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I don't think I have much to do today. I know some of the usual stuff. A couple loads of laundry. Some dishwashing (including unloading and reloading the dishwasher). I've also got to get outside at one point and clean up all the leaves that seem to have fallen just in time for winter to end.
Stoopid trees.
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Speaking of the dishwasher....
I stopped in at the scout shop yesterday to eat up some time and get the boy his new uniform pants. Since this was my first time in the new location, I had to stay awhile and jibber jabber with the store workers. They had a bunch of stuff discounted (I think to make room for new stock). Most of it I didn't need, but I did buy a cool collapsing lantern. And since the national organization just officially changed the name again, I bought one of the new name coffee mugs they already had.
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Anyway, the plan is to do a little mapping this morning. Then I'll get outside and clean up those thrice damned leaves before the HOA can whine like a bunch of Karens (or is it Margarets now?). After that, it'll be shower and my typical day.
I'm also hoping to get some reading, bagging, and boarding done.
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With the kids out of school all week for "Winter break" (i.e. yet another teacher vacation), I get to leave the house early each day. So I was on the road by quarter to 6 and pulling in the office parking garage at 5:59. That's when the wife texted me to show a picture of the dog with the aluminum foil in her mouth, locked in her kennel.
There was also a request from my wife about locking the "f$%&ing dog" in her kennel when I leave.
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Last night, just for the hell of it, I watched The Usual Suspects. It's easily one of my favorite films. The kind I can watch over and over. It got me thinking about what other films I'd put on that list:
Jaws
Big Trouble in Little China
John Carpenter's The Thing
Ronin (with Robert DeNiro)
The Pelican Brief
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Yesterday turned out to be a pretty good day, work wise. I kept busy, anyway. There was a lunch and learn my supervisor had arranged, that I had pretty much forgotten about. So instead of the leftovers I brought with me, I had fresh BBQ: some chicken, a bit of sausage, and a very small bit of brisket.
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The learning part of the lunch and learn was also pretty good. We had a guy from one of our partner companies. That company builds skids, especially metering skids. And this dude has a lot of experience in the field. So it was a really good overview.
He had a slide presentation with about 145 slides. He went through them all, but since we only had 2 hours or so, he skipped over a lot of them. I'm told he was going to leave the whole presentation on our server, however. So I'll have to go find it and read through it with a bit more detail.
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Definitely a colder Thursday. Just days ago we had highs in the upper 70s. Today our high will be in the low 50s. Currently outside it's in the low 40s. With some rain, just to make it a little more unpleasant.
That's one thing I hate about this time of year. The way we swing back and forth with temperatures. The worst are the days when we have the heat on over night, but have to switch to AC during the day.
Don't like the weather in Houston? Wait a few minutes.
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It was a busy Wednesday. And I think it'll be a somewhat busy day today as well. And I'll have to do a little work this weekend. One of the clients has a hydrotest scheduled for Saturday. Since I'm the designing mechanical engineer, it's up to me to be a witness.
Thankfully, I don't actually have to be present at the test itself. They'll just text me updates and images from the readings.
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Yesterday, my coworker was driving back from Corpus Christi and stopped at this place called Prasek's Family Smokehouse to pick up a late lunch. He brought the smoked turkey sammich back with him to the office and let me try a piece. And now I want to drive out to the restaurant and force them to give me their method of cooking.