Author: Shawshank

I’m just a 40-something bearded guy trying to get a fresh start.

Taking more than her share, had me fighting for air

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Well, I can say I had a good nights sleep – with no nightmares. I think I just had normal sleeps. Finally. I was a little tossy turny but that’s ok.

Yesterday was a very very nice lazy day. I cooked the usual breakfast brunch, and we took turns playing the Switch. I quickly ran out to grab some wraps for dinner, but they didn’t have any, so I grabbed some garlic naan.

Is read of having chicken back Caesar sandwiches, we had the same, but in pizza form. They were amazing. I really liked it.

After dinner I played a little more, and then shut it off for the evening. After our shower, I turned on episode one of The Fall of the House of Usher. I enjoyed the first episode. We might be watching creepy and scary shows for the rest of the month. We’ll see.

Back to work today. Road trip, so it’ll be different. I’m putting up signs in various towns for our sale. Hopefully it’ll take most of the day. It looks like it’ll be a somewhat nice day for it. I’ll go in at my normal time, and come back and pick up Crystal about an hour later. She’s coming with me today for a day out.

Happy Tuesday!

The DJ plays my song and I feel alright

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I was up slightly before the alarm went off, yet when it did, it surprised me a little. I know I had dreams last night, but I don’t remember them this morning. Good morning, my friends. It’s a bright and clear Monday morning.

And I forgot to take the bacon out last night. It’s out now. That’s all that matters, if you ask me.

Oh, and also, according to Google Calendar, it’s Crystal’s second birthday. It started as a joke, I told her many many years ago that her birthday was too close to Christmas, and Valentine’s Day. So I randomly said your new birthday is October 16th. And now, here we are! Happy birthday Crystal!

Yesterday was a great lazy day. We simply played video games and did chores. The chore were completed quickly, so we were only waiting on the laundry to be finished, and even that finished quickly.

From there we headed over to Shady Acres, and had a very good dinner, and we just hung out a chit chatted for a little bit, but we took off shortly after dinner, as we had to feed our own kitties. And lemme tell you, they were screaming for food. After they were fed, we took turns playing some No Man’s Sky.

I just had a kitty lay down on my lap. Chaucer is happy. It’s a new week. Happy Monday y’all.

Just over 12 hours in – No Man’s Sky

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Hey hey video game nerds. I’ve found a game that took my mind away from TotK. You see, I’m 90% of the way to end game on it. I just have one temple to go, and then if I wanted, I could battle Ganon. But, I have no real want to beat the game. BotW totally lost its replay value when I defeated Ganon. You’re just transported back to your last save point, and it was like the big battle never happened.

That kind of annoyed me, and I pretty much never really picked up the game again. I don’t want that with TotK. So technically if I never beat it, I’ll never have that disappointment. Right? Anyways, that’s my logic.

So last Saturday, I took it upon myself to buy No Man’s Sky – henceforth known as NMS. Besides it was like 50% off or something like that. So while I waited for it to download, I turned on TotK. I futzed around until the download was complete. So probably only like 15 minutes or so.

So lemme tell you – I’m just over 12 hours in, and I have no clue what I’m doing. But I have realized that I’m a pretty good ship-to-ship fighter. I picked up the wrong thing on the wrong planet, and I had the robot police after me. The Sentinals. I fought them on the planet, and into space. It got to the point that I was like 5 star wanted, but they just kept coming. I think with the advice of Crystal, I ran to a near by space station. That did the trick.

A couple of nights ago, I finally pulled the trigger on a new ship. It’s a little faster and has more storage than my old one, aptly named star spooge. Just before I swindled an innocent alien out of their space ship, I’ll pull all the modifications out of it, and traded ships, with a few units tossed their way as well.

This ship without the modifications on it is better than my old ship. Sure it’s a class C, but a lot of the modifications already in it were class S (which is the best), and with the ones I installed, made it a really good sleeper. It’s deadly and fast.

I still have no idea what I’m doing.

I get a little bit restless and I dream of something wild

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Yep, it’s Sunday. And the weather has changed yet again. I’m all stuffed up, and when the alarm went off, I was in the middle of a nightmare. A tame nightmare, but a nightmare nonetheless.

I can’t remember too much of it. Me and Crystal, and my parents were in the halls of a court room, just waiting for the time to come to take me away. I was freaking out, but Crystal and my parents were eerily calm. It was storming out, and the last thing I remember before the alarm went off was saying that if they don’t come for me before 5pm, I could just leave, and they wouldn’t put me in the chair, or however they do death sentences. My parents said that we couldn’t leave because it was storming out, and the ferry wasn’t running in the storm. It was so strange. I didn’t know what was going on. So I was tosy turny, not because of the dream, but because I couldn’t really breathe through my nose.

Mouth breather all the way, I guess.

So I’m awake now. And have a Chaucer on my lap. Pippin tried to come into the bed this morning. I made room for her, and it seemed like she was gonna snuggle in, but then something else caught her attention, and she ran out of the room.

Yesterday was a nice and relaxing day. We got up and did our usual morning tasks and when those were done – we got dressed. After that, we made our way to SlightlyBiggerTown to grab a couple of items that we missed last week, hit up the drug store, and grabbed some lunch at Subway. They’ve gotten better. Well mostly better, it felt a little yesterday, like my bread was a little stale, but other than that, it was very good.

After lunch, we fired up the Switch, and I played No Man’s Sky for a little bit while Crystal did her nails. After a while, I turned on Skyrim and we set up the camera so Crystal could go live. And live we went. She got to kick some ass in the world, and chatted with some people that came in to chat. It was a fun afternoon.

Today is a new day, and it’s chore day! We’ll get them started in a while. Happy Sunday, have an extra large coffee.