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dine 's daily post, which reminded me how much I like this song. My body decided that 3am was an appropriate wake up call, which no, body. It is not. I'm still working off the sleep debt from the NYC trip on Saturday, so 3 is pushing it. Oh well, I'll deal.
It's going to be psychotically busy today at work, though it's been psychotically busy every day lately. There's just no breaks to the calls. It's just back to back calls the moment you log in.
We need ore people, but the higher ups just think we need more efficient people, and won't give us any more people. Hell, they wouldn't even backfill my job, which is why I get to spend part time on the phones. I'll admit, as I'm settling into the job, I'm doing less and less time on the phone, especially in the later part of the week where we'll have slightly less call volume.
I have to decide what I want to have for dinner tonight. I'm considering the halibut, but I need to decice what to put on it. I have a great tasting blackening seasoning, but it might be a litlte spicy for me. I'll think upon it. Probably will be the fish and maybe some baked potatoes in olive oil and seasonings. I've got some great Hawaiian blends from Kaulua Seasoning Companywho I know I've mentioned before. We got more seasonings to try. Some of it is rather spicy, but some of them are just really flavorful. But I'm leaning towards just sprinkling the blackening seasoning lightly on one corner for me, because I think Jess and my sister would enjoy it. Or there's a lemon fisherman's seasoning that might be even better. The halibut might be too delicate for the other.
Yesterday was a good day. We picked up the dog from daycare, and he was SO excited. He barked and yelled at us for a while. It was very sweet. He came home and was a little clingy for 0.5 seconds, and then he sighed and flopped on the couch and fell asleep. It was great. He was so very tired.
Then, we had a couple of hours to relax before we had to get ready for game. First up, was my slightly delayed Mounjaro shot, which continues to burn like a sonofabitch. I think the new dose started working immediately, because I got full much faster and with more finality, and then I stayed full for a long time. I'm going to have to watch what I shove in on the boat, because otherwise, I will feel like ass if I overindulge.
As per usual for an early game day, I put in the order for some dumplings to come at Biobreak. I was vibrating before game, just so eager and nervous to start the new session. Finally it was showtime, and we started. It went really well, despite not all of my players feeling their best, but it was a lot of fun. My players bought into the characters and the world, and we had an awesome time. Everyone was generous and let each player have the spotlight, and they have such awesome characters!
We have Hollie, a rogue whose children were recently kidnapped, and she is trying to find them. There's Dalton, a paladin who did bad shit in the past, and now is a pacifist. We've got Rowan, who is an unpredictable shifter, and we've got Nix, who is a total sociopathic pied piper bard. It's going to be fun bringing the party together and seeing what changes will occur as they find family and friendship. (The answer may be that they murder each other, but we'll see!) This session was mostly set up. I did the same thing I did for Crooked Moon, where I gave each character an introductory vignette, which worked really well. I had them send me music that would represent their character, and played that softly as they were introduced and had their little set up scenes. I felt like it gave the player a chance to get into the character's headspace, but it also introduces the other players to that character, so they could buy into them and the game. By the time we got to introducing the characters to each other, everyone was just full into it. Even the player who wasn't feeling up to snuff perked up and was able to somewhat forget about it for a few hours. I think it's going to be a really fun campaign. I have no idea how they're going to react to some of those side quests. The players were still in the discord chat talking about the characters and the game 4 hours after it was finished, so I'm guessing it went okay.
After that, I was so tired that I laid down for a couple of hours to nap. It wasn't 100% sucessful. I mostly dozed and had nightnaresm but I at least got a little rest. I dreagged my ask out of my bed long eough to sit for a couple of hours and nibble some appetizers for dinner, then went back to bed, took sleepy pills and crashed out for a nice sleep. Kind of a short sleep, but it happens.
17 days to vacation. The cruise app has begun to add things to the daily program, and soon the boarding passes will drop (at around 2 weeks, but I check every morning.) This weekend, I need to look through my bags, and just verify that I have everything. I believe I need to add either my orange dress, or the orange cardigan to the bag for Orange Night on the ship. Being that Holland America is not shockingly of Dutch heritage, they have a night each cruise to celebrate that heritage wiht Dutch food and orange clothes and Dutch flags. It should be super fun, whatever night they end up doing it. I think I have everything else in there. I need to find room for our sound machine, and my pills, and whatever orange thing I want to take. There's a couple of other dresses that I kind of want to take, but I'm going to be good and not put my suitcase over 50 lbs.
I confirmed with the car that's picking us up on during our Saturday NYC trip before they dropped us off. So we are all set for a 3:30-4am pickup on 5/7. And then, it shall be off towards Seattle.
I'm looking forward to and nervous about our first day in Seattle/Vancouver. We're getting up at probably about 2 am to leave at 3:30am. Then, we shall fly to Seattle, and thanks to the time difference will be landing at about 10am Pacific time. For us, it'll be 8 hours later. Hopefully, I can sleep on the flight. After that, our car service will whisk us away to the Space Needle and Pike Plade Market, and possibly a nice park to get pictures of the skyline. Then, it's off to Vancouver, arriving in around 5:30-6. After that, we have reservations at Hy's Steakhouse for our celebratory "Yay vacation" dinner. By the time we get back to the hotel, it'll be roughly 9am, or midnight our time, making it a 22 hour day for us. That seems like I a lot.
The next day shall be all sightseeing in Vancouver. The hop on, hop off bus will whisk us through the area up til 5pm. After that, we shall split up and go to our respective dinners. Ours shall be an AYCE Koreak BBQ. I don't know what theirs shall be. There was talk about a seafod and chop house.
Then, we shall see Mortal Kombat II and have fun. And then we shall get on the boat the next afternoon.
IT's getting so close. It seemed so long when I put the deposit down. Over a year ago. And i've watched the clock slowly count down and here we are.
Okay, time to get myself woken up and prepared for the day. Everyone have an outstanding Monday!
dine 's daily post, which reminded me how much I like this song. My body decided that 3am was an appropriate wake up call, which no, body. It is not. I'm still working off the sleep debt from the NYC trip on Saturday, so 3 is pushing it. Oh well, I'll deal.It's going to be psychotically busy today at work, though it's been psychotically busy every day lately. There's just no breaks to the calls. It's just back to back calls the moment you log in.
We need ore people, but the higher ups just think we need more efficient people, and won't give us any more people. Hell, they wouldn't even backfill my job, which is why I get to spend part time on the phones. I'll admit, as I'm settling into the job, I'm doing less and less time on the phone, especially in the later part of the week where we'll have slightly less call volume.
I have to decide what I want to have for dinner tonight. I'm considering the halibut, but I need to decice what to put on it. I have a great tasting blackening seasoning, but it might be a litlte spicy for me. I'll think upon it. Probably will be the fish and maybe some baked potatoes in olive oil and seasonings. I've got some great Hawaiian blends from Kaulua Seasoning Companywho I know I've mentioned before. We got more seasonings to try. Some of it is rather spicy, but some of them are just really flavorful. But I'm leaning towards just sprinkling the blackening seasoning lightly on one corner for me, because I think Jess and my sister would enjoy it. Or there's a lemon fisherman's seasoning that might be even better. The halibut might be too delicate for the other.
Yesterday was a good day. We picked up the dog from daycare, and he was SO excited. He barked and yelled at us for a while. It was very sweet. He came home and was a little clingy for 0.5 seconds, and then he sighed and flopped on the couch and fell asleep. It was great. He was so very tired.
Then, we had a couple of hours to relax before we had to get ready for game. First up, was my slightly delayed Mounjaro shot, which continues to burn like a sonofabitch. I think the new dose started working immediately, because I got full much faster and with more finality, and then I stayed full for a long time. I'm going to have to watch what I shove in on the boat, because otherwise, I will feel like ass if I overindulge.
As per usual for an early game day, I put in the order for some dumplings to come at Biobreak. I was vibrating before game, just so eager and nervous to start the new session. Finally it was showtime, and we started. It went really well, despite not all of my players feeling their best, but it was a lot of fun. My players bought into the characters and the world, and we had an awesome time. Everyone was generous and let each player have the spotlight, and they have such awesome characters!
We have Hollie, a rogue whose children were recently kidnapped, and she is trying to find them. There's Dalton, a paladin who did bad shit in the past, and now is a pacifist. We've got Rowan, who is an unpredictable shifter, and we've got Nix, who is a total sociopathic pied piper bard. It's going to be fun bringing the party together and seeing what changes will occur as they find family and friendship. (The answer may be that they murder each other, but we'll see!) This session was mostly set up. I did the same thing I did for Crooked Moon, where I gave each character an introductory vignette, which worked really well. I had them send me music that would represent their character, and played that softly as they were introduced and had their little set up scenes. I felt like it gave the player a chance to get into the character's headspace, but it also introduces the other players to that character, so they could buy into them and the game. By the time we got to introducing the characters to each other, everyone was just full into it. Even the player who wasn't feeling up to snuff perked up and was able to somewhat forget about it for a few hours. I think it's going to be a really fun campaign. I have no idea how they're going to react to some of those side quests. The players were still in the discord chat talking about the characters and the game 4 hours after it was finished, so I'm guessing it went okay.
After that, I was so tired that I laid down for a couple of hours to nap. It wasn't 100% sucessful. I mostly dozed and had nightnaresm but I at least got a little rest. I dreagged my ask out of my bed long eough to sit for a couple of hours and nibble some appetizers for dinner, then went back to bed, took sleepy pills and crashed out for a nice sleep. Kind of a short sleep, but it happens.
17 days to vacation. The cruise app has begun to add things to the daily program, and soon the boarding passes will drop (at around 2 weeks, but I check every morning.) This weekend, I need to look through my bags, and just verify that I have everything. I believe I need to add either my orange dress, or the orange cardigan to the bag for Orange Night on the ship. Being that Holland America is not shockingly of Dutch heritage, they have a night each cruise to celebrate that heritage wiht Dutch food and orange clothes and Dutch flags. It should be super fun, whatever night they end up doing it. I think I have everything else in there. I need to find room for our sound machine, and my pills, and whatever orange thing I want to take. There's a couple of other dresses that I kind of want to take, but I'm going to be good and not put my suitcase over 50 lbs.
I confirmed with the car that's picking us up on during our Saturday NYC trip before they dropped us off. So we are all set for a 3:30-4am pickup on 5/7. And then, it shall be off towards Seattle.
I'm looking forward to and nervous about our first day in Seattle/Vancouver. We're getting up at probably about 2 am to leave at 3:30am. Then, we shall fly to Seattle, and thanks to the time difference will be landing at about 10am Pacific time. For us, it'll be 8 hours later. Hopefully, I can sleep on the flight. After that, our car service will whisk us away to the Space Needle and Pike Plade Market, and possibly a nice park to get pictures of the skyline. Then, it's off to Vancouver, arriving in around 5:30-6. After that, we have reservations at Hy's Steakhouse for our celebratory "Yay vacation" dinner. By the time we get back to the hotel, it'll be roughly 9am, or midnight our time, making it a 22 hour day for us. That seems like I a lot.
The next day shall be all sightseeing in Vancouver. The hop on, hop off bus will whisk us through the area up til 5pm. After that, we shall split up and go to our respective dinners. Ours shall be an AYCE Koreak BBQ. I don't know what theirs shall be. There was talk about a seafod and chop house.
Then, we shall see Mortal Kombat II and have fun. And then we shall get on the boat the next afternoon.
IT's getting so close. It seemed so long when I put the deposit down. Over a year ago. And i've watched the clock slowly count down and here we are.
Okay, time to get myself woken up and prepared for the day. Everyone have an outstanding Monday!
