after thoughts

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  • 7/25

    Well, I’m all packed.    Yeah, it’s a little early, but I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow.   I don’t know what’s going to happen tonight.  So, I stuffed a bunch of stuff in the suitcases. It didn’t take long.   In a way, I really never fully unpacked.  Besides, the only thing I take… Read more

  • Niantic Trifecta – Ingress, Po Go, Wizards

    I think Google/Niantic owes me a lot of money.   =) I played Ingress from beta. It was a pretty significant part of my life for a while.  Jason and I went to meetings, anomalies, met with other players, and even some of the player characters.     I don’t know if I’d say it… Read more

  • 7/22

    I….  we….  head to Indiana on Friday. Then, two weeks after that, he heads back alone. Him, to a house with only a cat, work, and school. I’m back to my doctors and family. It doesn’t seem quite fair.     This is probably the most ‘normal’ we’ve been in like… forever.  He goes to… Read more

  • 7/19

    The headache is back. It’s resumed it’s roll of torment right behind my left eye.   The shoulder is tightening up.   Feeling a little nauseous too.  Not sure what’s wrong. I haven’t checked the weather outlook lately, but maybe there’s another Barry brewing somewhere.      This sucks. It’s kind of like being sick and being… Read more

  • Observations of NieR Automata

    I’m not playing the game — just observing. There’s a couple of things that I’m not quite following. A2 definitely has emotions. Even the little sister called her grumpy lady and she’s distinctly unfriendly with most people, notably Nines at this point, but I’m sure that’ll change.  Grumpy Lady packs a lot of sarcasm. I… Read more

  • Things I like

    It’s been about five hours since my last post. Jason is still playing NieR.    At one point, he’ll have to shut it off to do some grocery shopping, maybe, but until that time I’m keeping myself busy. If he’s happy, I’m happy. We don’t get quite evenings like this very often. There’s a lot… Read more

  • 7/14

    Short answer…   Jason didn’t notice my four hours of scrub-a-dub-dubing. Eventually, I said something about it.   He made a vague guess and comment, so I just dropped it.  There’s no real point in facilitating an asinine guessing game.   I’d just get frustrated and he upset. No point in wasting all that energy.… Read more

  • 7/12

    Scrub-a-dub-dub. Fresh off my triumph of doing yard work yesterday without it raining — take that 70% chance —  I decided to double down and do some yard work today as well.     Out I went! Since I mowed the yard, weeded, and did some other stuff yesterday, I did what Frank suggested.    Off… Read more

  • 7/11 pt 2

    I actually did something today besides scrub the bathroom floor, dust the ceiling fans, and look dubiously at the dates on can goods. Despite the cloudy sky, I wheeled the lawn mower out and went to work.    I got the back yard a few days ago between raindrops, so I only needed to do… Read more

  • 7/11

    Today should be a special day for 7/11 employees everywhere. It fits.   Free slushies for everyone! Yesterday was Chick-fil-a’s Cow Appreciation Day.  Since any corporation or organization can declare (or own) a specific day or an entire month, 7/11 should be able to do so to… if they haven’t already had. Another day of self… Read more