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Good trip; bumpy re-entry
Jan. 17th, 2019 10:09 pmAll righty. So the last time I blogged was Sunday afternoon, and it's currently Thursday night. Here's what's up.
Sunday night we finished up the tear-down and packing and stuff, and Gb and I hit the road right after T went to work on Monday morning. We spent Monday night in Gaffney, SC and then made it to Atlanta about lunchtime Tuesday. A few hours unloading and stuff in Atlanta...I guess I probably headed out around 3? Spent Tuesday night in Archdale, NC, back on the road Wednesday morning, was back home around 8-ish on Wednesday night.
That was the logistics recap, if only because I feel like I might want that on the record for future review? I dunno...holdover from when I used to be on the road more, I guess. It was a pretty good trip. Gb spent most of the car ride sleeping, to be honest. I spent mostly the whole ride back listening to podcasts, so at least I made some headway on my backlog. :) Pretty much three solid days of fast food, which (amazingly) didn't appear to adversely affect my stomach. Well...actually, Tuesday morning was a little rough after some Taco Bell breakfast, but let's be honest: I got what I deserved. Finally tried out Sheetz, which is, I have come to learn, kind of the rival to my beloved Wawa. Had some Krystal burger since I was in the neighborhood. I think that's the only regionally specific stuff. Picked up a souvenir squished-and-printed penny in Delaware. Just because it was there. Oh! And took a few selfies at a few personally significant locations just cuz I could. Centennial Park for me, World of Coca-Cola for MU, and Duke for Carmen. Worth the stops.
So. Today, Thursday, I woke up in the morning feeling pretty beat-up and crappy. Coulda been three days in the car, coulda been three days of fast food, coulda been three days in the car eating fast food. Maybe sleep disturbance, but it feels prosaic to consider something so pedestrian. :) In any case, I was originally thinking I'd just slide back into doing work, or at the very least i/i catchup, today after I'd had a good night's sleep after my trip. This morning, though, I seriously was interested in nothing and honestly just wanted to spend the day playing a JRPG or something. I got as far as seriously considering just picking up a Final Fantasy game on Steam or something, but I just started doing a little work here and there, just as I could, and eventually just...got stuff done. Just usual dailies and Thursday weeklies, frankly, but it was kinda catching up for the week and...I dunno. It was productive. Just didn't feel great. Tomorrow I'm shooting for catching up i/i and getting an edit in, but we'll see. Hoping to get to bed early tonight, or at least reasonably.
Been thinking a lot today about getting older, my failing body, and stuff like that. I really gotta treat myself better. I mean, this is still kinda New Year's talk and still kinda all-the-time talk, but I need a better diet, an exercise routine, and like that. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, know what I mean? Can't be like that, though. I have to make time for the stuff that's important. Just like scheduling work. Gotta schedule health. Sounds ridiculous, but...there ya go.
Meg's wedding is Sunday. I honestly haven't really had much time to meditate on that, with Gb's trip being the more immediate concern, but now I'm starting to think about it. Gonna be nice to see a bunch of friends. I just saw the D'Amatos are in town for it which, like, I totally should have expected, but totally didn't think about? For sure Erika will be there. Gonna be a nice surprise, I think, seeing who all shows up. Hope T has a good time.
Think that's it. Gonna look to have finished a more extensive catchup tomorrow...basically the stuff I thought I was going to get to today but didn't. The more I think about it, the less likely it seems that I'll get to that edit. We'll see. Gotta close up shop and get to bed, I think. For whatever reason, my brain needs the healing. Until then.
Sunday night we finished up the tear-down and packing and stuff, and Gb and I hit the road right after T went to work on Monday morning. We spent Monday night in Gaffney, SC and then made it to Atlanta about lunchtime Tuesday. A few hours unloading and stuff in Atlanta...I guess I probably headed out around 3? Spent Tuesday night in Archdale, NC, back on the road Wednesday morning, was back home around 8-ish on Wednesday night.
That was the logistics recap, if only because I feel like I might want that on the record for future review? I dunno...holdover from when I used to be on the road more, I guess. It was a pretty good trip. Gb spent most of the car ride sleeping, to be honest. I spent mostly the whole ride back listening to podcasts, so at least I made some headway on my backlog. :) Pretty much three solid days of fast food, which (amazingly) didn't appear to adversely affect my stomach. Well...actually, Tuesday morning was a little rough after some Taco Bell breakfast, but let's be honest: I got what I deserved. Finally tried out Sheetz, which is, I have come to learn, kind of the rival to my beloved Wawa. Had some Krystal burger since I was in the neighborhood. I think that's the only regionally specific stuff. Picked up a souvenir squished-and-printed penny in Delaware. Just because it was there. Oh! And took a few selfies at a few personally significant locations just cuz I could. Centennial Park for me, World of Coca-Cola for MU, and Duke for Carmen. Worth the stops.
So. Today, Thursday, I woke up in the morning feeling pretty beat-up and crappy. Coulda been three days in the car, coulda been three days of fast food, coulda been three days in the car eating fast food. Maybe sleep disturbance, but it feels prosaic to consider something so pedestrian. :) In any case, I was originally thinking I'd just slide back into doing work, or at the very least i/i catchup, today after I'd had a good night's sleep after my trip. This morning, though, I seriously was interested in nothing and honestly just wanted to spend the day playing a JRPG or something. I got as far as seriously considering just picking up a Final Fantasy game on Steam or something, but I just started doing a little work here and there, just as I could, and eventually just...got stuff done. Just usual dailies and Thursday weeklies, frankly, but it was kinda catching up for the week and...I dunno. It was productive. Just didn't feel great. Tomorrow I'm shooting for catching up i/i and getting an edit in, but we'll see. Hoping to get to bed early tonight, or at least reasonably.
Been thinking a lot today about getting older, my failing body, and stuff like that. I really gotta treat myself better. I mean, this is still kinda New Year's talk and still kinda all-the-time talk, but I need a better diet, an exercise routine, and like that. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, know what I mean? Can't be like that, though. I have to make time for the stuff that's important. Just like scheduling work. Gotta schedule health. Sounds ridiculous, but...there ya go.
Meg's wedding is Sunday. I honestly haven't really had much time to meditate on that, with Gb's trip being the more immediate concern, but now I'm starting to think about it. Gonna be nice to see a bunch of friends. I just saw the D'Amatos are in town for it which, like, I totally should have expected, but totally didn't think about? For sure Erika will be there. Gonna be a nice surprise, I think, seeing who all shows up. Hope T has a good time.
Think that's it. Gonna look to have finished a more extensive catchup tomorrow...basically the stuff I thought I was going to get to today but didn't. The more I think about it, the less likely it seems that I'll get to that edit. We'll see. Gotta close up shop and get to bed, I think. For whatever reason, my brain needs the healing. Until then.