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Dull Drums and Electro Acoustic

I had another rough start like yesterday and got out of the house a bit late, but I made up the time. Muad’Dib must have had a belly ache, because he had to stop a few times outside before he was done. Then he threw up in Tyler’s office later in the morning, but he didn’t eat and hardly drank anything all day.

I pushed lunch out again, not feeling great myself. I decided to try Domino’s since they had a large one-topping for $6.70. I ordered a thin with half pepperoni and half bacon that I ended up just eating in the car in the Domino’s parking lot. There wasn’t another soul there, and all three employees were sitting at a little table in the corner when I walked in. When I opened the box, I spotted a singular, tiny little critter crawling around, but I think it was just a little spider. Everything else appeared clean.

The pizza was good, and Muad’Dib seemed to have plenty of energy when we got back. I let him run it out and then we dragged on through the afternoon. I had a bit more fun when Elizabeth called me downstairs for some help, and I got to quit reading documentation all day.

I let the car take me home, and immediately took Muad’Dib for a run since Future Motion won’t do the right thing and replace or refund my board. They won’t even give me the benefit of the doubt and take it back for service without charging me. My hope is that the attorney general helps, since I’ve had luck with that avenue in the past.

We rode into the dark, stopped by my parents’ empty house, circled past home and then went back to see Dad. Mom showed up just as we were pulling out, so we circled back again before going back to the house. I could never reproduce my battery failure, but the motor did disengage for a split second at one point.

I picked at some random leftovers that didn’t quite make a meal while Summer baked her gingerale-soaked cranberries in powdered sugar. She went to bed, Eaddie came and left, and I wound down until Dad prompted me to run outside and check out the northern lights. I blew off a notification from the MyRadar app about it, but then Dad shared a picture he took and I had to go outside to try myself. It was visible with the naked eye, so I decided to wake Summer up to see it, and then it was quick to bed.

Peachy.

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Stowing Day

I woke up really early today after going to bed really late, but I felt reasonably good. Summer got up and we had some coffee and I made us some breakfast biscuit sandwiches before getting into cleaning. She helped put a bunch of stuff in the attic, and we got a few things moved to more permanent homes. We eventually split up and she cleaned out the garage while I continued to chip away at things inside. We didn’t really end up with any more space where we needed it, but I organized a bunch of storage, which should help with other things.

Later in the afternoon, I took a shower and we went to the Neighborhood Market to get stuff for dinner. Then we stopped by Walgreens for some free photos I had ordered. I started cooking taco meat when we got home, and the kids eventually got home from school stuff to eat. It was a good meal, but I ate way too much on accident and felt a little sick the rest of the evening.

I gave Muad’Dib a good bath and then blow dried him really well before letting him back into the bed since he had been outside all day. There’s lots more to clean, but there always is.

Ice is coming.

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La Magia

Summer had to work today, so I got up as she left and made some coffee with some old plant milk. The oat milk had gotten solid, and may have made me a little sick, but the almond milk seemed okay. The coffee tasted a bit burnt, but I wasn’t sure if I should blame it on the milk. I reheated a biscuit and sausage patty and fried an egg for a sandwich, and then tried to clean up a bit.

Dad invited us to a joint magic club meeting at Pasta Grill at the last minute, so we abandoned our dinner plans. I took Muad’Dib for an early run to see them at the restaurant before they opened, and then met Summer back at the house to go for the show and dinner. As I climbed the final hill, my board buzzed about needing to be charged again, which will be the third time I’ve had to send it in for service.

Summer picked us up so we could leave Muad’Dib and I could change, and we made it to Pasta Grill in plenty of time to catch the end of Ron’s lecture, and then we had most of a show before they took our food orders and then quickly served our food. The show continued for a little bit while we ate, and then we wrapped up pretty quickly after that.

Summer wound down quickly and ended up in bed while I tried to stay mostly focused on cleaning. It didn’t look like much, but I tried to be meaningful with what I was doing. I still probably should have focused on vacuuming, but I just needed to make some space.

I wrapped up the evening by submitting a help ticket to Future Motion, and I’m waiting for their response before I send something to the attorney general as well. I asked for a full refund of my purchase price, plus the $905 they charged me to replace the BMS, which has still not actually fixed my issue. I’ve been injured too many times for this nonsense, and my original warranty will be up before they could even get the board back to me.

Compounding Disinterest

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Tone the Line

Today was a long day of a mostly empty office. Johnny called me early, and we talked for a while on the phone. I kept fairly busy after that, but I was very tired. We were up and down the stairs quite a bit again, and between that and the running I let Muad’Dib do outside in the morning and before lunch, even he was reluctant to climb any more stairs.

I ate leftovers with Janice, Elizabeth, and Teisha again, and then we split up what was left to take home. I ended up with a bunch of rice, beans, and shredded lettuce, so I guess we’ll have tacos tomorrow. The afternoon seemed to drag on forever after that, and I never got any closer to finding the switch side of the line running from the lab.

The drive home was slow, stupid, and full of road-raging idiots. We got to the house alive though, and I immediately took Muad’Dib out for a pretty slow run. It was really dark, and he just didn’t really want to run. We visited my parents briefly, then got back to the house where I finally put away all the food I brought home. The kids were there, but left for a high school football game with friends.

I’m too tired for a weekend.

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Should Be Singing

The Morrilton McDonald’s was lined up to the entrance this morning, but I managed to squeak in and pick up my free frappé at the counter. I was still fairly early to work, and it was a relatively busy day for me. I ran up and down the stairs several times to help with various things. Lunch time came pretty fast, and we had leftover grilled chicken and rice from Colton’s. Muad’Dib ate a bunch of broccoli and some cauliflower. The afternoon was fairly busy too, but I got stuck trying to track down a cable from the lab up to the switch. The tone probe should have been singing, but it just kept going off sporadically in the most unhelpful kind of way.

We got home fairly quickly after dropping off some goose clothes with Kevin. Summer was grilling burgers at the house, so I took Muad’Dib for a quick run and then the three of us ate. We have no choice but to clean the grill before we use it again, because it is consistently catching on fire now. Hopefully we can get it done before the cold snap really hits.

Summer went to bed, Eaddie had Eli over to practice singing their own stuff for school, and I finished cleaning the mini fridge and restocked it before finally making it to bed.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called “spannungsbogen” — which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

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Boom!!! Headshot!

I somehow managed to dress up and tie an eldredge knot quickly enough to get to work around the same time this morning. I had forgotten it was going to be a new crew the next two days, so we had to introduce ourselves again, and then it was a waiting game for Ciara to show up and take our pictures. I guess she missed her ride in the morning or something, so Jessica ended up taking some of our photos herself just before lunch. I got Muad’Dib dressed up in his little tie, hat, and glasses, and even managed to get one good photo of him head-on. Then I discovered Google’s Nano Banana for generative photo editing, and got some really stunning results. Some were even a bit interstellar.

We ate some leftover fajitas from the sales lunch, but then the afternoon dragged by and I ended up being the only one upstairs for the last couple hours. I raced the sun home so I could take Muad’Dib for a run, but then Julie called with some sourdough and I had to vector off on a detour. He got in trouble when I got back to the car, because he crawled up into the front and was sitting on the center console.

We had our run, visited my parents, and made it back to the house just as the kids were finishing dinner. Summer made some chicken with some kind of habanero sauce, and boiled broccoli to go along with some leftover rice and mashed sweet potato. Dinner was really good, and then the kids disappeared and Summer went to bed.

He is the Kwisatz Haderach.

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Ceiling Dirt

I forgot my bánh bao for breakfast this morning, so I stopped at McDonald’s to redeem my last free biscuit. Then I jumped right into my network switch from yesterday, which went even worse than I expected. For some reason, I couldn’t get the old SSIDs to quit showing up. On top of that, I had a couple of important access points that refused to talk over their wired connections, and instead wanted to mesh to other access points. I fought that the entire day.

I ate some leftover coldcuts from the sales lunch, plus some steak tips from yesterday. I ate too much, but it made up for not having dinner later in the evening. At some point, Ciara wanted to take pictures of Muad’Dib with his little tie on, so Teisha and I went outside with her to do that. He was uncooporative, but that was expected. Teisha gets him even more riled up than usual with all her treats.

The afternoon was long and painful, and I checked in with Joel on the way out, but he didn’t have much to say. I felt like people were having a really poor experience with the network, but he said nobody complained to him about it.

Summer was baking pumpkins when we got to the house, and then spent the rest of the evening dehydrating the seeds and some guts. I took Muad’Dib for a quick run as the sun went down, and thought I’d have to go to the old house to look for my necktie, but I finally found it in my secondary storage closet.

How does the dust even get up there?!?

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Why Five

We woke up to a crash at around three in the morning. I yelled for Muad’Dib, and he jumped right back into the bed, but I couldn’t tell that he caused any trouble. Once I gathered myself, I discovered the ice finally fell out of the mini fridge and shattered on the bottom shelf. I was able to doze off a few more times, but kept waking up in the middle of wildly different dreams every few minutes.

All the salespeople and our new marketing coordinator were going to be at the office for some technical training today, so I tried to get there a little early. Muad’Dib did great all day. We started out with brief introductions, and then I just went to work as usual until Shane walked into my office.

He asked for the “simple” task of capitalizing the company name on all of our WiFi SSIDs, not realizing this would require a touch to every device that was connected to any of the affected networks. I took the opportunity to learn some more, and built out some structure that I had planned for the distant future. Without RADIUS, I was still able to learn how to create a policy in Intune to distribute shared credentials. It wasn’t perfect, but it worked.

That ate up all of my day, but I did take a late lunch to eat some of their leftover steak tips they got for lunch. Janice, Elizabeth, and Tammy were in the breakroom as we walked out, and invited us in to eat. Muad’Dib did well to lay at my feet while I ate, and then we had Janice’s carrot cake for Scott’s belated birthday just as he was walking out the door.

I didn’t really finish my whole task before I left half an hour late, but I had enough done that I felt confident in my ability to clean it up in the morning when everyone was there. Summer had dinner going at the house, so we got there as quickly as we could. I took Muad’Dib for a quick run as the sun went down. We visited Dad, then got back to eat just as the kids were finishing their plates.

After dinner, I finished setting up the KitchenAid KF8 that Summer unboxed. We brewed a few cups with some trash coffee, and then I filled the hopper to make a single milk drink before bed. We shared a couple sips to test it, and then Summer went to bed. I had an anxiety attack as I cleaned up, and then went to bed pretty early in anticipation of another early morning.

Why not six?

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Incomplete

I went to bed several hours early last night, and woke up a little early this morning. Summer went to the store for some breakfast and then came back to make sausage, egg, and cheese biscuits. I worked on several things, including vacuuming for several hours, laundry, and continuing to defrost the mini fridge. Very little of it felt finished.

I took Muad’Dib out for a run and encountered a littlel dog with heterochromia. She was just running loose and came to chase Muad’Dib for a bit before a kid came out to get her. We visited Dad, then got back to the house where Summer warmed up some of the meatballs she made the other night. We ate and then I took a shower.

Summer and I had a talk, but like everything else, that conversation isn’t finished. Things calmed down pretty quickly though, and I had to prep for a week of salespeople and visitors at work.

She spilled her coffee; broke a shoelace.

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Ice Cold

I continued to doze on and off this morning, slipping in and out of different dreams. Summer wandered the house loudly until I got up to some breakfast. She started to cook some bacon, but then left the stove on with nothing on the burner while she went to the bathroom. I got up and put the bacon on, but then she came out and took over to scramble some eggs for me. They came out grey and wet because she scrambled them with pepper. Afterward, we moved the couch so we could vacuum the other half of the living room, and then Summer had to mop the floors because she didn’t pay attention to all the mud in the back yard when she let Muad’Dib out.

I worked on some reviews and then started to get cleaned up so I could at least go to Eaddie’s pregame show. Summer left first, and then I got my socks wet because Summer didn’t dry the floors after she wet mopped, so I just stayed home. That was when I discovered the mini fridge had frozen up around a few cans, which subsequently froze, bloated, and leaked everywhere. I started to clean that up and let it defrost while I vacuumed behind what Summer had done. No surprise, there was still a bunch of that fine powder all in the carpet.

Hours went by as I cleaned, and eventually I quit to take Muad’Dib out on a run. It was pretty cold out, so he did great to run the whole time. We went to Ridgewood and had a Frito chili pie, and then ran into Eric and Carlie as we left. We made it to see my parents, and then got back to the house where Summer was warming up in a bath.

I was pretty exhausted and exhasperated by then, so it was an early, early night to bed.

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