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Never Stop Never Stopping

I slept in a little bit since I would be working from home today in the ice. Summer got up and made us corned beef hash for breakfast. Eaddie was eventually dropped back off at home, so the girls sat in the living room cross stitching all day.

Dad went out sledding, so Muad’Dib and I walked his direction and encountered him walking toward us. He went down a couple good hills, and Muad’Dib had a good run. We encountered a flock of children out doing the same, and before long I had to get back to work.

Summer eventually started on some tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner, and then Eaddie wanted to watch something that wasn’t funny or serious, so I put on the crab rave video. I think that pretty much nailed the assignment, but then we watched Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. Eaddie and I found it to be pretty funny, but Summer went through the whole movie with a contorted face.

After that, Eaddie baked some brownies and we all went to bed.

Mania

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Fire and Ice

It was a little harder to get up this morning, and I just wanted to stay in bed a little longer. Summer took Muad’Dib out into the snow again, and I made some breakfast for us, which ended up being our only meal for the day. I fried some potatoes, shallots, and garlic with any spices that spoke to me from the cabinet. I fried the eggs before I remembered there was bacon, so that was a little late. everything was really good though.

Summer sat cross stitching again for nearly the entire day. I had trouble keeping a roaring fire going for her, and bounced around trying to clean up some more. I had an anxiety attack sometime in the afternoon, but otherwise I just tried to keep things a little lighter than they have been.

Eaddie never came home again, so Summer didn’t make her tomato soup. I went outside and tried to use my show thrower, but the ice was a bit too hard for it to work super well. It wasn’t bad, but I also wasn’t dressed for the work.

We ended the evening with a big bowl of popcorn and Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. Things seemed better by the end of it, but all I can do is continue to put in the work to clean up what we have.

Fire Poker

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Fired up for Nothing

I tried again to get out of the house in time for a Hardee’s breakfast, but settled for Burger King instead. It wasn’t bad, but I still miss Hardee’s biscuits. We got to work and immediately started getting emails about signatures that were mostly due to not following my very simple and thorough instructions. I tinkered with that for a while, and then kept busy with a few other new things. I was so engaged that we actually took lunch nearly an hour late. I just picked up some Subway and we sat in the office to eat and work.

The afternoon was short after that, though it surprisingly didn’t go by particularly fast. I started to climb up into the ceiling and immediately encountered some huge rat poop, so without a proper ladder, I immediately gave up on relocating the hallway access point.

We eventually made it back to an empty house, and I decided to chop some wood and start a fire. As I walked outside, Neal called for some computer advise. It was a typical goofy situation with no real way to provide valuable feedback, so I just chopped wood while talking to him through my earbuds. There were a couple logs that split super easily, and a couple more that I struggled with before setting aside.

The fire caught fairly easily with my cheater log, but it was a while before Summer got home. I got the TV ambilight set back up, and when she finally had her shower, I put on Mickey 17. She was completely disinterested, so we sat and drank until she went to bed. Then I finished the movie by myself before going to bed.

Sauce is the true litmus test of civilization.

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Thanks Chuck

It was a pleasantly quiet drive to work today, but the office was mostly empty. I helped Joel with a scanning issue, and Tyler was there for a while in the morning, but otherwise it was dead quiet. I came in behind Heaven, but never actually saw her at all. It was nice out, so I took Muad’Dib to Taco Bell. He was absolutely perfect, and didn’t move a muscle either time I went inside.

The afternoon dragged on forever until we made it back home for a run. He ran much better after sleeping all day. Dad caught up to us with his drone, and we visited briefly before we made it back to the house.

Summer and I had some leftovers and then watched some YouTube with Muad’Dib on the floor leaned back against the couch. He was acting so sweet, and then got super excited when we asked if he wanted to go to bed. He kept running back and forth around the couch from Summer to me and back again, until we got up.

We made the bed and all three laid back to watch The Life of Chuck, which I had wanted to see, but didn’t know much about. I thought it was beautiful, though a bit slow in the final act. Then I wrapped up and went to sleep.

He understands that narrowing is the natural order of things.

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Blue Da Ba Dee

Summer and I got up early so we could get to Little Rock for her race. The organizers waited until the last possible minute to post the actual location, so we got stressed when we arrived at Allsopp Park and didn’t see a crowd. Summer had me make a block, but we came back and saw a few cars at the top of a hill. That ended up being the race, but it was small and informal, without any real prizes or anything. They had nachos, beer, and Fireball, and the race path was not at all paved. In fact, they had to explain symbols, marked in flour in the dirt, so that people would know where to go or when they were off course.

They finally kicked off the race and people disappeared around a corner, and I drove down the hill to Beignets & Brew for coffee and a snack. The beignets were hot and fresh, so I ordered a few more to take to Summer when she finished. It wasn’t even a full 5k, but she seemed to enjoy it. They had an assortment of trophies, probably picked up from a junk store, and basically handed them out at random. They even tried to call me up for being the partner of the best looking runner from Russellville. We had some nachos, and left shortly thereafter.

Our next stop was Park Plaza to do a little looking around. Summer picked up a couple of things, and then we continued to Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken. I impressed her with my perfect parallel parking after she sassed me about having the car do it. I think I actually executed it better and faster anyway. We split half of a chicken and some extra sides, and everything was delicious. I just wished the chicken was bigger. Then we made our way across town to the IMAX.

We got there just in time to get situated, but I had to swap my glasses due to some wicked glare I couldn’t get rid of. Avatar: Fire and Ash was a spectacle, to be sure. It was an enjoyable, long movie. I barely remembered The Way of Water, but I wasn’t terribly worried about keeping up with the lore anyway. We were entertained.

After the movie, we went straight home except for a stop in Blackwell. Summer wanted to get some wine for Shaana, and I picked up three more kegs of Fireball that were on clearance for less than the price of two bottles, so that was a pretty great deal. I don’t know why they were clearing them so close to New Year’s Eve, because that seems like prime time for that stuff. I grabbed a dozen tamales from the food truck outside when we left, and the girls really enjoyed those when we got back to the house.

I spent too much time dawdling after that, in spite of feeling pretty exhausted. Tomorrow will be a busy day of cleaning up, and it will only get more stressful from there.

She’s crazy!

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Chillin’ Out Max

I had the hardest time staying focused today. I was completely worthless.

Everyone from upstairs was out doing something else for most of the afternoon, so it was super quiet. I picked up Arby’s and ate it in my office, which probably made the afternoon drag even worse.

The drive home was awful and slow, too. Someone was cruising along below 50, which caused a massive stretch of cars to slow down as people had to slowly get around them. That lasted for about a third of the entire distance of the drive.

My parents weren’t home, so Muad’Dib and I just did a quick run around the block before Summer got home. Then we loaded up and went downtown to see what the festivities were about.

The depot area was completely packed with people, and Muad’Dib got a ton of attention with his little Max reindeer antler on, but he also quickly got overstimulated by how many people were around. He did fantastically off-leash, but I eventually hooked him up when we tried to go further into the crowd. Eaddie came by with some friends and sang us one carol before that, and then we ended up leaving just to get out of the crowd.

While we were there, I ran into Brandon, Kara, and Sheri, and talked to each of them for a little while. Then we went to Zaxby’s for some dinner and went back to the house.

We ate, heard some fireworks in the distance, and then went to bed. I found Spider-Man: Homecoming on the Roku Channel and watched that while Muad’Dib and Summer both fell asleep, snoring in my arms. I must have been burned out, because I just felt dead.

No brakes.

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Something Wicked

We wanted to watch Wicked: For Good today, since it would really likely be our last chance to see it on the big screen since Zootopia 2 came out across multiple auditoriums. I got up and made us a couple really good grilled ham and cheese sandwiches out of some frozen rye bread, parmesan, and cheddar. Then I relaxed with a cup of coffee before getting cleaned up to go.

Eaddie went out, but made it back in time to watch Muad’Dib for a while. We got to the theater just in time to find some good seats in front of Melissa, Jennifer, and whoever else was in their crew when we ran into them. The movie was good, but I never liked the second half as much as the first. I just didn’t feel like any of the music or themes were as strong, but it did wrap up the story well.

After the movie, Eaddie had left Muad’Dib outside for us, and I wanted to take him on a run before I gave him a bath. My board stalled just before making the corner to my parents’ house, so I limped it there and had Summer meet me. We went in, and Mom ended up making shrimp noodle soup for us. After dinner, we let Muad’Dib run alongside the car back to the house.

I gave Muad’Dib a bath and blow dried him while we were in the bathroom, which worked out great. Eaddie came over with a bunch of friends, and I put the dishes away before taking care of a bunch of Vine packages. The kids all left and I wound down for bed.

It’s looking at things another way.

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Madness Is the Most Shining Way

I slept super hard for nearly twelve hours last night, through many wild and vivid dreams. I eventually got up, warm and cozy with Muad’Dib, and went to rearrange the dishewasher. Summer had another run, in the rain this time, but was back home and on the couch by then. We went to eat leftovers with Dad in the afternoon and I gave him the rest of the leftovers and turkey parts that needed to be cooked down into soup. Mom was asleep the whole time, but said she was itchy. Later on, Dad said her whole right side was broken out into hives, which would seem to have been more affected by sleeping on the unbreathable leather couch than just having the dogs inside. We probably won’t have much luck getting her off the couch though.

Eaddie left after we got back to the house, but then called Summer to say she was in a hit-and-run. I didn’t realize she was with Eli, but they got to the house in his car, and he had some relatively light scratches across the front-left bumper and driver-side mirror. All things considered, it could have been way worse, but of course they had almost no description of the vehicle that hit them. Summer and I had them call it in to the police, and then they left again.

Once I got cleaned up, Summer and I settled in to watch Wicked. I hadn’t realized how long the second part had been out in theaters, so we missed our only chance to see it in IMAX 3D. We’ll just have to settle for a Sunday matinee in town.

If only because dust is what we come to.

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Off Grid

Today started out fairly tense. Summer and I left for Little Rock to see Tron, and it was just awkward silence the whole way. Things lightened up after that as we went through a whole bucket of popcorn before the previews started. I thought the movie was okay, but it was grungier than I liked. A huge part of the appeal for me was the digital perfection of everything, so it was kind of ick that the main character was a program who looked like he hadn’t showered in a couple of days. Of course Daft Punk could never be replaced for the soundtrack, and NIN only added to the grungy feeling of it all. Ultimately it was an entertaining flick without too much Morbin’.

We hunted for food after the show, and ended up driving a ways further south to eat at La Patrona Asian Sushi Buffet. It was an odd fusion of Asian and Mexican, split pretty closely down the middle. The food was okay. I liked the variety, but it wasn’t a huge selection. The service was very lacking because we didn’t seem to have a dedicated server, but we had already paid up front. I’d eat there again, if I were hungry, and if I were already very close.

After that, we made it over to the Outlets of Little Rock, which was a cute little outdoor courtyard type shopping center. It reminded me very much of Disney Springs, but only in the way that Arkansas could do it. The highlight was probably the weird Asian arcade behind the weird Asian pop culture store. There was hardly anyone there, except for one guy that was really getting into whatever piano-style rhythm game he was playing.

We made the loop and headed toward home, stopping in Conway so Summer could pick up something from the wash there. Once we got to the house, I took Muad’Dib for a quick run as the sun went down, and then it was a rush to bed.

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The Hills; They Live

I got up early and just barely managed to get my shower done before Summer started to fuss about getting to her race. We made it in plenty of time to the Dollar General in Dardanelle, where Kenny immediately spotted me. She went to prepare for the run, and I played with Muad’Dib and chatted with Kenny until he was ready to light the starting cannon. Once the runners were off, we headed to McDonald’s for a couple bagels and then drove up the mountain super slowly.

We parked just at the top, and then I rode my Onewheel with Muad’Dib to the visitor’s center where we sat to eat overlooking the lake. It was a really nice, crisp morning to be out. As we were leaving, we encountered a couple rangers that asked me to put Muad’Dib on a rope leash just so others could see he was restrained. That slowed us down for the trip back to the festival area, but we did alright.

People were still setting up for the chicken fry, so Muad’Dib and I sat around as runners trickled in. My old call center boss, Bryan, noticed me and came over to chat. I let him try the Onewheel, and then we wandered over to where his family had a booth for chicken bingo. Summer eventually crossed the line and hung out with us as she waited for results, and finally for one of the old guys to cross before we could leave.

We weren’t there long enough to actually get any fried chicken, since the run was so much earlier than the rest of the festivities. We made it back to the house where Eaddie left with Eli for some school stuff. I had to go get another prescription from Walgreens, but they didn’t have it ready when I got there, so I stopped in to Sonic for a snack first.

After finishing all of that, the kids eventually made it home and my parents drove over to follow us to Conway. Our first stop was Bulgogi for a late lunch or really early dinner. I had forgotten how small the portions were, especially for the price. There weren’t really any other complaints though. We finished there and went to Sam’s for a while to shop around and kill some time. We still had an hour left by the time we were done, so we stopped in to Kohl’s and found a couple things before the movie.

Our last stop for the evening was the Cinemark for the 60th anniversary showing of The Sound of Music. Eli had never seen it before, and it was neat to watch it on the big screen. The late show was barely attended after a mostly full early show. We got home super late by the time all of that was over, so everyone was straight off to bed.

Oh, how clumsy of me – I meant to accuse you.