I Can Read The Writing On The Wall

Had the "pleasure" of taking today off work to clean my house. At least I got the dicey part of the bathroom repainted.

Our Lives Change Like The Weather

That weird moment when I had a realization at work earlier:

A week from Thursday there really isn't anything else holding me to that place.

A business deal I was transacting with someone since late October closed last week, my pittance of a bonus will arrive in my bank account on Thursday.  It's weird that they are doing it quarterly now instead of annually.  Yes, the amount is a great deal less than previous, but it will happen a little more frequently.

Suddenly there are, for me, four different points where I can walk away and not feel too cheated by losing out on it instead of one.

Needless to say, I'm tempted. If I end things at work and go to a different schedule, I have the suspicion that things will get back to where they were last year when I was working a couple of daytime shifts a week. Which I don't see myself surviving. 

Turning All The Night Time Into The Day

Figured out the PC.  Apparently a Windows update changed the boot order and tried to get it to boot an OS that doesn't exist on a drive that isn't even plugged in. I should probably do something about that at some point.

In other news, the cake is done. I'll give it a try tomorrow. 

Dedication, Devotion

There is a lot more going on in this Moral Star document than I originally thought.  Usually it is 3 or 4 entries, and that's about it.

This appears to cover most, if not all, of what I was writing about in 2021, which is odd considering how much actually happened that year.  It appears to go from February to November.  Not sure how many entries, I'm honestly tempted to print it out and read through all 17 or so pages of it, but only a little tempted.

I added a few entries, but when I went to check on something else, I found that my main PC is not functioning properly. Annoying. 

In other news, I'm going to make a "Dr. Pepper Texas Sheet Cake," but it will get a little weird because I don't have a sheet cake pan, so I'm going to have to wing it. 

Everybody Walk The Dinosaur

I was thinking that I had something to write here, but nope. Today I ended up at work, despite being a Saturday.  Working on a Saturday is not something we usually do anymore, honestly.

Anyway, I will get around to more of the Moral Star posts from the past eventually. I left work, went to Target, picked up a Sam's Club order, went and unloaded groceries and went to Chic-fil-A.

After that, I played with my Cricut machine, but didn't do much more than cut out fabric dinosaurs, because why not? 

Crept Up And Slipped Away With Her

Coming soon...

 To my mid to late 2003 entries.

It's Been A Long Time Since The Book Of Love

I was going through an old hard drive a while ago and came across, among other things, a blog document.

It was from 2021 and covers the end of my UPS Store career through to The Sickness.

I also found scans of the handwritten code for a computer game I was trying to make work, along with scans from the original book for a different type of computer.

I should let an AI bot try to update the game for me.

Anyway, I'll go through and add the 2021 entries, which I'll tag "Moral Star Part 2" since that is what the file is, for some reason, named.

I'll also add the game code scans into 2003, where they belong. 

I Want To Fly High Oh Free Bird

Today I went back to the Children's Museum.  It is always a great place to visit. Did I take pictures? Sure.

Did  I take pictures without people in them? Not really, not this time. I did make it up to the overlook today, which looks down on the dinosaur exhibit. That was pretty cool. Also, random stuffed bird.

There's A Big Gold Dollar Sign On The Sunset Strip

I was listening to The Presidents of The United States of America this evening at work, and all I can think is that the song Naked and Famous seems to do a pretty solid job of describing the occupation of "Content Creator." Or, at least, what most people tend to associate with that occupation, at least post Covid.

Really? Covid isn't a word in the Firefox spell check database? That actually surprises me. 

Somewhere In Time And Space

 Also the Sci-Fi Channel cast of MST3K is about to get back together and throw out four new episodes under the MST3K brand?

What fresh hell, 2026? What fresh hell?