Gotta love that yo-yo weather.
Aaaarrrggghhhh!!!!
I just realized I posted yesterday's weird news story in the good news thread.
And I hate to say it, but I think my celebrations over recovering from my GI issues might have been a tad premature.
I should have suspected the universe would have more to torment me with on that front.
It's going to be a busy day today. Probably an unpleasant one.
At least the office is closed tomorrow.
Earlier today, I decided to move forward with a long-simmering plan to look for another job. It's not that I hate the current job, but it has become rather unpleasant. And I was a bit disturbed to discover the company was apparently lax on its own business engineering license (or so the state website told me when I renewed my own). This after they just came out of bankruptcy a month or so before I started with them.
Anyway, so I applied to a couple of jobs I had saved up on Indeed. And I even got an offer to interview with one of them a few hours later. Hopefully a few more opportunities will pop up.
A Good Friday to (almost) one and all.
Since my current office is closed today, I've got an extra day to do the stuff I normally do all on Saturday or Sunday.
Not sure how I'll divide it up yet.
As far as I know, no one from the office is going to be working today.
That doesn't mean anyone won't be working. It just means they didn't bother telling me anything might be needed. That's okay, though. I've gotten use to being cut out of things. That's one reason I'm considering leaving the company.
In years past, Good Friday would always be the one day we definitely did not eat meat. Over the years, as I became less of a practicing Catholic, I divested myself of that tradition.
Still, at least one seafood meal today might be appropriate.
Not sure what my younger brother and his family are doing for this weekend. Haven't heard from them in awhile. It's very likely they're going out of town.
I think my GI issues my be resurfacing. Or at least some GI issues. Might try to call my doctor's office and make an appointment.
I bought another (much smaller) azalea to plant in front of the house yesterday. This one went in the small section of garden that helps divide the side walk leading up to the front door from the driveway.
Then in the afternoon my daughter spent about 20-30 minutes moping and telling my wife she was bored. So I made her come help me plant it. Followed that up with some more yard work.
Other than some laundry, I theoretically don’t have much else to do today. Other than some reading. Maybe a bit of map work.
Well, that was a waste of time and money. Thought I’d do a specialty Easter treat and cook bacon for the family. Ended up throwing away half of it.
The wife is still on her stupid diet. The kids are depressingly inadequate in their ability to consume one of the greatest foods developed by mankind, and I probably shouldn’t have eaten even one piece, let alone three.
And those three pieces will probably come back to haunt me.
It’s times like this, I’m glad I don’t have the power to end the universe. I’d probably do it in a heart beat.
I try to count my blessings. However, it’s hard when the curses are enough to prevent you from truly enjoying them.
I swear I used to be more positive.
The existence of other people took care of that.
Now I give it about 20-30 minutes.
I forgot my coffee mug at home.
I bring it home every weekend for a cleaning. And then I left it still sitting in the dishwasher.
So now I have to use one of those crappy, Dixie disposable cups all day.
The kind that only holds 12 ounces of coffee.
I say again.....stoopid Monday.
And when I got to work, the AC was going full blast already.
For the third time....stoopid Monday.
At least my drive in was pretty decent.
Coming off a three-day weekend, so it's a little slow in the office this morning.
None of my immediate co-workers are even here yet.
And at least one of them won't be in all week. He and his family went on a cruise.
This morning's drive was both frustrating and not too shabby.
Frustrating because catching one light started a domino effect that made it not one of the most pleasant Tuesday drives in to work.
Not too shabby because it was still one of the more pleasant Tuesday drives to work I've had.
I had emails from the boy's school this morning. Something about Attendance for Credit Warning. And it had a bit about 5 absences. That puzzled me, because we hadn't gotten a notice about the other four.
At first, I thought it might be some computer glitch. Then I recalled him being suspended for a few days for doing something incredibly stupid. SO maybe that has something to do with it.
The wife has access to the school account, so I forwarded it to her to check out.
And I made sure to tell the boy to ask about it at school.
And, just like that, the wife checked into it. It wasn't absences from school for the whole day, just the last class or two of the day. We've had to check him out a few times early this year. Combine that with the suspension, and he missed a class 5 times.
That sucks. I was hoping to keep checking him out early on days the troop leaves for campout. His idiot bus driver has been progressively late dropping him off, so he barely has enough time to eat before he has to leave.
‘Tis Wednesday! I am working from home!
I ran another two Boards of Review at the scout meeting last night. Would that my own son could be as capable of ranking up.
At least he showed some interesting in achieving….anything. He ran for the position of Quartermaster. He’s kind of been doing it for awhile anyway. Since we had to kick the other kid out.
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