I think this head cold is wrapping up after 9 fucking days. Just in time to go back to work, hooray.

I’ve got a family reunion coming up and my mother decided to host this time. Probably…no, for sure it’ll be the last time her siblings will all be alive for one since she’s the youngest of 8. I’m secretly feeling out of place and pointless in my participation. Everyone in my extended family lives nowhere near us and I haven’t maintained contact at all. Nobody cared to after I deleted Facebook in 2013. I’m feeling rather conflicted but will still show up because I don’t want to make my mother sad.

Really bad. I didn’t get a job I did 4 interviews for over a month. It’s been exactly a year since I was laid off because of Elon Musk use of DOGE. I’m holding on by a thread and I need help.

I’m tired.

Work is going great. Non-stop promotions and raises.

At home every waking moment is spent taking care of our toddler. We have two elderly dogs who do not get along with eachother nor can be trusted around the baby. It feels like playing sokoban shuffling everyone around to different rooms to get things done.

I don’t need to get up for another 45 minute, but I’ve spent the last hour reading story books, playing with balloons, getting my beard pulled and rehearsing what facial features are called. And now I’m being informed that there’s poop.

I’ve got four days off, just finished a bunch of chores I’ve been putting off, cat is on my lap, and I’m considering buying an acoustic bass.

I’ve got an exciting week going on.

Got to work with some great animals today. I gave a baby squirrel a bubble bath. I fed and cleaned a diamondback terrapin. Got to feed 3 young owls and a Red-shouldered hawk.

Afterwards I went out for a belated birthday lunch with my favorite clinic coworker. She got super sick on her real birthday, so I took her out for lunch today. We don’t normally get too much time to talk at the clinic, so we ended up having out for 4 hours.

Came home and replaced my ancient router. Got a Flint 2 and flashed it with OpenWRT. My old one lasted me 10 years when I looked it up, so I got my money’s worth out of that one. I’ve been having to reset it every day or so.

Made homemade curry udon (made the noodles and curry from scratch). Super tasty. I love the texture of homemade noodles.

Going for a quick getaway for 3 days. I usually plan trips, but the wife is spearheading this one, so I’m curious to see what she has planned.

I got 3 new CPAP masks coming to try. Very exciting! 😄 Trying to improve my nasal breathing and mask leak is driving my nuts with my full face mask.

And then next weekend is the clinic’s open house event. I have 2 tables I’m running. My owl table will have life sized replicas of all 8 owls of our state. I made plushies of the 2 most common owls. They are approximately life sized premade plushies I got, and I opened them up and stuffed them with beans to bring them to their correct weights. People can hold them since they can’t touch our animals. I’m also doing a table on DIY animal houses for people’s yards. It’s going to be a stressful fun, as it’s freaking with privacy 2000 strangers, but I love teaching people about our wild pals, and it will raise a heap of money for our center.

So a lot going on, but all things I actually enjoy for the most part. I’ve been having a fairly difficult year, so I’m really looking forward to a big block of fun.

I’m on holiday for the week, so doing pretty good

I had a late night watching Trigun Stargaze with my best friend last night, so I woke up late today. Now I’m trying to figure out what to eat. I think I’m doing ok :)

Been doing yard work for my grandparents most of the day. Not a bad way to spend a Sunday.

I had a panic attack at work on Friday, but other than that things have been fine.

The sweet release of death inches ever closer

By which I mean it hasn’t been the best, uh, let me count. You know what let me not count it’ll be better. I am low on weed.

It’s going to be interesting, got to work this morning to find that my trainee now has an intern shadowing him for the next 6 months.

It miggt do him good, for learning through explaining things, but I feel a bit sorry for the intern.

Getting over a cold; how about you?

I woke up lazily as I do on Sundays.

Got a charlie horse as I was stretching in bed. Waited it out silently as to not wake the wife. I’ve had them before. Nothing new.

Went away. Leg is now sore. I flexed my legs a bit to test it out. Hurts a bit as I gently flex it.

Then the other leg got a Charlie horse.

It came sharp and fast. I tense up flex the first leg too fast. Flinch the new Charlie horse when it’s at its peak.

Fucking pain makes me spasm and I yelp in pain.

Wait it out. Now I gotta do errands feeling like I did squats for hours yesterday.

Oddly didn’t wake the wife.

I am obsessed with miniature humans in odd situations

deleted by creator