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Clean and Shuffle

I still felt super tired all day today, but I did my best to stay focused. I did a bunch of reviews in the morning, and then watched the Waveform episode video since they did it in front of the eclipse in Spain. Summer went to the gym, and I put together another little nightstand thing to put in the laundry room. The one she built before was too big to go where I wanted it, so I wanted to swap walls to make things fit better and be more accessible.

Eaddie left in the afternoon and we never saw her again. When dinner time came around, Summer wanted spaghetti. Rather than cook it among all the chaos, I took her to Olive Garden where I learned you can actually get refills on the soups if you do that instead of the salad. We had a good meal, and then I dropped her off while I took Muad’Dib on a quick run to my parents’ house and back.

I had to do a bit of work before bed, in preparation for the morning when everyone will be figuring out the Aptean migration that happened over the weekend.

Reorg!

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Focus In

Today was the big day to get everyone ready for our Aptean migration. I had spent so much time fighting managed bookmarks that I completely forgot to deploy the AppController application that would be required to connect to our new server. I felt that compressing as the day carried on.

It was pretty quiet upstairs, so I probably could have done a better job of maintaining focus. Lunch time arrived before I knew it, so we ran to Sonic. They were super busy and slow, so I ended up bringing some food back to the office to eat after our Aptean call.

The afternoon became a bit more stressful, especially as everyone wrapped up on the old server and left a little early. I did not, and I’ll still have some extra prep to do over the weekend so I can get the required information out, since deployments were unreliable.

Summer got my tires replaced, so we didn’t go straight home. She was at work when we got to town, so Muad’Dib and I went to AT&T for a few minutes. By the time we made it to the lube, Summer was just finishing up, so I traded cars with her. I beat her home and had to unbox a few things before I could park in the garage.

After her shower, Summer wanted to go to Point Remove for some wings. We got in and the place was practically shoulder-to-shoulder, so we ended up leaving and going to Buffalo Wild Wings instead. We were practically alone on the hot patio, which got much nicer after the sun went down. We had some decent food at a fraction of the price, then got home after dark.

Muad’Dib was whimpering for his grandpaw, so I took him for a run. He did his whole route all the way to my parents’ house where we visited for a bit. Then we cut off a small block on the way home. Summer was passed out, so he went to bed while I dawdled for a while before going to sleep.

Definitely not locked in.

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Not My Favorites

We got out really late today, but made it in just fine. I was pretty quickly up and around, fixing a couple things in Heaven’s new office and then for Rhonda’s daughter downstairs. It was busy, but a bit relaxing to be able to move around some. I stayed busy all day, so it went by quickly. My main project while I was at my desk was to get favorites and bookmarks managed in Edge and Chrome.

We went to Taco Bell for a late, small lunch. Then we had cake for Amanda’s birthday when we got back. The afternoon was uneventful, and then we took the second exit coming home to try and avoid the traffic. Summer was home not feeling well, so she was on the couch all evening. She acted like she wanted to go out for dinner, but then didn’t, so I ate some leftover roast and then took Muad’Dib out for a run when it got cooler out.

I tried to stay behind Muad’Dib for the entire run, so he could lead the way he wanted to go. He covered most of our usual path, but he skipped most of the same bits we skipped yesterday. It felt awful and humid out, and I just wanted him to hurry anyway. We briefly visited my parents and then got home well after dark. Summer had gone to bed before we even left, so I wrapped up early.

VINTON!

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Busy Moving Day

Today was finally the day to move Heaven out to her new office/shipping container. I got in and things were fairly quiet, but it wasn’t long before I was running all over the place. Johnny called me pretty early too, because he had a switch that went out, and he had no idea what to do. I was years out of practice, but I tried to give some general guidance. I knew he would need to call someone that could really help him though.

Heaven eventually called to say she was ready, so we moved the few things she had out into her new office. I felt bad, because the window unit is super loud and sits right behind her head. She seemed to like it though. I had to run out a couple times for other stuff, but by the end of the day I think we had everything working.

I considered skipping lunch again, but finally gave up out of hunger and the need for a break. We ran to Wendy’s quickly to grab some cheap lunch, then ate it in my office. The afternoon went by fairly quickly, and I ended up leaving about half an hour late because I was trying to figure out a firewall rule for my printer VLAN. Then I thought I was going to Pottsville to help Johnny.

I ran home to grab a console cable for him, since he couldn’t find one anywhere. I couldn’t find mine either though, and ended up eating some brats with Summer. She had cleaned up and got everything ready for us so I could eat and run, but Johnny ended up getting a hand from one of the guys at Next Step Innovation.

It felt like it got dark fast. Eaddie came home for a bit since she was finally finished house sitting. Then she left again, and I took Muad’Dib out for a shortened run. It wasn’t miserable out, but it just felt hot and bad. Muad’Dib didn’t want to get going fast, so I cut a few blocks out of our run to get to my parents’ house. Then we didn’t visit long before heading home.

Summer had already cleaned up and sets the trash and recycling out for me, so I quickly got my own stuff done and headed to bed.

These late drops are killer.

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I Know Subnetting

Summer took my car to work today so she could try and find some tires for me, and so I wouldn’t be on the highway with bad tires. That meant I did more driving than usual, but we made it to work without too much trouble. I definitely missed my Model 3. I was still feeling pretty behind all day, so I did my best to catch up. I brought a Soylent and worked right through lunch.

Johnny called a couple times, and I had to juggle him with being a little busy myself. I ended up on the phone with him for about an hour, trying to explain subnetting of all things. He’s going to have some trouble in a school that large, but if he sticks around, he’ll have a tremendous opportunity to learn and leave.

My day dragged on a bit, but then it was over before I knew it. I got some of my stuff accomplished, but there will be more tomorrow. There always is. I ended up leaving late, and then put the whole back seat cover in so Muad’Dib would have more room for the drive home. We’ll be in the Model Y for at least another day or two, so I didn’t want him to feel cramped in the tiny, single seat.

We made it home and found Summer in the tub. I finished up the pork chop and most of the veggies, and put up a few Vine things before taking Muad’Dib for a run. I tried on some bone conducting headphones that I had just gotten, and they came with a little rubber strap to help hold them on a little tighter. We weren’t even half a mile down the road when I felt a snap, and the little strap had flown off far enough that I couldn’t find it, no matter how hard I tried. It had to be in the grass somewhere, far off of the road. I really tried to find it, but it was just gone.

It wasn’t miserably hot, but it felt more oppressively humid as the evening went on. We made it to my parents’ house where Mom was cleaning up while Dad was out to dinner with friends. I developed an ocular migraine, so we waited around for Dad to get home, then made it home in the sticky dark. Summer was in bed, so I did my best to wrap up quickly and hit the sack.

Well, well, well… How the turntables.

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HAHANO

We got to work today, hoping to leave early to pick up my car. I was fairly busy all morning trying to catch up, but I skipped lunch and got permission to leave at three. Summer picked up the Buick from my parents’ house and I met her at the wash in Maumelle so they could do an outside wash and quick detail for us. Then we continued to Sam’s Club where we left Muad’Dib in the Model 3 loaner until we could return the Buick and finish up with my car.

It was spotty and dirty from sitting outside all week, but the concern spots from before looked to be resolved. We definitely just accepted it as-is out of exhaustion over the situation, though. While we were checking it out, Summer noticed my front wheels were showing cord on the inside, which was likely caused by the bumpiness I had been experiencing. We settled up, then went back to move Muad’Dib over to my car. I had an anxiety attack in the middle of that, which made my fourth in four days. Summer called Discount Tire to try and find replacements, but the computers were down in Russellville after the quick and powerful storm that blew through earlier, and they couldn’t see whether they had any.

When we got to Tesla, I asked them about squeezing me in. They had the tires, but not the manpower, and couldn’t do anything for me. We decided to continue home carefully, and I’d just have to get tires and an alignment back home. We continued on to KPOT at Summer’s request and had hot soup for dinner. I was sweating profusely, and probably didn’t enjoy the food as much as I could have, but it was still good.

Anneka at Gwatney forgot to charge me up some more, but we managed to make it to Conway for a Supercharge. Then I took it easy all the way home. Summer left her car at my parents’ house, so Muad’Dib and I ran over there on the Onewheel to get it. Then it was a quick cleanup to get to bed on time. Eaddie came by and ran through the house, but was hardly here for more than a minute.

I’m two tired for this.

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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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A Lot for a Little Run

I got up early so I could go to Fort Smith with Summer for her run this morning. I had an anxiety attack as I was getting ready, but it didn’t seem to affect me long. I was still pretty exhausted as we left, but it was a smooth ride. We made it to Ben Geren park only to discover a disappointing number of runners, running anything from a 5k to a marathon, depending on how many times they looped back around the track. It didn’t really seem like many people knew each other, but it was a seriously tiny group of maybe 20 people. One of them was Hot Springs native, multi-title world champion, professional arm wrestler, “Monster” Michael Todd, who arrived in a giant motorhome wrapped with giant pictures of his face. There appeared to be no fanfare. We arrived early, because Summer anticipated it would take her some time to get her packet, but we spent all that extra time wandering around in the hot sun.

I had forgotten to load my Onewheel, so when the race finally started, Muad’Dib and I walked over to a pavilion with some picnic tables and sat in the shade. We had a surprisingly strong breeze over there, which I hadn’t felt at all when we were walking around. It felt really great over there as we waited, expecting to see Summer come around the bend. I took a picture of a couple cheering on their son, then shared it with them. Summer never showed up though. Evidently her run took her on another path, and we found her back at the finish after less than half the time it took us to drive to the race in the first place.

We didn’t stick around, and instead drove to a place called Digs in The Bakery District. I guess it was a little grouping of places in one spot. We found parking across the street and walked up to the patio where they were doing yoga. A server greeted us, had us pick a seat, and then the food service was quite quick. Muad’Dib did well with some passers-by, and we had a really tasty, elevated, expensive brunch. We had a couple cocktails and shared a bagel board with a couple fancy cream cheeses and peanut butter. Then Summer had a sandwich, and I had a burrito. Everything was really tasty, but definitely priced as an upscale establishment in a rich part of town.

Lastly, we swung by Truong Son on the way home to browse for some Asian foods. We didn’t get much, but I picked up a smallish can of Café du Monde coffee and chicory blend to add to my collection. I made a cup when we finally made it home, but found it mostly bitter. Summer and I lounged around the house the rest of the day, both exhausted from the morning adventure. I eventually had some leftover chicken salad for an early dinner, and cleaned a bunch of moth-filled boxes of cereal out of the pantry. We played a Netflix miniature golf game on the TV, and then Summer watched the worst of the Ghostbusters movies.

I did a bit of cleaning, but it was overall a very quiet evening until bed.

It’s a vibe.

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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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No, I Don’t Want Insurance!

I had a lighter day today, with a bit more focus and less being dragged between projects. Muad’Dib threw up a little bit in the car, but I didn’t find out until we got there. It was easy to clean up though. I started off with a Soylent, which probably helped me feel a bit better. Janice came upstairs saying something about a lizard in a coffee cup on the breakroom table, so I made sure to stop by later to check that out.

The morning went by fairly quickly, and we went to Sonic for a light lunch of corn dogs and chili cheese fries. It was super hot coming back though. The sun has been brutal in the afternoons. I stopped by the breakroom and took the little lizard upstairs, and Google identified it as a mediterranean house gecko at just barely an inch long without his tail, which he presumably lost when he was captured. Evidently there is a breeding population here, but they haven’t been found to be damaging to the environment. I figure best to keep him out of the wild, so I took him home.

The afternoon was fairly busy as I focused on trying to get the gate doorbell to talk to the RingCentral system. I think it came down to subnetting again, or at leasts, network configuration. I’ll have more decisions to make tomorrow. We left it unfinished for the day, and headed home to unbox a few things before Summer got home.

Eaddie got there just after I did, but was in and out pretty quick. Summer just barely missed her, but seemed to come home in a reasonably good mood. I had to pin her down for a long conversation though, since she’s been constantly moody blue. I think it helped, but we just can’t keep any momentum when she’s always worn out from work.

We eventually headed over to my parents’ house for a quick swim and some shrimp soup. We also took a plastic cart over to assemble, because I thought they’d like it for storage or rolling around gardening stuff in the spring and fall. Muad’Dib ran over, then got some more zoomies around the pool for a bit. Summer went in to help Mom while Dad watered plants and I assembled the cart. Then we ate and ran, to get home for a late bedtime. I got the gecko into a tiny aquarium I got from Vine a while back, and left him with a caterpillar from the pantry.

Watch out, he’s sticky!