I was a bit tired last night and went to bed at the usual time, I woke up about the regular time and it was darker than usual. Somehow I completely missed that we set the clocks back this weekend. I mean it makes no never mind to me and I’m super happy to have extra daylight. It means that spring is almost here.

It was cold and rainy this morning but it gave way to a chilly sunny afternoon. We decided to do Olive Garden for dinner. Wasn’t too impressed. The waiter seemed to be overwhelmed and the food was just alright. I’m not sure what I expected. But a refill on the raspberry lemonade would have been nice. We should have taken the price of the drinks out of his tip.

Back to the grind tomorrow. Sandy’s out of town in Austin for training so I’ll geek out and knock out my class while she’s gone. That’s the plan anyways.

Did not get a bunch of sleep last night. I turned on the AC and the house wouldn’t cool down and when I got up around 12:30am I started investigating and it turns out that (I’m almost sure) we don’t have power to the HVAC compressor. I texted Brandon and asked him to touch base with me on Monday. Fortunately there’s not AC weather until then. With any luck that’s the only thing that was missed and it’ll be fixed in short order.

Made it out to the dump today. Got things off loaded in fairly short order. The truck is all kinds of muddy so I haven’t put it away. I’ll wash it tomorrow if the weather is as good as it’s supposed to be.

Made it to the gym for the first time in a while. I usually get my steps but don’t usually go to the gym. It was business as usual there. I plugged in to Nevermind by Nirvana and around the track I went. Did some jogging and running. The running seems to hurt a little more than I remember and hitting the high BPM’s is rougher too. But it’s good to push.

I did make progress at work and also figured out that I can log my time daily. This evening I got the truck loaded for free dump day tomorrow at the landfill. Got the big rock from my neighbors house and a whole bunch of stuff from the back yard and should be ready to go.

Let me start this by saying I don’t want to have insulation blown into the attic. I would rather have it cleaned out of the existing insulation and then spray foamed the top. But this is why we did the electric already. There should be no reason at all to go up and do anything up there. We have the camera wires there, and all the electricity lines we could need. And we have to do something as the summers are killing us with the electric bill. It needs to be done but once it is that space is dead to me. Which is fine as I can’t go up there anyways. $2200 and it’s done. I need to get a couple more bids but we’ll have it done.

Work is a bit stressful, we need to move forward with pulling against production and I’m getting nothing but crickets when asking to move forward. Ah, the joys of employment. I am feeling like an unused tool sitting in a toolbox.

The electric upgrade is complete for all intents and purposes. We still have the transfer switch to get put in but that will come in time. The hallway lights are amazing and I’m thrilled to have the 24o & 120 high amp plugs in the garage and the outside unit looks amazing but the truth of it is we won’t have the benefits until we redo the kitchen. We also have full 30 amp out to the RV which is nice too.

It feels like it’s been a long week and it’s only Wednesday tomorrow. Oh well, it will be nice to be back in the office instead of officing in the RV. I’ll sleep better tonight.

We went to Red Lobster to have a night out and celebrate. Wasn’t impressed. It was Lobsterfest and we spit a bowl of lobster bisque which went really well with the cheddar baked biscuits. I had the lobster roll which was three hawian sweet rolls with lobster pieces on top with fries. Sandy had Lobster Pappardelle pasta and we both had raspberry iced tea. It came to $98 or so with tip. It wasn’t worth it. Should have done the Olive Garden.

The electricians made great progress and I got some work stuff done. Tomorrow is the change over to the new box and powering it all up. Then I need to get the attic insulated in short order. I should start calling on that tomorrow. Hopefully we can keep our usage under 2k Kwh/month.

The cat situation worked out fine today. We took Rocky to the RV and Sammy hid in the house. Everyone seemed happy with that situation.

Still not a fan of Sunday’s. Never will be. I wonder if it’s odd that I was born on a Sunday. Maybe that has something to do with it, I mean it’s because of Monday so highly doubtful.

In any case, this one is more stressful than most because the electricians will be back tomorrow and after the nightmare with Sammy on Friday, I’m not sure what to do. Well, we’re going to take Rocky to the RV with us and Sammy can handle up on her own. I don’t have time for her neurosis. I’ll have to address it at some point but tomorrow is not the day.

We also have an appointment with Michele and I don’t know if they’ll have the power pulled or not at 11. At least that’s the only meeting I have tomorrow. I have my annual physical on Wednesday and another meeting with Michele on Thursday. And I have to finish up with that other project. And I have my initial meeting with the study co-coordinator on Tuesday. Sigh…

But this is moving forward. To a destination I’m uncertain of with the possible exception that I know it will lead to death. That’s the only certainty in life right? No one here gets out alive…

So today was men’s breakfast and as I was driving down there, there was this Ford Bronco (old school) that was passing me. First think that came to mind was ‘hey that’s the OJ’s Bronco’ only to see the license plate that said NOT HIM. Hysterical.

I got to church and there was a homeless guy and I asked him if he wanted to go to breakfast, seemed like the christian thing to do. Turns out his name is Joe and he was crazy as a loon. I mean being followed, magnetic field issues and the whole 9 yards. I managed to feed him me and get him out of there before anything happened. Not that it would have but he was crazy so who knows.

Didn’t do much else today. Did get over to Target and walked around. Went on a 4 or so mile bike ride. Sandy was tired and went home after Target.

If I didn’t have to work it would have been perfect. But even that was nice. We had a meeting and they needed more data out of the ATS and that’s what I do. I really need to start the process of getting certified in MS SQL or Azure. I also need to hit the books with the AI class I’m taking. But for today I’m happy and well.

I did make it over to the store today. I got cheddar sausages, hot dogs, hot dog buns, and canned chili. I actually did research before I went because the last time I bought hot dogs (Oscar Mayer) and was completely unimpressed. I found this article that stated that Nathan’s hot dogs fared best in a blind taste test. Oscar Mayer placed dead last BTW. They were right and I had damn tasty chili cheese dogs for dinner.

Got a good bike ride in and have decided that the bikes will be parked on the porch. I’m using the cable lock we use when camping to secure them and they are directly in view of the cameras so should hopefully be safe.

Tomorrow is supposed to be even nicer weather wise so another day in paradise. Enjoy the days, you only have today.

Texas may as well be considered the doldrums of weather. Hot and sunny is mostly what you get. Today we woke up to fog which is a really nice change of pace. If I didn’t have that meeting to get ready for I’d love to go take a walk in it. Maybe I’ll take 10 to do it anyways.

The day progressed well, Sandy made it out to Austin for training, I got all my steps and circles done. Even got a bike ride in at the end of the day. I forget how blinding the sun is when you’re facing west at sunset.

I had my presentation at work, it went well enough. I think that we’re in a good place but we need to test against production. The staging zone is painfully out of date. Another replay of the same thing is Wednesday.

Tomorrow is supposed to be even nicer outside so another bike ride may be in the works.