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Otto Pilot

I had some of the best, coziest sleep I’ve had in a long time, and subsequently made it to work a bit early today. I took a Soylent, but ended up just snacking instead. I spent the entire day continuing to plan and read up on best practices, and I’m hoping I can finally implement some changes this week, because it’s been too long in planning.

Summer still wasn’t feeling well, so she didn’t go to Little Rock or come have lunch with me. I had Ortega’s by myself again, with another new server I hadn’t seen before. He did great though, and the food came out fast and fresh.

The morning dragged on forever, but the afternoon went by a bit faster. I accidentally stayed a little late just because I was deep in thought. We finally left, but had some sudden trouble along the way.

We were cruising down the Interstate when suddenly my car slammed on the brakes and alerted me to take over. I couldn’t re-engage FSD, so I pulled over at Blackwell to try and reset it. I took the opportunity to grab some beer, then got back into the car and had the same problem. Almost none of the smart features worked. I couldn’t auto-shift or engage full self driving. After some messing around, I finally discovered my left-side repeater had no video. It was just a black screen after I rebooted the car. I ended up driving home manually, which was especially hard because my muscle memory had me checking my display instead of my mirrors when I was making lane changes or turns.

We made it home quite uncomfortably. Summer was in bed, so I took Muad’Dib for a run. He did well, and we stopped at my parents’ house for some eggplant soup. It was long after dark by the time we headed home. I cleaned up briefly, got ready for work, and went to bed.

They steer them with their meat!

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The Lonely Quiet

I slept terribly last night, and didn’t have a great start to the morning. I ended up taking some Pepto before I left, which helped after a day of eating spectacularly poorly. Things at work were super quiet, all because Janice was out. The other guys weren’t there much, so it was just the sleepy dog and me. I tinkered with a few things, but struggled to feel like I really made a difference anywhere today.

We took a short lunch to Taco Bell to eat cheaply, and then tried to be a little more impactful in the afternoon. Summer wasn’t feeling well either, and went home to make chicken salad. It wasn’t until much later that I realized how frustrating her vocabulary could be.

It looked really dark when we got home, so I took Muad’Dib on a run as we caught just a couple sprinkles. It was cool out, but he wasn’t very fast. I didn’t charge the Pint last night, so I took it slow hoping not to run out of juice before we made it home. I cut a couple blocks out of the trip so we could see my parents, and then made it home after walking up a couple of the steepest hills. We made it back with 1%.

Today, Summer’s “chicken salad” meant pan fried chicken over a green salad. I was expecting a rotisserie chicken mixed with fruit, nuts, yogurt, and whatever the hell else goes in a chicken salad. I even told her to use up the leftover celery from the fridge. Fortunately we could still use it, but she said the green leaf lettuce we had all went bad. She failed to get out the leftover spinach from when the kids cooked, though. I mostly ate that, since it was starting to turn. The food was good, but the jarring difference between expectations and reality have always been a high frustration point with her, even if things turn out better in the end.

Of course she still didn’t feel well, and was acting particularly pitiful, so I sent her to bed. I cleaned up, did a bunch of reviews, and got ready for bed a little bit early.

Winter is coming.

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UPS and Outs

I was pretty hungry this morning, so I made the split second decision to drop off the Interstate and swing through the Wendy’s in the Pilot for breakfast. That put me a little behind because I accidentally went to the Flying J first, but we made it to work on time. I thought I had a plan, but I immediately started getting otehr plans handed to me.

I was pleased to hear from Heaven when she had a question about SpeedShip. She went ahead and moved off of UPS WorldShip on her own, so I had to work out a couple details for her. I’ll have to make sure accounting has what they need tomorrow.

We got tacos for lunch, and Muad’Dib was extra good, so he got most of my cinnamon twists. I tinkered a bit with the new Red Lion controller in the afternoon, and then was stumped by a browser issue that Charles had, which ended up being due to the user profile from their old Google accounts.

I misread Suzanne’s message and thought she was coming by this evening instead of tomorrow, so we headed home quickly to get our run before she came over. Muad’Dib did pretty well, but wasn’t his fastest. We had a good time though, and got to visit my parents and get home well before dark. We were just a couple blocks away when I texted her and realized what I had done.

Summer got home just after we did, and was barely a husk of a woman after a long day at work. I was super hungry again, but she provided zero input when I inquired about food. She pulled out some leftover noodles that the kids made and ate some of those, then left the rest for me. I dressed them up with seasoning, cheese, and some frozen chicken strips that we’d had in the freezer for a while.

Eaddie breezed through at some point, but addressed only the dog before leaving again. I wanted to play a game or something, but there was no time for recreation. At least my new tire is here for my Onewheel, so I can try installing that sometime this week.

Sweet devil!

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Stop; Reset

I brought bananas and cheese for breakfast this morning, because Summer brought home a whole bunch of ripe bananas a few days ago and hasn’t been eating them quickly enough. All the cheddar was gone, so I finished the Swiss, which wasn’t great. I liked it on the chicken pesto sandwiches though.

I tinkered with UPS and SpeedShip some more, and got Rhonda to accept some more of that pending migration. Much of the day kind of blended together, but I did some more reading on my line monitoring project.

We had some cheap Taco Bell for lunch, and then grabbed some McDonald’s fries for a Monopoly piece on the way back to work. Charles had Matt over to look at our line PLCs, so I went out with him to chat for a moment. I asked him some more about the numbers they were pulling out of the PLCs, and I still just didn’t get a warm and fuzzy feeling about his knowledge of the components they had sold us.

After that, we went to look at the network in the maintenance shop, and without the ability to cycle a breaker to get things going, I decided to go on up in a lift to try and reset things once and for all. That ended up being a two hour project, going up in the shop and again in the plant to get both sides of the wireless shot reset. It was crazy to me that absolutely none of that was documented, but now it is.

We left work about an hour late, so I was hungry by the time we got home. Summer was cleaned up from work, so we went to La Huerta to sit on the patio with Muad’Dib. We both tried something new, but then she clammed up when I made a comment about not wanting to pay for drinks. That lasted until we finally hashed it out later in the evening.

I took Muad’Dib for a run to my parents’ house as soon as we got home, and then we chatted briefly as Summer went to bed. I finished up my stuff and got ready for work, but had an anxiety attack when i sat down at the computer.

Don’t distill me like that!

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Gary’s Fixing That, Right?

I slept better last night, and took a Soylent to work this morning, but I ended up making a single cup of fresh coffee in my office instead. Charles had a guy named Gary from Victory come by my office to chat about the PLCs, and that was less helpful than I was hoping, but somehow not as unhelpful as I was expecting. I dug into it a bit more myself, but eventually fell back on UPS again.

I had a cheap lunch at Wendy’s, and got a new tire ordered for my Onewheel GT S-Series. Then in the afternoon, I finally pressured Rhonda into trying out an alternative to UPS WorldShip. I’m thinking it will work, and by the time we left, I think she was more open minded about it, though still resistant to change.

We made it home to clean up, then went on an early run. Summer had to close, so I ate some scalloped potatoes at my parents’ house. It wasn’t completely dark by the time we made it home, and we stopped around the block to chat with one of the neighbors I see outside all the time.

Summer went to bed pretty quickly, and I tried not to linger too far behind.

Ohhh, right! That was… garbo….

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TACOↃAT

I had a much better start today, and had time to grab Hardee’s on the way out of town since I didn’t have any cold Soylent. Apart from being stuck behind idiots hogging the left lane, we had a good ride in, and got right to work picking at UPS and PRTG some more.

Johnny called me pretty early, and I ended up on the phone with him for almost an hour trying to figure out his ESXi setup. I did my best to point him in a direction, but he’s been so scattered in his understanding. I absolutely understand it, but we also learn and react very differently, so it’s tough for me to guide him.

The day went by fairly quickly. I went to Ortega’s pretty late for National Taco Day, so they were dead by the time I got there. The food tasted especially good though, and I ended with a really good tamale and chicken enchilada. I’d still like to go on other days to see those specials, but I don’t know if that will ever happen since I have so many choices on Tuesdays.

The afternoon went a little slower despite my late lunch, and then got a little crazy when I started messing with the PLC again. Charles came in late to tell me they had set up the new radar sensors, so I tried adding them to PRTG with critical failure. Somehow my configuration push failed, and the controller seemed to quit responding. It took three or four more pushes, but it came back up. Unfortunately the changes I made came across with another floating point/integer problem, so I’ll have to convert the numbers to something PRTG can read.

We left about half an hour late and found Summer in the tub. We left for a run, then made it back just as it was getting dark. It took forever to wind down, but I eventually made it.

Restart

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Nowheel

I had a terrible start this morning. I felt completely exhausted, crawled out of bed a few minutes late, and then rolled around on the floor before I could ever get moving. Somehow, even through miles of traffic going well under the speed limit, we managed to get to work around our usual time. I had a Soylent to get me through the morning, and it got me feeling much better. I felt hungry, but still energized. I kind of landed back on UPS WorldShip for the day, and approached it with a different understanding from before. A big part of why I’m slow to act on projects is because I keep learning new and important things that affect my planned outcome.

We took a late lunch for some Arby’s, and I was pretty disappointed in the size of the buffalo chicken patty. Luckily I had a free large fry to boost the meal a bit. I let Muad’Dib run the block on the way back, and evidently he got into some mud when he approached the deer carcass in the ditch. He never got very close, and I never saw any water, but his feet were yucky when we got back. Luckily I had pet wipe gloves in the office. A little later in the afternoon, I started feeling a bit woozy again, and I had to assume it was a salt thing.

Near the end of the day, I spent some time in Rhonda’s office to investigate her needs, and specifically her aversion to moving off of WorldShip. She’s resistant to change because she’s afraid of a couple clicks, but she’s just going to have to learn.

We left a touch late but had a good ride back. As soon as we got home, I gave Muad’Dib a quick foot bath and then took him on his run. We made it to my parents’ house while they were at the store, but they got home just a few minutes later. Summer made it home but wasn’t hungry, so I ate shrimp soup with my parents.

It was dark on the ride home, and just up off of Ridgewood, I started to hear a hiss at an interval. My tire had a fast leak, and I had to rush straight toward home. We made it a couple blocks, but had a couple left to carry the board. I was pretty burned out by the time we got home. This is the second Futuremotion wheel I’ve burned through, and I still have a ton of tread left. I’ve just come to the conclusion that everything they make is trash. They don’t stand by any of it, because they’d rather maintain dominance through litigation and patent trolling.

Summer got to bed and I cleaned up a bit more and got ready for bed. Time just went by faster and faster all the while. No time for nostalgia. It’s time for bed.

Such a Prē Madonna!

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It Must Have Been Bluff

I woke up super sleepy this morning and got a really slow start. I felt pretty crummy for most of the morning, but I eventually got better. Janice was full of head crud all day, so hopefully that doesn’t go around the office, or else I’ll have it forever. Tammy was having some trouble with closing, so I had to open a ticket with Aptean. It took all day, but they finally responded that it was the same issue we encountered months earlier, and evidently a hotfix they applied was overwritten by a later build update.

We started to go to lunch a little early, but ended up going around the usual time. It was Taco Bell today since the weather was still pretty nice. It was windy, but Muad’Dib loved it. He was super good today.

Summer had to leave work late in the morning to go take Autumn back to the women’s clinic after feeling some more pain, and then was surprised to learn that Autumn completely forgot to start taking the antibiotics the doctor had given her before. It ended up being just as well, because she had an attack while they were there, and an ultrasound showed a twisted ovary.

Later in the afternoon, they took Autumn back for emergency surgery and ended up having to remove an ovary. Summer stayed with her the rest of the night. I finished up the day and left a little late, and had to fight some of the worst traffic I’d ever seen, nearly the entire way home. I expected to have to go to Clarksville, so I took Muad’Dib for a run in a drizzle. Dad wanted me to add some water to the pool, so we stopped there first and ate a salad with Mom before continuing back home.

Summer eventually got Autumn back home and said not to bother driving out, so I got cleaned up and tried to make it an early night.

But it’s ovary now!

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Where Did That Bring You?

We stopped by Hardee’s again, and for the first time that I’ve ever seen, they were having some kind of issue behind the counter. The drive through was lined up, and there were a bunch of people inside waiting as well. I had to wait several minutes to get my biscuit, so we didn’t get to work until almost eight. I tried to jump back into the import project, but then I kept getting pulled away to different things. By the end of the day, I had to push it back to Greg to match the data properly.

I took a really late lunch to Ortega’s by myself, and then the afternoon went quickly. We had to get home so Summer and I could go catch the Endgame encore before it left the theater. I was disappointed we wouldn’t get the IMAX exclusive bonus scene, but since the movie only played in IMAX for a week, our only weekend was tied up in band concerts.

Eaddie and Eli were home, so we left Muad’Dib with them. I cleaned up a bit, and then Summer and I made it to UEC for our movie. We got our preferred seats, free popcorn, and a free drink on discount night, so it was a cheap date. I would have loved to see it in IMAX again, but we got three bonus scenes, so that had to suffice.

We made it home to the smell of some salmon that Eaddie cooked, and headed to bed.

Back to me.

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No Game

I slept through some more wild dreams last night. I don’t know if the quality of my sleep has had anything to do with it, but I don’t think I’ve dreamed this much since childhood. Summer got up to let Muad’Dib out, and I ended up sleeping pretty late. I got up in time to take my morning meds, and Summer wanted to go run the neighborhood to prep for her 5k this coming weekend. I ate some cheese and crackers and messed with my Steam Frame accessories for a bit since my Arcturus vision camera came in.

I wanted to try and see the Endgame encore locally since we wouldn’t be able to make it to a better theater, but Eaddie had a concert in the afternoon. We got cleaned up and took Muad’Dib to stay with my parents and then went to New China for a quick lunch before the concert. We were a hair late to a packed parking lot, but they were still practicing when we got in the doors. We found seats on the front row, so I don’t know what all the cars were there for.

The concert was pretty good, but Summer said Eaddie didn’t care for the last piece and suggested we could leave early to catch the movie. I didn’t really want to miss part of it, or slip out between songs, or rush to get to the theater and find good seats, so we ended up staying until the end with plans to go to the late showing of the movie.

We picked up Muad’Dib and Mom gave me more basil for pesto, so we headed home and I got that going. I had trouble with my first big batch, but it eventually turned out. The second went much quicker, but by then we were rushing to get to the theater again. We left Muad’Dib at home and Summer got the car ready to go.

I had forgotten the late show was in auditorium eight, so that was a bit of a disappointment – but not as much of a disappointment as it was when we sat there for 15 minutes past the start time for the movie, and a young lady came in to tell us the projector was broken and they wouldn’t be able to start the show.

We got a refund for the tickets, but I had to push for a couple extra vouchers for the popcorn and drink they couldn’t refund. We made it back home and I took Muad’Dib for a short run to my parents’ house to drop off some redneck tupperware. I let Muad’Dib lead us back home through a shortened reverse route.

Summer was getting ready for bed, so I cleaned up some more in the kitchen and finished up a few more things before finishing up surprisingly early.

Wrap it up!