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Infinite War

Summer went all-in on wanting the kids to come watch a movie with her today, so that meant we had a bunch of cleaning to do. I cleaned up the kitchen while she went to the gym. Eaddie went to play flute at somebody’s church, and then we got the living room cleaned up before going to the Neighborhood Market.

Summer really wanted to make a charcuterie board, but I just wanted to get the stuff I needed to make pesto before Mom’s basil went bad. With no plans for an actual meal, I got hungry and irritated, so I grabbed some sushi that was marked down and we made it back home. Summer started on her board while I took Muad’Dib on a run to my parents’ house to trade some croissants for a lime and garlic.

When we got back, I just stayed out of the way rather than risk further irritation. Summer got pigs in blankets, and eventually the kids came out to watch Infinity War. It was a good time, but the evening went quickly and I never got any real food. As everyone else settled down for bed, I made the pesto without knowing what to expect.

I knew I’d had pesto on things before, but never really paid much attention to it specifically. The recipe and prep was incredibly simple though, and I’d always wanted to try it. Mom already cut the basil up, so I just had to throw it into a blender with some other goodies. Since I didn’t really have an expectation, I brought Eaddie in to help tune the flavor, and we ended up with something pretty good. I figured sitting overnight would help everything meld as well.

Always outnumbered.

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Pooped

I woke up with a stomach ache and decided to just stay up for the day. Summer slept in a little bit longer, and then got up for coffee with me. As soon as she went out with Muad’Dib, she brought a couple packages in, so I worked on Vine stuff and then tried to reclaim some of the kitchen table again. I got a new shower splitter, but it ended up not working well for a number of reasons. I guess we’ll just have to wait for the other diverter I ordered.

Uncle Rick and Ginny came to visit my parents, so I eventually got cleaned up and took Muad’Dib over there on the Onewheel. It was super hot outside, so it didn’t take long to sap us. They were getting ready to leave, but then Dad took them out back to see his FPV drone for a bit. Summer came over once she could get out of the house, and visited for a little bit before they left.

After that, Summer started for the gym before having some stomach issues of her own that kept her home the rest of the night. Muad’Dib and I rode home, and we were pretty done with the outside heat when we got there too. Eaddie had gone to see her father, but came back and was home all day, though we didn’t see much of her.

After a bath, Summer came out and we watched Push, which was quite a bit worse than I remembered it from 2009. Of course then she was ready for bed. Eaddie had Eli over to watch The Office, and I ended up going to bed a little early for the weekend.

Hit the limit!

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The Other Marvel

Today was a quiet end to a quiet week. I still had no real luck with my tablet project, and frustrations with Microsoft mounted. We had our usual call scheduled for the afternoon, so we left slightly early to get some Chinese for lunch, then came back for a meeting that was just long enough to confirm we no longer needed meetings. Then Joel came by in the afternoon and said everyone was cutting out an hour early.

I ended up staying a little past my usual time because I brought a little display shelf up to assemble for my office. I eventually wanted to rearrange, but at least this got it out of the house for now. As I was finishing up, Summer texted to say she really wanted pretzel crust pizza and beer for dinner, so she ordered that and we met her at Little Caesar’s to wait and let Muad’Dib out to run around a bit.

When we finally made it home, we ate the prettiest Little Caesar’s pizza I’d ever seen (though somehow the slicing was comically bad), and then settled down pretty quickly to watch a movie. Eaddie left for the art walk, and we skimmed through Netflix for a while before I picked Kraven the Hunter. By all counts, the reviews were correct. It was terrible. The writing was bad. The animation was bad. Everything was bad. It made a fine popcorn movie to watch while Summer wouldn’t quit talking.

After the movie, Summer went to bed and I finished up. Eaddie actually got in before midnight, and everyone was off to bed.

They have to be legitimately trying to do it this poorly, right?

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Wackadoodle

I woke up fairly early today and waited for Summer to get around. She slept quite a while longer, but didn’t get around to doing a whole lot aside from going to the gym. I spent all day milling back and forth cleaning up a bit, mostly in the kitchen. I cleaned up a whole bunch of leftovers, but we’ve still got more to go. It just doesn’t seem to go very fast. Eaddie came home briefly and then left. Otherwise, Summer and I were just at the house all day long.

When dinner time came around, I grilled the brats we bought last weekend. We ate, and then somewhere along the way I had a pretty bad anxiety attack just walking down the hallway. After a little while, we settled down to watch Arthur the King, which I thought was pretty good. Summer couldn’t handle the suspense, but I think she liked it. It was nearly dark when we finished, but Muad’Dib told me he really needed a run, so I took him out for a really good, short one in the dark. Then it was pretty much straight to bed after that.

No one else is gonna do it for you.

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Tuna Train

I got out a little bit late this morning and didn’t have time for breakfast, and I don’t think I had a Soylent ready in the fridge. Luckily there were some gross looking donuts left over in the breakroom from earlier in the week, so I had a couple of those, rolled around in their melty chocolate sauce. I was up and around quite a bit for a while, which was nice. At one point, I took Heaven out to her new office and got a monitor set up for her, but I’ll take her computer out later. They decided to keep the printer in the other room, so I’ll be running what I came to know as a “Dave-O extender” on the outside of the shipping container until it eventually fails and I have to run a new line from the switch.

I really wanted something different for lunch, so I went to Chopsticks, then made it back in time for our afternoon meeting with Aptean. I think I know enough now to feel pretty confident in what they’re doing, but who knows. I felt busy all afternoon as well, but I didn’t feel like I had much to show for it. I still felt so far behind.

Traffic was slow and terrible when we left, but we eventually made it home. Summer had a long, and pretty bad day at work, but that was no surprise. She got home shortly after we did, and then we had to go to the train depot to watch the Tech band play part of their new marching set. Summer wanted to sit right in the middle of it, but I knew Muad’Dib wouldn’t be able to handle it. The sun was unbearably hot anyway, so we stood over by the conductor statue. He was just about as perfect as we could have expected, and got lots of smiles and pets. He was hot, though. A train came by, perfectly timed and blowing its horn, almost as if it was in response to the band’s tuning note.

We got to see Eaddie afterward, but then headed home shortly after that. It was too hot and miserable to do anything else. After cooling down a bit, I watched the first half of A Dog’s Purpose, which didn’t seem great. I had kind of gotten the feeling that it wouldn’t be for me when I tried watching it before, but I got a little bit into it in spite of its cheesiness. I thought Summer would come back out to watch it with me, but she only sat down briefly before going to bed. I had to do the same though, since she has a run in Fort Smith in the morning.

It’s such a good vibration!

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Nowanna

We woke up abruptly this morning when Muad’Dib launched out of bed to meet Eaddie at the door. From what I could tell, she stopped in briefly to poop, and then left again. I was deep in the middle of a dream, and stumbled out of bed with a weird, lingering inner ear thing. I wasn’t really dizzy, but it was like my balance was hard set just a little bit off, so I kept wanting to lean to the right. It eventually went away, but it was really weird.

We didn’t really have anything planned, but Summer decided she really wanted to go see the live action Moana movie. I firmly did not, because I felt the original was too perfect to rake through a cheap, money-grab remake. I made myself a sandwich for lunch and then Summer went to the gym while I got cleaned up for the day. Then we eventually got loaded up for a late afternoon showing.

Muad’Dib ran to my parents’ house where Dad was passed out on the couch, and Summer and I made it to her movie. It was in auditorium four, so the screen appeared about as large as our bathroom TV from where we were sitting. There were a couple families with a boatload of kids, but I already wasn’t really invested in the show. It was expectedly bad, and then Summer had the gall to ask what I thought of it as we drove home. That eventually resulted in an outburst that needed to happen, but it’s exhausting living with someone that refuses to try and figure out her own feelings. We talked for a little while, and then I rode over to my parents’ house to get Muad’Dib.

It was getting late, but I wanted to get something resembling real food before we settled down for bed. I ultimately landed on Taco Villa so we could share an order of nachos outside with Muad’Dib. While I was waiting for our food inside, Jennifer walked in with a boyfriend. She took a selfie with me to send to Becky, and we talked for a bit until I took our food outside.

We ate, then headed home where Summer went to bed. I was up for a while longer doing a little bit of cleaning in my office, but tried not to stay up very late.

Shot entirely in a one bedroom apartment.

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Babysitting

Summer went to the gym this morning while I had a rough start myself. She decided to try Eaddie’s shower when she got back, and much preferred the shower head in there. I gave it a try myself, and while the volume of water was better, I didn’t care for the space or the lighting. We eventually got things going and ran Muad’Dib to my parents’ house so he could stay there while we went to Conway for Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

We were both hungry, since it was after noon, so we started at Stoby’s for lunch. I thought I was going light by getting a Reuben, but the large cheese dip done us in. We arrived in Conway early, and went by Sam’s Club first to kill some time and hunt for snacks. We didn’t get much, and settled on a bag of Werther’s, then made it to the Cinemark.

The theater was filled with people, though our auditorium took a while to fill out. I fought Summer on getting popcorn, but she insisted. She also wanted an extra large for a refill, and a large drink. The movie was a huge shift in gears from any other recent Marvel films, but it was absolutely fantastic. It was definitely more emotional than any of the others, and brought you closer to the action with Spider-Man, especially in 3D.

Summer barely touched the popcorn at all, which caused some drama. I am not allowed to feel frustration. We headed straight toward home instead of having dinner. I dropped her off at her car that was parked at my office, and then beat her home so I could move the Buick out of the garage for her. She went out onto the porch with a big glass of wine, and I rode the Onewheel to my parents’ house to get Muad’Dib.

My parents were out watering plants when I got there, so he sprinted after me from a distance. I got his things, and we continued on a really great run in the fall-like air. It felt really amazing outside, so I was surprised that he shortened his run. Once we made it back to the house, he went to bed with Summer, and I did my own thing until bed.

Third time’s the charm.

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Hound Town

I had a little bit of a rough start this morning, but we squeezed into work for a quiet day. Teisha had Janice’s two little dogs closed up in her office, so we just headed straight upstairs. Scott hit me up immediately with a dead laptop, but he just had something stuck in his charge port. Then Heaven had an issue with Rhonda’s computer monitor, but I just had to unplug it for a moment. After that, I was left to my own devices.

I had an anxiety attack pretty early in the morning that left me feeling super exhausted for a while. Otherwise I didn’t really start the day with a goal, but I got into my Netbox documentation again briefly, and did some more “practice” networking. I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but I think all this fighting security devices has made me more comfortable with practical networking and subnetting. Next is to get into some routing and firewall configuration, but I keep wanting to just rebuild the entire network. I need to give myself some more time to “accidentally discover” more physical stuff in our environment.

We took a late lunch and went to Taco Bell. It was hot, but we had shade and a small breeze, so it felt okay out. Summer was upset that she had to work in the heat all day, but still hadn’t made any real moves to change her situation. She got home shortly after we did, and was pretty immediately just miserable to be around. She was hungry, but didn’t want to do anything about it. I eventually just stepped away until she came to find me, and I pointed her at her leftover pasta she made a week ago. I eventually came out to have some too.

I found the new Masters of the Universe on Prime Video, so I put that on for her and then took Muad’Dib out for a run. We visited my parents, and then I let him guide us back home, skipping all of the zigs and zags. Summer was finishing up her movie and went to bed. I got things ready for work, and then made it to bed early myself.

You’re on your own!

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Epic

Summer left early this morning for a race in Clarksville. I got up just before she would get home so I could be ready for our day in Little Rock. Eaddie stayed home with Muad’Dib, and the two of us went to eat Bulgogi in Conway, then walked The Promenade for a bit before the movie. The only shop we visited was LoveSac, just to check out their modular furniture. It was neat, but I didn’t think it was worth the unlisted price.

We got back to the theater early for our movie, and it was a hot mess. The movie was just about sold out, and there appeared to only be two people working. There was a mob of people, and the kids running the place weren’t particularly customer-friendly. In any event, we made it into the auditorium and found our seats. It filled up quickly, and we all took in The Odyssey for the first time since grade school.

It was a long movie, to be sure. I did really enjoy the story, though it did feel a bit more like homework than entertainment. The cast was completely loaded, and I thought the changes in the story helped add thoughtful perspective. The biggest surprise of all was the fact that both of us sat through the entire thing without having to get up.

To get immediately back to the poor experience, as soon as the credits started to roll, the staff turned on the lights and came in to start cleaning up. One of the kids even yelled at us that were were no post-credits scenes, while we were sat watching the scroll. We waited to the end, then left to head toward home.

I didn’t want to skip dinner, so I stopped by Long John Silvers in Conway for a family meal to take home. It was a fairly relaxed drive back, and then I had just a little bit of it to eat before we wound down for the evening.

You are the people from the sea.

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Supermeh

Summer had a race first thing this morning, so I went with her to the junior high for that. Muad’Dib and I rode around with the Onewheel, making laps around the building while we waited, and then he got some attention from others as we milled around waiting for results. There was another guy there with a small heeler that wanted to run and play so badly, but he didn’t want to let her off the leash, which was probably a good thing.

Summer got her second place medal just as it started to get really gross and humid, and we headed home for a snack and to clean up before our trip to Fayetteville. Eaddie was in bed until we left, and stayed home with Muad’Dib. We made it to Alma for a charge and pit stop, then continued straight to the Arkadia Retrocade.

We talked to Shea briefly after paying him twice the admission fee, just to show support for the work he’s done, and to share our excitement about the place. I think I actually enjoy it more as a walkthrough museum experience than someplace I enjoy going to sit down and play. I’m always a little disappointed in the condition of some of the machines, which I know are hard to service, but the place was also crawling with mostly unsupervised kids. It’s still a blast, and I would recommend it for anyone. It really seems like a passion project, and I love that he’s been successful with it.

After about an hour there, we decided we were hungry enough to eat a little bit, so we drove toward the Malco. I would have preferred to go somewhere uniquely NWA, but we stopped at Buffalo Wild Wings and sat at the bar for a couple drinks and some buffalo chicken dip. Then we headed to the surprisingly empty, but well-maintained theater for our IMAX experience.

Right off the bat, the audio was just too loud. It distorted dialog especially, and made a few scenes completely unintelligible. I enjoy Jason Momoa, but Lobo’s existence added nothing to the film. All of the characters were short-lived and mostly forgettable, and all of the action was depicted too close up and cloudy/dusty/blurry to be entertaining. The animation and physics felt fake, which could have been forgiven for the sake of a better story, but it just wasn’t good. There were certainly emotional bits, but overall we were super disappointed.

After the show, I found a place called House of Taste, which seemed fairly authentic Korean. At least the old lady running the place felt somehow relatable. The food was good, but seemed unnecessarily expensive. There were several signs about a long wait, but we were only bookended by two other tables during our visit. The food was served impressively hot in near-molten bowls that retained the heat well. My soup was scaldingly hot to nearly the last bite.

The drive home was much more relaxed, with a stop in Ozark to charge again. I hate that the trip is long enough to really require charging twice, since there’s not a Supercharger right in Fayetteville. We’d have to drive further north for that, so we just charge twice inbetween instead.

Eaddie had just finished mowing our lawn when we got home. I took Muad’Dib for a run to my parents’ house, but then waited by the pool for them to get home from Kroger. I helped unload groceries, then headed back home to find Eaddie practicing loudly in the bathroom while Summer was passed out in bed two doors down. I wrapped up quickly and joined her.

Who expected Seth Rogen to be the best part???