Part of me wants to rewatch the first two seasons.

This better work. I’m not the least bit happy about this, but if it works I’ll deal.

There sure are a lot of really stupid people out on the roads this morning (the flat bed in front of me isn’t one of them, in case you thought that was implied). Must be something in the water or something.

The Spicket River wants ya’ll to know that I lost weight this week. 0.2 pounds, babie! I’ll take it!

Sure our car is a hybrid but that doesn’t mean we don’t use gas. We just don’t use as much. Next time we should go full electric so I don’t have to do this again.

Today is the first day of Summer!  At long last, the longest day of the year!  Praise jeebus it’s finally here!  I feel like I’ve been waiting for Summer for something like 9-10 months.  Or maybe it was 2-3 years.  Granted it’s been raining here in Eastern Massachusetts for at least the last week.  We’ve had so much rain I’ve started to build mental blocks to keep myself from thinking about it.

I’m writing this on my lunch break.  I failed to brown bag every day this week, excluding my telecommute day, and I’m pissed off at myself over it.  I haven’t been terrible at lunch, weight watchers wise, but I haven’t been terribly good either.  Chicken sandwich and fries.  Too many fries.  Too much bread.  The chicken is okay though.  This week has been pretty stressful and I am ready for it to end.  Less than four hours to go until the weekend.

Lots happening this weekend.  Tomorrow I weigh in, get fitted for a CPAP thingie, and have a game night at Larry’s.  Sunday the kids are going to their cousin’s graduation party.  I also need to cut the grass again (weather permitting), go to band practice (hopefully), and something else that I can’t remember.

The CPAP machine… I’m really hoping that does what I think it’s going to do.  It would be so nice to have a good night’s sleep followed by a day where I feel like I’ve had a good night’s sleep.  I’m pretty fed up with my snoring at 190 decibels keeping the neighborhood awake all night.  I want to be able to just lay down in bed and sleep until morning.  That would be great.  I also want the contraption to be small enough to travel with.  All four of us are going to be in the same room at Disney World.  If my snoring is at it’s usual sound pressure level, no one is going to have any fun.

Changing the subject, I haven’t run it yet but I installed the new mobile game from the company that made Pokemon Go.  It’s a similar augmented reality thing that makes you walk around and exercise, but it’s Harry Potter themed.  I would bet money it’s going to be Pokemon Go with different graphics, but it’s Harry Potter themed!  It’s called Wizards Unite.  I’m kinda looking forward to somehow suckering my family into playing it with me.  Ain’t I a stinker?  I didn’t play Pokemon Go a lot, but I did play it while standing outside of the White House once.  Yessiree, Jen and I were playing it while in Washington, DC and the area around the White House was mobbed with stuff to do.  Maybe Disney World will be mobbed too, although Universal Studies is probably the better bet, right?

Another subject change.  On July 4th the 50/90 songwriting challenge kicks off again.  How about a Twitch channel where I point my phone at my amp and broadcast while I play.  Picture it:  Rob noodles on guitar, screws up, stops playing, shouts an obscenity or two, and then tries another take.  How’s that for quality internet entertainment?

Happy First Day of Summer, Everyone!

I want to go right now.

Last year when we were at Disney we were all jazzed up over the magic bands.  Magic bands are these little bracelet things that are essentially your ticket combined with a finger print protected access to your Disney account.  When you get to the park you swipe your magic band and you’re in.  When you want to schedule a fast pass you swipe your magic band and you’re set.

In this photo you can see my beloved wife’s magic band.

The other day we received a package from Disney that contained all of the passes and stuff we need for our upcoming trip.  It included our new 2019 magic bands.

Last summer my step son bought a really cool Star Wars themed magic band.  He was able to log into the Disney website and transfer his original 2018 magic band to the new Star Wars magic band.  Last night he tried to do that again for the upcoming trip but he couldn’t figure it out.  Our ticket package is a little different this year so he couldn’t follow the same steps.  My wife logged into her account and was able to figure it all out.  We are all able to link our personal Disney accounts (we all have one because nerds) to her account in order to access the new trip details.

I just went through the steps to link our accounts.

I’m ready.

I want to go right now.

Right now.

After last year when it took months for my sunglasses things to arrive, I was shocked when the replacement was here in less than two weeks!

BRING ON DISNEY WORLD!!

I can’t come up with a topic to write about today.  Has the well finally run dry?  Do I care?

I’m almost at my 15th anniversary of my first day with my company.  July 12, 2004 was the start of all this.  Every minute of every work day over that time span has been spent supporting customers.  I realized today that yesterday was the first time in my career that I had to call a customer directly.  I’ve been on conference calls with customers more times than I can remember, and there have been a handful of times when customers have called me, but yesterday was the first time I had to go into the system and find a site contact’s phone number and call them.  Twice.  Both times there was no answer.  Epic.

My step son is on the phone with Disney World.  Our trip is far from imminent, but it’s coming.  Oh, it’s coming.  I need it.  I neeeeeed it.

Speaking of Disney… I know they put a halt on stand alone Star Wars movies, but they really need to get off their asses and make an Obi Wan Kenobi movie starring Ewan McGregor.  I mean, how has this not happened yet?  We all know he’s willing and he’s able and he could easily carry a flick all by his lonesome.  Come on, Mickey.  Let’s get with the damn program.

I’m tired.  I am seriously hoping that the CPAP thing works out and I start feeling rested after 6-7 hours sleep.  As it stands now, when I wake up after 6-7 hours of sleep I feel like I need 6-7 hours of sleep.

I forgot something.  I told my wife last night that I was going to start all of my blog posts with, “Dear Diary”.  Shit.  Missed opportunity.  I’ll fix that.