger, then came in for the evening. I was a bit startled to find my toilet seat lid up, but I guess I’ll find out tomorrow if I’ve been murdered in my sleep.

It’s the old one!

I’m dead tired again today. It rained all day long, which probably didn’t help. I spent the morning at Oakland, worked through lunch, then the afternoon at the junior high. Nothing exciting happened.

I went straight to Summer’s after work, and she made some chicken alfredo using a rotisserie chicken for dinner. I didn’t stick around too long though, because I kept trying to fall asleep on the couch while we watched Demetri Martin’s new Netflix special. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll feel more rested.

Those are not your feet. Get the hell outta here!