Neutral Day

Today was another pretty neutral day. There was a high and a low but other wise I lived in the middle. Let’s get into it then. Start at the start, it was a sluggish start that was boistered by another tremendously refreshing hot shower and the usual breakfast fare. For a guy who was going to tranistion to less breakfasts a week I’ve been doing a pretty terrible job of it. I jumped hard into work and picked up where I left off the previous day. I got really into what I was doing and was making great progress. I worked steady right through until nearly 2pm. I had a couple of random questions pop up along the way that I squelched quickly before turning back to the task at hand. The positive alluded to previously, about 129 words ago, was that I finally got the call from the boat place. My boat was ready. I guess at some point I’d told them I needed to pick it up by August 6th. Maybe some other plan was in the works then or I wanted to set an aggressive deadline to give them some flex time. Either way, it will sit there now until I personally arrive to pick it up. I need it to be that way so that I can work through the bill with them. I’m still scared of huge labour costs during their troubleshooting period of the faulty part the factory shipped. Ideally I’d have the T pick it up and bring it back home but being a cash account for them, that doesn’t fly. They are fine with it staying another week and a half in the elements and so am I.

By noon I’d finished one crop and was more than half down the second, feeling good about my prospects. Then it happened, the negative. Something flashed on the screen and said it had to save my file in a different location and I tried to appease it. Next thing I know my file is gone. Luckily I found a version in the Download folder and put it back where it belonged. I was able to open it but it was not what I had been working on. It was about twenty minutes back from where I’d been. So that’s not ideal. My workaround to open files was also gone. I couldn’t open or access anything from that account anymore and since all of my files are stored there, I was crippled. Being crippled, I decided to take a short lunch break and turn off my computer during in hopes that it sorted itself out. Lunch consisted of a southwest salad kit and some cookies. This smaller portion thing is starting to take a bit, less food is doing the trick. I guess this is how the rest of the world works and are mostly the same general size. I watched something on YouTube for fifteen minutes after eating to bring the break up to a half hour before returning to the helm. There was no improvement on my It condition upon restarting of the machine. I had a three hour call to end the day and ended up taking notes with a pen and paper like a filthy animal in the gutter, no offense to those that prefer that method. I’ve adapted to typing my notes and being able to quickly change things based on discussions and emphasize key aspects, highlight action items, etc. Can’t do that as well on paper. My penmanship has gone to the dogs too. Or should it be penpersonship now? Ugh.

So that call brought me up to quittin’ time basically. I frustratedly powered down and went to order a salad and some chicken bites. I fired up the Pizza Pizza app and got a chicken caesar salad and some bites with a couple of sauces. This is one of my favourite meals to eat but least favourite to deal with after. I felt somewhat terrible after crushing it and that didn’t go away. It was likely part of the reason why I didn’t fall immediately to sleep. There was another changed variable (Theodore Complete style) too, I had added my flannel pyjama bottoms back into the mix and I might have been too warm to drop off on time. I also had a night daydream about someone that lasted a long time. It wasn’t perverse in nature so back off, it was sweet. Night daydream? Not sure on that nomenclature. Hopefully you comprehend what I’m referring to. Anyways, I’m jumping around. The evening was wasted again on various inane activities, nothing productive, not even reading. Mostly joking around with friends, YouTube nonsense and listening to music. But yes, slow start to the sleep and not a happy tummy for the evening. Can’t stop, won’t stop!