march 29th, 2014: wu-tang...forever?

waking up pretty early partly because i went to sleep so early and partly because thats just how that works. 

my pedal is in, but i have to find something to do to kill time until i can pick it up. i took some time to hear some kylie and britney before making a couple purchases. and avoiding one. while doing all that i updated my comics stuff...finally it was off to the post office.

on the way home i stopped at the gym for shoulder day. i am so far away from where i want to be. i attempted one set of front raises at the highest weight i used to use. it was nearly impossible.

cleaning. napping.

back to work for music stuff.

cleaning again. laundry.

killing time with the adam sessler episode of triangulation. it was a pretty good interview and it was nice to hear some of the inside info on his life/work. and i finally watched that triple h/austin vs benoit/jericho match. it was really good for a typical tv match. and seeing how much triple h pressed on after his injury was surprising. especially taking that lion tamer.

march 28th, 2014: the struggle?

talking with sill about the inspection thing. it wasnt a great start to the day for either of us, but we're both just slightly annoyed with it. only because of the extra attention. luckily i had it under control and spent the next little while dealing with that.

we were going to have some of those higher power types coming around and generally i try to avoid that, but didnt quite pull it off this time. the noble one came by and made some comment about guitars and asked about the lego house thing.

him: whats this supposed to represent

me: ...the struggle?

i was going to say more, but then i felt that was enough. i got a laugh from him and the sill and moved on...on to the post office to pick up my chorus pedal. unfortunately, it wasnt 'processed' yet and so it was still being sorted or whatever they do.

over to a briefing thing. home. changing. back to work for guitar and fo finish the binder thing.

that was interrupted by a call which led to several calls. apparently something was happening with, to, or in alaska. when i called one person and they responded that they did have family there, i was caught off guard and had no idea how to deal with that. i asked if they were ok and made a note of it.

eventually we gave up on getting to everybody and i went back to guitar.

home. food. sleep around 9:30.

march 27th, 2014: i like to be surrounded in negativity

i got up kinda late today and felt a bit rough. it seems like the gym session from last night took a lot out of me. oh well... off to the gym for a workout. and some boys like girls.

mostly nothing happened at work. rocking out with no doubt and following that with a revisitation into the world of phillip roebuck.  

later in the evening i got an email from joana and we talked for a bit. our conversations are far off of what they were, but its still nice to hear from her. 

after work i sat around with armstrong for a bit while jed was dealing with a briefing thing. we talked about the usual stuff and somewhere in there i got a call about a "nasty email" concerning some inspection thing that id ignored. not on purpose though. so i didnt feel too bad. i still didnt like the extra attention...

moving on to pasta night. the conversation shifted to me and the people i keep around and what we talk about.

me (on the subject of jed): ...we talk about depression. just bringing each other down...

so true. thats what i tend to keep around. its not good, but on the upside its nice to have like-minded people around i guess

a long email reply about earlier...

bed

march 26th, 2014: i got dips for days

todays workout was a pretty quick one. with the extra time i walked the track for a while. its nice to get some time to think.

back at work watkins said something about my dips not being done properly. naturally, i told him we could go back to the gym right then and id show him how its done. joking, but willing to walk the walk if necessary. brandon chimed in and said to just do them between our desks. and i did. making condescending jokes to wakins all the while. and without breaking a sweat as someone commented. it was a fun little exchange

after work i picked up chinese food for the first time in a while. the guy remembered what i order, but neither of us were 100% on the cost.

napping before the gym. the previous week there had been a girl there and she seemed all right. we didnt talk or anything so my assumption was based on nothing of value. we did exchange a few words this time around though. i didnt quite catch everything because of that whole british accent/wording thing though.

back home to watch new girl and draw a picture for joanas birthday.

ending the night with a brief team us'ing and the new hold steady.

not a bad day.

march 25th, 2015: anal calibration authority

i woke up to an email from damien. it had been a while since i sent it and i was starting to wonder if he'd changed addresses. i miss that being a more regular thing. there arent many old friends i still keep up with like we used to and just not a lot of people that i can have good conversation with either.

hitting the gym before work. my progress has been going well, but at the same time it sucks to know that where i am now is where i was when i started after my last break, september 2011.

at work i get an email to deal with from the anal calibration authority. so that was a nice little ray of sunshine for the day.

brittenney and i went off to finally put in the order for her plaque. i gotta admit, i didnt expect it to take so many trips but at least we had a good time.

sitting back at work. waiting out the day. 

jed: so, uh, what are you working on?

me: *shoulder shrug* nuthin...

finally the day was over, but thanks to some safe issues we got held up. eventually that got worked out.

playing guitar. watching archer and chozen.

joanas birthday was coming up and i was pretty low on ideas. we hadnt talked much so i had to dig a little deep for an idea for a card. one of my oldest memories of her is kinda how i looked down at her for beetlejuice being one of her favorite movies. i figured maybe the movie would give me an idea for a card. i watched the whole movie and it was pretty bad. it also didnt give me a single idea. quite the waste...