I was still off a bit this morning. I went by Chick-fil-A to redeem another reward for breakfast this morning. Then I had lunch with the girls in the library. Overall, that’s about all I did today.

After work, the girls came by again to check out the tadpoles. Just about everyone had moved out of their eggs today, and I spent some time changing water and trying to find something they might eat. I played a few competitive games of Overwatch with Clint.

I just realized I just passed the year mark with the new blog. I guess that’s exciting. It didn’t seem like that long ago.

Viral.

I woke up this morning and immediately got my GoPro set up on the frog eggs. It only ended up lasting a couple hours, but the new time lapse was still pretty interesting.

Work was mostly quiet, and slow, but steady. Ronda brought me some leftover pizza from Old Bank which was a pretty good, if overfilling breakfast. I ended up skipping lunch because of it. I finally left right before school let out and drove through Sonic for a free birthday strawberry shake and some onion rings. I ate them in the parking lot at Oakland before going in to wrap up a couple work orders. I ended the day at the shop, without much going on.

I met the girls at my house so they could check out the frog eggs. They had grown quite a bit just over the course of the day. When they left, I went to my parents’ house for some leftover bún bò Huế. On the way home, I was followed by the ghouliest of ghosts, which bumped me off course for a while. I finally made it home for some PUBG with the boys before bed.

Run!

I got up this morning and tried to clean up around the house a bit. Summer came over in the afternoon while the girls were with their father. I was busy filing some old important papers into highly flammable filing cabinets in the room with all my electronics. It was a late lunch, but we went to Burger King for some Whoppers, then went to Harbor Freight for something to do and to check things out.

I decided that I want to learn to do things with my hands, so I should start a YouTube channel dedicated to learning woodworking and other trade skills using only Harbor Freight tools. If I have the production value to make it a hit, I can get sponsored by Harbor Freight and get them to provide any future tools I need, and I’ll eventually learn to build a boat from scratch. Then I can sail away and continue to make videos about living on my boat, the Harbor Freighter, and find an island of my own to set anchor in what will be named Freight Harbor.

When we got back home, several of the frog eggs had started to wiggle more, so I decided to set up the GoPro for a timelapse video while I started some laundry. I managed to get a three second video made before the battery died, so I’ll have to start it fresh in the morning after it’s charged again.

To wrap up the weekend, Aaron flipped his TV remote to choose between Overwatch and PUBG, and we played PUBG with Clint and Keno until bedtime.

Risen? April fools!

I got up this morning and went to PDQ to buy a couple drinks, which gave me back a promo $2.50 in points. Then I went to Chick-fil-A for a promo waffle fry and chicken sandwich, which I modified for a little over $1. Overall, it was a pretty good lunch that turned profitable.

I got cleaned up in the evening and stopped by Walmart for a couple things before heading to Summer’s for dinner. She made some chicken tacos that turned out really good.

We heard what sounded like three gunshots from relatively close by, followed a short while later by some sirens. Maybe we’ll hear about it tomorrow.

It’s just a prank, bro!

I spent the whole, uneventful morning at Oakland for testing. Lunch was at Arby’s with some of the boys, then the afternoon was spent with the junior high.

When I got home, I baked some potatoes to take to Summer’s for dinner. She made chili again. Then it was back home for a round of second-place PUBG with the team before bed.

Bloody hell…

Evidently my plush mattress topper wasn’t as dry as my dryer thought it was. After I went through the trouble of setting it back up on my bed and re-sheeting everything, I realized how damp it was all over. Too tired to go on, I just turned up the radiator and the ceiling fan to dry it out overnight the best I could while I slept on top of it. I moved around a lot at first, but by the time I woke up, it seemed mostly dry. I left the fan on when I left for work so it could finish the job.

I spent most of the morning setting up a Chromebook cart at Oakland. I left for lunch a bit early so I could take my car in for an oil change, and Brandie picked me up from there so we could get lunch together before she leaves for the Philippines. We went to La Huerta, and she grilled me about the surprise family. It had started pouring down rain right as we left, and I went to pick up my car and head back to work. They said I had an open recall – something about draining all of the fluid in my brakes, but it would take another couple of hours. I opted to reschedule.

The afternoon was enrolling a stack of new Chromebooks for the junior high library. I ended up taking them to the library after work just so I wouldn’t have to tomorrow. It continued to rain, and I continued to get soaked with the loading and unloading of everything. At the very least, I finally resolved a separate printing issue I’d been working on since before break.

After work, I came home and munched on what little food I could find and tried to stay awake until bedtime proper.

I feel led to give a gift as an EASTER SOUL-WINNING SEED!

Today was moderately busy for being the first day back. First thing in the morning, I had a switch blow up in my face. The PoE circuit blew, throwing sparks out the front of the switch as smoke billowed out. Fortunately, Gary had a spare that he was able to put into place before lunch.

Most brought lunch, so I ended up at Arby’s for some buffalo chicken tenders. They weren’t bad. I still don’t know how I feel about their switch to Coca-Cola products.

I got a good amount of stuff done in the afternoon as well. Then after work, I went to my parents’ house thinking I had to clean up leftovers. I ended up sitting outside for about an hour and a half waiting for anyone to get home. I tried getting the stray three-legged cat to come over to me, but the best I could do was to get it to eat the food while I stared at it.

After dinner, I went to Summer’s to try and wash my plush mattress topper in her oversized HE washing machine. I don’t know if it was my fault for loading it incorrectly, or a fault of the design, but the top of the laundry load would not have gotten wet at all if the water had not been filled from the top. I had to push the whole thing under water to submerge it in the first place, and then it spent an hour and a half swirling the thing around in circles while the water soaked the bottom half. When it finally finished the load, it spent over five minutes in a spin cycle to drain the water that didn’t even touch half of the load. It was absolutely infuriating.

I didn’t want to stay too late, and I hadn’t decided whether to try and take the stupid thing to the coin laundry in the morning, so I headed home and ultimately threw it in the dryer just to finish something. I didn’t realize how much of a difference the topper made until I didn’t have it any more. I guess if I can’t get satisfied with the wash job, I’ll just buy a new one, because fuck savings when I can sleep better tonight instead.

It’s like giving it to your cat and letting it lick it clean.

We slept in until lunch time today, then went to Arby’s with a powerful hunger. Summer went home afterward, and I started to clean house. I spent over eight hours fighting a stain, and I’m thinking I should just learn to let things go.

Sorry, Leesa.