Thursday: though I woke up pretty early, I let myself snooze until 11. Construction continued on the corner outside, but since I was parked at the end of a cross street further down the road, I didn't have to delay my errands. I started with lunch at Subway; since I've been having such unfortunate meal experiences lately, I wanted something simple and predictable. I had a small collection of groceries to pick up at Acme, after which I came back home, once again parking somewhere I wouldn't be blocked from leaving to pick up Julie tomorrow.
After getting my supplies put away, I vacuumed the bedrooms and used Julie's carpet-scraper to ball up a couple of veritable tumbleweeds of cat hair that had accumulated. For dinner, I tried ordering the pepperoni and cheese stromboli from Stogie Joe's for delivery, which is how I learned that they only bother to slice it up for you if you're eating in the restaurant. I ate while putting together some notes for another interactive fiction game I'm planning, and on the other screen, I continued watching Lauren's Undertale Yellow stream on Twitch, since she came back for the first time in over a month. I enjoyed it more than I was expecting; the story's approaching its climax, the art and animation is high quality, and the music is phenomenal.
After the stream ended, I started another programming project; this one involved transcribing the first of 16 audio recordings into a spreadsheet. Despite working for around two hours, I only got through 27 minutes of audio. Since these recordings add up to more than 24 hours of audio, it looks like I've got well over 48 hours of work of unpaid work ahead of me. (It is a little bit rewarding just to see the pages of color-coded notes produced by my labor. When I recorded the audio in the first place, it seemed like a ridiculous indulgence. At one point, I asked aloud: "Am I ever even going to listen to what I am saying, right now?" "Yes," it turns out.)
At various points throughout the day, John wanted attention, so I tried to play with him or give him affection more than just handing out treats. Julie's LEGO set came in the mail, and he's been quite excited to hide behind the box, which made for a great place to swat at a dangled string. Later, I spent some time lying on the rug with that soft red blanket, and he'd knead it for a while before settling by my leg to lie down, himself.
My last task for the day was to do the dishes, since a number of storage lids had dried tuna and other sauced treats that needed to be cleaned off of them. I also disassembled the water fountain and washed it so that I can change out the filters again. While I washed, I watched Preach's Endwalker playthrough as he wrapped up the story in the penultimate zone. It probably kept me up too late, since it's now almost 4 AM. Tomorrow, I need to get a couple of bell peppers and some Sour Skittles before picking Julie up at the airport.
Tuesday: got a slow start thanks to my late night on Monday, but fortunately I had the day off so we could go to a baseball game, Tigers vs Phillies. I wanted to pick up lunch from someplace nearby before Julie got home from work, but I couldn't get out the door in time, so I just finished my half of the pasta before we left. We met up with Phil & Kate, as well as Phil's friend with her kids at the game. (Phillies got a run during one of the first couple of innings, and nobody scored again for the rest of the game.) The smog was pretty pronounced throughout the game. After coming back home, I played more Zelda, finally extricating myself from the underground to finish the Dueling Peaks Stable quest and resume my survey of the eastern half of the skies, which I've nearly completed. I had wanted to get to bed earlier, but Orange Juice was crying in the hallway for an hour at 4 AM for somebody to come out to the living room so she could knead on a floor pillow, and I guess I went out there and fell asleep on the floor.
I played Magic 2014 today on Steam. I was at CHESM, and for whatever reason I couldn't do what I really wanted to do, so I just fired this game up instead on a whim. I don't remember the exact circumstances. Oh, and Carl got me Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, so I tried that for a while.
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Saturday: we went to Courtney and Ryan's because he was throwing her a surprise party. We had to park on the other street so our cars wouldn't give things away, and I recall carrying party supplies into the house, but the party itself is pretty much gone from my memory, 4 years later.
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Thursday: just to see how it goes, I buzzed all my hair off. I was not prepared to be confronted by just how round my head looks without hair. Extremely egg-shaped. Good news, though: today is also the day I started playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf for the first time! I wanted to call my town "Noisy Hill", but the system required a single word with fewer characters. I settled on "Noisytop", but I was so ambivalent about it that I restarted on June 7 to call it "Loudhill" instead.
Wednesday: accepted a job as a pharm tech CSR for JCB Labs.
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