The Imperatoris Chronicorum will be replacing the My Week posts. Same exact stuff, just a name upgrade, especially since I'm already using roman numerals. Big thanks to MarZaat for spearheading the research and development side of this idea.
Sunday kicked things off, per usual, with going to church. Because of the horrible, terrible, no good Time Change, we skipped the early prayer time at 9am and just went to the main service at 10am. Everything felt a half-step off because of the time change. Also, the sunday church is growing, so it was almost elbow to elbow sitting in the pews. The pastor also had to make an announcement to park as far away as you could walk to save the very minimal parking at the church itself for those who really need it. We've been doing that for years. So it's a good problem to have I guess? I do know the church leadership is looking at options, as a lot of the newer people are younger families, so organic growth is inevitable ;-) I was feeling cranky though with all the people, so afterwards Mrs B and I went to Pino's Elixir, a new local Turkish cafe. My staple there is a hot chai latte. Mrs B likes to experiment with all the new to us kinds of food, so we tried the vegetable omelet. I have to admit, I wasn't expecting much, but boy, it was super flavorful and I thoroughly enjoyed it. So good food helped my mood. Mrs B went to work at 3pm and I binged on the tv show Supernatural while writing blog posts and doing chores around the house.
Monday was back to work. One of our crew chiefs recently quit (he was a younger kid and couldn't hack the hard winter we've had), so the office manager has had quite the time trying to schedule 5 people instead of 6. The odd man out just went with my coworker and I and we went to a job just over an hour away. I was extremely thankful the third guy was with us because the snow was still over my knees and the terrain was super hilly, so 3rd Guy just lugged equipment around so I could concentrate on doing the actual job. It was warmer out and by day's end I was down to a single coat. It was also extremely sunny and I got a flaming sunburn! Not bad, but enough that Mrs B could see the lines on my head where the do-rag I wear gave a me a tanline, hahahaha.
Tuesday and Wednesday were a matched pair. We were a 3-man crew again and once again, I was extremely thankful. It was warm and sunny again so the snow was melting away like nobody's business. It was only a foot deep now. It made me laugh when I realized it was "only" a foot deep. The job was almost 45min away, so once again, a lot of sitting in the truck driving to and from. I wasn't the one doing the driving though, so I didn't mind :-D
Thursday turned into a local day. It was just Short Round and me and it was back to cloudy and seasonal temps. The second job of the day was a mixed bag. On the one hand, we had to set up our 3 gps units and babysit them while they collected data from the satellites for 2 hours, but on the other hand, during those two hours we had to pop open five sewer manholes and measure all the pipe depths and diameters. (I talk about this in more detail, with pictures in a previous My Week Post) That is one of the jobs about surveying that I hate the most. Thankfully, we don't have to do it very often. It is also why we keep a bottle of hand sanitizer in the vehicles :-D Even though it was an easy day, when I got home, I just collapsed on the couch and was done for the evening. It's actually why this post is coming out today and not on Friday, I forgot about writing it, hahahaha!
Friday. For work I was on my own because I had to get out early. Went and did a small lot line staking in a nearby city. The lot was only 55'x55' and the house took up about 3/4 of it. The rest was "yard". They had a big dog (I could hear him barking the entire time I was there) and man, the whole backyard (still covered in snow) was also covered in dog crap. I had to watch my every stop; it was disgusting and revolting. I hate when people keep an animal in a situation it was never meant for. Then I went to the retina specialist and got an eye injection. Bleh. I just hate those, a lot. Came home, took a sleeping pill and went to bed. That's how I deal with the injections.
Then that brings us to day. I was asleep before 5pm Friday and didn't wake up until 6am today. 13 hours of healing sleep was just what Imperator Bookstooge ordered for his eye and it worked like a charm. Had an Irish Creme flavored Monster Java for breakfast, which is the right way to start a Sabbath day in my opinion ;-) Then it was off to the blogging races to catch back up on the last 48hours. Even though I follow less than 45 people, many of whom don't blog every day, it still amazes me how much content you all push out. My words loving soul loves it! And that's a wrap. See you all tomorrow when I review Drumindor, the next book in the Riyria Chronicles by Michael Sullivan.
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