Thursday, July 24, 2014

July 23, 2014

Where the hell has the day gone. It is already midnight and I have to wake up in the morning.

Last night I didn't sleep well. Once again. I fear tonight will be the same. Yay.

At work today I played through the third movie in LEGO: Pirates Of The Caribbean. The game makes more sense when you remember the movie. I only remember bits and pieces of all of them except the first one. I am enjoying the game but the worst part is the auto-save feature. It auto-saves at the end of a level. That is all. Depending on the level size and number of puzzles, a level can maybe take more than half an hour. That is a number I'm pulling out of thin air because I haven't kept track, but whatever length of time, it is a serious commitment. If you have to go on with your real life in the middle of a level, you lose all your progress unless you just pause the game and come back later. Also, I have found the game to be a be glitchy (the real kind, not when a kid says it when referring to a feature in the game). Twice today I got within a few minutes of finishing a level when a glitch happened and I had to restart the whole level. It was frustrating. As frustrating as a game for kids that I am playing while on the clock at work can be. Speaking of, I also played some Minecraft today. And read a book. For adults, thank you. But also one for kids.

Tonight, Chipotle was just okay. The ability to wrap a burrito is apparently a dying art. I am not judging the okay taste of my burrito on the presentation but it didn't help.

After dinner we went to see my mom's new house. At least the outside of it because it isn't quite finished yet, not until the end of August. It looks good from the outside and in through the windows though. The whole thing has been quite the ordeal. After spending the last couple months looking at too many houses to actually count (which I missed out on because of work but my sister had the pleasure) my mom finally found the house she wanted. She put in an offer, the contractor's realtor countered, she countered, the contractor's realtor left my mom's realtor a cryptic email saying he had a better offer. This after my mom, her realtor, one of the builders, and the contractor's realtor all met at the house to discuss changing a few small things around the house. This realtor is a “good Christian” but willing to engage in seemingly shady business practices. Nice guy. After he avoided my mom's realtor for a day or so after each offer, he sent an email this morning about the other offer. My mom's realtor finally got ahold of him and kind of called him out on stuff and this guy came back with another offer, which my mom took because she wants the house and is tired of all the stress. The new offer basically added the price of sod and a fence into the overall price, instead of it being taken off the price (sort of). Before her realtor added it into her counter, she was already planning on having to pay for those things, so it wasn't a big loss, and now all of it can be coordinated and will be finished and she won't have to worry about it. And, most importantly, she finally found a house that she really likes and hopefully won't be living in constant annoyance at the neighbors, and the dogs' reactions to the neighbors. At the moment, only the house next to it has been sold, all the others in the cul-de-sac are still being built. That's one way to avoid the nuisance of neighbors.


Now, I'm going to “go to bed”. I have very little confidence in my ability to actually fall asleep, despite my level of tiredness. Sometime this weekend I am going to take a nap or three and I can't wait.

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