#friday 5

1) the client observed Juneteenth as a holiday. we get extra floating holidays to use for any holidays that they observe that the corporate overlords do not. it's nice to not have to think about work today

2) I successfully performed the Epley maneuver on my right ear since the room hasn't been spinning when I move my head to the right. it was terrifying when it first happened to me in MI in my late 20s but now that I know what it is I just do my PT exercises. This one repositions the crystals. There's another that trains your brain to adjusting to the dizziness.

3) finished my rewatch of sharp objects yesterday, have moved on to book, and watching did give me some kinda expected but unexpected grief bouts. my sister was still alive when I first watched it and I honestly don't think I could've rewatched it until now. the screen grabs I posted this morning are for one exchange of dialogue I had forgotten about but likely never will again.

4) this is often how I message in teams at work. capitalization is sporadic. it very likely used to annoy my predecessor when he was training me. this is probably just extremely latent rebellion towards being an english major or it's the descriptive part of the linguistics major that won kinda 😁

5) the connection point to the washer hoses was SO NASTY. I don't know what the prior owners did but there was mud (???) and lint and pieces of drywall around the faucets and around whatever you call this piece.

a good 30 minutes was spent by yours truly with qtips and a dental pick set the tall one has for projects like this. I'm glad I did because it was one less annoying thing for the guys to deal with since the connection points were so rusty that they struggled removing them. but look! new hoses and ta-daah!

I cannot tell you how much I am looking forward to a short week next week then having 11 days off in a row. I need a break from all of work's frustrations.

Hopefully the most strenuous thing I have to deal with today is treating the guys at the refinery to lunch. 🤞🏾

I appreciate that for M3gan 2.0 they just embraced the full camp of it all. The bromate and I will be taking in an early viewing of it tomorrow.

I know nobody here really cares about the onslaught against brown people that is currently taking place in this country, but now there is word going around that ICE is removing people's info with "Hispanic Sounding" last names from databases to make it even more difficult to identify themselves even when having proper ID. I can't say enough how fucked up that is, and again, FUCK ICE.

So much for birthright citizenship eh? Fuck the supreme court as well.

- Just had a zoom with one of my project co-workers and the industry leader with whom we are working; And you know that vibe someone puts off when they are in over their head? And the "pretty sure you've got 18 months or less before you are fired" scent? Yeah, he wore it like a stinky cologne.

-In other business related news, I still have a job, but who knows when we are restarting. But the parts to fix some of the major problems have arrived. Our major suppliers have been on-site, and plans are being floated. I mean, I'm not really wanting to go back yet but my patience got me like...

- Did yall hear that somebody dumped 3-400 pounds of pasta in the woods in New Jersey and didn't have the courtesy to leave any marinara or garlic bread?

The nerve of some people!!!!!! Not that I could eat much of it. Or much of anything, for that matter...

- I think buggy and I are going to go to free swim at the Y this weekend. I bought a swim suit, he has a swimsuit, so it should be kinda fun. We got the plane tickets for my brother's wedding(another story for another time: let's just say I'm traveling with an very anxious traveler and a 4 year old, so while I love them dearly and will do my best to "keep them within the navagational beacons"...

I may require a beverage after the fact. Or 3.

- At any rate, I think H's son and his lovely family are coming over tonight for enchiladas, so I'm headed out to find an avocado. These kids are just wonderful people, and it makes me happy to know I can count them in my family. I may not have a lot, but...

Friday 5

1. Yesterday a kid almost broke my arm

2. Today one called me, his teacher, retarded.

3. I am so bone tired.

4. I really want to go see my long distance friends so very much. It's an ache I can't currently cure.

I thought I bought 20 pounds of freeze-dried insects to feed the chickens (yah, gross I know) but instead I bought 20 pounds of food to feed pet insects. Who even knew that was a thing? It’s good for feeding Hissing Cockroaches, Specialty Crickets, etc. EEK!

My favorite flirty butcher is back at the grocery store. I haven’t seen him since the whole cancer thing started back in November and now look like an alien, so that was fun. He said What happened? And I said What do you mean? Oh, you don’t like my summer hair choice? We both laughed. I told him I had cancer and then the woman he was helping got all pissy that he was chatting. At least he’s still around.

The peacock molting has started, every day I go out and find feathers strewn about the yard, so far they are shorter feathers, the tallest is maybe a meter tall. I've been putting them in a vase. I posted something on FB and now a bunch of people want them. When they asked why I don’t keep them, I have nowhere to store them, plus, I have the live birds draped around the yard, I don’t need a bunch of their feathers.

This morning a friend from Australia contacted me, she will be heading to a conference in Mexico two weeks after I head to Cuba, we're trying to arrange to meet up in the Caribbean so we can travel together between her trip and mine. Yay!