Another beautiful day. We went to moms and I got some of the windows washed. We took the bikes and biked down to main street arts festival. It was nice, we parked at the Frost building over by the church and walked over. There were tons of people so it was good people watching. We skipped the fair food and went to Razoo’s for Cajun fondue and fried pickles. The pickles were cold but the fondue was good. I half want to say our waitress Brianna thought I was cute. I haven’t seen that look in a month of Sunday’s.

We took the bike lane on Hemphill back to moms, wow that was kind of nice. I bitch all the time about the bike lanes because they’re mostly unused but damn, if you have a bike they’re great.

Here are some pictures we took during our travels today.

Can’t complain about a Friday, well maybe about how long it takes the afternoon to go by. But I’m thrilled with work, all caught up and ready for next week. Just have to do documentation which I hate but that’s why they pay me to do it.

The weather is nothing short of spectacular, we’re in one of those rare periods of time here in Texas when it’s as close to perfect as it can get. High of 80’s, sunny and breezy. Makes me wish I lived someplace I could take a walk in the woods and enjoy it. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy and am thankful for my walks here and the life I have but I hope we find our way into some forests before it’s all over with.

Tomorrow we’re going over to moms. I’m going to wash her windows and then we’re going to bike over to the main street arts festival and hang/people watch there for a while. It’s supposed to be beautiful weather again. And Sunday I’m clearing out my wardrobe to donate to something or other. It’ll be a good weekend.

More soon, thankful for the day!

One of the things that kept me dragging my feet on cutting the cord was cable offered a bunch of history and science channels that I loved to have on in the back ground. Not $10 a day loved but I did enjoy it. Now all these years later, there’s all the history and science you can stream. To the point where they don’t even have enough advertisers to fill the time so they replay a catchy tune for 90 seconds where the commercial should have been.

One of my longest fixations has been with the Titanic sinking. I was drawn to it since the first time I heard of it. Man makes a machine that’s ‘unsinkable’ and nature says ‘hold my drink’. On the maiden voyage and with lots of affluent folks.

I found this article from the BBC that speaks of the scanning they did on the wreckage and with advanced computer modeling, they predicted that the iceberg only opened holes the size of a piece of paper but along 6 of the watertight compartments. It could have survived the flooding of 4. Amazing stuff.

I do enjoy my walks even thought they don’t go anywhere new. It feels good just to clear the mind and take some time to look at things outside. I got my steps knocked out by 1ish and after work was done I got outside and raked up part of the front yard and cleaned up the side alley. Three bags full of yard waste. I hate the fact that I have to send yard waste away but there’s no recycling it around here. Yard waste becomes zombie vegetation and chokes out the grass, eventually becoming thatch. Which you can see why they used it as roofing because nothing gets to the ground once that’s happened.

Another day at work is knocked out. I’m close to finishing up the paper I wanted to give them on the integrations which will hopefully whet their appetite for a data warehouse which would fix all the issues they have about reporting.

I’m feeling bad that I signed up for the class at WGU and never even got started. Completely my fault but it underscores the inability I’m having getting forward traction in figuring out what I’m going to be doing for the next 15 or so years.

It’s later in the afternoon when we’d usually be sweating it out but as fate would have it, we’re at 46 and icky. I’m not complaining, I’m actually happy about this, cold, rainy, overcast days are a rare thing around here so I’ll enjoy it while I can. I’ll be bitching about the heat within a month.

Had coffee over at mom’s this morning. It’s a nice drive to get over there at that hour of a Sunday. All the drunks have made it home, wrecked, or are in jail and the churchgoers haven’t gotten on the road yet. I brought over the window cleaning kit but it was way too cold to be washing windows.

I’m working with a program called Hugo that publishes static web sites that use markdown vs markup language. I want it for the insurance website I’m working on. The problem is I’ve got 2 weeks left on the class I paid $99 dollar for on prompt engineering. I’m feeling bad about not running with that but I just wasn’t motivated. I need to work on that. But for now I’m happy chasing the squirrel that is my computer hobby:)

Aside from a walk to Walmart for grapes and bread, I didn’t leave the house. I did make my steps/circles so yay for me but got nothing done except paperwork and video games. Had chili cheese dogs for dinner and I’m skipping my night meds to see if that keeps me from getting up half a dozen times like I’ve done for the past couple of nights. It feels like when I was taking the magnesium and I thought that maybe it’s the one a day that has it in there but I stopped that three days ago.

Sandy doesn’t have to go to work tomorrow so that’s a good thing. I’m still going to moms when I get moving in the morning. I enjoy doing that and mom seems to like it. I wish I was a bigger fan of breakfast because mom sure likes feeding me.

It was a good day to do nothing and as much as that somewhat bothers me, it did feel good to take the day off.

The week is over half way done, that makes me happy. Work went by smoothly enough, I’m going to have to start doing some pretty hard core documentation so hopefully there’s a template someplace I can heavily borrow from. Oh well, you gotta pay the mortgage somehow.

I like it when I finish food, like deli meat, I finished off both the ham and turkey tonight, didn’t have to throw anything out. Did the same with the blueberry’s. I also made brownies tonight. Not special ones but I did add pecans so they’re kind of special. They do not fit with my healthy eating attempt. But in my defense, I need to finish off what we’ve got. I think the trick is just not to bring it home.

We’re hoping for some rain, they said we were going to get storms this morning, it was a 5 minute sprinkle. I probably should have done the lawn today with the slight reprieve from the rain but I didn’t feel up for it. I took a ride and saw they were painting the water tower, they were rolling it.

Tomorrow is a day closer to Friday, I’m happy with the blessings I’ve been given and looking forward to whatever the future holds.

Today was smooth. Made my steps by 10ish, got a bike ride in at the end of the day. Got stuff done at work. Ate well too, started with the cold oats, lunch was tuna fish and salmon for dinner. Had it not been for the chocolate and gummy bears I would have been on a good track.

I think the honest truth is that I have to get rid of the unhealthy snacks because I love them and it hurts me when I see them and can’t enjoy them, it makes me sad. So do carrots and couscous.

And my quest to do sit ups isn’t really gaining traction. I hate sit ups. I’ll work on it. Thankfully, I did good today and if I’m given tomorrow I’ll work on doing better.

The day seemed to drag but I made it through it. It was good and busy and usually that speeds things along but today wasn’t one of those. But progress was made and that’s what counts.

Sandy got home this morning while I was in the shower and was asleep by the time I got out, she was indeed dead tired. She slept to about 2pm so she got about 7 hours, that should keep her good for a bit. No work tonight but the next 3 so she’s on night shift all week.

We had spaghetti for dinner using the sweet Italian sausage rather than the normal mild. I’m not sure that was much of an improvement. I think that we’ll stick with mild. At least I tried something new.

The weeks are just flying by. I went to moms today to help her with the tree that came down. I was kind of impressed with the chainsaw working well after it was sharpened. We made quick work of it. I got there at 8am and stayed for a couple of hours. I came home and Sandy was still awake, she didn’t last long and went to bed. I went for a bike ride for 12 miles around the town. I passed 1600 miles on the bike and took pictures of the closed restaurants over by the mall and the Mason lodge tear down.

Sandy is awake and she hasn’t slept much and has to work again tonight. My only worry is the trip home for her, that’s when it gets a little hairy. People not awake yet and someone without sleep don’t make for a good combo. Oh well, she can handle it.

Myself, I’ll be in bed as soon as she leaves and probably asleep before she gets to work. But then again I have to be at the keyboard at 7am, she’ll be going to sleep.

I did knock out that other project that’s been dogging me. Now I can see if I can’t knock out my class in 3 weeks, always running a day late and dollar short but lord knows I have good intentions.

We’re moving forward and life is good.