I’m not sure why it feels like it’s been a long week but it feels like it’s been a long week. Today was alright, I made some great progress and then find out that the custom steps are not available. This means I can’t do what they are asking me to do and I’ve said we could do. Sigh, well there’s nothing I can do but explain what’s going on and send them to Oracle who will say it’s no longer offered if they don’t just disavow any knowledge of it. Friggin Oracle, there’s a reason I consider them evil.

Tomorrow we have the electrician coming over. We’re trying to get the house updated and one of the first things that we need to do is get the electricity upgraded. This is beyond what I can do myself but it’ll hopefully be the last upgrade we do with it. We need to get it up to code if we want to consider making it into a rental at some point. Then we have to do something about the insulation because another summer of $500 electric bills is no bueno…

I got out for a walk today, got a mile and three tenths or so. I went to Taco Bell and had a cheesy double beef burrito off of the value menu. I was impressed for a $3.01 snack. If you could sub out beans for the rice it comes with it would be almost perfect. It comes with ‘fiesta strips’ and I’m not sure what they bring to the party but they’re not bad. Washed it down with a real sugar Pepsi and I’ll call that a good lunch.

It rained today, it was nice, I went outside and tried to be in the moment by listening to the rain. I love the smell after a rain, it smells fresh. I still don’t understand why I live in a place that gets next to no rain. That won’t be for too much longer hopefully.

I went to the gym today, got half an hour in and did some jogging too. A nice cool down walk down by the Hurst river. It was nice and cool with a little drizzle. I then took myself out to dinner at Arby’s. I get the hankering for a roast beef sandwich every now and again. I also had a coupon for a $7.49 beef and cheddar meal. I was a bit taken aback by the prices. I thought that the coupon was like 50 cents off the regular price. But it was actually three bucks meaning the normal price for a BnC meal is $10.49, the double was like $13 or something. Craziness.

There were a total of three people dinning in, that included me. It was nice, I drank thirstily at my Hi-C fruit punch while I waited for my food and then sat watching the rain and the traffic on 26. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Got home and used the YouTube Roku app to look into a Django tutorial, and I’m happy to say that’s not the way I’m going to track with this website. I do need to redo it but it will probably stay WordPress.

Kind of a beat down today. I had to talk about what’s missing in the installation. I got one and the other isn’t going to be implemented. Oh well, in this case one out of two ain’t bad. No touch points but yes to XSL parser.

I’m happy that progress is moving forward. But it’s still tiring. I’ve also not been exercising like I had been. I’m getting a ring here or there but not knocking them out of the park like I had been. Need to change that up and get back at it.

Oh well, tomorrow is half way through the week and we have plans this weekend so there’s something to look forward to. There’s a possible plan to hit the stock show & rodeo. We’ll see how that pans out. That’s a lot of peopling this weekend.

I was happy I got to show the integrations that I’ve been working on. It was well received I believe so I’m on the right course.

Also I’ve been cleaning and keeping it clean. Or trying to anyways. The bed held it’s pressure so that’s good and I got the sheets changed and all the other sheets washed and put away. That’s progress. I do need to finish up in the office but I’ll get around to it, hopefully tomorrow I’ll make some progress on that.

I’ve been slacking on exercise recently and I tipped the scales at 195 or so last time I looked. I have to do something about that. I actually have to go on a diet. I remember being young and thinking it would be nice to have to not eat, in effect, diet. Now that the time has come, I’m not looking forward to it. I used to smoke and drink and be happy. I don’t like drinking anymore, gave up the smokes because I wasn’t going to die a smoker. Now I have food, and candy, and snacks, and ice cream and cheesecake and bacon and cheeseburgers… Well, you get the point. And now I have to eat ‘healthy’ which means if it tastes good, spit it out.

Oh well, making up for lost time here, need to just power through it.

Another thing that happened today was I broke into a new 12 pack of Pepsi what was made with sugar. Wow, that taste took me back. I’m not a soda junkie but I enjoy one a day or maybe even two on occasion. Cola’s are low on the list but every now and again a Pepsi was nice, but I’m surprised at how different the taste between corn syrup and sugar is. I’ll be looking for real sugar from now on.

While it was nice yesterday, it turned a little icky today. The high didn’t get above 50 and it was drizzling rain most of the day. I’m happy that I got a lot of what I was looking to accomplish done today. Finished some work work that I needed to knock out. A bit of cleaning happened. and cleaning the bedding.

Oh and I got the new air mattress today, I’m laying on it as I compose this. I’m excited because this will be the first time in months that I don’t have to worry about it losing air. Should make for an excellent nights sleep. Hopefully.

Sandy and I went out to Bronco’s to watch part of the first game. It was nice, we split an order of nachos and wings. I had a beer and a shot and then we went home. I haven’t drank in so long that I was feeling the alcohol even after all that food and I’d be lying if I didn’t say a was a little tired from it. Oh well it was fun.

Tomorrow we’re back at it for Monday. I have to send emails to my boss about software and stuff that I don’t want to send but I can’t keep moving forward until it’s addressed. Hopefully it’s something that will work itself out but I hate rocking the boat.

Started the day early today. Woke up at 5am and then was at Walmart just after 6am to do some grocery shopping. Not much really, just milk and some other odds and ends. Came home and wasted a couple of hours and then got going and took the ficus tree over to Cortney’s house. We were going to go to the Paris Coffee Shop but they had a 15 minute wait so we walked down Magnolia and found ourselves at Cat City Grill for brunch. Wasn’t bad, I had the breakfast tacos and Sandy had the vegetable omelet. Nothing to write home about.

Came home and opened up the RV to see if any damage had been incurred during the recent cold snap. There wasn’t a drop of water in any of the tanks and the hot water tank didn’t even have the plug in it. So everything appears in order. I need to get some tire covers for the west side tires. I’ll do that after this email.

Other than that not much. More of the same planned for tomorrow.

I’m happy it’s Friday, even if it was a short week. Work is good, I got the tentative go ahead to run with the initial export and I ran with the other 4 exports. I’m really hoping we have a meeting on it and it’s what they were expecting. Hopefully someone will call a meeting on it. While I do have the ability to call a meeting, I have no idea who to bounce this off of. So I’ll wait and hopefully when they ask about it they’ll be happy with what we’ve got.

I did get gypped out of happy hour though, we took an hour walk instead. Honestly it’s probably for the best.

The new bar/restaurant that took over the old neighborhood cafe went out of business. I was kind of sad to see that but seriously, I don’t know what they were thinking. While the bar idea was nice, we have more Mexican food than we can shake a stick at. The hamburger/hot dog stand is now Mexican, the Brooklyn pizza joint is now a burrito place. The old ice cream shop is Olivio’s, another Mexican place. I mean I like Mexican food but give me a break, I want variety.

Today is my birthday. Just another day. I went to work and Sandy and I went to Outback for dinner. It was nice.

I talked Sandy into going out to happy hour tomorrow night. We thought about doing it tonight but I’m full and I’d probably go to sleep on the table if we had. I remember a time not too long ago when we went out full force and partied the night away. That just doesn’t appeal to me anymore. I would like to go out and people watch. Sigh, as long as I’m home and in bed by nine.

As much as I hate social media, I do enjoy replying to birthday greetings. It’s kind of nice to think about all the folks and where you know them, even if it’s just from high school and I haven’t seen them in 35 years.

Well not really since Monday was a holiday but tomorrow is Friday eve for all intents and purposes so it’s all good. I think I got the go ahead to just build the integration they want and use best practices. I like that.

I finally got hold of Sleep Number to get a new air chamber for the bed. I forgot how long this has been going on and I’m wondering if it’s the reason that my neck has been killing me. I mean it isn’t really hurting but I’m lacking the mobility of left and right fully. Not sure what that’s all about, another one of the joys of getting older.

Speaking of which, it’s that time of year again. I roll the number ahead to 53 tomorrow. That’s a scary big number. God I remember being young and wanting to be older. What the hell was I thinking. They can talk about aging with grace all you want but it scare the daylights out of me. You’re body literally starts falling apart and you get to be there the whole time. Not a fun thought. I’ve bought a couple of books to help alleviate the sheer terror of the whole thing. Fingers crossed that helps.

It made it up to 35 or so today. Just cold, I did make it out to the pharmacy to pull my scripts but I preheated the car so it wasn’t that bad. I simply don’t have the clothes to manage freezing weather. If it were something more common I would. I mean I have t-shirts and shorts to wear for months at a time but that’s the weather here.

I feel like I need to go someplace but with starting a new gig it’s not possible. I’m not sure what’s up with that but we’ll deal with it. I got the parts I needed to put a bit more of a workstation together, always nice to have screens to work on. Now I just need the right software.