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Dinner and a Show

Summer went to work at Superfast for a few hours today, so I took her some Arby’s for lunch. They made a sudden switch to Coca-Cola products, which was kind of neat, though I miss the Tropicana fruit punch. We took a few minutes and ate on a bench outside the shop, then I headed home and struggled to stay awake the rest of the day.

We planned to meet up at my parents’ house for dinner, so I made some coffee to wake myself up and headed over there in the evening. She had all three kids with her this time, so my parents got the full experience. We had chow mein and some egg rolls, then afterward my dad performed his magic show that he’s been practicing for the Eureka convention this weekend.

After everyone loaded up and left there, I went to fill up on gas before tomorrow, then played a few blitz rounds of Fortnite with Clint and Jack. It didn’t go well, but I learned some additional mechanics that would have been super nice to learn from a tutorial mission.

Why plan ahead when improvising is so much more exciting?

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What can I say except, “you’re welcome!”

I slept in again today, but made time to clean the aquarium and living room before going out. The girls went shopping and wanted CiCi’s, so I met them there for that. Afterward we stopped in to Shoe Carnival so I could look for some sandals. I don’t really understand it, but the sandals I wear are at least a size larger than my shoe size.

When we left there, Summer asked what the plan was, and I told her that I was going to go play video games by myself and she could do whatever she wanted. Eaddie said she was with me, so I took her, which I think was a surprise to everyone. It looked like Summer and Autumn went toward their house, and Eaddie and I went to my house, but then made a detour to get half a sandwich out of the office refrigerator. On the way back, we passed a bird sitting in the gutter of the road that didn’t move, so I circled around and we walked over to look at it. I managed to poke it before it wobely flew across the street. We followed it, but I never got to touch it again. I did get a sweet picture of it when it landed just outside arm’s reach in a tree.

Giving up on the bird, we came back to my house and met the others and played some Blokus before settling in to watch Moana. I loved the movie, and the 3D was spot-on.

If the wind in my sail on the sea stays behind me…

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Chow, Man

Testing was mostly uneventful this morning, but it seemed to be a bit of a cluster for those running the show. I played a small part, which is the way it should be.

Dale met me at KFC for lunch. His idea. Allen didn’t even respond, but it went alright anyway. We found enough to chat about that it was a good time.

After lunch, I made my rounds between the buildings before meeting Allen and Amanda at the shop to hang a touch panel at Sequoyah. Jennifer saw us come in and snapped a selfie with me to send to her mom. We accidentally left a box cutter and some panduit in the room, which she thankfully found later and stashed away for us.

I went straight to my parents’ house for dinner where Mom was making her usual batch of chow mein. She said to invite Summer, so she brought the girls over after she got out of her board meeting. Autumn had already eaten, but Eaddie finished a good sized plate, and overall the behavior was choice. I don’t think it could have gone any better.

I guess this is my life now.

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Need More Data

I spent all day entering fuel records for my R1. It wasn’t particularly fun, but it was nice to get it out of the way. I’m still somehow missing about a year worth of records somehow, but hopefully I can find them in a lost file somewhere.

Summer got back from her quiz bowl trip early, but I still didn’t make it back to her place until later in the evening. She made an awesome stuffed chicken breast thing for dinner, then we played Phase 10 until the girls went to bed and finished season 2 of The Office before bed ourselves.

I’m gonna chow down my vegetables!

Adventure Time!

Are you serious?

We crawled out of bed this morning just in time to get some breakfast from the bar downstairs. I had just about one of everything. I only regret not making it in time for the free beer the night before.

After we got up and around, we checked out and headed into town. I thought we’d have enough time to hit the mall and the strip, but we ended up only shopping at the mall. We spent most of our time in FYE, one of the last remaining general media and entertainment retailers. Then Summer tried on some swimsuits, and I remembered why I hated shopping at Dillard’s. By the time we got out of there, it had started to sprinkle, and we decided to start heading home. We did stop for some spring water on the way out, but then we hit the road.

It cleared up pretty nicely for the trip back, and I was surprised again that we didn’t encounter any leisure riders, either by motorcycle or car. It was mostly stupid trucks. The ol’ Murano carried us back swiftly enough to make me proud, and I dropped Summer off at home before heading to my parents’ house for a pre-birthday dinner.

They tried to broil some lobster tails to go along with a hodgepodge of other food. Mom made fried rice, but didn’t fry the lobster in the rice. I had a bit of everything, just like breakfast. My sister tried to fix 30 years of incompatibility by griping at it, and I had a Coco Rico.

When I got home and unpacked, I played a couple rounds of PUBG with Clint, and almost carried us to victory, but landed second place after getting shot in the face by a bush.

You make it hard to take anything seriously.

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Fire When Ready

This morning was mostly rain-free, but then it started in the afternoon and just wouldn’t quit. I had Sumo for lunch two days in a row because Summer wanted to meet up there. The afternoon had me down to less than a handful of work orders remaining, so I felt pretty good about that.

After work, I went to my parents’ house where Mom fried some shrimp for dinner. Then Dad, Julie, and I all went to a friend’s place where he had an indoor shooting range set up and could test us to renew our concealed handgun carry licenses. It was pretty fun, but I can’t afford any more expensive hobbies.

After that, I came home and played some PUBG with Josh until bedtime.

PEW PEW PEW

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Someone Who Does Family Nights

We didn’t have much going on at work today. I got caught up on a bunch of random work orders, then met up with everyone for lunch. A big group of us tried to walk to Madame Wu’s, but they were closed in spite of their open sign. I got a message kind of late saying to go home half an hour early, but I was too busy wrapping things up myself.

Summer brought all the kids over to start watching the Marvel movies, and we started with the first Iron Man. I had planned to watch The Incredible Hulk as well, but the kids wanted to play Drawful instead. We did that, then started some other Steam games until we settled on BattleBlock Theater. It was pretty fun, and worked fine to tire everyone out. We’ll continue our movie binge tomorrow.

Smoked butter?

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The Whole Famn Damily

The kids were all out today, so once Summer got done at the gym, I headed up to her place. My sister texted me shortly after I got there and invited me out to lunch with the family, so without any other plans, we decided to join them. For having everyone along, even Bác Vân, it was relatively uneventful. I ate too much, everyone got to meet everyone else, and nobody got stabbed or mortally wounded.

I was completely useless by the time we walked out of there, so Summer and I came back to my house and watched Bo Burnham’s what. on YouTube. When that was done, we watched some British panel comedies until it was time to head back to her place to receive the kids. I got to meet Nick, and we all lazed around until I needed to head home to sleep before work tomorrow.

Martin Luther King Jr. is an also-ran if only some staff gets the day off.

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To live would be an awfully big adventure

I woke up with another huge headache this morning, then nursed a small one the rest of the day. When I finally got out of bed close to noon, I started playing PUBG with Clint. Most of our games were pretty quick, not getting very far, but they were all relaxing and fun. Keno joined us for a few rounds after a while until I had to get showered.

When Summer got home from her quiz bowl tournament, I headed up there and took us out to La Huerta for dinner. It went pretty well, and the molcajete was pretty tasty. I’ve had better, and their bowl was oddly porous, but it was still really good. Afterward, we all piled onto the couch and watched Hook until one by one they each passed out on top of me. Except Eaddie, who seems to have outlasted even me.

You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming?

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Mounted

I caught up on some sleep today. I didn’t wake up until just after noon. Not long after I got up, my phone mount arrived, so I went and installed it in my car. I think it looks pretty slick. I wish my phone was natively magnetic so I didn’t have to have a metal plate stuck to the back of it, but even that doesn’t look too bad. We’ll see how well it holds up in the summer heat, but so far I’m really happy with it.

Nobody was around to do anything, so I burned most of the day. Clint got on in the late afternoon and we played a couple rounds of PUBG, but that’s all we did before I left for Summer’s. She baked some breaded pork chops, grilled some corn, and boiled some mashed potatoes. I was impressed until I looked up a list of cooking techniques, and now I feel like she could have tried a little harder.

We watched Toy Story 3 thinking it was the newest one, but I forgot how many there were. I think the fourth one is the one that made everyone bawl their eyes out.

I want Waffle House so bad I can’t see straight.