It's not gone yet. This seems to be my pattern. I have a decent day, then that night I sleep less. I didn't go to bed too late. Ok, it was 12:30 but we wake up at 7:00 so 6.5 isn't a bad number. Well...at 5:00 I am awake, wide awake, for at least half an hour. Eventually I go to bed again and wake up at 7, and I feel like I have taken a step back. I won't bore you with the details of the morning but today it seemed like every one of my streaming radio stations was on mode: Suck Hog. Between fundraisers, not connecting, playing just junk, and I suppose my mood, they were all rubbish today.
Then my man
@jmanic saved my day with this suggestion: Beck station + Pandora. Nailed it. 10 of 10. Give my man a gold medal. And he didn't even text me tick dick, or dick tick, or whatever. Nothing in appropriate at all. I rewarded him by suggestion he make some edits to his current workload and introducing various Harry Potter terms in it.
I have 2 ways I can go with the narrative right now. Inappropriate texts as it pertains to the Olympics, or Harry Potter. Frankly we have enough bad/negative things in the world that I will go with Harry Potter. The other topic is a veritable miasma of discussion and while I think it is worth it, I really don't want to have it here. So please let's focus our attention to Harry Potter, currently on book 5.
I have promised D and Julia I would read all 7 of the book before we go to Spring Break and hit up Universal. I started in January and I am now on book 5. Those of you unfamiliar with the books will think that hey, doing pretty well. Those of you know the series know that even though I am almost 200 pages into book 5, I have not yet read half the total pages of the 7 book series. Yeah, it's that back-loaded. In all, I am on a pace that requires I read about 40 pages a day between now and the 3rd-to-last day of Spring Break. Given the subject material, 40 pages is not a lot. At the same time, making sure you get 40/day is actually harder than it may seem. I should probably just dedicate 1 day a week to read 300 and then be done with it for the week.
The story is what it is - most of you know it. I have been to Universal before - last year at the ServiceNow conference it was the end party. But I hadn't read the books nor seen the movies. Now I have seen much of the movies (not all of them) and read almost half of the pages of the books. When we get down there, I will be able to slay HP trivia with the best of them. That HP stands for Harry Potter, not Hewlett Packard.
On that note, this is really where my mind goes when I say I rode the Swiffer. It's a combination of Zwift, Swiffer, and the Quidditch concept. So I imagine myself riding this Swiffer broom in the basement every day. Adding it all up, and my not feeling well again, I went broom-style and just stayed inside. Felt a little better on the bike but still hacking up Ned's Left Lung, or Atomic Dustbin. But I did not kill my television.
Sorry for those of you who were hoping I would get outside today. But on top of that, we have been given a red alert at work, such that ALL other work besides the Minnesota Garbage Barge is to be put on hold, while we try and sweep the deck of that particular barge free of bugs. So while I was riding my broom, I was answering texts from my boss, who was trying to fix defects that I have the info on. So it was kind of a necessary step on my day on many levels.
Tonight I have very little in terms of plans. I need to catch up on some newspapers from the last few days as well as have dinner at some point. I think we will put the Olympics on at 8:00 then sit here and I will sweep more bugs off the USS Minnesota's deck while D polishes up a project she is working on. At 10:00 we will likely call it a night because it turns out that
@UtahJoe got me sick who has now gotten D sick. So we need to try and get solid nights of sleep because this is seriously in danger of screwing up the weekend. Of course, tonight will probably be the best TV of the week and we will stay up until 1am because it's riveting, only to find out tomorrow that the gold medal winner was texting pics of his golden snitch to people who didn't want to see it.
I mean really, isn't it obvious that
@jmanic should be taking my editing advice here?