Author: Shawshank

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

No dress rehearsal, this is our life

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Once again, the bed was calling for me to stay in it. It was so nice and toasty. Sadly, we have to get up to play the part of humans. Chaucer is snuggled up in between us, however Pippin is being an idiot and is currently locked in the bedroom.

I slept like the dead. I don’t think I moved too much in the night. I did wake up and attempt to extract my arm from under Crystal’s pillow. Then I rolled over and went back to sleep.

Oh the bed was so toasty.

Back to work today and tomorrow. Then I have the weekend off. Workin for the weekend. We don’t have too much planned. Groceries on Saturday. Natural disaster movies Saturday afternoon and evening.

I’m it before human like behaviour, coffee happy day before payday!

Ain’t no need to help me, ’cause, baby, I deliver

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The Beautiful One let me sleep in. While she just had the lay there. I thank her for it, even though I tried at one point to take one of her pillows. But once I knew it was hers, I apologized in my sleep and quickly backed away, before I felt the might of her anger.

Just kidding. She doesn’t beat me.

She just leaves bruises.

Haha. I kid. But she was pretty awesome letting me sleep in a little. I didn’t think I’d sleep in almost another two hours. Wow! The sun is shining l, and while I haven’t looked at my weather app, but it’s supposed to be slightly warmer today.

I CANT WAIT ANY LONGER I HAVE TO LOOK AT THE WEATHER APP.

Well, not really. But that’s ok, we’re on a warming trend, starting tomorrow. Ha ha ha. Why does the warming always start tomorrow?

That’s cray cray I tell you.

So that’s what I have today, I hope whatever y’all are doing, it gets done. Have a great Wednesday!

Thinkin’ ’bout a life of crime ’cause that’s what I’ll have to do to keep me away from you

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Good morning everyone out there in the aether. It’s ya boi, Shawshank. Yep, we’re all awake here. I really didn’t want to get out of bed this morning, the bed was just so perfectly warm. I didn’t even care that Chaucer was giving a free concert somewhere in the Flat.

Work actually wasn’t too bad, once everyone figured out who was gonna work with me yesterday. I guess the coworker that I was supposed to work with called out sick, so it was a scramble to find a replacement. With a replacement found, we opened on time.

The rest of the day went pretty quickly. We were steady but never out of control busy. Time moved pretty quickly, and we were out of there minutes after we closed. I even remembered to grab supplies to eat dinner.

After I got home and dinner was consumed, we just watched tv and relaxed. We’re getting close to the end of Black Sails, I think we only have a few episodes left. The show is pretty good, however I really had hoped looking back, that they were more seafaring pirates and not just concentrating on one island. But it’s still entertaining.

Back to work today. It’s still cold out, but they’re saying it’ll really start to warm up this weekend. So there’s that. We just have to survive until the weekend.

We can do it!

With a haunting glance, now you’re both in a trance

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Yep, I’m awake. It’s a holiday today, and I’m working it. Easy shift today, just like a Sunday one. So the day should go quickly. It’ll hopefully go quickly.

Yesterday was a bit of a shit show. I get a text from my mom as I’m prepping brunch, saying that unfortunately, she won’t be able to do a birthday dinner, as my grandmother is being taken to SlightlyBiggerTown to the hospital. So mom will be going there. I have a chore to do at Shady Acres so I head over to do the chore. I shut off the pellet stove, and say I’ll be back in a couple of hours.

My mom is trying to start my dad’s truck to go. The truck won’t start, so she takes her truck. My dad says to take my car home. I turn and tell him, I don’t have the keys, and it’s more than likely not going to start, and that it’s not a problem, I’ll walk home. So mom takes off, and I walk home.

I cook brunch, and watch some YouTube with Crystal, and walk back up to clean the pellet stove. As luck would have it, I didn’t actually turn off the stove when I thought I had. I do a very quick cleaning. I help get a battery charger on the big truck.

Long story short: I ended up going to Shady Acres like three times yesterday. But I’ll probably find out how my grandmother is doing today or tomorrow.

When I wasn’t up at Shady Acres, it was a mostly relaxing day off. Let’s see what today will bring.

Still working on the whole AI image generator. I’m still figuring out the best prompts. This one was a work in progress. When you ask for MTG to look more “unhinged”, Grok doesn’t know what to do, fyi.