Saturday was a pretty good day. It kind of sucked having to get up for work but it wasn’t too bad. While at work, nothing went wrong so that was also a plus. For quite awhile now I’ve had to work doubles every Saturday but recently they moved a couple new people up so I haven’t had a double in a few weeks now. This is a good thing so that means it probably won’t last too long but I’ll try to enjoy it while it lasts. A long while ago I had Fridays and Saturdays off and it was really nice having an actual weekend. Those were good times.

For dinner I had steamed rice and broccoli. It’s a very simple meal but it’s still delicious.

I spent most of my time after dinner playing guitar. I just started learning how to play “Blackbird” by The Beatles. It’s a really cool song and I’m a fan of finger-picking so it’s working out. It was a bit tricky at first but after playing it a lot I’m getting better. My main problem now is the fact that I haven’t played in forever. This means my fingertips on my left hand went all soft on me so I’m having to build them back up. For the past few days they’ve been perpetually red and sore. The worst of it should be over pretty soon as long as I don’t tear one open.

For the past week or so I’ve had a strong urge to play board games. I’m not sure why. I’ve been meaning to go to the store with my friend to buy some but those plans have fallen through the couple times I have made them. Well last night it finally worked out. I went and picked her up and we headed to the store. It took me awhile to choose but I ended up settling on the classics: Connect Four, Battleship, and Monopoly. They had some other cool ones but they were for three or more people and my friend and I only totaled two. Oh well.

We went back to my house down into the basement because there was more room. We put on a French movie called Les Choristes. I’m not really sure what it was about because it’s in French and it’s hard to play a game and read subtitles at the same time. It had something to do with a choir in a school for troubled boys. It was pretty good though, even though I had no clue what was going on.

The first game we played was Connect Four. She won the first two games, I won the second two games, and then she totally annihilated me in the tie-breaker. Then we played Battleship. Right off the bat she sunk three out of my five ships. I was sucking for the most part. It took her awhile to find my last ship and in that time I managed to find four of hers but she got my last one before I was able to get hers. It was good times though. Monopoly tends to be a pretty long game so we didn’t get into that one. Maybe next time.

Sunday. I went to work in the morning and that was pretty much uneventful. When I wasn't starting stuff I was just hanging out upstairs playing guitar.

After work I had dinner, played video games, watched movies, and crocheted. Eventually my friend came over and we watched "Nothin' To Lose." That film is a classic. I've seen it a ridiculous number of times but it's still funny every time. Much like "The 'Burbs."

Monday was fairly productive. At least kind of. I slept in and then decided I wanted to organize my guitar tab. The main reason I finally decided to do this, and I've been wanting to do it for awhile now, is the fact that I keep losing the "Blackbird" tab when I'm at work. I'll open it up on the Guitar World website and then when I go to turn my computer on at work, my computer won't turn on, and when I restart it I will have lost the tab. I tried printing off the tab but that didn't work. I also tried saving the webpage offline but that didn't work either. So finally I decided that there was a pretty good chance I had the Guitar World magazine that the tab was in because I've been getting the magazine for several years. I headed downstairs where I keep all my old issues and after digging through them for a few minutes I found the issue with the tab. As I grabbed it, I decided I'd just grab a bunch and start cutting all the tabs out. So I went back upstairs and started cutting them out with a box cutter. It was a pretty efficient method.

That's how I spent my day before work. I have a lot more magazines than I thought I did. Eventually it was time for work. Again, an uneventful day. I played guitar for a little bit and then started organizing all the tabs I had cut out earlier. I entered them all into a database so I'll be able to quickly see which tabs I have. Now I need to go to the store and get folders to put them all in.

After work I was supposed to hang out with my friend. She had come to a movie with a guy that used to work at the theater and they were still hanging out after their movie talking with another coworker when I got off. She was supposed to get a ride home with the other coworker and he made a joke and she said she would walk home. He said that she had two other friends and I replied "Who are they?" Completely joking. The guy she came to a movie with said he could give her a ride home. I figured she would say something and end up going with me. If we were going to hang out it only made sense that she would just come with me rather than go all the way home just to come back across town. I don't know. I figured that maybe she didn't get to see this guy too often and maybe she wanted to catch up so I let her go. I called her about twenty minutes later but her phone was off. I called her thirty minutes after that and her phone was still off. We're supposed to hang out today but she hasn't answered her phone so I'm going to call her one more time and then leave it up to her. I've got more tabs to cut out.