Rather warm of late....

Tuesday and Wednesday nights are normally my nights off. Last night, I thought I was going to be off, but due to short staffing at work, I had to come in. But I've also been fighting a bug for the past week. Basically, the day before my last day at Mrs. Fields, the owner's wife came in, and said that her mother-in-law had the flu, and from the 2 minute conversation, I caught it. It's not really that bad, just annoying. And owing to the fact that we're short-staffed at my main job, I have to stay late with cuts into my sleep time. And that means that I can't NyQuil and sleep this off. So I'm averaging about 3 hours of sleep a night. And when I woke up yesterday, I could tell that the cough has taken it's toll on my voice. So I took a sick day. My employer has tightened up its attendance policies, and they can now affect quarterly bonuses, but I'm doing nobody any favors going to work sick.

So, I took a sick day last night. And I noticed that it's been rather warm of late. So I set my air-conditioner up again. It's was right were I left it. I just put the exhaust hose back up in the window. It's not even April, and I already have the AC on. Although once the current spell of warm weather passes, I'll probably take it down again, put up my window fan instead. For now...

Ok, it’s 2019 already…

Why are we still shooting up houses of worship? If you have to resort to violence to prove that you have a better invisible friend, then you’ve lost the argument. There is no place for hate. If you think that somebody’s life is forfeit because they worship God differently (or a different God), or they come from a different country, or their skin color is different, or they are otherwise different from you, then you really need to rethink your life and your priorities.

There is no place for hate. Violence is evil. Period. Any questions?

All good things…

It has been said that all good things must come to an end. Even vacations. Technically, I haven’t been on vacation. I only took time off from one job, so I could cover the owner’s vacation at Mrs. Fields. But the schedule and the duties have been sufficiently different that it seems like a vacation. But whatever it is, it is coming to an end. Tomorrow night is when I return to my first job. Though I could’ve gotten used to working the day shift. Seriously. But it’s time to go back to work. And it’ll be awhile before I get a vacation. For some reason, whenever I call in sick, it’s my vacation time that gets the hit (and not the sick leave)…..

The past week’s misadventures on my phone…

I finally decided to upgrade my phone from Nougat to Oreo. Since my phone is S-off, it just means flashing the Oreo firmware and then flashing the ROM. Which went well, without any complications. unfortunately, I didn’t like the Oreo ROM. I was so used to the options I had to customize my Nougat ROM. So I thought it would be pretty straightforward. Reflash the Nougat firmware, then the recovery, and then the ROM. Ok, so I did that. And then I didn’t have my fingerprint scanner anymore. Reflashed the Oreo ROM, and everything worked again. Repeated this a couple of times, and each time, I couldn’t use my fingerprint scanner. Finally I downloaded the Factory ROM (Nougat) from Sprint, and ran the execuatable, and it install everything back onto my like it was from the Factory. So I then reflashed my custom Nougat ROM again, and the hardware worked, but I had no LTE data connection. Fortunately, Pierce Transit buses now have WiFi. So, yesterday I reflashed the factory ROM and this time I let it run, which I should’ve done in the first place, as it had to do a hands-free activation again. Once that was done, I then reflashed my custom Nougat ROM, and everything now works again.

If it ain’t broke, then don’t try to fix it….

An ugly match…

I just finished watching LA FC vs. Sporting KC. LA had 3 yellow cards. Sporting KC had 7 yellow cards, and 1 red card. LA eventually won in stoppage time. Very scrappy play….

Day off on my vacation….

With the way the schedule was written at Mrs Fields, I have today off. Let me repeat this: I HAD SUNDAY OFF. Which means I had the Vizio 55” on with various and sundry Association Football matches on. Starting off with the English Premier League. Then I caught a Bundesliga match (Stuttgart vs. Hannover 96). The there was some Hockey. And Rugby 7s. And Cactus League (the Mariners won today, btw). And now I’m watching MLS (specifically LA FC vs. Sporting KC). The one thing that stands out with the match tonight is that it’s still only the first half, and Sporting KC already has 5 yellow cards. That will come back to haunt you when the ref starts handing out red cards.

I can now honestly say that I’m now a fan of another sport: Rugby Union…

On vacation….

Some I’m on day 2 of my vacation. I’ll be on vacation for 2 more weeks. With my current fulltime employer, I haven’t accrued two weeks of vacation yet, but they’re letting me take it as unpaid time off. But I’m not off work. The store owner at Mrs. Fields himself is taking a vacation out of the country (to India, to be exact), and I’m filling in. But working at Mrs. Fields is different enough from scrubbing floors and toilets at my current job, that it’s just like a vacation. And I could really get used to working on the day shift, and sleeping during the night, instead of the opposite (which is what I’m doing currently at my employer)…..

So what all happened on my weekend this week…

Basically, I got sick. My ‘Friday’ (what you would call Monday night/Tuesday morning) started alright. Then lunchtime came. I got a cheesesteak calzone from the deli, paid for it, and went to the breakroom and ate it. Then it came time to go back to work, so I resumed scrubbing the floors. A couple of hours later, I started feeling slightly upset in my stomach, but it wasn’t enough to even force me to go to the restroom. I had too much to do, so I ended up taking another lunch to finish my assigned tasks, and while doing that I didn’t eat anything (this was at 8 in the morning, and my previous dose of insulin was at 3:30am). I finished my tasks, and went to clock out, and I realized that my blood sugar was low. I don’t know how I missed the signs of it earlier (usually the symptoms come down gradually enough that I can address it before it gets too far along). Maybe the queasy stomach masked it. Anyway by the time I got to personnel to clock out, I was out of it. I was offered a ride home, so I took it.

I don’t remember much after that, just standing at the street corner, waiting for a bus that wasn’t going to come because I wasn’t at the stop. Eventually I wound my way home, and as my insulin dose wore off, my blood sugar went back up, and I came around. From a little bit past 9 am to 12:30 pm Tuesday, I have virtually no memory of what transpired.

So, I’m now home, and I’ve decided that my weekend has officially begun. Realizing that hypoglycemia was still an issue, I fixed a cup of cocoa, and sucked on a couple of mints. Remember that queasy feeling I was telling you about earlier in this post? This is when the calzone decided to come back up. And then 4 hours later, it came back up again. And it came out of the other end, too. So, it came time to take another insulin shot, and low and behold, I was so loopy when I left work that I had left my coat and backpack behind. Of course, by the time I realized this all the pharmacies had closed so I couldn’t just go out and by another vial. That had to wait until morning. So the following morning came, and by now I was puking because my blood sugar had gone up too high. I could take a sip of water, and be over the rail 20 minutes later. I eventually got to Wally World, bought my insulin, dosed said insulin, and 4 hours later I could keep stuff down again.

When I got back to work Thursday night, my coat and backpack were exactly were I left them….

Inslee is running….

Governor Jay Inslee has announced his candidacy for president. And he’s running on basically climate change. Al Gore, Mk II.

I’m not going to choose a candidate right now. Aside from the snippets on CNN, I’m not even following the race. It’s just started too early. The debates should be lively this election. Maybe Don King should hype them….

Cohen went before congress this past week. And he sang. While he did lie initially (and plead guilty to it), he did seem to come clean this time. At least he brought proof for at least some of his allegations. Yes, his credibility has been shot to hell, but he seems honest and sincere this time. Time will tell, and if there’s is corroborating evidence…

What President Cheetos-Face needs to worry about is less about the Mueller report, and more about the SDNY (the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York). I feel there could be a RICO indictment awaiting his departure from the White House….