Holy balls, what a bunch of weeks. Time just slips by and I just about can’t account for where it went.

My shitty landlord did me a favor, though. The morons who live above me yet again had an “issue” which caused torrential flooding of my unit. Subsequently, the morons at Hartman-Tyner Village Squire maintenance neglected to check my unit or notify me in any way that the unit above mine had a serious flooding incident. I came home one day and a cold chill yeeted up my spine as every foot-fall yield a cacaphony of “sploosh” sounds. Of course, the jackasses didn’t do much more than tear the old carpet up and put floor fans down to “dry out” the absolute clusterfuck. That was really all I needed to advance my move-out date by a month or two.

It feels like 80% of my existence revolves around my job. I realize that’s not true. I understand that a lot of my simple day-to-day activities are basically just self-care and necessary duties for myself and my offspring. I dunno. Things just feel very “pinned down”. I haven’t worked remotely much. I haven’t been furloughed. I haven’t skipped a beat. Yet all this forward career momentum is incredibly abrasive without all the niceties I enjoyed pre-COVID. It’s incredibly difficult. I just want to be able to go to my local bar and do a trivia night with my girlfriend. I just want to take her to a movie and to dinner. I want to take my kids to waterparks. I want to be human again, and not a burnt-out cog. Maybe I just complain too much. I dunno. I guess I should get back to work.

Finally posting photos of the trip to Cancun. Without further ado, or much fuss at all, here we go:

Yeah, I have more pictures. No, you’re not going to see all of them. This is a small sampling of all the fun I had, but it’s still nice to share. It was a fucking amazing time, though. That’s for sure.

Man, I have to say that Cancun is easily one of the coolest places to visit on the planet. The moment you land in the airport you smell floral green-ness everywhere. You’re literally landing in the jungle. I need to post some pictures from the trip soon. I guess this is just a ping to make sure people know my plane didn’t go down in the Yucatan jungle or anything like that. But I’ll definitely be posting pictures ASAP.

I’m definitely not posting here while I’m on vacation. If I post anything, it’ll come after I’ve collected some awesome pictures. The main point being that the stuff I usually cover is also really irritating. I guess this post is really no exception to that sentiment.

The next two days are going to drag by so slowly. I can feel it already. Time is slipping by at a snail’s pace, almost maliciously, seemingly with the intention of driving me insane. Dammit.

I’m hoping that a week of digital detox will allow me more tolerance for my hobbies as well as my career. Staring at a screen all day is starting to make it difficult for me to engage in the type of learning I enjoy outside of work. I can’t complain too badly, as my line of work is pretty well right up my alley.

Two more days. Just two more days and I’ll be with my favorite person sipping weird fruity drinks ocean-side in a beautiful resort. Holy freaking crap. I need this week so badly to blow off steam and just regain some of that sanity I’ve lost over the last five years of doing this crazy job. I literally cannot wait.

Also, I’m thinking that I might, at some point, invest in getting myself a macbook pro. I don’t think I’m going to go nuts immediately obtaining one, but I think that it’s absolutely the first place contender for my next acquisition. The efficiency of the M1 processor is just amazing. Lower TDP and higher output, and it’s no longer reliant on the very stale x86 compatible instruction set. Super freaking awesome. I’m not even an Apple fan in the slightest, but I’m a fan of any device with even a modest amount of innovation built-in. That definitely applies here. Though I admit I have zero interest in that stupid secondary screen-bar on the keyboard. It strikes me as a waste of keyboard space. I suppose I’ll make some concsessions to try and vote with my wallet and push the market in the direction I believe it should go.

Holy shit. I literally cannot wait. In four days I’ll be heading to Cancun with my woman, and we’re going to have an amazing time. I’m so damned excited and I can’t freaking wait. Holy goddamn.

Also, I’m exhausted. Between work, co-parenting, and just living in general, I’m having a hard time keeping up appearances. I’m not superman. I don’t have invulnerability or even infinite patience. I’m an average person with limitations like every other person. Mine seem to be reached and breached with a number of people right now. I can’t control what other people, I can only control what I do, so I’ll continue to control how I react to things. But at the end of the day, I’m going to protect myself and the people I love.