Author: Shawshank

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

Never knew how much that muddy water meant to me

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I’m slowly getting used to sleeping with sound. I just have to get the volume correct. It sounds right when I’m standing, but as soon as I lay down, ITS DO FREAKING LOUD. Last night I just dealt with it. After restarting it 4 times and adjusting the volume each time, I didn’t really care anymore. Suddenly, I was asleep. Some time in the night I woke up, and was just listening to the sounds. My guy had given up, and probably gone to sleep. At that point it was still pretty loud, so I just turned off the headphones, and went to sleep.

I rawdogged the last few hours of sleep.

I have to be up early tomorrow, so I won’t be using the headphones tonight. I need to be asleep, pretty quickly.

Podrick, as far as I can tell, was a pretty good boy last night. I didn’t see anything really out of place when I got up. He has his own alarm clock, and he’s been pretty consistent when he comes in to wake me up.

But, we’re all up here. The kittens have had breakfast. Podrick is on the shelf, over looking what he thinks is his kingdom. Pippin is lounging on my lap, not even looking at Pod.

Coffee, and contemplation. The sun is slowly rising. Let’s get ready for the new day.

Feed it off an aux, speed, grunt, no, strength

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Back to work this afternoon.

Also in breaking news, Podrick is a menace.

But y’all already knew both those two points.

After a nice sleep, and gentle wake up, with nothing knocked over, or pulled down, shit was all over the floor. I don’t think Pippin was this bad, when she was his age.

I don’t know. He’s louder than my headphones at night. So I get to be calmed down, and anxious at the same time. I can’t tell you if the talk downs are working. I try and really pay attention to what the guy is saying, but my mind really starts to wander, and then it snaps back to what he’s saying. I had to restart the YouTube video a couple times, because I don’t think my headset has volume control. I’ll have to look at the instructions. I think I have it worked out for tonight, after consulting the instructions.

It was a pretty good day off. I went to Shady Acres at noontime to clean the stove. My dad came downstairs to help, and his knee gave out, so I helped him back upstairs, and finished cleaning the stove. I relit it, and ran to work to grab some tater tots for dinner, and came home.

I did a load of laundry, because the hearth around the stove was dirty, and I was covered. So we just had a quiet, lazy afternoon. For dinner, I made tater tots, and some cheeseburgers.

The coffee has been brewed, and the kittens have calmed. I think there’s birds out there. The sun is slowly rising. Happy Thursday!

Every Friday night there’s a steady cloud of dust that leads back to a field filled with pickup trucks

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So I don’t know if the headphones playing nice quiet stuff helped me fall asleep, or if I fell asleep on my own. I think I might try wearing my old mask, and the new mask over top of it. We’ll see. I’ll have to figure it out, but it’ll be trying stuff before I find something that works.

Coincidently, I was talking to Crystal about finding the guy that she listens to at night, and like 30 minutes later, my mobile phone provider sent me an email with a subscription to Calm. I have calm, but didn’t want to pay for anything on it. Now, I don’t have to.

So, we’ll try again tonight.

I don’t feel groggy, which is a bonus for sure.

Now, I just have to find something that I like, and then I’ll try and find the same narrator for a few, then I’ll try and figure out if I can create a playlist, and then let’s go! I’ll definitely try anything.

I hope all y’all have a good Wednesday. I’ll be back to work tomorrow afternoon. Then I work until Saturday afternoon. Weekend off baby!

I feel it in my fingers I feel it in my toes

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I’m awake. It’s dark out.

I slept ok last night. With my neck being really sore and hard to move, it was hard to sleep, and even do something as simple as rolling over, woke me up each time. Every time. Then Podrick started his Podrick things, and I knew I didn’t have long to sleep.

And, here we are now. Both awake. Podrick is trying his hardest to play with Pippin, but she just doesn’t want anything to do with him. But she does want to start some shit.

So we headed to SlightlyBiggerTown yesterday morning for supplies and to just get the heck out of dodge for a while. It was a beautiful day to drive. Nice and sunny, and of course, not a lot of traffic. We hit up the grocery store, and went up and down the aisles. Then, over to the pharmacy for a couple of things. Then the dispo for a cart for The Beautiful One. I hit up the vape shop, then we went over to Subway.

10 minutes later, we were back on the road to TinyTown. Once home, we didn’t do shit for the afternoon, other than laundry. But how, I head back to work this afternoon for a shift. Then another day off. Then, I’ll be working until Saturday afternoon.

Let’s goooo!

You my lil’ suga, I’m yo’ little chulo

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Podrick’s being Podrick this morning. And my neck is locked up. It seems like every winter this happens. It’ll be a few days to a week before I can turn my neck all the way on both sides.

Work wasn’t too bad yesterday. It wasn’t too busy, nor too slow. It gave me a chance to do a lot of cleaning in between customers. Finally after about an hour and a half, I called it. No more cleaning. Bing Bing and I grooved out to iHeartthe90s. It was a long day. Sundays usually are, and both of us were drained when we finally left.

Today, we’ll be travelling to SlightlyBiggerTown for some much needed supplies, and just to get the heck out of TinyTown for a couple of hours. It’s dark right now, but hopefully it’ll be a nice day for a drive later on this morning.