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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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Ridgewood Drive

We got up at a reasonable time this morning and milled around the house for a bit. I made Summer a coffee and cleaned up a bit before taking a shower. Eaddie came home for a bit, but I barely saw her. Summer and I had tickets to see The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D, and then a lunch date at the new Ridgewood Brothers location in Conway.

We dropped Muad’Dib off with my parents and headed out of town pretty quickly. We got to a mostly empty theater, grabbed popcorn, and sat down just in time for the movie that played no previews. I definitely ate too much popcorn. Summer hadn’t been feeling well all day, so she was going light on everything. I don’t really get the appeal of the movie, but I thought 3D would be fun. Summer didn’t much care for it.

From there, we headed straight over to the restaurant and found Grant and Kyler in the smokehouse out back. Grant gave us a walkthrough of the surprisingly tiny building with two giant propane tank smokers, and then an impressively tall rotisserie smoker. He emphasized that it was all still pure wood fired, and sacrificed some smoke to give us a peek inside.

From there, we found our way into the restaurant where Robert was at the block carving meats. They had a pretty small crew working, but it was late for lunch on a soft-open day. We visited briefly in line before finding seats at the bar area. Grant and Kyler were walking around visiting and making sure everything was going well. I didn’t realize it was the old Outback Steakhouse because it had since been Foghorn’s wings. They had a ton of room to eat, and a patio to be finished sometime in the future.

After we ate, Grant gave us a walkthrough of the enormous kitchen and storage area in the back. Kyler had said it was one of the largest commercial kitchens in Conway, and I believe it. I really wish them all the best, because they’ve been putting everything into it.

Summer had to get something from the Splash on the way out of town, and then we made it home. I found the caterpillar wrapped up in a cocoon, so he was ready for the winter in the garage. I took the Onewheel to get Muad’Dib and crashed because of some uneven concrete at the end of the driveway. Then we did a loop around the block before doing our normal reverse route. I felt the board struggle over small bumps several times, so I really need to get the tire replaced on my GT S-Series.

Summer had taken a long bath but still didn’t feel well. I did a bit more cleaning up, then got ready for work pretty early. I didn’t feel great either after so much heavy grease, and I felt exhausted for it as well. I just hoped an early bedtime would help me out in the morning.

This isn’t just another large father figure’s barbecue joint.

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No, I Do Not ‘C.’

Summer got up and we had some coffee before she went to the gym. Eaddie came by to clean up before going to practice for the game in the evening. I finished up some leftovers and then got cleaned up for the day. Kevin came over to mow, and I went outside to pick up some fallen branches and sticks out of the yard. After Kevin left, I tried swapping license plate frames on our cars, but my original screws weren’t long enough, and the ones that came with the frame were the wrong diameter. I was able to get Summer’s replaced, though.

The afternoon went by quickly, and we had to go to Tech for the party in the plaza. I dropped Summer off and had to go park out by the pastures. Just as I got on the Onewheel, I noticed a giant caterpillar in the middle of the parking lot. I scooped him up and carried him with us to the band, who was just finishing up. A young officer came up and asked me to leash Muad’Dib, who was being a bit ornery anyway, so I unwrapped it from around his neck and held onto him. The guy seemed impressed with Muad’Dib’s behavior, but I wasn’t.

Summer and I struggled to get the caterpillar off of her stadium seat where it had been riding along with me, but we eventually got him onto my sleeve. Muad’Dib and I went back to the car and then headed to my parents’ house for a while. It got cold fast, so Muad’Dib and I did a quick run around the block at his fastest speed since last winter. After that, we headed home for a few minutes before going back to pick up Summer.

We had to wait in the car for a few minutes, but we got Summer and headed back to my parents’ house so I could get some food. I hadn’t felt well all day, but by that time I was super hungry. I cleaned up some lemon grass chicken and rice, and then we went home for the evening. I dug out a new rimless aquarium for the caterpillar and set it up in the garage for the winter while Summer went to bed.

I assumed it was the cappuccino that had me burping all day, and I’m sure the tiny scoop of ice cream I had for dessert didn’t help. I just couldn’t stop, and my chest felt full all night long.

I know. I have improoooved it.

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Sip and Stretch and Fall and Roll

We had a pretty short staff meeting this morning. They always stress me out, and afterward I always feel like it was for nothing, because everything went fine. Tammy brought up an issue with Rhonda’s Traverse, so I went to check on her afterward. That turned into a whole ordeal, but I tried to help. Afterward I was a bit scattered between projects. The morning went by quickly from being so busy.

We went to Sonic for a big lunch, and a lady driving a semi chatted with us while she waited for her food. We bounced around a little more when we got back, so the afternoon didn’t seem to drag on as much either. At the end of the day, I finally called the Lieblong Eye Clinic to schedule an appointment for my vision that seems to have degraded quickly over the past year. They were expectedly booked through the middle of January, so hopefully I don’t go blind before then.

We made it home and Summer was resting before her Sip + Stretch. Muad’Dib and I cleaned up and then were going to take the Onewheel downtown to meet her. I knew jumping onto the street going the other direction was going to be difficult, but the lack of torque on the Pint X always surprises me in the worst way. I tumbled and scuffed up my left knee, but it wasn’t terrible. We rode on.

Muad’Dib was awesome the whole way. It was a rare path for us, so he ran practically the entire two miles. We rolled through the Ridgewood parking lot, but they were super busy. Summer was a little late coming out of the class, so we just sat and waited for her. Point Remove was busy too, but we had a table away from the other dogs that were there. They had the roll-up doors closed when we got there for some reason, but opened them shortly after we got seated.

Once Summer got out, we drove to my parents’ house for some spring rolls. Summer only ate one, so we just shared the one set of dishes. Dad joined us to eat, and gave Muad’Dib plenty of spaghetti noodles. We got home a bit late, so Summer went to bed. I cleaned up a bit from the day’s worth of stuff, and then got to bed later than I wanted.

Y’all got any more of them deals?

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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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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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Milk Duds

We all slept pretty hard last night after such a big day, but we didn’t sleep in terribly late. Summer wanted to go to the gym, but wasn’t in a big rush. I wanted to make breakfast, but that slowly slipped into brunch, then lunch, then a late lunch. I got Summer to try Half-Life: Alyx in VR with some success, but we still need room to play properly. She ended up wanting to take a nap before going to the gym while I cleaned the kitchen.

Eaddie left with Eli for the day. I had Summer pick up some milk on the way home, and I got out some old cube steak she had in the freezer. I’d never made country fried steak before, but I figured it would be a good way to get the meat out of the freezer. The breading and frying turned out pretty good, and I warmed up some canned corn at her request. We had some instant mashed potatoes, and I made gravy from what was left of everything, so there was zero waste for the entire meal. I think some of it came out a bit more dense than it should have, but overall it wasn’t bad for my first try. Unfortunately, I think all the milk in that, plus the latte that I had earlier, gave me some intense stomach cramps for the rest of the day.

I laid around a bit trying to feel better, but eventually needed to take Muad’Dib out for a run. We skipped a couple blocks on the way to my parents’ house, and then headed home pretty quickly as it got dark. On our last block, we ran into the old mechanic from around the corner again, and he wanted to come up and shake my hand and chat for a minute. He was excited to have walked off some weight and gotten his heart condition under control, and wanted to share that some lady offered him $2k less than the $10k he was asking for an old Nissan Titan he fixed up.

After another handshake into a shoulder pat, we made it home and got cleaned up for bed. I took a late shower, took care of my plants, and crashed a little early.

Dyshidrotic?

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All That for a Line Graph?

I had a terrible time getting to sleep last night. Maybe it was how late I slept in, but I laid in bed, wide-eyed, for at least two hours. Luckily the morning wasn’t too rough, and we got out in time for a Hardee’s burrito and still made it to work a little early. I talked to Charles about pushing a config to the controller, and his response was to just send it, so I did. That was the most excitement I had all day, after the burrito.

I spent a good part of the day tinkering with PRTG, trying to get it to show my data after that. I did finally get some graphs going, but it wasn’t easy or intuitive. We took a late lunch to Taco Bell and ate relatively light, then got back to work to try and clean up some HubSpot data.

Near the end of the day, I got a message out of the blue from Jack. We chatted for a bit, and it sounded like he needed a motorcycle ride. I went back and forth with him for a little bit, but had to pack up to head home. Traffic was rough and unpredictable, so that had my attention for a slow drive home.

I cleaned up a bit before Summer got home, and then I warmed up some pizza for her before taking Muad’Dib to my parents’ house for dinner. I warmed up some leftover bún bò Huế and Mom came in to fix me a bowl. I had a really bad anxiety attack while I had my head in the fridge looking for veggies, and that knocked me out for a bit. I got super lightheaded and woozy for a bit, and just had to sit back in a chair for a while.

After I ate, Muad’Dib and I continued on his run in the dark. The air felt great, and he had a good time before jumping up into bed with Summer for the night. I cleaned up a bit more and prepped for work quickly so I could get some better sleep.

Sun’s gettin’ real low.

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Always Write

I had an anxiety attack in the shower this morning, which again seemed like the first in a little while. I took a muffin to work for breakfast, and I knew it had just gotten ants around it before I put it in the fridge, so I ignored the couple dead ones that were in the box. Then, after I took a bite, I saw one of the crumbs wiggle in the box. It was so tiny that I couldn’t tell if it was a caterpillar or a maggot, but I spat it out regardless. That left me pretty hungry all morning.

I was put in Vine jail last night, so I couldn’t see any products except for what came across my Vine Helper feed that was still loaded. I couldn’t load a new page, but I could see what was coming in. I spent a lot of time writing reviews between other projects, trying to catch up after all those phone cases I ordered.

Later in the morning, I caught David and asked him to walk me around the plant to see where the PoEs were for the camera system. I’d love to redo all of that since pretty much everything had been run separately without a master plan.

We went to Arby’s for lunch to try the ArbyQ and the steak nuggets. Both were pretty middling, but I got my fill. The afternoon went by fairly quickly, and then we got stuck behind some annoyingly slow, left lane-hogging folks on the way home. Summer skipped out on Sip + Stretch, but originally said she still wanted wings. By the time we got there, she had changed her mind about that too. I ended up warming up some rice and chicken for her, and then for Eaddie when she came home briefly. I had a little bit myself to clean it up, and then I took Muad’Dib on a run.

It got dark super fast. I thought we left early enough to get back before dark, but we did not. Mom had a little bit of spaghetti squash for me to clean up with vinegar, soy sauce, sriracha, and beef jerky. Then we got home to get ready for bed.

Wake me up when September ends.

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Three Meals and a Snack

As expected, I had a terrible time getting up this morning. I slept until the last minute, then jumped in the shower and left. We stopped by Burger King for a biscuit and made it to work. Things were super quiet with a few people out. I brought a bánh bao that I ate a little later for a mid-morning snack, then went to Wendy’s for a small, later lunch. The afternoon was even quieter since the guys leave earlier.

The ride home was pretty relaxing. Summer was in pajamas when I got there, but at least we had plans to have dinner together. I took care of a bunch of packages and then we ate leftover chicken sandwiches with pesto. They were great, except for how dry and tough the chicken had gotten.

By the time we finished cleaning up from dinner, it was starting to get dark out. I took Muad’Dib on a shortened run on the Pint again and tried to push it a little harder. It still doesn’t feel comfortable going faster, but at least I just barely broke 10mph. My parents were cleaning up from a burst water hose when we got there, plus it was already dark, so we headed home pretty quickly.

Summer was in bed, so I cleaned up some more and finally set up my new Pixel 11 Pro. I copied settings and data from my old phone for the first time, just because I knew I would need certain apps just to even wake up in the morning. I think I still would have preferred to set it up from scratch though. Maybe later.

So many Mous!