I started the last finishing pieces of the back bedroom which is putting the baseboard and trim back up. The air compressor and nailer combination that I inherited after Dad passed work perfectly. Still need to pin the rest of the baseboards down and caulk them but we’re a step closer being done.

Also, this is the first post I’ve done in several years that is actually being done for my cell phone. I was arguing with the application for several months trying to get it to work right and update my posts. But it didn’t work. I finally uninstalled and reinstalled the app and then logged in and lo and behold everything is working great. So now I should be able to update this daily in a much easier fashion. That should include adding pictures but we’ll get around to that as time allows.

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to passing recently. Passing of time, passing of people, passing of feelings. I guess in this sense, change and passing are interchangeable. I seem to be at a crossroads in my life. I’ll be lucky if I have 20 years ahead of me and it’s become painfully obvious that almost every decision that I’ve made has been wrong. Everything I’ve done to procure my peace and happiness has just led me further away from it. And while I am very grateful for the life I have and the gifts fate has given to me, I just feel like I could have accomplished so much more had I made the right decisions or had the right partner in crime.

I need to find a direction, something to give me hope. Hope for peace and purpose in my life. I’ll find it or die trying…

I woke up and went to work so to speak but I’m kind of waiting for directions so I didn’t have much to do. Decided to go ahead and get a haircut, Nice 30 year old lady did my hair and she was quite nice. When I got back I went for a bike ride and did about 5 miles. It was nice to be out in the fresh air.

I then went to Kroger and got some 6oz fillets and a dozen roses because I hadn’t done that in a while. Cam home and took the bike back out to the gym and walked a mile or so, came home and cooked up the rest of the mushrooms and when Sandy came home we had eggs, mushrooms and cheese.

Sandy also had a doctor appointment and they’re going to fix her nose. So hopefully I won’t be the next one in the hospital. I still haven’t gotten a bill for my little trip to the hospital but the insurance company issued and EOB so it shouldn’t be long now.

In a piece of good news I got the notice that a FedEx package will be here tomorrow, so my server will be here tomorrow and I’m kind of psyched about it. More to come on that front soon.

We were heading up to David’s this morning and I got into the truck and for the first time since I’ve had it, it wouldn’t start. The batteries seem to be dead, I tried jumping in and nothing. I put the charger on it and we switched to the Xterra and headed up to Valley View.

We were just pulling into David’s road and they were going the other way, we turned around and caught up with them and off to lunch we went. A little place in downtown Valley View, I didn’t catch the name but there was a cute little blond waitress and they had good burgers and fried food.

Got back to David’s and I worked about 20 minutes and I was hurting. We weren’t there too much longer, we got home and just chilled. I think tomorrow I’m going to attach the last part of the floor in the back. There’s going to be football on and I can power though it. Hopefully. More to come on that point.

I’m still not feeling 100% this week. Well I guess I shouldn’t be thinking that I would be at full speed but I’m surprised how much I’m still hurting. I guess I’ve just got to take it easy until I’m better.

It was a nice day, rainy and cloudy, we don’t get nearly enough of those. And you have to love Friday’s. I’m getting frustrated at work with the Oracle support dumbass telling me to optimize a query for a system that won’t even be around in 6 months. I mean I understand where he’s coming from but you don’t spend time rewriting code for something that’s being decommissioned. Oh well, more to do on Monday. Just need to get my hours done this weekend.

As you know I’m not thrilled about what’s going on in this country. In my opinion it’s over but it’ll take a while for everything to go to hell and a hand basket. Here’s the long and short of it. I don’t care anymore. I’m done, I care only about my wants and that’s to have some property in the middle of nowhere and enjoy nature. In order to do this, I need a job. I’m going to work remotely and make enough to buy the property and build on it. I’m currently doing a contract gig but I think it’s time to figure out what the next full time gig is. I need to work on that.

In any case I’m done with news, it doesn’t impact me. Actually it probably does BUT is there anything I can do about it? No and that means there’s nothing I should worry about as I can’t do anything about it. God, grant me the serenity!!!

I had my follow up today and everything checks out. I have one more on Wednesday with the PCP and I believe this should be behind us. I’m still a little sore at the incision site but other than that I’m good. They set me up with enough pain meds that it’ll be two-weeks post surgery so I should be golden by then.

I still have not received a bill for this fiasco, it’s probably still going to be awhile. Oddly enough this year I happen to have ‘golden’ insurance and it happens to be the first time I’ve needed it in the forever I’ve paid in but not used. We’ll see how it works out.

This is the weekend that we set the clocks back. I think we need to figure out how to get an extra hour in every weekend. I got everything I really wanted to get done today and still and still have some time to kill. I like that.

Got to watch the LoserBoys play in SuckVille today, Where they really sucked and left with a record of 3 wins and 5 losses on the season. Crazy how bad they are.

Tomorrow I have a follow up to hopefully remove the drain that’s still in place from the appendectomy, that will get me a long way to feeling normal.

We made it to Friday and while I’m still on the mend, I’m hurting a bit. Hopefully a weekend of rest and removal of this tube means I can get a real shower and feel human again. This clean top/bottom half separately is not fun. But I guess I’m not doing bad considering where I could be.

Sandy and I went out to Babe’s for lunch today, it was $20 apiece but it was good, I had the chicken friend steak and it really hit the spot. Loved the mashed potatoes but Sandy thought that they tasted too starchy. It was yummy in my honest opinion.

It was nice and cool today, but I was stuck inside. Still nice that fall temperatures are making a showing.

I slept most of yesterday evening and night, I was out. But it’s ok, I needed to heal. I did get work done and ran into issues, I’m working on what’s actually going on but I had to sigh, this was a query that’s been used dozens of times and now it’s just causing the system to spin, it wasn’t always like this, I remember it actually worked at one time. Although it does make me happy that this won’t be what I’m doing for next year. I do need to figure that out though…

It’s Halloween and I’m not sharing my candy with kids. So I took one of the workhorses and blocked off the porch, they got the hint and we’ve had no knocks.

Mom came over for lunch today, it was nice to see her and she brought tacos and I had grape soda, yummy and probably the most I’ve eaten since the surgery. I think that I’m on the road to recovery but my digestive system is still untrusted to say the least. We’ll see how those tacos run though and I have broccoli and blueberries queued up for tomorrow. Hopefully good fiber…