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.

I had scheduled a meeting with Sara and a teacher from another campus this morning to help her trim a video for the National Board. Sara was out sick and had forgotten, so I managed by myself. Turns out, she just had to read the instructions, and it would have provided a link to free software.

I made it to the junior high and kept myself mostly busy, but I’m sure it looked like I wasn’t doing anything at all. I ended up having an early lunch with Ronda and Jennifer, then ran to get Summer some Taco Bell because she had presumably forgotten what solid food was like.

I wrapped up the afternoon by swapping ceiling tiles in a couple of classrooms in order to move an old sound system for use in a different room. I’ve still got to figure out the actual wiring since I don’t have power in the ceiling for an amplifier, but I’ll figure something out. I managed to get all of this done by myself, so there’s not really any need to wait for a group day.

After work, Josh came over to show off his new Whitestone Dome Glass for his Pixel 2 XL. We managed to finish the whole process in a relatively short amount of time, and with great success. The installation hardware was perfect, and the end result was great. I wasn’t positive the adhesive had fully cured because it still seemed to ooze liquid from the sides, but time will tell.

From there, I went to eat leftover fish soup with Mom on her birthday. Dad had to work late for outage, and I’m sure Julie did as well, so maybe we’ll take her out to eat over the weekend or something.

When I got back home, Clint and I played the new Overwatch: Retribution event until Aaron joined us and we switched to PUBG. Apparently people are calling it Plunkbat, which is supposed to roll off the tongue better. Whatever. I’m playing hooky tomorrow.

Tic tic tic tic…

Work was really slow, and I’m guessing it’s just everyone winding down again. I had to make a couple trips to the shop because the lamp I grabbed was mislabeled with the wrong projector model. I guess I can’t be too mad when we’re confusing part numbers like 1141 with 1411. It was super annoying to have to interrupt two classes, though.

I met Dale and Allen at Arby’s and had a gyro for lunch. They’re pretty good, and more filling than I thought it would be. The sun was out in the afternoon, and it almost felt like spring again.

After work, I went straight to my parents’ house for fish soup. While I was there, I managed to get my taxes filed online. I don’t know why my adjusted gross income were different on my tax forms and what the IRS had, but at this point I can’t be bothered to care. If they audit me, at least I’ll know what it should have been. There are few things that make less sense than income tax. Rules for the sake of rules, and I hate it all. I should retire somewhere far, far away.

Back at home, I played some PUBG with the guys. I made it to the end of the round once and cleared an entire team by myself, but ended up getting sniped from across a field at the last moment. Then during one of our later games, I was taken out by a team, and Clint made friends with them over proximity chat to try and gang up on the team across the street. Nobody could believe it actually worked.

Let’s go into tomorrow with more sleep this time…

I slept in this morning after another long week of little sleep. I spent the afternoon on laundry and cleaning up the kitchen, even taking a moment to reroute a drain hose on my dishwasher. Hopefully that will help with the water coming back in after the cycle is over.

The evening took me to Summer’s for some pizza and The Office before bed.

They decided to send me to management training.
Anger management, technically, but still…

I got up about half an hour early this morning so I could have things ready to go for my touch panel install at the very beginning of school. We ended up not getting into the classroom until just a few minutes later, and Zach kind of made a big deal out of it for some reason, but we got it done in no time.

I was craving a hamburger, so several of us went to CJ’s for lunch. If I ever eat there and am not charged with transporting everyone else, I’m totally picking up McDonald’s fries on the way and eating them while I stare into the eyes of the employees there. Someone should rub their noses in the soggy potatoes they’re making, and it might as well be Ronald.

The afternoon brought a whole bunch of rain and another touch panel install at Center Valley, so we had to use a leaky trailer to keep things mostly dry. It went alright, and we were dismissed just a few minutes early afterward. Summer’s 5K was cancelled earlier for all the rain, even though it had actually completely let up before the event was set to start.

I went home and played a game of Overwatch and then PUBG before she came over and we went to IHOP for dinner. Neither of us had been there in years, and it was a delicious return. It was expensive, but I ate about three times more than I needed.

VERY IMPORTANT, INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PANCAKES

It was another super slow day at work today. I spent most of it staring at group policy. I grabbed a couple McGriddles for breakfast, but had to go in to pick up my app order because some assclown parked in the order pickup spot and left their vehicle. I think next time I’ll just pull up behind them and wait for my order there.

I had to play catch-up for lunch because everyone went without me. Taco Bell changed their app, so you don’t have to check in any more. It would have been nice to know that before I placed the order from work and had to drive all the way there. Overall, my online app ordering went pretty poorly today.

After work, I came home to check on the tadpoles. I don’t think I lost too many more, but I still had to clean out the corpses. I had a few living that I couldn’t sort out, so I dumped everything into a bucket of water outside so they could figure it out on their own.

The evening was PUBG and beer, because it’s a long day tomorrow.

Where does the night go?