I got a few more computers set up today, drawing ever closer to completion. I’m getting to the point where I’m filling in gaps now, but I still feel like I’m missing quite a bit somehow.

Ronda invited me to lunch again. This time it was nachos and taco stuff. I crammed a shameful amount of food into my container, with no real healthy vegetables to speak of. I should have done better. I guess hearing that I’m 10 pounds lighter made me cut loose a little. I missed my Soylent this morning.

After work, Julie wanted to meet at Fat Daddy’s downtown to see Andy away. He’s flying south for the winter, or at least for the next few months. While we were waiting for him to show up, my mom and sister argued about Mom’s new iPhone 8. She was frustrated with it, and said she felt like she took a big step backwards from her HTC One M7, which made me laugh. I sat with my face in my hands in an attempt to not be smug about it, but my sister still got upset at me for “having a look.” She kept insisting to her that the iPhone would be easier to use once she learns how to use it.

I was still full from my ridiculous nachos, so I just had a bowl of chili. I don’t know if it was because I was still so stuffed, or maybe that I just felt a little sour overall, but I didn’t care much for it. I tried a piece of Andy’s onion rings though, and they were pretty good. Andy ended up paying for everyone somehow, which was nice of him.

After dinner, I rode back home in some cooler weather, loaded up some Rocket League, and claimed my position at Platinum II. I’m still mad about Gold last season.

I miss the sea.

I woke up this morning around 8 and thought about staying up, but was worried about hunger and entertainment, so I went back to sleep. I only meant to sleep for a little while longer, but ended up sleeping until about noon. I got up and called SuddenLink to switch to my new modem, which caused issues for me all afternoon. After a couple more calls in, I determined it was either their provisioning or a loose termination coming out of my wall. In either case, I ended up getting my new modem to work at close to the speeds for which I am paying.

From then on, I completely wasted the rest of my Sunday. I didn’t even do anything as recreational as play video games, aside from a few rounds of Rocket League to test my internet connection. I did manage to make it out for dinner at my parents’ house, and then returned home to do a couple loads of laundry, but that didn’t make me feel any better about my day.

Knowing I wasted the day, I’m having trouble getting to sleep. I settled down to a couple ASMR videos, which I still have mixed feelings about. I thought I’d try Rainy Mood, but even that’s getting me side tracked into configuring my stereo receiver. I may have to see if I can find some sleep in a bottle somewhere.

You fooled me once with your eyes, now, honey.

Today was the day I was supposed to get a lot of things wrapped up at the junior high, and I got really aggravated when everyone seemed to jump at other jobs rather than help me again. It really seems like this is a trend, and I don’t understand why. Maybe I’m perceiving it wrong, but it feels like I’m quick to offer help, and last to receive it from certain people. Zach and I got the lift and ran a bunch of cables for the choir room, but didn’t get to the band rooms with just the two of us there. What we did run, we never actually finished.

Most of us went to Arby’s for lunch, where I had one of the worst examples of an expectations versus reality that I’ve ever had. It wasn’t quite Bikes Blues and Barbecue rib eye sandwich level, but it was pretty bad. It tasted good, but it was dry and the presentation was just awful. In fact, looking back at it, I’m positive the guy actually gave me something completely different from what I asked for. Apparently I wasn’t the only one with that experience either. To be fair/grossed-out, he did tell me he wasn’t feeling well because he had been sick.

Allen came to help me after lunch, but we really didn’t get anything accomplished then on account of the band practicing for a parade in the afternoon. I finished up some things in the building by myself before we got to leave work early at 3:15 to beat the parade traffic. I ended up going back to the office for something, then chatted with Ben for quite a while.

I was waiting for Josh to come over so we could go to Conway, and ended up stopping by the Boys & Girls Club to see Becky’s computer lab setup there. We talked for a while there until Josh got to my house, and I raced home to pick him up. He showed up dressed to the nines, so I broke out a button-up shirt and jeans for a night out.

We went to Best Buy first to spend some expiring credit I had. They happened to have a relatively fair price on a cable modem I had been eyeing, so I picked it up for no money out of pocket. Josh was just glad I didn’t get the blender I was contemplating. Afterward we went to Chipotle where I was accidentally shorted on the steak in my burrito. It was already so full of other stuff that I didn’t bother fussing over it, and it tasted awesome anyway. After we ate, we walked around Walmart for a bit before the movie.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle was pretty good. I’m still kind of surprised that neither of them came out in 3D, but I guess it really is kind of going away as a fad. That really upsets me, but I guess the changing market and how people consume media has decided the fate of 3D for me. Like tonight, it’s not uncommon to go to see a movie on the weekend in a mostly empty theater.

If it’s windy tomorrow, we sail!

I had my wellness checkup this morning. Apparently I’m down 10 pounds from last year, but I definitely don’t feel like it. I don’t even know why I’d be down at this point. Most of the time I actually feel fatter for no particular reason. The Soylent typically makes me feel pretty good though, so I guess I’ll stick with that. I guess I could give up food at any point, but I still use it as a social event.

Ronda sent me an email this morning inviting me to have cafeteria salads with them for lunch. I got a bit lost in the cafeteria until Hobby pointed me toward the adult bar they had in the side room. I ended up filling my container almost entirely with salad from the kids’ bar, and then went to the adult section and crammed even more in it. They had some kind of chicken and cheese hash brown bake, some chicken salad sandwiches, and pinwheels of some sort. It was actually a pretty decent spread for $3.60. We ate in the library, then chatted for a while after.

I ate the remainder of my salad before I left work for the day, then came home and played some Rocket League with Josh. I’m more than a little disappointed with the rank I earned last season, and I didn’t realize the season was already over. I’ll have to make more of an effort this season.

Moovie Night needs to happen again soon, but I have too many hobbies, and the internet is just such a warm blanket of laziness.

I had a great deal of trouble waking up this morning. I felt super drunk or hungover or something, but I hadn’t had any alcohol for days. It was just a weird form of grogginess from sleeping weird, I guess. When I did finally get up and out, I spent a little time bouncing between buildings before settling in at the junior high. I’m getting really close to finishing the deployment.

After lunch, the freight company delivered my tower speakers to me at the office and I loaded them into the back of my car. I was really surprised not to have to give any ID, or even have it delivered at the proper destination. That, paired with the fact that they were content to just hold on to my package until I called them didn’t fill me with a great deal of confidence, but the journey was already over.

Jason came to the junior high with me afterward, and helped me run a couple more lines. Friday will be spent up on the lift to finish up. I need to talk to the teachers to confirm what times I can get in and out.

When I finished at work, I came straight home and unloaded the speakers. The kitty litter worked surprisingly well to clean up the vegetable oil that had spilled a few days ago, and I got the speakers into the dining room. I’m completely out of space at this point. I’ll have to do some major rearranging to make this work.

I tried playing Battlegrounds and Overwatch, but didn’t have much luck with either. Hopefully I’ll get some decent rest tonight.

Everyone thinks they’re the exception.

I got up this morning and decided to go out for breakfast, which I hadn’t done in a long time. I had a free breakfast reward from Chick-fil-A, so I got their Hash Brown Scramble with chicken nuggets. I thought it was pretty decent, but probably not worth nearly what they charge for them. Freebie wasn’t bad, though. For my $4, I’m actually kind of getting to the point where I’d just prefer a Soylent.

I’m down to the last few teacher computers at my office to deploy, but I still have a handful more that I have to get from the shop for some of the administrative folk. At least the end is in sight. I ended up skipping lunch because I wasn’t hungry until late, and I filled up with an afternoon coffee instead.

After work, I went to my parents’ house for dinner. Mom was late getting home from work and frustrated from having been switched to an iPhone by my sister, so we went to Morelo’s for Mexican. I ordered what I thought would be a smaller dinner combo because I wasn’t super hungry, and ended up gorging myself trying to clean my plate. If I were to play this smarter, I could probably take advantage of a shrinking stomach.

Once home, I did a load of laundry and wasted the rest of the night on Reddit.

She don’t got a lot to say, but there’s something about her.

I spent all day at the junior high today. I didn’t really stress too much over anything. I only got a couple new computers deployed, but got several more pre-staged and ready to go. I’m almost done with the ones I have in my office now.

I took a slightly late lunch and went to Wendy’s to try out their Giant Junior Bacon Cheeseburger combo, and was quite pleased with the experience. At first I was a little disappointed in the size, but in the end it was a good amount of food for five bucks. I finished with some time left and decided to swing by Apex to see who was there. Eric is working out his last few days before starting at HP in Conway, but he’ll be commuting, so I’ll still have the chance to not ever see him around even though he lives in town.

After work, I went by my parents’ house to help clean up some fish soup, then came home to do another load of laundry. I found out my Play Store credit from doing surveys expires at the end of the month, so I spent all evening on and off browsing through the store to find the perfect few apps to buy with my $9 worth of credit. I’m still stuck around $5, so I’ll have to obsess over it some more tomorrow before finally choosing something I was eyeing early in my selection process and ultimately feeling buyer’s remorse after the purchase.

Such is the life of an obsessive.

I slept pretty well last night after such a long day. I probably should have gone to bed earlier to avoid waking up so late, but at least I felt well rested. I had a brief inkling of ambition toward cleaning the house, but as usual I squandered the day away to who knows what.

I got out of the house for dinner at my parents’ house, but found myself frustratingly unsatisfied with the shrimp soup my mom made. I’ve found myself in a trend of getting unnecessarily annoyed or aggravated any time I go to my parents’ house, and I don’t fully understand why. A part of me thinks it’s the anxiety I get from driving across that part of town and the broken nerves I get when I expect to run across the wrong person along the way. Another part of me wonders if I just see too much of the past and how I don’t feel any progression in their lives as they’ve fallen victim to a lifetime of routine that I’m trying my best to avoid falling into myself. All I know is that I feel overwhelmingly unhappy when I visit sometimes, and it doesn’t necessarily have anything at all to do with either of my parents. I actually really enjoyed having them over to watch an entire movie the other night. I think it’s just an unfortunate combination of a lot of different things.

When I made it back home, I did a couple loads of laundry to bring today at least a little bit of accomplishment. In the middle of that, I found one of my containers of vegetable oil had sprung a leak in my garage. I transferred the oil to a different container and spilled oil everywhere in the process, but I got most of it cleaned up. Fortunately I had some old kitty litter that soaked it up perfectly. I guess I’ll get rid of all that oil I was keeping, since the fry oil diesel vehicle dream is dead in favor of having fewer things.

Maybe I’ll have friends again when it’s cooler.