Dragged Out Wednesday

The day started insanely early today. For some reason I woke up around five. I think I’d got my seven hours of rest that my exhausted body needed. It was fed and watered before bed and I suppose that helped. I’d showered before bed so that step was skipped this morning, that provided even more free time before work. I decided to use that time to make a big breakfast. That way I’d avoid my chorizo sausages in the fridge going off and have breakfast sorted for the next few days. I prepared the filling I use and made a tube of Pilsbury Grands and two tubes of Crescents. There was even enough to make a small breakfast burrito. I ate the plate on the left and squirreled the rest away for later consumption. They were very tasty. I managed to find a new way to roll them that made it even easier. I’m glad I took the time. I was also able to squeeze in three episodes of Superstore on Netflix before work. I realized I’ve got a couple more seasons to crush before I check that one off.

There was only one item scheduled for the morning and somehow that made time drag by very slowly. I did spend some time preparing for that item, it was a one on one meeting with someone on our Canadian Leadership Team to review the spring that was. My ducks were in a row and then I shared my notes from previous meetings with them to make sure they had all the information they needed to enable change. A customer called me up to chat moments after that ended and that brought me nearly to lunch. I spent the last fifteen minutes of the morning moving around the house to get some steps in. I went to door to check and see how hot it was out today and found that I’d received a package. The box was pretty huge for what was in it and it was quiet heavy. After using an old Grey Goose bottle to roll out my dough for Poor Man Kolaches and the Deuce Log I realized that there has to be a better way. I consulted KJMH for advice cause she’s the fanciest person I know in a kitchen. The Chef is the strongest but she’s doing more elaborate things. She suggested that stone was good. I learned that it doesn’t heat up the dough as much and I was excited about the prospect of the weight doing some of the work for me. It’s seriously heavy, a full on club. I went with green marble because it was the option I enjoyed the most of the three. I washed it twice and it’s ready and waiting for use. Storage isn’t ideal but I’ll figure it out.

I didn’t want to make anything elaborate for lunch and I had a bursting open container of leftovers from breakfast. I warmed some up in the air fryer and decided to try a pineapple flavoured Bubly with them. I’ve talked before about how I’m not a fan of the sparkling water. There is some kind of bitterness or something to the finish of it for me. That doesn’t make sense but it’s the best I can describe it. It’s put me off the stuff for years. But the hype is so high on this stuff and it is ubiquitous amoungst my friends. I took down the can along side the food. It was ice cold and pretty good. I commented to my buddies that it was the least worst sparkling water I’d ever tried. I have another can of it and two of peach that Mother left behind, claiming they didn’t have space on the return trip. I think it was a trap. After lunch I got back to work pretty quickly but hit a wall. I honestly thought that I was going to have a short power nap. I decided to just lean into it and see what happened while I was still in my chair and I nearly passed out, complete with a couple head nods. But to move to a more appropriate venue to nap would wake me up fully again. So that idea got shelfed. Mother sent me a photo of what she was doing and it looked a whole lot more exciting than what I was up to.

Photo credit: Mother. Kayaking on Pike Lake.

Once I was able to come back to life I started into creating some training material for one of my customers. I was invited to go to a “safety meeting” with most of the field staff. This is where they meet up and have a beer and catch up and have a nice meal together. I needed to get this training deck done so I could get it to the customer by the end of the month as planned. My invite came secondhand too. I was in the field yesterday and hope to be tomorrow so going and hanging out on a patio having a beer and laughing it up all afternoon wasn’t going to work well so I bailed on it. I felt guilty but I wanted to get things done. At five I decided I’d had enough, doing those presentations is a bit grueling. I wasn’t ready to eat again so I just started working on my MSC challenges for an hour. I went down to the kitchen at six and whipped up a dinner. I cooked a couple packages of Schneider’s cheese smokies in the air fryer and prepared a couple of buns by warming them, lining them with cheese and layering on some mustard. It felt lame to just have sausages so I also had green beans. This was all prescribed by the meal board. I thought it was a fun play on franks and beans. The sausages tasted more like pepperette than expected. It wasn’t a deal breaker but was a bit surprising.

After packing up the other half of the can of green beans and a lot of sausages I fired up the computer in the living room. I wanted to watch something to pass the time for an hour or so until it was time to start D&D. I watched too many clips from the show The Wire. Now I find myself wanting to re-watch that show, it’s so good. If you haven’t seen it, do yourself a favour. Beyond my own glowing opinion, it’s actually considered one of the best made shows ever. There is a Harvard course taught on it, not a lesson, a course, a semester of learning. Ya, it’s good. I forced myself away from that computer and fired up the one upstairs. I had a jug of ice water ready, tested my headphones, got my notes reviewed and readied and then squeezed in some more MSC challenges before go time. I was first player on and tested my camera. I’ve got it figured out how to run a camera for the game now, in case we ever decide to do that. The game got going on time and it was intense from the hop. A battle started and we got most of the way through it. We cleared out most enemies, mollified some very dangerous ones and are about to face a third, and much more dangerous foe now. This was only the first of the encounters we’re going to have in the coming months as we collect a few ingredients for some end game attempt. I’m looking forward to next week for sure. I did some light interneting for a few minutes before powering down. I got to my room to discover the neighbour was making a ruckus again. Thankfully it eased slightly at half ten so I could get to sleep. It was still loud but I was able to zen my way through it and find some rest. I assume I’m making enough noise that he realizes he can hear me and turns it down, maybe that’s just wishful thinking. Either way, the evening was so much more enjoyable than the day. Overall it was a decent day.