the monsoon season is here

Yesterday was largely a waste of time...sat around playing internet spaceships and eating for most of the day, without even breaking for baseball like I did Saturday. Wound up going out to Ashburn to do breakfast with P; we drove out to the Waffle House in Winchester off route 50 through some extremely intense thunderstorms with lightning on the side. Normally I go for the All-American Breakfast at WH, but decided that since this was more of a midnight snack I really ought to just hold it down to a double pecan waffle. Anyway, P and I did a lot of talking on the drive. One of the really bad things about working the mid shift is that after a while you really start feeling the need to have some face time with people besides your roommates & fellow workers, which is pretty tough since most of them are working a normal day shift. Been there, done that.

Late-night country driving and going to the range have a lot in common. They relieve stress by letting you know you're free.

Speaking of stress, no work today, at least not when I woke up. (This happened at 0900 instead of 0700 because when I woke up at 0700 I felt like hammered yak shit. So I drank water and went back to sleep instead of getting up and forcing a cup of coffee on my unhappy stomach.) I'll be camping my phone hoping to hear something different - I really do need some cashflow over the next couple of weeks to make rent. In the meantime, I guess I'll fill out some more applications and take a nap, maybe.

UPDATE: Well, that worked out nicely. I'll be starting a temp-to-perm position tomorrow in Fairfax for $19/hour. Here's hoping it works out; if nothing else, I'll get some exposure to Great Plains software, which I haven't had before.

the monsoon season is here

Yesterday was largely a waste of time...sat around playing internet spaceships and eating for most of the day, without even breaking for baseball like I did Saturday. Wound up going out to Ashburn to do breakfast with P; we drove out to the Waffle House in Winchester off route 50 through some extremely intense thunderstorms with lightning on the side. Normally I go for the All-American Breakfast at WH, but decided that since this was more of a midnight snack I really ought to just hold it down to a double pecan waffle. Anyway, P and I did a lot of talking on the drive. One of the really bad things about working the mid shift is that after a while you really start feeling the need to have some face time with people besides your roommates & fellow workers, which is pretty tough since most of them are working a normal day shift. Been there, done that.

Late-night country driving and going to the range have a lot in common. They relieve stress by letting you know you're free.

Speaking of stress, no work today, at least not when I woke up. (This happened at 0900 instead of 0700 because when I woke up at 0700 I felt like hammered yak shit. So I drank water and went back to sleep instead of getting up and forcing a cup of coffee on my unhappy stomach.) I'll be camping my phone hoping to hear something different - I really do need some cashflow over the next couple of weeks to make rent. In the meantime, I guess I'll fill out some more applications and take a nap, maybe.

UPDATE: Well, that worked out nicely. I'll be starting a temp-to-perm position tomorrow in Fairfax for $19/hour. Here's hoping it works out; if nothing else, I'll get some exposure to Great Plains software, which I haven't had before.

inertia spoken here

I don't know if it's the weather or the early start on this week's sleep deficit, but I have a couple of things I could be doing and absolutely no urge to deal with either of them. I'll probably get off my butt and go get the long-delayed haircut, and see about getting the old Katana fixed/replaced since the old one seems to have vanished somewhere between New Jersey and Minnesota, but I don't really need to stop by Walmart today so I probably won't. Plus, it's getting on toward rush hour, and that makes going out to do anything even less inviting, even on days when it's not raining, which this isn't.

inertia spoken here

I don't know if it's the weather or the early start on this week's sleep deficit, but I have a couple of things I could be doing and absolutely no urge to deal with either of them. I'll probably get off my butt and go get the long-delayed haircut, and see about getting the old Katana fixed/replaced since the old one seems to have vanished somewhere between New Jersey and Minnesota, but I don't really need to stop by Walmart today so I probably won't. Plus, it's getting on toward rush hour, and that makes going out to do anything even less inviting, even on days when it's not raining, which this isn't.