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Month: March 2022

Woken up in the middle of the night,

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By a vomiting child. At least this time they made it to the bathroom prior to expelling the contents of their guts. Hit the floor, the wall trim, the door, toilet exterior and inside the toilet too. Bath mats were afflicted by splash back and over spray aswell. Easy clean up this time around, thankfully. Tile is much nicer to me in the wee hours of the night, as compared to shag carpet or fuzzy deep tuft floor rugs, mattresses, duvets & pillows. A win for me!

Today everyone is home from school, as we can’t send pukey children and siblings to school. So card games, puppet shows, board games and movies abound! I had other plans for today, but I got my work finished ahead of schedule, and I need some stress free time away from a computer. So I plugged into my phone to write about it! Ha. People, so silly.

On a high note, it is Friday, it is now March. The sun sets a little later, the sky is blue, and the sun is shining. Hope to start Maple Syruping in the coming weeks, which means fresh air, manning the fire under the evaporator, and hauling sap out of the woods. My eldest loves to pull the ice out of the buckets, which helps reduce the amount of water to boil off the sap, thus taking slightly less time to complete the forty to one reduction of sap to syrup. We don’t get involved in the filtration and final boil portion of the syrup schtick. I do bulk work, and leave the finesse stuff to our resident experts. If I remember to, I’ll do up a devoted post about it, with some photos and insight into (what I know of) the process.

Boiler- evaporator set up from a few years ago.

All the best to you out there!

What a Gods be damned day.

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Just shy of six hours spent with tech support to fix an Adobe issue that spanned Apple Support, Norton Antivirus and the titular character Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app. One wouldn’t let the other communicate, tech’s deleted stuff, got pushed from one serviceman to another, dropped by Apple Support, and then my lone east indian saviour from Adobe Tech support got me going again, five hours and fifty some odd minutes later. My back aches, my insides hurt, my nerves are frazzled and I’m annoyed as fuck. But First World Problems right!? Couldn’t do any work for six hours, and I feel like trash.

Technology, gotta love it, and hate the shit out of it. Glad I had given myself a grace day, so I didn’t feel like puking my guts out over the lost productivity. That folks is why I push to do more than I can on any given day, because you just don’t know if things are going to get fucky.

I had plans for doing something fun today. On the plus side two clients paid me today, so that was fantastic, and positive aspect to my day.

Seeing my business grind to a halt over a single, yet compounding issue really gave me pause today. I’m not looking forward to having to update my machines in the coming years. Fingers crossed!

Jeepers Crimony!

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Woah! What a crazy week this has been already, and it’s only mid-day on Wednesday. Lots going on with the work front.

Now I saw something online, and I don’t know when it was from, or if it’s legit, but it appears to show an older Texas man(accent gives it away) in front of some Russian reconnaissance vehicles talking about invading Ukraine with the Russian ‘liberators’. And I have to stop and ask myself, is this real? have the GQP gone full turn as hard as possible into mentally ill territory? Is it a send up? I don’t know, that’s why I won’t link to it, but JESUS MAHONEY AND JOSEP! That’s some ri-fucking-diculous bull shit right there, I tell you what. Looney tunes.

But I’m working my way through 218 pie charts, and my body is growing weary of it today. Should finish by evening tomorrow, then I can proof my pages and wait for the last two assets to come my way.

What treasures lie at the 77th meridian?

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Just imagine what’s down there between the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean and hang a left at Albuguergue. Such mystery, much wow.

Not going to lie, besides building a hundred plus pie charts in the next few days, and a 3D rendering of an instore install item, I won’t be doing much of anything. Well, beyond resting my wrists and stretching my back every so often that is. I’m nearing 2/3 rds done, so I’m on track, but the last 16 blocks of data are big, unwieldy and looking to break my spirit on the daily. *Editor’s note: have blocked in all 108 pages with 190 pie charts left to build, place and populate with figures..

Like I said, big and unwieldy. Chat when I’m not so pressed for time!