Author: Shawshank

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

Hide your diamonds, hide your exes, I’m a little bit Alexis

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Good morning my friends. Yep, I’m posting at a normal time. Not in the afternoon. It was really nice to sleep in this morning. At one point I was dozing, and my mind was saying, I don’t think we reset the alarm clock, didn’t we? Ha ha, I fooled my own brain. I had reset the alarm, and it was going to go off. I successfully ignored my brain. I simply went back to sleep, because I knew that even if the alarm didn’t go off, I’d still have time to get up and ready, as I don’t have to be in until 9:45.

At about 4:30 yesterday I get a text from my mom asking if I was working. I said that I wasn’t. She asked if I could help her in about a half hour to help my dad get in the truck so she could take him to the hospital. I get up there and my dad under his own power is making his way to the truck. I help him get in and settled and I head back to The Flat to pick up Crystal for dinner.

I got another text just after 8, from my mom. They made it back home with a handful of new prescriptions. Hopefully this will help, and I hope that they figure out what the hell is wrong with my dad soon. He’s missed a lot of work.

We came home and did evening things. Crystal took a bath and I played No Man’s Sky. I played that until she got out of the tub. We had hot chocolate, and watched Antiques Roadshow. We each had a piece of cake and went to bed. I don’t know about Crystal, but I think I was out pretty quickly.

And now here we are. Coffee beside me, and Chaucer in front of me, staring. He wants to get in my lap. In a few, I’ll hop up and get in the shower. Then get ready for work. It may be windy, but it doesn’t feel that cold out there.

Happy Saturday y’all!

I’ve got two tickets to Iron Maiden, baby come with me Friday, don’t say maybe

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Hey. Back from work. I’m freakin tired. I didn’t sleep all that well last night. I got up around 11:30, and went to the bathroom. I was already groggy. I finished my business, and stumbled back to bed. I fell asleep right away, then the alarm went off, and it was time to start the day.

Work was cold, and windy. The wind should subside by probably the end of shift tomorrow.

C-O-L-D.

Mind you, I was warm, but it’s the customers with what they think are witty comments. When I left BossLady was trying to give instruction to an old deaf guy. He tapped, but it wasn’t accepted, he had to actually put his card in and do the transaction manually.

He couldn’t understand this.

I mean, we only had to do it for like a decade/decade and a half before tap was introduced. He just couldn’t wrap his head around it. And of course he’s deaf. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions to the store. TisimBoy said that the old guy almost hit him on the way into the parking lot. Good times.

Still waiting for Dunkin’ to get these tracksuits back in stock.

A man walks down the street he says, “Why am I soft in the middle, now?

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Welcome to Worcester, that’ll be a dollar twenty five, pa.

Anyways, here I am. I worked 10ish hours today at work. It wasn’t too bad. It was busyish in the morning, but it slowed down during the day. BossLady will be slowly adding overtime to everyone, as she’s totally tired of working it all herself. I told her I would take some, but I’d rather have it built in to my schedule, as I’m not a fan, and rarely volunteer for overtime.

I am happy to be home. And I get to do it all over again tomorrow morning. But without the overtime. The day should go relatively quickly, I hope. I have a small project that I started to this afternoon, that I’ll try and finish tomorrow.

Other than that, nothing much has been happening. Crystal got her LED Leviwand, and has been introducing herself to it, and she’s been flowing. And dancing, she’s been playing Just Dance in the mornings, and she seems to be having a lot of fun with it. That’s all that matters.

I’ve still be playing No Man’s Sky. I’ve been having fun with it. I have no idea if I’m advancing the story line or not. But I’m still having fun.

You know you’re gonna have to face it, you’re addicted to love

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It’s another day here. Home from work. Work wasn’t too bad. Did some cleaning, etc just to pass the time. Then the food delivery came. Then everyone felt it was the exact time to come into shop. So I’m running around trying to do everything, and failing at it all but whatever, it’s done. Tomorrow I volunteered to take on a couple of extra hours, so yeah, I’ll be even more tired tomorrow.

Although today, I was made to feel like an 8 year old boy. I was outside, doing outside things. I saw a big rig driving by, so I threw up a couple of fist pumps to get him to blow his airhorn.

Then a second drive by, so I did it again. And he blew his airhorn as well! Woohoo!

And finally, a third one drove by. I did it again, and again he blew his airhorn!

Totes amazing!