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The Ugg

I slept a bit more than usual last night and felt pretty good for it. When we got to work, we were greeted by another introduction email from our newest Dell rep – our sixth since I started 11 months ago. I kindly asked her to stop contacting us because I prefer to work with Howard, and she later called to get my rep’s information “to ensure we got our discounts.” I assumed that meant deal registration was a thing outside of the school world, and carried on.

We tinkered with Intune all day, aside from lunch at Sonic. One of the girls offered a pup cup, and then never returned with it. I don’t know if she was told not to, or if she just never had time since they were fairly busy running food in and out. We ate, then went back too continue tinkering with policies.

The drive home was irregularly fast when a couple large SUVs blew past me at nearly 100. I tagged along a ways behind, slowing down as I passed other cars, so as not to be a complete tool. Summer picked up some chicken to cook for salads and we had a great, healthy dinner before I started the sump pump again and took Muad’Dib out for his run.

We weren’t very far along when we spied Grant’s sister blow by us and start blaring her horn in their driveway. Concerned, we ran up to see if everything was okay. I did not expect her to get out of the car and come at me yelling. She made a comment about how many times she hadn’t hit us in the road, as though not committing vehicular manslaughter made her some kind of a saint. When their mom finally came out, I waved at her and let them be, but after we rounded the next corner, we saw her fly through the next intersection in a huff.

We finally made it to my parents’ house, and I pulled the pool robot out for a cleaning. We weren’t there long before it started to rain, so we left in a hurry. Of course the rain just came in harder and we arrived at home completely soaked. I sent Muad’Dib in for Summer to give him a bath while I went out to clean up the sump line. She was nearly done by the time I got back in, and then I took over drying him.

Eaddie was in and out, to see her grandparents. I rushed too get to bed, hoping for a repeat of a good night’s sleep.

And I thought they were ugly… on the outside!

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Drain It Again

I woke up around four to swap chargers and then had trouble getting back to sleep. We both met our charge limits, though. It was another quiet day at work. Summer had a meeting in Little Rock, so we met for lunch and I let our usual server pick my plate. Summer barely touched her food, so I ate the rest of it instead of ordering more myself.

The afternoon was a bit more productive until quitting time. About halfway home, there was a semi wreck being cleaned up, and then traffic was backed up going the other direction for miles. We got home without incident though, and I charged a bit while I waited for Summer to get home.

I had a bunch of Vine stuff to sort through. Summer was hurting when she arrived, so I ran her a bath and then had to start draining the basement again while I took Muad’Dib out for a run. He was very slow in spite of how nice it felt outside.

We visited my parents for a bit and helped Mom pull her water hose while Dad got Muad’Dib some leftovers. Then we made it back to the house and the water was still going. I waited for it to finish, then cleaned that up, had a salad, and raced for bed.

it over

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Child Labor

I had the hardest time falling asleep last night, and felt like I had been run over by a truck when I had to get up. We managed to make it to work, and Janice had left me a slice of banana bread, which helped. It was a really long day to myself after that.

The sun was out in full force for lunch. We went to Sonic because they had a couple deals that would stack for a lot of food. The sun was so bright, I would swear I got a sunburn just walking from the car back into the office. The afternoon was long as well, but we finally got to head home.

Eaddie had Eli and Ceci over at my parents’ house to uncover the pool and wash the cover, and they were all done by the time Summer and I made it over there. They left to shower while I started frying eggrolls, and then they came back to eat along with Julie and Kevin.

It was a big crowd for dinner, but it was staggered, and we worked around the space we had. Everyone filtered out and Summer drove home to deal with the newly diagnosed arthritis in her knee. I took Muad’Dib on the remainder of his run, and tried to hurry him along to avoid the incoming storm. We got a little wet, but it wasn’t too bad.

The kids came back over and watched a scary movie all night. Summer hadn’t been charging, so I had to stay up to juggle the cars around. She may just have to supercharge tomorrow morning, because like everything else in this house, the car charger doesn’t work quite right.

More noggin!

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Draining Weather

Summer got up and made us eggs and corned beef hash for breakfast. I slept in a little later than I wanted, but I was exhausted. We ate, and then I was consumed by one of the biggest Vine drops I’d ever seen. I didn’t blow all of my orders, but I did manage to pick up a cheap robot lawn mower, so we’ll see how that goes. I’m not expecting much.

After that, I cleaned and organized and processed a bunch of stuff, and worked on the Humble site a bit more. Summer felt overheated and worn out all day, but did some of her own stuff in her newly cleaned office nook. Eaddie cleaned around her room a bit, and eventually left to go to Autumn’s birthday party at their father’s.

I wasn’t sure if we were supposed to fry egg rolls for my parents, and when I asked, Mom said she wanted to clean up the bún bò Huế. I took the Onewheel with Muad’Dib, and Summer met us there to have dinner. Then I did some dishes before we left. I took Muad’Dib on the remainder of his run, which he did pretty well.

I still hadn’t drained the murder basement, so I went outside and found it to be the fullest I had ever seen. To top that off, it didn’t appear to have power, so I couldn’t get it draining without running an extension cord around the house. By the time Summer and I got that done, it looked like power was back, and I couldn’t tell when or why.

I was up fairly late trying to get all of that cleaned up, and eventually made it to bed.

There must be some way out of here.

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RingCentral of Fire

We got in this morning and didn’t immediately have to jump into anything. I got settled, warmed up a breakfast sandwich, and got some coffee. Then my morning went off the rails when Amanda called to say that Shane was having phone contact issues again. He tried to call Elizabeth, but got her instead. While I looked into that, he got transferred around to a few people and then eventually landed with me, but the caller ID said Amanda, so I answered the phone as I would with her. That was pretty jarring.

My research and subsequent conversation with support got me through lunch, which I had brought from home. Summer’s chicken pasta was even good reheated. I ate at my desk in the relative quiet, but then it got even quieter when Janice left early. I had the last couple hours to myself.

The drive home was frustratingly slow, with idiot drivers blocking lanes. We made it home to find Summer in the bath. I wanted to take her out for dinner since she had an early mountain-climbing run in the morning, so we ended up dropping Muad’Dib off with Dad and going to Check-H.

Dinner and service were both way worse than last time. The salad was great, but the hot food was pretty terrible. We basically had no service, especially after our server left unannounced. Our last server kind of took over, but only barely, for the essentials. I left more of a tip than I intended because I was distracted when Josh called out to me.

I hadn’t really seen Josh since he left the school, and though he sent me his new number, he never responded to my texts. We got that sorted, and then I took Summer home so I could take Muad’Dib on a run.

The basin had flooded, so I took him around the block where they had bulldozed the local forested area. It was then that I remembered I had ordered a set of heavy equipment keys. We made it home where Summer was shutting down for bed. I played around with Julie and Kevin’s website for a bit, and eventually went to sleep.

Safe More Humble

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Fixalotl

We got out slightly early this morning, but so did everyone else. I started the day downstairs with Elizabeth to try and fix her printing issue, and still couldn’t get her computer enrolled in Intune. Then Rhonda had some oddities. I finally made it upstairs and experimented with some Aptean print settings myself, and learned a new trick in Traverse.

Lunch time showed up and I went to pick up some fries from McDonald’s, and it took them eight minutes from the time it said my order was ready to the time they handed me a bag of food. I took those to Subway and picked up a sandwich, then ate in my office while I continued to work.

The afternoon was frustrating, but dull until quitting time. We made it home through some more rain, and then Summer showed up with groceries to cook dinner. She made some kind of creamy pasta with chicken and spinach, and it was super good.

After dinner, it was a pretty quick night of cleanup. It looked like my last catfish may have died, which was super upsetting after more than twelve years. I just never made rebuilding the tanks a priority with everything else that needed to be done. Then I did some bill paying, data entry, and went to bed.

Hah. Gas.

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At Your Services

We had a good ride to work this morning and planned to tinker more with Intune, but I ended up going up and down the stairs for, probably, a record number of times. First it was Rhonda with the typical “everything is broken and nothing is working.” Then I had difficulty troubleshooting an issue for Elizabeth. The highlight of the day was simply the fact that I managed to stay extra hydrated through it all.

It was nice out, so we went to Sonic for a snack. McDonald’s teased $2 McNuggets again, but again they weren’t available in the app. We came back and ultimately ended the day fighting an Aptean print service issue that we’ll have to pick up tomorrow.

We made it home through heavy traffic since we left work late, and ended up taking an early exit, which placed us right next to Mom as she was driving home. Summer had been home and in a bath for a while, so I tried to figure out some proper dinner for myself since nobody else was hungry.

I ended up finishing thee leftover pizza, and it rained some more, so Summer and I watched another episode of Funny AF, which was again, not the funniest, but had moments. Eaddie left with Eli since we weren’t going to my parents’ house to fry eggrolls. After one episode of our show, Summer went to bed and I wrapped up a couple minutes early myself.

⛈️ 73°F
Precipitation: 87%
Humidity: 92%
Wind: 4 mph

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In Memoriam

I decided to stop the iron supplements today so I could level out before my eventual annual checkup. We had brunch planned at IHOP for Autumn’s birthday, and we barely got around for that. Eaddie slept late while Summer had to go to Atkins to pick up Noah. Things immediately started going wrong.

The restaurant was pretty busy, and they were not prepared. A table behind us had some kind of drama going on, so a manager demanded that they leave. When they refused, he walked away saying the cops would remove them. Things settled down pretty immediately after that, and we eventually got our order in. Of course, it was a full hour before we saw a morsel of food, so we sipped ice waters until then.

Afterward, I ended up taking Muad’Dib home while Summer dropped Noah off. Eaddie wanted to go ride bikes, so I was tasked with getting out the bike rack in the heat of midday. I immediately started pouring sweat in the humidity, but we eventually got everything loaded, aired up, and ready to go.

We had a false start when my watch incorrectly alerted me that I had left my phone. We turned back before I realized it actually was in my pocket. We got to the lake and unloaded the bikes, but I realized I didn’t have Muad’Dib’s collar remote, so I left Summer with him on a leash and ran back home.

I couldn’t find the remote at first, and in the process, I dumped a full tumbler of water all over the kitchen floor. I mopped that up, dried my socks, and eventually loaded up again. The kids had gotten their bikes and started riding around the marina, and Summer was walking around with Muad’Dib. I brought my Onewheel since I wasn’t sure what the mood would be like after I had been gone so long.

Summer got Muad’Dib into the water and splashed around with him a bit. I was still hot and burned out, so I mostly sat from that point on, but I did take Muad’Dib for a couple short runs. Eaddie, Eli, and Ceci eventually came back around and hung out with us before we loaded up to go back home.

We unloaded and the kids went for more biking while I took Muad’Dib to my parents’ house for a brief visit. Summer started a bath for him when we got back, but I made it in there to take over, which upset her for some reason. She always refuses any time I mention that maybe she could bathe him, so I just didn’t get it.

I got him bathed and she helped dry him. Then I vacuumed a ton of hair off of him before finally getting to wind down for bed. Eaddie got home and took a shower, but then started to leave again. Summer was in bed, so I had to play bad cop again and tell her she needed to give their family a break and stay home to finish cleaning her bathroom and bedrooms, which have been complete wrecks all week.

Finally, I made a mad dash to finish up for bed, exhausted from the break.

And not one “thank you” was heard.

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Try Again

We got out a little earlier today, with a sack full of goodies to take to work. It had rained overnight, but then rained on us again on the way, but we still made pretty good time. It had calmed down by the time we got there, and I continued tinkering with my Intune policies.

It was pretty early in the day that Teisha came around to let everyone know they were closing at three. I picked a good day to bring my lunch, because I would have felt a little bad leaving for an hour and then leaving work early too. I warmed up my old gas station burger inside the network rack while I bounced back and forth between my office and the maintenance computer I’d been managing.

A while after lunch, Janice came up with a bowl of strawberry shortcake. She said she assumed I would want some from when they had it for David’s birthday while I was out. I often question whether people actually like me there, or whether they think I’m doing a good job, but it’s been a long time since I’ve had a job where anyone did something like this for me.

The afternoon was short, but I ended up staying nearly an hour late trying to reset the maintenance computer again just to test its behavior. We still beat Summer home, even though she was supposed to be off at four. It downpoured on us again on the way home, but that was short lived. We ran to pick up a package for Julie, and then Summer decided she wanted steak for dinner, so we ran Muad’Dib over to stay with Dad and went out to eat.

Check-H was pretty quiet, with mostly empty tables. The food was above average though, and we had some awesome salads and some of the best service we’ve ever had at a restaurant. We filled up, then headed back to get Muad’Dib. Dad had taken him on a little walk, so we had to go fetch some poop down the road before heading home. I let Muad’Dib run again, and he trotted along happily all the way.

Summer and I didn’t really see each other much after that. She did a little work and then went to bed. I was going to lay down with her for a bit, but then she disgusted me with her lack of attention to hygiene when handling dirty things, so I separated myself for the rest of the night.

Bugged

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Are You In, or Are You Out?

I took the Model Y to work today so Summer could keep the Model 3 in town without burning the battery before our evening trip to Fayetteville. It was frustrating how junky her car is on the inside, but I’ve just had to turn a blind eye to it. It was quiet at the office, so I spent all day fighting the firewall and setting up more restrictive policies for devices in the plant.

I forgot my cheese sandwich, so I had my banana alone for breakfast. My iron left my stomach a bit unsettled all day, but we persevered. I skipped a proper lunch, but picked up a couple order of mozzarella sticks from Sonic and then came back to the office.

I basically completed what I had set out to do, which was get the new maintenance computer ready for deployment. We left close to 3:30 and raced home to get ready for the Coheed and Cambria concert. I swapped cars with Summer at Superfast, then headed home to change. That was when I learned that Eaddie had taken my earplugs some time ago, and left them in her old flute case that was on loan to Jenny. She said I gave them to her for marching season, but that had to be a lie because I had already given her a completely different set of her own. I tried to get her to retrieve them, but she got an attitude to the point that I nearly left her at home.

We dropped Muad’Dib off with Dad for the hour until Summer got off work, and then I chauffeured Eaddie and Eli to Fayetteville. Eaddie started fussing as we came up to Ozark and wanted food. I told her I wouldn’t stop, but then I did anyway. We ate some food at the picnic table outside, then continued to the Ozark Music Hall. I was pretty frustrated that all of the EV spots were taken by gas vehicles, and would have keyed them if my Tesla key wasn’t a plastic card.

The line stretched down the sidewalk, but we made it inside without any trouble. We had plenty of time before the music started, but of course the mob was already at the center of the floor and on up to the stage. We found a winding merch line and I picked up a shirt. The guy was too busy trying to serve the next person, so he didn’t hear me ask for a bag of coffee beans they had, but they were overpriced anyway.

The concert started with an Arkansas band called Little Towns, which were very good, but didn’t really speak to me in that special kind of way. I would have considered their merch if it didn’t have a big razorback on it. They played quite a few songs, and then the set change took a while, but Coheed eventually came out and rocked. It was a good show, but I would have liked to get there as early as I had planned before Eaddie dragged behind.

As they played their last song, Welcome Home, Claudio came out with a double-necked guitar that was tuned incorrectly. They had to stop, adjust, and then restart, but did so with a laugh. It was a good time. Afterward we headed home, having to stop in Ozark to charge again since we couldn’t during the concert. We picked up a ton of food again because the lady said it was all half-off. We shared a couple sandwiches and a bunch of other fried snacks before making it the rest of the way home for bed.

Bye bye, beautiful. Don’t bother to write.