August 1, 2017

 This morning sucked a little bit. It started when I was ironing my pants and burned my finger on the iron. That stung and made my shower annoying every time my finger got under the water. Then, when I went to start my car, it just clicked. Nothing. Nada. No va. I didn't leave the trunk open, there weren't any lights on, so I don't know what happened. I first thought to call my Mom or sister to see if they could give me a ride but then I remembered the small charger my Mom got me after my car died twice in relatively quick succession. Luckily I charged it after she got it for me and when I pulled it out of my trunk it was still almost fully charged. It is a HALO Bolt and it is amazing. I wish I were famous so I could get paid to promote it. I plugged in the small jumper cables, hooked those up to the battery (which I learned how to do on my odd battery the last time I needed jumped), pushed the button on the device down for a couple seconds, it clicked, I turned my key, and the car started. It was incredible. I thought I would have to leave it on the battery for a long time and cross my fingers and be really late for work. Instead, it took a handful of seconds and I was only a few minutes late for work.

So yeah, this morning could have been better. It also could have been worse.

At work, I did things and I should have taken notes because it was a weird collection of things here and there. A lot of which I have probably forgotten. I used the old mechanical pencil sharpener for all of my pencil sharpening needs. I sprayed the bottom of the suction cup with Lysol and didn't have to reset it the whole time. The power of liquids.

I was on desk for the first two hours and I think that whole time was spent catching up on reference emails and personal emails that stacked up from my day off yesterday. Other stuff may have happened but I think it was all email stuff.

When I got off the desk I did a walkthrough, put up my DVD sign and switched out several of the DVDs from last month, and added a bunch of audiobooks to that display. It will be nice having the audiobook display this month because I filled it so many times last month when it wasn't my display.

All of that took me nearly forty-five minutes and I had time to print some more prize drawing tickets, because those are never-ending. I printed out another two hundred and this afternoon I gave a single person thirty-eight, so yeah, I'll probably be printing more soon.

My car started at lunch, which was a nice surprise. It also started every other time I used my car throughout the rest of the day. I need to get an oil change so I should probably just schedule a whole servicing thing and get everything checked out. We'll see.

This afternoon I did stuff. Probably. I cut the tickets I printed this morning. I also messed a lot with stats. I pulled stats for our website and then fell down a hole playing with Excel. At the moment I have a different tab for each year of stats. I decided I wanted to make a new tab that showed the stats for each month across all of the years for each page next to each other. If that makes sense. I wanted a chart that would show me monthly trends in page views. I may have also been bored. But I think it will be interesting. And it should have been a fairly simple task but chart was acting weird. It would just select the top row it kept going for the top two or three. It was super weird. I started trying a new tactic but got sidetracked before I could see if it would actually work. Tomorrow.

There was definitely some other stuff but I've been milking this entry for at least an hour, so lets move on.

After work I went home. I had no interest in cooking dinner and sat down on my couch for awhile and almost fell asleep. My couch is so napable. Eventually I ate a very adult dinner. I had the rest of my potatoes and rice cold along with a Havarti and Dijon mustard sandwich. That is a super fancy sounding cheese sandwich. Originally I was going to make it a grilled cheese sandwich, but I couldn't be bothered.

Around eight o'clock I decided to go to the store. Originally I was going to go to Target, but then I remembered I wanted to make a red potato salad, so I looked up a bunch a different recipes, found one that looked good, and headed to the grocery store. The recipe is just a mix of olive oil, parsley, lemon juice, green onions, Dijon mustard, celery, and garlic. Super simple. And I get to use my food processor. Always a plus. I probably won't get to make it until Friday but I'm looking forward to it.

I took a long way home because I was listening to an Authority Zero CD. I completely forgot they were a thing until I was adding new music to my thumb drive, and that is a shame because I love them. I've been in a very nostalgic music mood lately and Authority Zero is perfect. Another band that really holds up is Saosin.

And now I'm back from falling down a YouTube music rabbit hole. Good grief.

I spent the rest of my night watching a livestream and ever so slowly working on this. Originally I wanted to knock this and my audio journal out so I could play some video games. That was obviously never going to happen. Writing this is like homework. If I give myself a day, I'll take a day. If I give myself thirty minutes, I'll take thirty minutes. You'd think after so many years of doing this I would have a more efficient system worked out.

It's now nearly midnight so I'm going to record my audio journal and go to bed. Tomorrow, I am hoping my car starts in the morning.