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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???

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Not Your Grandfather’s SpaghettiOs

I had an anxiety attack in the middle of the night at one point after I had been awake for a moment. When I did finally get up for work, I was able to cut my morning short and warm up my last burrito before showering and heading in to work. I was aware of my afternoon meeting with Aptean yesterday, but somewhere along the way it fell off my radar.

I took a late lunch, but fortunately I had brought leftovers from home, because a few bites into it I noticed the calendar alert. I hopped onto the call about five minutes late and felt terrible for it, but it was still a mostly pointless and short meeting.

A little while after that, I started to feel some generalized anxiety again, and I didn’t understand it. I think that hung around for an hour or so before it let up, but I had trouble focusing after that. I tried to just relax on the way home, but I pressed on as usual.

Eaddie was home from band camp, but Summer had already eaten earlier in the afternoon. They sat around talking and doing things on the couch while I processed Vine stuff and put together a couple motorcycle stands. Then I took Eaddie to La Villa for dinner. I got a seafood pasta that had so many calamari rings that it looked more like giant SpaghettiOs. She talked all about her experience as a counselor and how terrible the entire event was. It sounded like the complete lack of adult oversight could have easily caused enough of a parental stir to get Tech into big trouble, but it’s more likely that nothing will happen.

When we got home, I took Muad’Dib for a quick run to my parents’ house as it got dark. Eaddie left, Summer went to bed, and I fought sinus issues the rest of the night.

Just a trickling.

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Eager Doggies

We had all kinds of dogs at work today. Joel was back with Dexter. Elizabeth has been bringing Zeke every day. Scott brought Maple, though I hardly saw her at all because she was hiding in Tyler’s office all day. Muad’Dib was having a fit about not being the baby any more.

I had my head stuck in Intune again all day, and had a support call before lunch for my strange PIN policy behavior, but I think I sorted that out earlier. It won’t be until another intermittent issue occurs that I’ll be proven wrong.

We went to Sonic for lunch, then finished up a pretty quiet afternoon. The drive home was fast and mostly dumb. Summer had a late meeting, so I rearranged the dishes in the dishwasher that she had washed and ran them all again. Then I put together a desk hutch I got for her. Just as she got home, I took Muad’Dib to the Neighborhood Market to deposit some bags for recycling. Then we made the trek to my parents’ house just as it was getting dark. Muad’Dib was pretty exhausted by the end of it.

Once home, I tried to quickly wrap things up for bed. I used to have a life.

At least someone’s paying attention.

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Not Nothing

It started storming last night, and there was actually enough water on the road that I couldn’t reliably get over 50mph for a couple miles. It wasn’t a torrential downpour, but I guess the water wasn’t moving fast enough, or I may just have gone through a bunch of my tire tread since the last heavy rain. We made it to work though, and only encountered one vehicle stuck in the middle of the median.

Several were out today, so it was super quiet in the office. It was dry outside by lunch time, and it felt great out in the shade, so we went to Sonic for a red, white, and blue Creamslush with our lunch deal. Then I fought some unreliable and inconsistent policy changes in Intune, but never really felt good about a fix.

The drive home was pretty uneventful, and I decided to stop by Superfast to fill up on washer fluid. When I got home, I finally broke out the robot mower to see what it would do in our little half-moon of a lawn by the curb. It was frustrating at first because I didn’t RTFM, but once I figured out what I was doing, it actually worked surprisingly well. It still got stuck every few minutes, so I had to go rescue it a dozen times, but it did cut the majority of the grass. It was super patchy, but the grass was also quite a bit longer than it was rated to cut, so I was actually pretty happy with the results. It never once lemming-ed itself off of the curb, and basically only got stuck in the tight corners where it would try to back up and turn repeatedly until it lost traction in the long grass, or it would get stuck in the water meter hole.

Summer and I ate some leftovers and then I ran Muad’Dib to see my parents super quickly before making it back home. I ended up getting a stomach ache that kind of ruined the rest of my night, but I got some other things done and got to bed early.

Barely.

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Passersby

We stopped at Shipley’s for a kolache and free donut this morning. It was a quiet day at work, and I just kept repeatedly testing Intune policies all day. We took a break for some Sonic, and then we did a quick run up the road on the Onewheel since I just transferred it from Summer’s trunk to my own earlier in the morning. The afternoon dragged a bit, and somehow everyone snuck out and locked me in at the end of the day.

Along the way home, we ran into some heavy traffic right at Blackwell, so we exited and took the highway home. We stopped at the old house to check out the lawn, then made it home where Eaddie had stopped in earlier in the day. She never said a word to me, so I tried to quietly mouth to Summer about my earplugs, and that lead to a fight later on.

I cleaned up, took care of a bunch of Vine stuff, and threw out a bunch of food from the refrigerator that had gone bad. Then I took what was left, made some fresh rice, and had everyone gather for a little bit of dinner. Eaddie left, and I took Muad’Dib on a short run because he wasn’t super motivated to move. We visited my parents and then helped a kid re-chain his e-bike because he had no clue how it was supposed to be attached. Summer was in bed for a race early in the morning, so I stayed up late tinkering with my new Anbernic RG Rotate. I assumed it was something that would be ready to go out of the box, but it absolutely was not.

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The Dog is Bored

We somehow got out even earlier this morning. I poked Intune all day, trying to figure out something I thought I already knew. We went to Arby’s late for a really disappointing cheesesteak, which made the afternoon not drag on quite so long. Summer left for Sip and Stretch shortly after we got home, and then I dug around the house looking for more high fidelity ear plugs. I did find more, but not either of the ones I wanted. We eventually had to take off on the Onewheel so we could meet Summer and her old workmate at Point Remove. It thundered in the distance, and we caught a few sprinkles, but we made it before any serious rain. The girls sat and complained about work forever, so Muad’Dib and I just sat back in a chair. Next time I’ll leave it for the girls.

Fetching is hit or miss.

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Under the Wire

I had a bit of a rough morning, but we managed to get to work a little early for our staff meeting first thing. That took up a good portion of the morning, so the rest of the day kind of flew by. I had enough coffee in me to propel me through my normal lunch hour, but we went to Taco Bell a little later and Muad’Dib was so well behaved. For some reason he’s always much better there than at Sonic. That may be due to the number of carhops walking by constantly.

The rest of the afternoon flew by as I tried to fix a couple quirks, not really getting deep into any projects. Traffic was dumb when we first hit the Interstate, but we got ahead of the mess pretty quickly and made it home. Summer was already there after starting work super early. She was having a bath, so I got back to reviewing, trying to get over 90% before the end of the day.

A little later, Dad said they had spaghetti. Summer wasn’t hungry, so Muad’Dib and I rode over there to eat, and then headed home just before dark. He wasn’t running very much and wanted to skip several blocks. I didn’t argue since I still had more reviews to do, but I finally hit 91% before bed.

★★★★☆
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Runabout Rock

I had my wellness appointment this morning, and I really wanted to push the anxiety issue I’ve been having. I spent way more time talking to Irene, the nurse, than Crystal, who just came in for a couple minutes and basically asked how I was from across the room. She said she could refer me to a neurologist and run some extra labs, so I gave a little bit more blood and then left.

Summer, Muad’Dib, and I loaded up and headed to Little Rock after that. We went straight to Southern Tail for some lunch since we could take Muad’Dib out on the patio. They were pretty quiet and it was pretty hot outside, but they had sunshades up, and we got to sit on an outdoor couch to eat.

From there, we went up to my old office to see if we could catch Randy or any of the other guys. Anita had been moved to Transportation, and everyone I wanted to see was at HSTI, but I went back and saw Charles, Jimmy, and Gary all sitting on their computers scrolling social media.

We got to Gwatney Collision about half an hour early, but I filled out my paperwork and they got out pretty quickly to take pictures. I didn’t hear about my estimate again, but hopefully I’ll get an email soon. We left and went by the new Tesla service center to see what it was like. The showroom was surprisingly barren, but I talked to a guy named Vaughn(?) for a while before going back to the service department where I met Phillip.

I went back up front and got Vaughn to sign me up for a test drive of a Cybertruck. He had to take me first, but then he dropped me off and I took Summer for a spin. She was surprised at how well it drove and handled, so I guess that was a win.

We stopped once more for Muad’Dib and then headed to Conway for a charge. Summer said “ice cream” while I was thinking it, so we stopped at Kassi’s Cookies for a couple scoops and then made it home. Dad need to go to Walgreens, so I dropped Summer off and then picked him up. We got his prescriptions, then went to the Neighborhood Market to get my own before dropping him back off.

I did some cleanup back home when I got a call with lab results. They said I was a little low on iron, but not as bad as last year. I was also low on vitamin D3, so I’m adding both of those to my regimen. Then I took Muad’Dib for an evening run when it actually felt really nice out. We stopped to see my parents and I had some mango soup, and then we ran home in the twilight and raced to bed.

I asked you what I owed, so don’t send me a bill later!

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Lakey Sunday

Summer had plans to rent a boat for her work crew today, so she left pretty early. I got up for some breakfast and then got to work cleaning and sorting and reviewing. I had a decent groove going for the most part, but then Summer texted that she lost her Pixel Watch in the lake. I knew there was no sense trying to convince her to retrieve it, but luckily I had insurance on it. A quick chat with Nicole from Asurion and about $70 later, I had a replacement ordered for her.

I never made it to the shower before I wanted to go meet her at the marina, so Muad’Dib and I loaded up thee Onewheel and headed out to see them as they were coming back to shore. A park ranger asked me to physically leash him, so we had to ride back to the car to get that, but he behaved perfectly the whole time. We couldn’t find Summer until they had already returned the boat, but we talked to her as she left.

We made it back to the car and then went to my parents’ house to swap out a couple things. I brought the tiny robot mower home and left Dad’s new weather station. We got home and I continued my projects while Summer got cleaned up. We ate some leftovers for dinner, and eventually we settled down for another episode of Funny AF before bed.

Sunk Cost

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Listen

Summer got up and made us pineapple upside-down pancakes for breakfast. Eaddie was up late, so she didn’t get up until she had to start getting ready for band camp. I did some reviews and cleaned a while, eventually getting a shower so we could go to a matinee in town. I hadn’t heard anything leading up to the release of Disclosure Day, but it looked interesting.

We dropped Muad’Dib off with Dad and then made it to the theater just in time. I was pretty annoyed by the number of stuck pixels that were clearly visible in the middle of the film, but otherwise it was a good movie. Summer was clenched for a lot of the suspense, and the topic of aliens didn’t freak me out like it would have as a child.

Afterward, I dropped Summer off at home and then took the Onewheel to get Muad’Dib. She was making a sandwich when we got back, so I sat down to have one with her. I did a bit more cleaning up and then we watched a couple episodes of Funny AF and a little YouTube before she went to bed surprisingly late. I was up later doing a bit more, but I tried not to be up too late past midnight.

Swell!