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Icetown

It just kept getting colder and colder today. I got to call 911 to test the office phone system, which was mildly entertaining. Summer joined Ben, Zach, Gary, and me for $5 salads at Ruby Tuesday. Then I met Aimee after school so I could try and recover files and restore her son’s old laptop. I ended up staying pretty late working on a stupid Chrome issue on an old music department computer, and it was super cold when I got home.

Autumn had her Christmas concert, but I didn’t have the nerves to make it back out. I had a drink and just mellowed out at home until they finished, and then Summer came by and took us to Waffle House for a late dinner.

Scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, diced, peppered, capped, topped, country.

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My Own Shipping Hub

Today was unseasonally warm, so of course I had to take the bike in to work. I wasn’t there very long before the deliveries started showing up at my house. The morning went by really quickly and I should have stuck with a Soylent for lunch, but I ended up back at the shop to see what the others were doing. Zach and Gary were headed to Morelos, so I joined them for some actually tasty fajitas.

I closed out a few things in the afternoon, but had to fight exhaustion from a week of pretty poor sleep. I’ve been waking up a lot in the middle of the night and tossing around a bit for some reason. It started to cool off pretty quickly after work, so I headed home and started cleaning up packaging again. I’ve got a handful of rebates to mail off before I can get rid of it all. Once I found the washing machine, I started some laundry and spent a good portion of the evening re-labeling and organizing all of my socks.

UPS, FedEx, and USPS either really love me or really hate me right now.

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Splashmas Fiesta

Summer got up and made pancakes and eggs for breakfast this morning. I surfed deals for a little bit before going home to clean up and find an outfit to wear for her company Christmas dinner. I picked up Noah on the way back up, and we got everyone loaded into the car for a bit of shopping before the shindig.

Our first stop was in Conway so I could try and find a couple clearance deals at Home Depot. I dropped three of them off at Target first, but Eaddie didn’t get her shoes on in time and ended up having to go to Home Depot with me. We wandered around for much longer than I planned, and only found one of the deals I wanted. The SodaStream wasn’t discounted to a good price at all, so we left with only a Klein cable tester.

When we got back to Target, Eaddie just wanted to stay in the car, so it was up to me to fetch the others. Noah was the only one to buy anything, and that was a soda. Then it was off to Little Rock. We were a bit early for the party, so we went to McCain Mall first and let Autumn run through the PINK store for some overpriced whatevers. Then she and Eaddie went to Bath & Body Works for some slightly less overpriced stuff while the rest of us went to GameStop.

By the time we made it through there, it was time to gather everyone up and head to The Greens in Sherwood. The company rented out a building at the country club and had some Mexican joint cater fajitas. It was definitely less “happening” than any of us expected, and the two caterers plating the food made everyone getting through the line extremely slow. They played a slideshow with a bunch of old employees that ticked Summer off, and then had some “game” where employees got to bid on some really crappy door prizes with sixteen fake dollars. Like, a bag of tongs, bad.

We made it home pretty quickly, and shuffled everyone off to bed. At least we got everyone out of the house.

SIXTEEN!!!

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A Zenni for Your Thoughts?

We had a little bit of a meeting this morning, and by that I mean that everyone showed up at the shop on time. We did a whole lot of sitting and chatting, and I was assigned to help Amanda relocate a television from her office back to the shop, which we opted to do in the afternoon. I actually spent all morning at the shop just sort of killing time until lunch, though I did work on some more Adobe deployments while I waited. It sort of became a running gag that people would ask me what was for lunch, I’d reply “Popeye’s,” which everyone would agree to, and then they’d ask me again a couple minutes later. Jason and Allen ended up splitting off to go to Old South, while Ben, Zach, Gary, and I went to Popeye’s to try their elusive chicken sandwich.

That chicken sandwich was delicious. I still felt like it was a bit small, especially compared to Gary’s, whose chicken looked plump and delicious. I really enjoyed the extra spike in the spicy mayo or whatever sauce they had on it. It would have been even better with a slice of tomato and maybe some lettuce. I still haven’t had one from Zaxby’s yet, but as far as chicken sandwiches go, I think this one was my favorite from any fast food joint.

After lunch I milled around the shop again for a while before running home to move a bunch of packages inside. My hot air popcorn maker finally came in, so I took it to my office along with a big container of kernels. I didn’t completely think that through though, as I tried popping a very small portion of kernels that kept jumping out of the popper. When I finally added the proper amount of kernels, they just blew out all over my little breakfast nook.

After work, I went home to pick through all my day’s shipments. My Zenni Optical glasses finally came in, and I spent a good deal of time trying to adjust some frames for a better fit. It took me a lot of tweaking, but I think I’m finally pretty happy with my first pair. It’s only been a little over a week, but I’ve already forgotten all the different features I ordered, so it’ll be fun to compare everything in the end.

When Summer got home, I headed up and ate some leftovers while she told me all about how she didn’t like my new glasses as much, but the accents were alright, and overall they looked okay. I’m just glad we’re finally past having to compliment dinner for being better than it really was. Eaddie snuggled up next to me on the couch and we watched some YouTube until everyone was ready to pass out. Summer didn’t even make it of the couch.

Yo that’s how it post to be.

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Often Imitated

Winter makes it hard to roll out of bed for work in the morning. I don’t recall it doing any favors for work in the afternoon either though. I took my toaster in to work so I could have a piping hot bagel. I hadn’t been there for very long before UPS showed up with my Macy’s package. It was my toaster oven and electric skillet. I went home for lunch to bring them in, and I’m pretty sure I scared off a tweaker that was trolling through my neighborhood on a bicycle. He seemed to be looking pretty intently at all the doors, and then immediately left when he saw me park the car.

After that, I talked myself into going to Burger King for their Bacon King. It wasn’t anywhere near as good as Wendy’s Baconator, but it wasn’t awful either. It was big though, I have to give them that.

The afternoon went by pretty slowly as well, until I tried to go by the shop and discovered everyone had already gone home due to the Christmas parade. It wasn’t even 4:30 yet, and people were already lining up along the street to see the show, and the traffic just made me angry. I hate parades.

I went home to chill out for a while before heading up to Summer’s, where I emptied the refrigerator of all the remotely relevant leftovers I could find. Summer wanted nachos, and it was my job to figure out how to make that happen out of Thanksgiving leftovers. I think I did pretty well.

We ended the evening with a couple episodes of Parks and Recreation, and then I spent some time browsing for sunglasses with bayonet temples, because I’m eclectic like that. The Chinese counterfeit market is pretty good for those, too.

Is it good that you can’t tell the difference?

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Hamburger Visage

Today was boring. I picked at a few things at work, but bored myself avoiding all the usual things. Nobody said anything about lunch, so I mixed up some powdered Soylent. I only made a 200kcal serving, which will usually hold me over in a pre-made bottle of v2.0. Instead, I just felt super hungry all afternoon. I couldn’t stop thinking about hamburgers, and I could never shake that the rest of the day.

Ben stopped by in the afternoon and did a little work in my office, but vanished again while I had left to work on something else. I went home after work expecting something fun from UPS, but it ended up being my toaster for work. While I was there, I decided to finally mount the shim behind my doorbell so the camera would be a little more centered. Then I went to my parents’ for some more fish soup.

After digging through some more old crap from my childhood, I hit up Shell for some cheap gas and then headed to Summer’s. She wanted to keep my new toaster, so now I have a brand new, used toaster for work. I sat on the couch and played some more Tomb Raider on Stadia, and eventually everyone went to bed.

Isn’t it peculiar how everything is perfectly fine while you’re brushing our teeth, but as soon as you spit a big wad of toothpaste out and accidentally hit your toothbrush, it becomes super gross?

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Nice to See Yule

It was pretty cold this morning, but the afternoon turned out pretty nice. I made it in to work and picked at a few things in the morning until I had to leave for my contact refitting. I’m not sure what brand they had me try first, but they were always dry and scratchy, and just generally fit really poorly. The ACUVUE OASYS they gave me today were immediately way better, though still felt a bit scratchier than the CooperVision Proclear lenses from my existing prescription. They also give me some sort of aberration that I mostly noticed in my upper left peripheral vision, but that may become less noticeable with time.

When I finished with that appointment, I went by Taco John’s and picked up some lunch to surprise Summer. We ate quickly, and then I went to the shop to check in since I didn’t do that yesterday after our week break. I mingled and chatted there for quite a while before heading back to the high school to finish the day. I wrapped up by tinkering with my tiny Christmas tree to get it all properly lit, then headed to my parents’ house for dinner. Mom made some fish soup out of the turkey broth Dad made. Then I picked through another bag of old nostalgic crap that Dad was trying to throw away before going to get the girls from karate.

We headed to their house for the evening, and I played on Stadia for a bit. Farming Simulator 19 seemed about as complicated as I expected. Then I switched to Tomb Raider, another December freebie. It played pretty well, but there was one particular moment where I definitely blamed my repeated deaths on input lag.

Can’t forget Hog Wild Wednesday for 10¢ off at Shell tomorrow!

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Blurry Work Day

It was really tough getting to work today. I mostly sat quietly in my office all day, not even leaving for lunch. I was wearing my trial contacts, and as the day progressed I just hated them more and more. One or the other of my eyes was pretty much always blurry, and probably dry. I finally called the clinic and scheduled an appointment to try another pair tomorrow.

I got one stubborn deployment made for Heather, and had two thirds of a Soylent for lunch, and then went to my parents’ house for dinner. I was able to clean up a bunch of leftovers from Thanksgiving, and then Dad and I went through some more old stuff from my old bedroom. Eventually I had to head home to clean up, and then did some more deal hunting before bed.

We’re entering the package delivery zone. Brace for impact!

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Splashgiving

We got up this morning and had some leftover barbecue for brunch, and then Summer left for the gym. We wanted to head to Little Rock early so we could make a day of it, but I ended up feeling a little crummy and we only really had time to stop at Sam’s in Conway. We wandered around there until a good departure time to arrive at the Splash Thanksgiving shindig close to six o’clock. Ben, Sarah, and the kids were all in the kitchen of their new historical house-office finishing up dinner, so we got a tour of the rest of the place. Having an office there seemed unnecessarily expensive, but maybe it’s not as bad as I suspected. Nobody asked my opinion.

Overall it was a good time, and we both got some practice talking to new people. I was really glad I decided to dress way up, even though Summer said not to worry about it. There were people wearing jeans to be sure, but otherwise it was a pretty clean-cut crew, and slacking on formality wouldn’t have done us any favors. We mingled for just a little after dinner, then headed home so Summer could go to sleep for work in the morning. Then I stayed up for the next six hours self-learning optometry so I could purchase cheap eyeglasses with greater confidence, because that’s the kind of shit I do for fun apparently.

F = Fcyl*(SIN(Î))2 where Fcyl is the cylinder power and Î is the angle between the cylinder axis and the new meridian.

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Ramping up for Break

We met at the shop this morning but didn’t have any projects, so I ended up walking around vo-tech with Ben and some guys that were going to quote a cell dialer for our fire panels. Afterward, I went inside and did a couple little work orders before heading back to the shop for lunch. Allen was the only one at the shop, so he and I left to meet Gary, Zach, and Jason at Brangus for lunch. My beef spud was particularly good today.

After lunch I got a bit of an ocular migraine and had to sit down for a while. Gary came into Zach’s office with me since Zach left for a lockdown drill, and we chatted about what life is like being surrounded by girls. Nearing the end of the day, we started to look at my PowerShell script again, but ultimately left without learning much even after Ben joined in.

I ran home to get my delivered Stadia package inside, then went to Russellville Eye Clinic for my appointment. I had to fill out some new patient paperwork and waited just a little while before they called me back. Then they set me up at a machine with a little farm house inside it, and it wiggled around until it had my approximate prescription. Most of my time in the back was spent giving them information about my past prescriptions, but at one point they brought the insurance lady back to talk to me, and it was my old classmate Brian’s mother Donna that recognized my name and came back to chat briefly.

Overall, my experience at the clinic was wonderful, and everyone I dealt with was super friendly. I guess nobody really went way out of their way to do anything necessarily, and the girl that helped me initially seemed pretty new, but nothing about my visit was deserving of any of the 1-star reviews the place has on Google Maps. Once I complete my contact fitting and get new glasses or whatever, I’ll have to add my own comments.

When I got back home, I set up my Stadia and tried to load up Destiny 2, but encountered an error. Clint said the game servers crashed earlier today, which made me feel better about it not being a Stadia issue, but I still didn’t get a chance to play anything before I had to run to Summer’s to get the girls. Autumn had a date to go bowling, and the rest of the family chaperoned. The boy seemed nice, though awkward and possibly a bit outwardly immature for a 17-year-old. It was a good time though, and a couple girls I knew came up and bowled next to us. Taylor mentioned their annual Halloween party and said she would have to make sure I got the invite next year, and before they left I had to point Alex out to Summer because she didn’t really recognize me as the one who bought their Grom.

The girls went to bed pretty quickly once we got home. I sat down to re-skin my Pixel 2 XL, and got the new screen protector on as well. Then I lost myself in Zenni Optical for a while before heading to sleep.

I had forgotten how beautiful this bare phone is.