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Disappointed

I’ve been working at the same company for 11 years.  Throughout that entire time I have lived very far north of any of our buildings.  The shortest drive I’ve had was 39 miles(ish), but while I was in that building I moved even further away.  

Now the company has a new building that is only 33 miles away.  Practically next door!  On a good traffic day I could possibly get there in half an hour.  What’s more, three of the other four guys in the group live close to this new building too!  We all put in for a move last year.

And then we waited… And waited.  Until!

Four desks together opened up… A move request was finalized… A move date was set!  We are actually going to be north of the Mass Pike!  Holy cow!  The moving day is September 2, 2015!  Tomorrow!  Until…

About 11:00am today we are told there was a conflict.  Someone is already in one of our desks.  We found another desk right near the others.  Put in a request.  Approved.  Then at about 2:00pm, we are told the people who are already there are going to move so they can all be together, and we can all be together.  Okay.  That’s a good thing… But… Don’t move until you hear back from us, probably on Thursday.

But… But… I want to work north of the pike tomorrow.  I don’t want another day in the Deep South.  It’s only going to be a day or two, but this delay is one of the most depressing things ever.  I wanted a 10 mile reduction in commute distance.  I don’t want to wait another day or two.

I’m so sad.

To-Do List Check In

Let’s see how I did with the to-do list today.

1. Dunks. Check
2. Munchkins. Mmmm Mmmm good. Check
3. McKinnons. Steak tips for today, chicken breasts for tomorrow. Check.
4. Mow the lawn. My back is KILLING ME now, but it’s all done. Check.
5. Shave. Dolphin smooth. Check.
6. Poland Springs. Check.
7. Buy a Twin Reverb and a Big Muff Pi. Eh, not so much.
8. Set a timer. Done, but no reaction yet. The love of my life is very busy today. Check.
9. Buy a recycle bin. I had to do it online as Home Depot didn’t have any, but check.
10. Practice the gitter. Umm…..
11. Cook dinner on the grill. As mentioned previously, steak tips. Mmm Mmm Good. Check.
12. Watch Fear the Walking Dead. Not yet. Maybe tonight before bed. I have chimed in on a number of discussions on reddit though.
13. Sleep. It’s not bed time, but… check. I may have nodded off after dinner. More sleep to come though.

All in all, not too shabby.

I Hate Abridged Audiobooks

Watching Fear the Walking Dead has given me the urge to re-read World War Z. I figured I’d go for the audiobook and listen in the car driving to and from work. I bought it from iTunes, something I’ve never done before. It’s cool, it downloads into iBooks and plays from there instead of the Music app. Nice, huh?

The audiobook for World War Z has three tracks and runs for a little under six hours. Uh Uh, kids, that doesn’t seem right. I know it’s not that long a book, but a six hour read? No way. Too short.

Sure enough, there was nothing in there from the discussion of pre-panic profiteering in the United States (no vaccines against African Rabies). There was also nothing about the decimation of the Russian military during the panic (the word decimation being used in the literal sense, not the figurative sense. Look it up). There was also nothing about the Japanese net nerd who was so locked into the web that he didn’t realize the zombies had overrun his building. All really good stuff from the book, all missing from the audio book. I just finished and there is actually a mention in the end credits for “abridgment by”. Hey, why don’t you just bite me?

At least the character from whom we learn of the Battle of Yonkers was read by Mark Hamill. That is one Jedi Knight who can kick ass at anything he sets his Jedi Knight mind to.

To-Do List for Saturday August 29, 2015

There are a lot of things to get done today, so I figure I’d write out a to-do list to try and stay organizized.

1. Go to Dunkin Donuts to get breakfast for the Mrs.
2. Eat Munchkins. Mmmm, Dunkin Donuts chocolate munchkins.
3. Go to McKinnon’s to get dinner for the Mrs and I for both today and tomorrow. As Ned Stark always said, Winter is Coming, so I should get stuff to cook on the grill while I still can.
4. Mow the lawn for the first time in three weeks.
5. Shave! I’m seriously starting to look like a member of the 2013 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox. I look like I have a freakin’ monkey growing out of my face.
6. Put away the Poland Springs water that was delivered yesterday even though Poland Springs didn’t send us a notification that the delivery was coming, and therefore we didn’t leave our empties out for pick up. That means the garage is full to bursting with Poland Springs bottles.
7. Buy a $1400 Fender Twin Reverb amplifier and some form of distortion pedal. Possibly a Rat2 (popular with the Seattle bands from the ’90s) or a Big Muff Pie (popular with one Mr David Gilmour whose supply of awesomesauce never, ever runs out), or maybe one of the MXR models (because the last two pedals I bought were MXR and I LOVE ‘EM!)
8. Set a timer on my spiffy little Apple Watch to time how long it takes for my beloved wife Jennifer to read entry #7 and start yelling, “NO!”. hehe Love you sweetie!
9. Buy a recycle bin. I won’t go into it, but arguments over trash were a major part of why I was in such a state of mood swing yesterday. Everything’s fine now though.
10. Practice the guitar for tomorrow’s band practice. Gots to learn that piano part from that U2 song. Maybe put some new strings onto the 335 while I’m at it.
11. Cook dinner on the grill, as stated in entry #3.
12. Watch the first episode of Fear the Walking Dead one more time (this will be four, I think) in preparation for episode 2 which airs tomorrow. Someone on reddit mentioned something odd about color schemes and I need to see if I can spot it. Something about all of the scenes in the first half of the episode including something blue, and then all of the scenes toward the end including something red. As if, everything’s fine so we’ll show you a happy blue color suddenly turns to everything’s not fine anymore so we’ll show you red for danger. Probably not anything important, or even intentional, but a good excuse to watch the pilot again.
13. Sleep.

I have already completed items one through three and damn were those munchkins yummy. They were so good that I am starting to really need to get back on the weight loss plan… because I could get addicted to them and gain another 500 pounds, easily.