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Taco Tuesday

Hard to believe it, but for as many times as we’d been to Taco John’s on a Tuesday, the title wasn’t taken. We left a little early so I could pick up a breakfast burrito, but their terrible app had them walking it out to me about ten minutes late. We got to work nonetheless, quiet as ever. Shane hit me up early about the approval process I built out, so he got to test it for me. There was more to do with it, but as usual, the problem is deeper than that.

Between permissions structures and the network, I feel like my work will never be done. Maybe that’s good. Who’s to say. I bounced between a few things throughout the day, then went to Ortega’s by myself I thought the girls downstairs might want to go this week, but nobody said anything. While I was there, Nicole spotted me from across the restaurant and came to say hi. She was out on maternity leave forever.

The afternoon dragged a little bit. I was there a little late, but made it home easily. Summer was home a tad early, and then Eaddie came home for a bit. I got a big package that was supposed to be a motorcycle stand, but ended up being a case of 192 one-ounce amber glass spray bottles. I took Muad’Dib for an early run, took my parents a solar light, and then made it back home before dark.

Eaddie took off, Summer went to bed, and I did my usual cleaning up and prep before bed.

Lace ’em up!

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MisgAIded

I spent all day fighting with Power Automate to get my approval process working, and a big part of it was broken because I had the wrong email connector. For some reason there was no warning about a certain v3 connector that simply wouldn’t work, and Copilot kept telling me to try fixing it the wrong way. Finally, Gemini set me straight and I had it working by the end of the day.

Somewhere in there, I took a really late lunch. We were headed to Sonic, but the app wouldn’t let me submit my order, so I ended up at Wendy’s instead. I refused to go to Sonic without being able to redeem my rewards, and Wendy’s had free chili. I ate fairly light and then finished up the quiet afternoon.

Summer was having a dumb day and wanted a drink, so I stopped by the liquor store for her on the way out of town. When I got home, I started prepping sandwiches for us, and we had a nice dinner of pesto chicken on pretzel buns. That cleaned up a lot of the leftovers, which was great. Then I took Muad’Dib on a quick run to try and beat sundown.

It was still pretty dark when we got back. Summer settled down for bed and I cleaned up and prepped for work before crashing.

60.1%!

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Pizza and Beer and Dog and Eggrolls

I didn’t let myself sleep in today, instead opting to continue writing reviews and cleaning up. I had some coffee and Summer went to the gym. Eaddie left to go with Eli’s family and help with some stuff in Little Rock. I told Summer I really wanted to take Muad’Dib out somewhere for lunch since we were stuck in the house all day yesterday, so when she got home and cleaned up, her choice was Point Remove.

We headed downtown to a mildly busy bar, ordered some wings, pizza, and beer, and had a good little lunch date. Muad’Dib got lots of oohs and ahhs as usual. Afterward, we came home and tried to find something to watch. That took a while since neither of us really had anything in mind. I eventually put on Jo Koy’s new Netflix special, which I didn’t love. I didn’t remember him being so needlessly vulgar, but he had some sentimental bits that I guess made a good story.

As we finished that up and I started to get hungry for dinner, Mom called and told me to come fry eggrolls. Muad’Dib and I took the Onewheel over and I started frying. Summer eventually made her way over, but ended up doubled over in gas pains, so she didn’t eat. It was late by the time I finished, so we headed home and I wrapped things up for bed.

Still serving my sentence…

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Clean and Plumb

Summer had to work today, and Eaddie had to practice before a ballgame in the evening, so Muad’Dib and I had the house to ourselves. I got up with Summer and started cleaning for a bit. I stopped to make myself a chicken pesto sandwich kind of early just in case she wanted me to take her some lunch later, but she ended up not. I continued cleaning and then wrote reviews between sessions, partially since what I was cleaning up was crap that needed to be processed.

I got an email that it was my turn to order a Steam Frame, so I got that done. I was glad to have made it higher on the list than Johnny so I could order it on my own account. It should come in within a week or so, and I also ordered all of the first party accessories and a color passthrough camera from Arcturus.

Later in the afternoon, one of my projects was to install a cup rinser in place of our old soap pump in the kitchen sink. Summer got home from work just as I was getting started, but she took a shower and then immediately left for Eaddie’s game. I managed to get the rinser installed with no leaks all by myself, and I was pretty happy with it. My only concern is the hammering it does if you don’t press down hard enough. The water pressure is so high that it wants to pop up and shut off, or else it fills the cup entirely with water super quickly. I really do need to call a plumber, but I still want high water pressure for our showers.

Time flew by as I continued cleaning. It was already starting to get dark, but I took a shower then ran Muad’Dib to my parents’ house. We encountered a couple larger dogs on the loose along the way, and Muad’Dib wanted to chase, but I wouldn’t let him. We made it to my parents’ house, and Mom was meal prepping for the week. They had the deep fryer out, so I helped fry some more shrimp chips. Mom had spaghetti cooking, but also tried making some Bánh Tiêu. She decided to fry those inside while I fried the shrimp chips, and then Dad fried some chicken strips after that.

We ate the chicken, and then I headed home. Summer had gotten back from the football game a little earlier, and was getting ready for bed. I did a few more reviews, and then crashed after a long Saturday on my feet.

Still in jail. These requirements have gone way up.

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Clacky

I did a whole lot of typing today.

We went to Wendy’s for a free cheeseburger, Sonic for some free cheddar peppers, and Casey’s for a free slush. Then the afternoon got quiet as everyone upstairs left.

We stopped by the lube to see Summer since she had to close. Then I got home and discovered that Eaddie’s trash had collected ants again. Then I saw the front door was left ajar by about six inches. It looked like she didn’t even pull it shut when she left around two.

Summer came home and we had another fight about it all while she was trying to cook some ramen. I eventually just had to walk away and came back to her sitting in the floor, so I got her up into a chair and fed.

I stayed up late doing as many reviews as I could, but I just kept losing energy.

48%

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Always Write

I had an anxiety attack in the shower this morning, which again seemed like the first in a little while. I took a muffin to work for breakfast, and I knew it had just gotten ants around it before I put it in the fridge, so I ignored the couple dead ones that were in the box. Then, after I took a bite, I saw one of the crumbs wiggle in the box. It was so tiny that I couldn’t tell if it was a caterpillar or a maggot, but I spat it out regardless. That left me pretty hungry all morning.

I was put in Vine jail last night, so I couldn’t see any products except for what came across my Vine Helper feed that was still loaded. I couldn’t load a new page, but I could see what was coming in. I spent a lot of time writing reviews between other projects, trying to catch up after all those phone cases I ordered.

Later in the morning, I caught David and asked him to walk me around the plant to see where the PoEs were for the camera system. I’d love to redo all of that since pretty much everything had been run separately without a master plan.

We went to Arby’s for lunch to try the ArbyQ and the steak nuggets. Both were pretty middling, but I got my fill. The afternoon went by fairly quickly, and then we got stuck behind some annoyingly slow, left lane-hogging folks on the way home. Summer skipped out on Sip + Stretch, but originally said she still wanted wings. By the time we got there, she had changed her mind about that too. I ended up warming up some rice and chicken for her, and then for Eaddie when she came home briefly. I had a little bit myself to clean it up, and then I took Muad’Dib on a run.

It got dark super fast. I thought we left early enough to get back before dark, but we did not. Mom had a little bit of spaghetti squash for me to clean up with vinegar, soy sauce, sriracha, and beef jerky. Then we got home to get ready for bed.

Wake me up when September ends.

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But Did You Document It?

I took my little baby bottle full of creamer to work today, and after we got there and I shook it up, it leaked all over the place. When I tried tightening it down, the threads snapped off of the top part of the lid, so then I was stuck with a full, broken bottle all day.

I contemplated wiping my phone again, but I think I finally got most of my text messages transferred through. I hate that Google Fi doesn’t keep all of that in the cloud any more, and that was a big part of why I switched to them in the first place. Now with RCS encryption, backing up and restoring is a lot more iffy.

Eaddie called me pretty early in the day, trying to get tickets to see Harry Styles. If she had told me they had an Amex presale, I could have found my card and gotten her tickets easily, but instead she missed out because my card wasn’t in the stack on my desk where she could find it.

After that, I was fairly focused on a couple of projects. I keep bouncing between different things that all ultimately rely on big network changes, so I think now is the time to start building out new subnets and VLANs. I broke out NetBox yesterday, and continued documenting things there today. Hopefully with that, along with my “little friends” as leadership like to call them, I can get things migrated smoothly.

We had Sonic for lunch, but I forgot to redeem my extra snack, so I gave Muad’Dib some of my ice cream. The carhop actually offered a pup cup, but then didn’t return with one. Then when I unwrapped my burger, it had no tomatoes or pickles instead of extra, so a different carhop brought me a cup full of them. That actually made the burger way better, so no complaints there.

The afternoon was more focus, and then we got home a little late. I installed a different phone mount in my car, then warmed up some leftovers for dinner. I also made some fresh rice, so the girls could eat when they came home. I was glad that they finished up the rest of the stuff Summer made a week or more ago. I cleaned up the kitchen, then took Muad’Dib for a run. It got dark fast, so we only popped in to see my parents for a moment.

When we got home, I cleaned up some more and took out the trash. Then I gave Muad’Dib a long-overdue bath while the girls lounged. Summer went to bed, and I was up late catching up on a few reviews and then prepping my stuff for work the next day.

Believe it or not, jail!

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Recovery Nightmare

I never could have imagined that upgrading from a Google Pixel to another Google Pixel would be such a terrible experience, but here we are. I had my new phone set up with the out of box experience, and it was clearly missing media from text messages. I got to work with both phones in tow, and eventually gave up and factory reset my new one, then set it up again from scratch without doing a recovery. I tried doing a setup with a different kind of restoration, but that didn’t go as planned either. I ended up factory resetting a second time and using a third party tool to restore text messages instead.

What I thought might take a couple hours ended up taking more than half of my day at work. I ended up skipping lunch because I couldn’t use either of my phones. I could have left them and picked up some food without it, but I just worked right through lunch instead.

It wasn’t even done when I left to go home. I made it all the way home and changed out of my work clothes, and then it finally said it was done. It recovered way more, but I still found the last week of messages gone. It got my super old messages and media, but I didn’t have any messages since last Wednesday. It made absolutely no sense.

Summer was home, and I was starving, so we ended up going to Cicis for a cheap dinner. They weren’t super busy, but the bar was mostly empty. They kept pizzas coming out though, and we got our fill. Afterward, we went to Walmart to pick up some vitamins before coming back home. It was dark, but Muad’Dib needed a run, so we went to my parents’ house and then around Promenade.

I spent some more time getting my new phone set up, but I still wasn’t convinced that I wouldn’t want to just wipe it and start over again anyway. I just can’t decide which partial failure is best, and I’m tired of settling.

That excuse doesn’t fly!

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Three Meals and a Snack

As expected, I had a terrible time getting up this morning. I slept until the last minute, then jumped in the shower and left. We stopped by Burger King for a biscuit and made it to work. Things were super quiet with a few people out. I brought a bánh bao that I ate a little later for a mid-morning snack, then went to Wendy’s for a small, later lunch. The afternoon was even quieter since the guys leave earlier.

The ride home was pretty relaxing. Summer was in pajamas when I got there, but at least we had plans to have dinner together. I took care of a bunch of packages and then we ate leftover chicken sandwiches with pesto. They were great, except for how dry and tough the chicken had gotten.

By the time we finished cleaning up from dinner, it was starting to get dark out. I took Muad’Dib on a shortened run on the Pint again and tried to push it a little harder. It still doesn’t feel comfortable going faster, but at least I just barely broke 10mph. My parents were cleaning up from a burst water hose when we got there, plus it was already dark, so we headed home pretty quickly.

Summer was in bed, so I cleaned up some more and finally set up my new Pixel 11 Pro. I copied settings and data from my old phone for the first time, just because I knew I would need certain apps just to even wake up in the morning. I think I still would have preferred to set it up from scratch though. Maybe later.

So many Mous!

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Catastrophic Failure

We slept many hours. Summer, as usual, had many more than me. I woke up first, but we got out of bed around the same time. Power flickered overnight, so I had to start my computer up again. Shortly after I got it back up, power flickered again and I ended up losing all of my Tabs Outliner history. That extension has been critical for any projects I’ve had to research, so I spent literally the entire day trying to recover from that.

Summer made brunch for us out of some sausage and eggs we had in the refrigerator. Eaddie left. A new shower head was delivered, so I got that installed. I spent more time trying to recovery my Tabs Outliner, but eventually gave up and rolled back to my last good backup over a month ago. By that time, I needed to take Muad’Dib out for a run. I also wanted to have a good dinner, so I took the Pint X to my parents’ house and warmed up the leftover fish soup while my parents were out watering the plants.

Afterward we rode straight back home. I never could get the Pint over 10mph, which seemed strange. I guess I never really felt pushback, but it just felt like it wasn’t accelerating any further, and I didn’t want to nosedive. It didn’t help that it wouldn’t even make it straight up the driveway without nosediving.

When we got back in, I happened to notice that Summer put some parts of the coffee maker into the dishwasher that weren’t dishwasher safe. I didn’t feel like I blew up at her, but I still had to dig things out of the running dishwasher and clean up the mess. Two components were plainly labeled as not dishwasher-safe. She also left a pretty obvious sticker in place, so that came off in the wash. All of that ultimately lead to a small fight, and I simply couldn’t understand how she could possibly feel like she had any kind of argument.

It’s always simple, stupid stuff, but I don’t know how much more I can stand. I feel like my life was on a steady upward climb before I met her. I was moving upward with my career, and I was cleaning up my home. I let my own home suffer when I started spending most of my time with her at her house. I saw things in her life that I felt like we could improve as a team. Then I allowed the whirlwind of storm damage to my home, my desire to expand my property, and Bác Vân’s unexpected death to push me to move into a new home with her. It’s been an absolute freefall from that point forward. I can’t get any traction on any project, I’m constantly frustrated or angry, I don’t feel like I’m respected, and the only thing I can do to provide any happiness for myself is actively making everyone else unhappy.

Maybe I’ll figure it out tomorrow.

Why am I here?