We didn’t have much team work to do today, but I managed to volunteer for a couple jobs to pass the time. First, I helped Zach run a line for central office’s panic button. Evidently they want the button to only lock down their office and not the Gardner campus right across the street. For something so safety-focused, that sure doesn’t make any sense at all.

After we finished that, I went to the junior high for a bit until lunch. I convinced Jason and Allen to go to Brown’s Catfish so I could use my birthday voucher. They had some interesting new things for lunch, including a burrito casserole which was pretty good.

In the afternoon, I volunteered to help Ryan and Ben with a touch panel install at Center Valley. Ryan complimented me by saying, “thanks for helping.” That’s two days in a row for me. I also figured out some things about an Avaya phone using my brain parts, which earned me a pass on the second of some 600 tests. I’m really on a roll.

After work, I went home and played a couple rounds of PUBG with Keno before cleaning up and heading to Summer’s for the evening. She’s got a half marathon tomorrow, so she wants me to take the girls to watch when they wake up.

I guess I’ll have to call it a dull early night.

This morning went by pretty quickly. I found a couple slices of wheat bread in the lounge that were free for the taking, so I had them for a late breakfast before meeting Jesica at Stoby’s for lunch. She finally gave me my financial planner, and I got the same anxiety I always get when I look at this kind of stuff, and I wanted to sail away toward the horizon. My off-menu peppered burger was great, if a bit messy. I knew the waitress would go with a burger though.

After lunch, I solved a bit of a mystery that was keeping me from deploying some classroom management software to one of my labs. I think I gained just a little more approval from Ryan, so that was great. I stayed at work a bit late until the girls got home, then I went to pick up Summer to go to Ruby Tuesday for a BoGo deal I had.

When we got back to her house after dinner, we watched a couple more episodes of The Office before I headed home for bed.

I didn’t realize I had to get to level 11 and then complete a bunch more tasks!

It was yet another slow day today. I started out at Oakland and ended up going to Sonic to get grilled cheeses and breakfast burritos for the girls in the office. I eventually made it back to the shop for a while until lunch. It was Zach’s birthday, so we went to Fat Daddy’s where I shoveled meat and potatoes into my face with the utmost shame.

I went home to kill some time until Summer got home, then went to her house to grill burgers for dinner. They weren’t prepared for the level of decimation I offered in the game of Uno afterward.

No I can’t go back to what I know.

Today was a beautiful day for a ride, so I spent it at work.

I did at least ride to work, but it was still a shame to spend most of the day indoors. A group of us went to CiCi’s for a $4.17 tax-day buffet. I’ve had better food there during lunch, but it was alright. I wish I had gotten more salad and less pizza, because the salad was really good.

I spent a bit of the afternoon in Photoshop after seeing Jessica’s computer wallpaper. I didn’t actually get to finish it before getting called to Oakland to set up printers for kindergarten registration, but it turned out alright.

I went home for just a bit after work before filling the bike with gas and heading to my parents’ house for eggplant soup. Coincidentally, Mom stopped on Jurassic Park 3 that was on TV, and Jessica texted to say she was served an advertisement for the new Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

When I got back home, I discovered I had a new dog. It lasted for about two minutes, and then it left me just as suddenly as it appeared. I made plans for Avengers: Infinity War, then finished the evening in some PUBG with Keno and Aaron.

I was always floating around, head in the clouds.

We didn’t have much of a group day today. The weather threatened, but never really did a whole lot until some heavy rain in the late afternoon. We managed to make it through the whole work day without getting wet. I helped Zach with a door for a little while in the afternoon, but otherwise I had the day to myself.

After work, I came home and cleaned house along with a load of laundry before Summer brought everyone over. We watched The Spy Next Door and a part of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy before everyone fell asleep.

“Like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon, wrapped ’round a large gold brick.”

The weather today was perfect. Jason surprised me with a touch panel install scheduled for this afternoon at the junior high with Ryan and Allen. When I met up with Allen at lunch, he acted like he had no idea about it, so I directed him to his email. As he sat reading it, he kept saying he was trying to find who it was addressed to, and I had to remind him that he was the recipient because that’s how he was able to read it.

I ran home after we finished eating because my new Ticwatch E had arrived from Amazon. I scored a lightning deal for $121, and it definitely feels worth that. It’s a bit on the thick side, and obviously made of plastic, but the software is responsive. It did seem to drain my phone battery over twice as fast as usual, but that may have been a fluke due to still having my Pebble nearby. Tomorrow will be a better test.

We got the touch panel installed after school, along with some new cabling as well. Ryan was a huge help as always. I felt kind of bad for not being more prepared, but I found out about the install the same time they did. That wrapped up the workday, then I went straight to my parents’ house for some leftover fish soup.

When I got home, I waited for Clint and Jack to get on to play. Clint and I started with a few rounds of Overwatch before Jack joined us for PUBG. There was a new game mode with three teams of 10 that was pretty interesting. I didn’t love it, but it’s nice that they’re still trying new things.

Sleeeeep.