Friday nite: Stayed home. Most of my friends were out of town, and I started my duty officer shift. Couldn’t drink, even if I wanted to. Slept
Saturday: Got woke up by a call from some podunk Sherrif’s deputy, demanding to know why “you Air Force people are always leaving your stuff all over the highway”. Made some phone calls, and found out that someone left a AF dumptruck broken down on the side of the road. No AF markings on the truck, and no gov’t tags. Pretty strange. Life went on, I stayed home and couldn’t drink. Bought a 6-pack anyway. Ate dinner, slept.
Sunday: Mowed lawn, drank 3 beers, watched TV, overhauled webpage, going to sleep in 15 minutes.
Broke up with girlfriend of 2 years on thursday night. Spent the night at her place anyway. Apparently she loves me, but isn’t “in love” with me. Go figure. Didn’t get any sleep (not in a good way). Horribly depressed.
Friday: Spent all day with said girlfriend. It was a wonderful day for the first time in god knows how long. Not a cloud in the sky. Drove to a great campground about two hours out of the city. Top down the whole way. Spent the day talking about mundane things. We attempted to go swimming. Unfortunatally, although the water right next to the shore is nice and warm, the rest of the lake resembled glacier runoff. The result was a good wetting up to the knees, and then back to the blankets for more talking. Ended the day cuddling on her couch and talking. I think it was decided that we were just going to “take some time” instead of end the whole thing. Again, go figure. Feeling content, depression over with. I never feel depressed for more than 12 hours. My brain forces me to forget depressing things quickly.
Saturday: Went to my “Creative Drawing in Architecture” class. Ended up doing figure drawing. Old saggy model. However, after about 5 minutes you stop looking at the person and start noticing that, damn, she does some really good poses. Did life drawing for 2 hours and then switched to buildings for the next 4 hours. Went into the office for a couple hours. Didn’t get anything done, as I turned on the TV at my desk and watched “The Negotiator” on satellite. Spent evening shooting pool with (ex?)girlfriend and friend from work. Had a crappy couple games. Girlfriend won both. We ended up talking until 1:30, and I put her to sleep with a nice back rub. Let myself out. Went home. Confused. Just wanted to curl up with her and forget everything.
Sunday: Took father and a a mutual friend (who is also a father… just mot mine) out for fathers-day breakfast. Went to work in order to make up for taking Friday. This was fine, as friday was awesome weather-wise and today was just “decent”. Realized as I drove to work that I really speed a lot. Made mid-year resolution to stop. It didn’t work. I’ll try again tomorrow. Spent a small fortune on parking. Stupid city. Work was productive though. Modeled three good cars for a demo movie my team is working on (I’m do 3D modeling for video games). Girlfriend called to say hi and tell me she’d been let go from work early as there was nothing left to do. Made plans to sit around and watch x-files re-runs. I was really getting into my work when someone snuck into the room and yelled my name at the top of their lungs. Scared the hell out of me. Stupid co-workers. I love them all dearly, but come on guys. Not on a sunday. Realized that a hours worth of work had just been destroyed because I duplicated an object wrong. Various curses were said, and the model re-built in half the time. Looked better too. Girlfriend (ex?) called to tell me that she was going out to dinner with her dad for fathers day and might not be able to make it for lounging session. Went downstairs, jumped into the car, took the top down and drove home. Realized along the way that, dispite all, I’m a very content person. Smiled to self all the way home. Made a minor detour to pick up some take-out sushi. Started making my first posts to the message board. The sushi wasn’t very good. Next time I’ll go to a reputable place.
So there is my weekend. Thanks for listening. It made me feel better to tell you all about it. How strange.
dook, you need to go to Science Fiction conventions…will build up your stamina for that sort of thing.
My weekend was as follows:
Fri:
Worked until 7:00, designer needed some code modified to test a portion of the new chip, so I did that. Also, another new chip needed its test board modified to do a new set of tests, so I started work on that. Sat down with boss and started going over some of the new ideas for the lab and what will be the methodology as we change over to new test paradigm and expand the floor. Also started working on future test flow software.
Sat:
Woke up, logged on, and read SDMB, puttered around the apt until 11:30, then went to my usual Sat roleplaying game. Had fun, one of those games where there wasn’t much physical action, but a lot of character development. Players faced with moral descisions and personal conflicts (not angst, but some of those things that to many just pass over in RPG’s.) Was enjoyable for me because my character was actually faced with a problem based on the characters pragmatic atitude vs. her sense of justice and loyalty to her friends. Swam for a bit as a break from RP’ing, then RP’d more, the usual 8-9 hours of gaming. Always a fun time.
Sun:
Slept in, went out for lunch, logged on, cleaned apt, did laundry, and got ready for tommorow at work by charting out basic test flow of next chips program.
Sat worked. Sun hung with the fam. Got a nice hand-made dinosaur card and a picture for the desk. Played with toy tranes, dinosaurs, went to the park, did the daddy thing.
Got up earlier than I wanted to due to late night on Friday. Found the freezer door was not completely shut and we had several things including bags of breast milk that were beginning to thaw. Had to calm wife down. Spent 4 hours doing paperwork and getting training on Infant CPR and monitors for Apnea and Oxygen saturation levels.
Went home to spend some time with my 3 yr old while my wife got used to Kimberly’s monitors.
Went to pick up my wife and Kimberly.
Decided that I need to get an engineering degree in baby car seats to be able to figure out how to install them. Finally got car seat installed and we left the hospital and headed home.
Invited wife’s mother and step-father over to cook out all the stuff that had thawed. Stayed up late feeding Kimberly. Got up in the middle of the night to feed Kimberly.
Sunday:
After yesterday and last night, I figured God would understand if I slept in and missed church. Wife’s mother, step-dad, and sister came over to eat more of what we had cooked.
Spent the entire weekend getting very little sleep but spent with my three favorite girls in the world (wife, Emily and Kimberly).
I do not believe I could have had a better Father’s day weekend.
Friday: Worked late, then went to a So. Cal Doper gathering. Met PurpleCrackWhore.
Saturday: Rented a Schweizer 300CB helicopter and went flying. Did some nap-of-the-earth flying along a river wash. I had an empty seat. One of you should’ve been there.
Took our MGB on a 345 mile cruise, up to Sun Valley and through the mountains. Got a little sun and wind burned, but it was blast, particulary when we found ouselves playing in the twisties with a handful of Porsche 911s and a Boxter. Heaven! Shooting into apexes, tires moaning…
Sunday, had a wonderful Fathers’ Day with Mrs. Blue and our girls, with a nice picnic at a park with a waterfall; God how I love them!
