28th June Tuesday Diary

at work:
Watched Veep 5:10
Watched  "Sex on //" 1-6
Finished filters 1 & 2.
6:30 out
Drove half a mile to 7-11 to get new filters, started #1.
7:20 home
Surprised to see Stitch sitting in living room ez chair... he had called in to work, sick.
I fed the cats...left him to feed Donna.
MDM: the last of the 'extremely well done pork chops' ...diced up and put in rolled tortillas.
Watched TRMS-Monday, while Merry slept.
8:30 to sleep
10:00 up to pee, and move to BR2
14:00 up to pee..... back to sleep more or less
17:30 up.
Merry was awake and at the desk...  and asked me about going with her to a first-meeting-type date on Saturday.
Yeah, sure... such dates seem to cancel on a 3 out of 4 basis,anyway.
Kissed Her goodbye and out
18:28 in car;  19:15 at work.  Not bad at all on a Tuesday.
Not much work for Tuesday night, or to set up for Wednesday.

27 June Monday Diary

at work
Watched VEEP 5:10 (finale), then watched Aquarius from 6/23, which we had forgotten to set the DVR for, at home, that night.... 
Merry said she was awake most of the night; I called her at 5:30 to remind her to come n get me.  
She sent me a text enroute telling me about traffic jam problems.
6:50 out
6:55 in car with her.   
7:48  home
Fed the animals.
Fixed MDM  "well done" pork chops n rice n t.chips.  
8:30 to sleep.
10:00 up to pee  and moved to cooler  BR2.
14:00 up to pee, back to sleep.
17:30 up.
Pill ... alka/s    Showered dressed....
Merry had been sleeping when I first got up, but was sitting at the desk (kinda groggy)by the time I was dressed and ready.
Kissed her, good bye.. and out
18:30 rolling
Made good time  getting to work-- 19:12.

Finished Monday with 93...
Starting Tuesday with  62.  OMG .....(means, that's really slow.   I think the low number is due to the upcoming holiday, but it seems a little early ... we shall see).

26 June Sunday Diary

03:00   up to pee
09:30 up to pee again.... in my chair...with coffee, and reading the Sunday paper.  
Changed out the five gallon bottle that feeds into Donna's water dish, and cleaned the dish itself.
Caught up on email....
Started to get ready to take a shower, but got sidetracked taking a picture of one of the twins (cats, black, from the same litter) sleeping on the dining table chair where the box fan was stationed, turning at high speed.  
Showered n dressed....
In the car with Sunshine  
at 14:37     at work, 15:36.
At work,  it was the tail end of the four day "BET Experience" 
OMG.  
The most unorganized people ....
But I had an easy set up for the next day, not much to set up.

25 June Saturday Diary

02:30 up to pee, with a  very scratchy throat.
09:00 up to pee, alka seltzer...and the beginnings of some form of laryngitis...hurt to talk.
up 11:15
  Getting dressed (three of us:  Merry, #4, and me)
And out to a VZW store to get data transferred from busted phone to new phone.
Incredibly the store was not crowded at all.  We were first in line.
We received the worst kind of customer service, but still accomplished what we had gone there to do.
Then, off to Big Lots.
And home   14:15.

In my chair....  too hot to go in the bedroom..
Ate 3 bananas, before they went really bad...
Watched the premiere of "Roadies"
 then  "Containment"....
Nap    18:00 to 2030
 Dinner...leftover pork ...n rice.
Watched the first segment of TRMS-Friday...
Merry came in, we finished Aquarius from 6/16.
Then watched Major Crimes (6/20).
She was asleep before the end.
I finished the TRMS-Friday.
23:45 sleep.

24 June Friday Diary

02:30 up ...
09:30 Up.    in chair... coffee, an applee.
Merry... out to go get #2, take him to apptment at CoH.
Started on Veep season 4 
Carrots.... bagged popcorn....
Merry home  16:00 .
Ice cream.
Started on season 5.
Nap.
Finished season 5 to present.
Dinner, baked chicken n rice.
Merry and Stitch left to fetch #4 and bring him to the house.
Back home 22:15.

Bed 23:00

23 June Thursday Diary

02:30  up....
09:20  UP   coffee  etc
 Merry left after an emergency call from #2, whose car broke at the CoH.
I sat down with the newspaper.
And sorted mail.
And continued watching 'Veep' on my table,  season 2 and onward...
Accepted the UPS deliver of #4's new phone, after he managed to break another one....but it was insured.
Munched on veggie chips, then ice cream.
Finished season 2.
Merry returned home  13:00,  left again 14:00.  
I watched all of Veep season 3.
Dinner : corn dogs and p. chips.
22:15 to bed.

22 June Wednesday Diary

It was a ... tough? strange! night.
The power outage effected the Dispatch room, and the Computer room.   The internet went 'out' and the meant, no phones... in or out, at all.
I got some help with the car washing guy, who was on site, then our IT guy, who came in ... then our on site mechanic...   who finally got hold of our contracted electrician...
It was still a mess when I left at 8:30.
I arrived home at 9:25 and as I rolled into our driveway, I received a text from DayDispatcher "We're back up."
For MDM I ate the stuff I had taken to work with me and didn't get to:   Apple, banana, raw baby carrots, glu-free chocolate bars... and watched TRMS-Tuesday.
10:45 to sleep
12:45 up to pee, and move to much cooler BR2.
17:00 Merry was in n out getting ready to go to the Pasadena Munch which I had passed on, and she was taking HLB to, anyway.
17:30 I got up to pee, and moved to living room chair.
And read the new TV Guide.
And started dinner:   a glu-free pizza she found at Sprouts, with carrots n potato chips..
ANd I watched TRMS-Wed.
21:30 to sleep again.

21 June Tuesday diary

at work
Watched Veep  1:1-8, Then 2:1,2,3 
6:41 car
H Blvd half closed AGAIN, another premiere....
Left on Or, right on Fr, left on Hi, and onto the 101...
7:24 home
Fed animals...
Dinner... chopped up chicken breast n rice,  and tortillas.
Watched 20 min. of TRMS-Monday... 
815 asleep
10:00 up to p   back to sleep
14:00 up, p,  hot as  h---
Fitfully sleeping, awake every 10 or 15 minutes 
Up 1735 in a foul mood from heat and lack of sleep
Getting ready for shower....
Sunshine said, "I love you."
"Who cares..."
"I said, I love you."
"I said, who cares."
She came right up to me. "You want a spanking?"
"Bite me."
She bit me, on my right upper arm.
"You said, bite me," she said, pulling back.
"Now, I say, fuck off."
"Walk," she said.
"Huh?"
"Walk." And she walked away.
I went on, and took a shower and dressed.
I was putting on shoes, and Merry came to me.
I apologized for being so .... crabby.
A few minutes later, Sunshine was out, and I apologized to her, too
Car 18:26
Work 19:21
Not a tough night, or a tough next day, but my associate, KW was 'back', and I had to pay attention to his potential f-ups.

THEN a driver came in with a Tesla, took it upstairs, and plugged it in to charge... and that's when the lights went out in the Dispatch room...  (midnight...)  

20 June Monday Diary

at work :
Watched VEEP 5:9,  and the movie Jurassic World, then The Newsroom 3:2.
AM dispatcher M had  come in, and I watched the new Game of Thrones, over his shoulder, with no idea of what was going, and unable to understand 2 out of every 3 words they say.  I could not watch that series consistently without using the closed captioning.
A couple of massive diarrhea attacks...at 5:30 and again just before leaving 6:45.   
Car 6:46   and home 7:29.
A quick run to the toilet, but not diarrhea like.  
Fed animals....  put my dinner (steak medallions n rice) in the microwave and started on leftover dishes.
Merry came out of the bedroom, saying that her elder cat, 'Sue' was annoyed that his bowl of dry food was overrun with ants.
She fixed that. I finished dishes, and took my dinner to the bedroom.
Nothing on tv I immediately wanted to watch...
So I ate, and went to sleep  ... 0900
Awake 11:00 feeling like  I was in an oven.
This was predicted to be the hottest day of the current heat wave/high pressure... and like, no shit.
I peed, and moved to BR2, which seems to stay consistently cooler ... or less hot... than any other room in the house.
After a while, Merry joined me. 
This bed is much smaller than ours.
So she lay kind of curled/fetal, but her feet where my head would be, and her head where my feet where.
I slept fitfully until 14:00.
Up to pee
Trying to sleep...
Then some alarm on her phone went off at 16:41.  Urrgh.
Stitch was due home anyway.   He would be just as or more tired n hot,  and I did not want to keep him out of his bedroom, so I got up and moved to the living room, and stretched out in my reclining chair.
And Merry sat at her desktop computer, and started playing music on her phone or on Youtube, enough that I had to ask her TWICE to turn it down, so I could rest until I had to get up for work.
I did get up, 1745...
Took my pill
Showered n dressed...
I went to the storage closet to get beverages to refill the fridge with, and spilled the smaller dog food container...
Then saw a large mass of ants crawling around...so I sprayed them..
Then got a broom and dustpan to clean up the spilled dry dog food....
Finally, kissed her  good bye, and out the door
Car 18:37
   Slow down on the 710 N at Imp Hiway..then fast moving again
On the 101...at a nearly dead stop...
On the 101 past the 5 split off, saw the five car pile up that had been moved to the right shoulder.
Once past that, zipped right along
19:33 at work

Working the Super-D again.   
But very little to do.  
The night work had been all-but-dispatched.
So far  78 for tomorrow.  Very low start, and not much a.m. tweaking to do.
A/C cranked up; sliding window, and doors, closed...
Ahhh yes.

19 June Sunday Diary

3:00 up to p, and eat a choc bar,  that Sunshine had bought from some kid, hawkin' 'em outside of Von's.
5:00 up to p, and eat a banana with peanut butter.
10:00 up to pee,  get some alka/s, and coffee.
Sat in chair, reading Sunday's paper.
Left a voicemail for Dad, to say Happy Father's Day....
Online on my phone with this n that
Put in new contact lenses
Showered n dressed.
Went nuts looking for my e-cig which I was sure I had brought in from the bedroom to be near me in the living room
  (but Merry found it much later still in the bedroom)
I gave up my search, realizing I had a spare main unit in my big bag, and a 2nd filter to go with it.
So, a kiss good bye and
Car 14:24   (and started #2 filter)
Pulled in driveway at work 15:31.
And Dad called.  Perfect.
We talked a few minutes...
I went in.

Did set up for next day.
Working with Super-D as KW had yet another incredibly bad family issue.
Had a disagreement with D about how many consecutive days we should allow a driver to work.
His view...as many as they are willing to work.
Not my view, for sure.
So moving on....  ..
Work that needed to be done,  done by 2300 or so.... 

18 June Saturday Diary

02:00 up to pee
06:30 up to pee   and dressed
Coffee... waited on Stitch, who I then found out had gotten dressed and was working in the back yard.
Two of us in the front yard,   and moved all the lumber that represented our picket fence to a place in the back yard, just past the back gate.
I went about adding some support posts to the grapevine, while Rob pulled by hand long grass and weeds
I began to rake up and bag up the cuttings I had done the day before.
Then I reinserted the foot high metal wickets around the edge of the yard that represented our 'fence'.
Then we finished bagging up the last of the grass etc, and brought out the big trashcan to dump bags in.
Then we moved eight bags of alum. cans from the corner of the back yard through the garage to the driveway...
and I backed up Merry's car, and we loaded up the bags.
And went off to a recycling place.
Note to self...don't do this on a Saturday, it's too busy.
Anyway, our 8 bags became three buckets-full, the kind of buckets they use there for weighing, and we collect $66 and change.
We celebrated by getting a tank of gas on the way home.
I gave Merry $30, and put $8 in my wallet
I sat in my chair, and Stitch went to take the first shower.
Then I had my shower, and Merry served lunch to me:   egg, ham, cheese muffin.
I did some reading on my phone, and worked on a shopping list, as did she.
I got a little smarty-mouth,  and she went to the bedroom and returned with the square bamboo pizza paddle...and told me to "Bend over".  
I hesitated, and she barked it again.  But she was smiling.
I did so; she tugged down my shorts, and she applied a brisk 20 or was it 22 smacks of the paddle to my bare.
She stopped, I pulled up my shorts, and sat down, and she went into the bedroom and I heard her give him 3 or 4 smacks as he howled.
I said, I'd go with her shopping, if we went soon....
So we dressed... 
In car 1300..
Walmart for her prescription n wet cat food....and a new box fan...
Winco for most of our grocery shopping
99c Store for minor items...., mostly importantly baby wipes
Von's for what we didn't get at Winco.
IN the check out line,  Sunshine emerged, because she had somethin' important to ask.
 Something like, for Father's Day, would I mind if she treated Stitch as 'Daddy' and not so much, me?
No, I did not mind.
Home  unloaded, stuff in and away.
While gone, Stitch had moved my stuff from washing machine to dryer, then brought it inside, so I put it away.
Sunshine and Stitch left again, to go to Sprouts.
I sat in chair, and watched "Independence Day" on my tablet, followed the The Newsroom 2:9 and 3:1.  
Dinner  baked chicken n rice.
I took my contact lenses out
And watched   The Big Bang Theory reruns on TNT  until 
2300,    sleep.

17 June Friday Diary

02:00 up to pee
8:00 up to feed dogs n cats, get some coffee.
Merry got up n dressed and out to go get #2 and take him to CoH.
I went outside and 
 trimmed the bougainvillea
 Propped up the grapevine
Trimmed the gravevine
 Rake up most of what I had trimmed.
10:15 back in  ...in chair
Showered n dressed....
In my car, 11:30
99c Store for a Father's Day card.
To a CM bank to get my pay deposit out
To a WF bank to deposit the cash in
To a Kin bank to make the house payment.
Home  12:50
In chair, reading  NYT magazine, and LAT magazine
Bullfrog home, 13:45 
Merry home, 14:15
She went to take a nap.
I sat at the desktop and typed up a one page "VAN rules" for Bullfrog.
Snack... potato and tortilla chips
Napped in chair
Talked to Stitch about plan for tomorrow
Bedroom nap  1800 to 2100
UP for dinner,   beef  n rice.
watched TRMS-Friday.
2200 sleep

16 June Thursday Diary

02:00 up to pee
08:00 up    feed cats n dogs, unlocked the gate, made coffee.
Dressed  
Out to the driveway to look at my car.
Cleaned the front and back windshields
Cleaned out a pile of trash that Bullfrog had left in it.
Gas gauge below empty...drove to the closest station for 3.2 gallons.
Then to Lwd Rentals...and rented a lawnmower .... $18 for three hours.
Home, 10:45
And I started mowing.

Done around 13:00
back in car... returned mower.
A MickeyD's right across the street, got an iced coffee.
Home 13:50 or so.
Undressed...sat in chair a bit.
Read todays LA Times, ate some chips.
Merry, who was mostly in bed for the day, not feeling well, told me that #2 was coming by to put his car in the driveway to work on it, so I went out to move it.
He arrived...
I showered n dressed.
Sat in chair, while Merry napped.
She got up to take #2 to the close by Auto Z for parts.
Later he needed to go again, so I got up and took him.
Merry got up, and I went in and made the bed
And watched TRMS-Thursday...and made my own dinner, 
pulled pork on muffin and tortilla,  ham n cheese on muffin, peanut butter on tortilla ...and chips.  
Started to watch the two hour season premiere of Aquarius, but gave up, too tired after 40 minutes.
2130   sleep.

15 June Wednesday Diary

06:00  up to pee n snack...  peanut butter n ice cream.;.
Back to sleep until
11:00 up to pee... 
  coffee
12:30 up to pee, alka/ s   reading the new TV Guide...
and watched
  Rizzoli n Isles
 Major Crimes
 Wayward Pines 2:1, 2:2
and TRMS-Wed.
Nap...
Dinner     pork n rice
Watched Veep 5:8
2200 sleep

14 June Tuesday Diary

at work  ...
Watched The Newsroom 2:4, 5, 6
Read an LA Times, and a NY Times...  watched 2: 7, 8.
Started filter # 1 (of 2)
Car 6:42    home 7:26
Fed animals...
MDM   corn dogs, chips.
Watched The Night Manager #4, then TRMS-Monday.
9:45 sleep.
14:30 Awake, taking Rolaids..
 Then to the toilet, violently ill....
Merry came in asking if she could do anything, although she tends to stay FAR away from vomit..
I asked her to grab my phone, call my supervisor, and tell him, I'm too sick to come to work.
He answered by saying, she would have to call the office and speak to the operations Manager, Ron.   
This was unusual... or different than usual..but she did so, and that was that.
I asked her to get me a blanket so I could get comfortable on the bathroom floor.
After a few minutes, Bullfrog came home... curious about ...what was going on in the bathroom.   
After a bit, I got up and returned to the bedroom.
And napped
Until about 19:00.
then watched The Night Manager,  #5 and #6.
And then TRMS-Tuesday while eating dinner of  baked chicken n rice.
2200 to sleep.

13 June Monday Diary

at work

It was a bonkers morning.  After what happened  late Sat./early Sunday in Orlando, news agencies were scrambling around the area, and since we handle  CBS and Fox... well, it was bonkers.
My associate, Al, handled most of it,  but in the five minutes he went to the toilet, I fielded 3 calls, either from CBS or our Orlando affiliate.
Still managed to watched The Newsroom 2:1, VEEP 5:8, The Newsroom 2:2 & 3.
Out 6:30
Car 6:38, home 7:19.
Feed cats n dawg.
MDM:  pulled pork in rolled tortillas, baby carrots, chips,
and watched The Night Manager #3 (of 6).
Merry slept thorough it.
09:00 sleep

12:00 up to pee.
 Merry saw that I was awake, and said, she was preparing a journal assignment.
"You are WHAT?" I said,  somewhat defiantly.
Yeah, I bristled, as she noted in a forum on FL
Back to sleep, up to pee, back to sleep....
She came to bed around 4, saying she would get around 5, to go to some store for dry cat food, which we were flat out of.
We both got up at 17:45.
She hurriedly go tup n dressed n went to the car, and headed out.
I took pill, 
Showered n dressed....n prepped as she returned home with dry cat food and milk and tortilla chips.
I kissed her good bye, and went to the car.
I had turned on my Android phone, so I could glance at Waze n WWF and others ungettable on my Windows phone.
Waze suggested,   91 west to 110 N to 10 W to LaBrea.
Fuck that.
I looked at an email from Her, detailing the topic of Her journal entry request.
We shall see about that, depending on my mood and stress level over the next couple days.
18:32 rolling.
I went the way I always wanna go.  710 N/5 N/101 N.
Clear... right up to my offramp at SMB, which is where traffic began stopping.
I had time to stop at a 7-11 for e-cig filters and arrived at work 19:14.
The 'worst' at work was over.
A seven-car event that was planned to be at the UCB Theater on Sunset had cancelled altogether.  
My guess was ... out of respect for the events in Orlando, but I don't really know.
Not much else, just catching up.

23:30, Sunshine called:  "I went to take a shower and there was a big black bug in the tub and I had to get Daddy up to get the bug out... "
   Such is life with a 50-something year old woman who is sometimes a 7-year old girl ... and her grumpy ol' ex-husband ... and an overweight overly friendly pit bull and five cats who seem to be hungry ALL the time...  

12 June Sunday Diary

UP around  0700 for   banana and carrots..
Sleep, up to pee, sleep, up to pee....

Awake around 1210, and thought, "a little more"
Then it was 13:50, a bit later than I liked.
UP...   showered, dressed, ready...
Kissed Merry good bye.
To car.
And saw,  40 miles remaining.
I could get gas on the way to work, or I'd have to on the way home, and it's more expensive in Hollywood.
I got 7 gallons with the $20 I had on my Ch account, which is over half a tank on this car.
Rolling from gas station  14:48.
Traffic has been ...bad, every Sunday the last many weeks.
Mostly on the 101 from the 5, to the point after which the 110 joins in, then it lightens up.
At work 15:50.

And into the fire.
This week is "E-3" at LA convention center.
Every year since I've been with this company, we have an exclusive with Microsoft executives, dedicating one chauffeur to each one of them, for about a week. 
We have 36 drivers fulltime that cover 7 days and 2 shift (AM PM), and 13 were taken away to dedicate to the event for five days, more or less.
.... Farming my fuckin butt off here, and 'we' as a team will be continuing to do so all week.

11 June, Saturday Diary

9:00 awake to get Rolaids and Alka/s.
ANd coffee, and a banana.
Then I read a pile of newspapers....
and started on TV/DVR....

TRMS-F.
Containment, from 31st
AoS, last 4 eps of the season
Preacher,  1st 2 episodes.
Submission, #4 and #5.
Dinner   pull pork on muffin, n chips.
Watched  The Night Manager:  #1 and #2.

2300 sleep.

10 June, Diary Friday

UP 0900ish.
Stitch was home, much to Merry and me's surprise.
He forgot to mention he had been given the day off, for his birthday.

Coffee  and lots of TV from DVR
Gotham,  3 episodes to finish the season.
Rizzoli and Isles,  first 2 eps of the final season
Submission, eps 2 and 3.
Merry and I went outside, around 15:00 to meet with a guy coming over to give an estimate on the lawn.
WAY too high.
ON to plan B.
I showered n dressed.
I made a snarky comment to Merry, "You going LIKE THAT?"
So in a bit of snit, she showered n dressed, and I was then talking to Sunshine.
Three of us in car with Sunshine driving, around 16:15 to Golden Corral.
In line for ...I dunno, 20 minutes to get seated....
A heavy protein dinner for me.... a preliminary salad, followed by beef, steak, chicken, ribs....
Out 18:30...
Home, 18:45, I went in to lie down.... Sunshine and Stitch continued on to visit HLB at the hospital.

Sleep..................

09 June THURSDAY diary

at work...
Watched The Newsroom  1: 7,8, 9, 10.
With one overnight still with me, one morning dispatcher in at 05:30, and another on the way, I clocked out at 5:41.
Car 5:44 and home  6:17
Fed cats n dogs.
MDM  corn dogs n chips.
Watched TRMS-W.
and slept....
UP to pee, every couple hours.
18:00 up for Pill.
Sleep...
21:00 or so .
Watched TRMS-Thursday with dinner,  taquitos n chips.

AND, back to sleep.







"SHOW ME THE MONEY FIRST"

08 June Wednesday diary

at work:
Ran out of the inexpensive microwave popcorn that I bring from home, so I had to pony up 75C for a bag from the vending machine...
Watched The Newsroom 1:4, 5.   
Took a nap at my desk, which have the luxury of doing when Al is here with me.
Out 6:30, in car.
Holly Blvd closed AGAIN for an upcoming premiere.
From Holly, I turned LEFT on Orange (long light...) to Frank ..right, to High (left, very long light) to the 101 on ramp, and I was off n running. 
7:21 home.
Fed all the animals.
Merry was awake, sitting up in bed, playing phone games.
MDM  beef stew, made last night, with chips...  watched Election returns on MSNBC, up through Hillary's speech.
Merry got herself ready as Froggy  returned home.
They left to go to Froggy's daughter's graduation (elementary school?).
9:00 sleep.
1100 up...noticed Merry, in bed with me
14:00 up
18:00  Sunshine told me, "Time to get up".  Oh, no alarm set for Wednesday.   I got up, in time to take my pill at 6:00, too.
Showered n dressed.  Remembered to pack bags of popcorn, and baby carrots, to bring with me. 
In car with Sunshine...  18:34    at work 19:22.
Working with Super-D again, which meant... I was doing 95% of the work.  (Updates, planning, checking email, updating car-grid,  setting up PM for tomorrow...) 
He left at 23:30, not much difference to me.


Oh no!

Eric Stanton's Partners in Punishment

07 Tuesday Diary

at work
Read Sunday LA Times, Monday WSJ, Mon NYT...
watched Veep 5 :7,  The Newsroom  1: 2, 3 
6:38 out
Car 6:40  no nuttiness on the way home,  7:23
Woke up Merry; fed the animals...
Both of us in car for the two block drive to our polling place, and we both VOTED.  My first time ever.
Back home...
Merry did not make any dinner last night, so I was on my own...
I heated up tortillas and made ham n cheese soft tacos...
  along with potato chips...
and watched TRMS-Monday.
0900 sleep

1100 awake
  and asleep

Merry was up and down..and back in bed when Stitch woke Her up, since he was out of the shower.... to take him to vote. (1645 or so)
I got up 1745   alka/s  shower dressed  ready.
They came home from Winco...
I talked to Merry briefly  (she wants a 'yes day' on Friday, which I can't commit to, yet, but I would like to) and Stitch and Merry want to 'do something' on Friday (Stitch's birthday) although Stitch told Merry, '...not a dungeon party ...'.
Car 18:36
  stopped for gas  The local Sinclair has been showing prices almost as low as Arco. Whoo hoo.
Still got to work 'on time'... 19:31.
My associate 'K' out for a few days,  minor surgery.
Super-D was replacing him.
Super-D is used to being lead, with 'wings' doing grunt work.
So, he did not grunt work, and fell asleep sitting in his chair while I worked.
He had been up since 05:00 doing some Uber-driving, before coming in for a 10 hour shift here.

Not much going on, but I had to keep up with it.




"HELP!  THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!!"

HINTS

Found these on tumblr.  Didn't want to 'lose' them, so... puttin' em here

06 June Monday Diary

at work
The long night ended when the last flight my drivers were meeting landed at 02:30 ....and he dropped that client and brought the car back to base.
 Quiet morning.
Watched VEEP  5:1 2 3 4 5 6 and the new 7.

Morning dispatcher M came in, and I watched him , watching the newest ep of Game of Thrones.   
I haven't a clue what's going on in that show, and I really don't want to get caught up in it.

Out, in car 6:44
My route home entails the shortest way to get to the 101, which means, due east on Hollywood B.
I left the office, up one block, and turned right, east, onto Hollywood, and ran into the one block road closure as it was being set up for the night's premiere of "Warcraft".
I was directed south on Orange.  At Hawthorn, I had a choice of  EAST to Highland.... SOUTH to Sunset WEST to La Brea.
I went East, intending to turn left on Highland and rt on Hollywood.
I got to Highland and ... FML.
So much traffic on southbound Highland, it was like a mini-101 freeway.
I had a stop sign, and all I could do was wait and wait and wait  and wait.
Finally, the traffic was back up from Sunset, a block away, and people stopped with enough room for me to turn left in front of them, and a truck on northbound Highland stopped enough to let me in and onto Highland... and then I was able to get over one more lane and make the right turn on Hollywood.
Once settled onto Hollywood, with a few lights to the 101-S on ramp, I turned on the car radio to KNX.
Not loud...just background.
The 101 at this time, is usually speedway-fast where I get on, then comes to a slow/halt within a mile and stays that way for five miles up to the 110 interchange, then it opens wide, all the way into the SB-5, and so on to the SB-710.
I had just slid into a cruising lane to go all the way into the 5, and 'just' heard on the radio, ".... 3 lanes of traffic closed on SB-710 in Southgate..."
My eyes opened wide. Did I hear that right?
If I waited ten minutes for the next report, I might be too late to bail out to an alternate.
So I immediately moved over, to make the transition to the 110 SB.
I was on that transition,  when I heard the next report, about an officer-involved accident, and three lanes closed on the SB-710 around ImpHighway.
So I cruised along, hearing ongoing reports about that accident.
The SB-110 was not easy-peasy pedal-metal  but it was a pieco cake compared to what I might have been in.
Then I made the transition to the 91 EB, then off at LBB, and I was home at 07:36.
Inside,  I fed animals.
Saw Merry in bed, asleep, maskless.
I prepped MDM   leftover baked chicken from previous night, and wild rice, and warmed tortillas.
And watched the final two eps of Archer.
09:00 sleeping...

17:30 up.... Pill, shower, dress...    
She was up at her computer desk when I got up, but was back in bed when I was out of the shower, dressing, and 90% asleep when I kissed Her good-bye.

18:30 in car.
  I should try paying attention the Dodgers' schedule of night games because I think that has an adverse effect on my commute.
Followed by.... traffic getting close to the office,  because of the one block closure on Hollywood B, along with possibly the number of folks trying to get to that premiere.
Along with the number of cars cutting right in front of me,  as if THEY have the right of way, and I am supposed to yield,  while they are turning left in front of me.
AT work  19:33.

Lots of small fires to put out.  Best-laid plans getting pregnant.
My associate K was nearly useless.  He spent almost my entire time there on a personal phone call.
 He showed some value after our Rez Dept closed at 22:00, and he took many reservation calls during his last hour with me.
A busy time for me, with half dozen drivers clearing ...and checking in cars at base, between 23:30 and 00:30.

Otherwise I was bored...or depressed ... or bored...
Dunno what's wrong with me. Just ... dunno.

05 June, Sunday, Diary

trying to sleep until....

14:00   up.
And had to wait for the bathroom as Fuckin' Froggy first asked me when I had to leave for work... THEN went into the bathroom for a 30 minute shower, and used all the hot water.

Sunshine and I had a reasonable discussion about letting him use my car to go to work, and then the morning, go to a court date.
I am mostly dead set against doing anything to make his life easier, but I relented to the point of saying, "When I'm not home you are in charge of things, and that includes MY car, so if you make the decision to let him use it while I'm not here, I will not get made about it."
Contacts in,  lukewarm to cool water shower taken....
Car 15:25
  stopped for e-Filters.
16:29 at work.
  Of note, because I counted... from the offramp of the 101 at SMB, there are 16 lights, included the right turn on Or.  
Then ... stop sign, signal, stop sign, Long signal, stop sign, stop sign +left turn to get to the office.

In 16:33

Morning set up....   Easy pudding.  27 rides before noon.
The night though.....
Stuff that sends my stress level through the roof.
Weather delays causing major flight backups, leaving me with too many fuckin rides to cover at LAX, 2300 and later.

(it's done now,  02:30, but it was fun--not.)

Started e-filter #1.

04 June Saturday Diary

sleeping until

11:00 up ...in my chair...with coffee...

12:00 I said, I was too ill to run around but I was willing to chauffeur...
 so in car as driver, where I pulled up and she went in,  to  Walmart, Winco,  my bank, Von's, Dollar Tree...and home   14:30

Groceries in.

back in chair....too hot to go to the bedroom.

Watch Veep  3:10, and 4:1 - 10.

Dinner...pork chunks n rice....   

2200---- sleep.  

03 June Friday Diary

08:00 up  ... fed the animals, popped Rolaids ,  went back to bed

13:00 kind of awake....
 watched Veep
 we talked
 watched some Animal Planet ...  
sleep...

20:30  dinner   Ham n cheese soft tacos...
Watched TRMS-Fri
 took contact lenses out

back to sleep 

02 June, Thursday Diary

00:30  I was asleep  and Merry called to say 'good night'.

07:30 up to feed animals, unlock the back gate... get some alka/s ...check email...and back to bed

12:00 Merry arrived home, and woke me by tapping on the window. I got up to let her in.

I went through mail, we went through pre-payday bills.
Sitting in chair, I read newspapers from last Sunday, Tuesday, and today.
Then went through the TV Guide and looked at budget sheets.

Then with clean sheets out of the dryer, we made the bed.

Watched TRMS-Thur.
Dinner: pulled pork soft tacos.
Watched 'the Last word..
Dad called, talked to him for awhile.

Early to sleep, stomach upset.

01 June Wednesday Diary

Three year anniversary of our first date!

at work
start eFilter #2
Watched Veep  4, 5, 6
Out 8:30
Car 8;37  home 9:23

Fed cats
MDM Pulled pork on tortillas, melted cheese on tortillas
Merry got picked up by her new-ish boy friend (well, just 'dating' right now, eh?) around 11:15 to go south to an overnight birthday party.
11:55   sleep

18:00 Merry called to see if I had taken Babyman's phone back yet... and I wasn't even awake.
19:15 up....
In car with Stitch, 19:30
Stopped at WM on the way for her prescription.  
Dropped phone in HB at 20:15
20:43, back home

Dinner   ham n cheese soft tacos
Watched 500 Questions, and  TRMS-W.

0005 sleep.

May 31st, Tuesday Diary

at work
 Easy night.
 Watched 'Veep', then TNR 2:9, 3:1, 2, 3.  
4:00 An incoming chauffeur had walked up the back stairwell, and found a drunk guy, sleeping it off on the 2nd floor landing.
I called the police, non emergency at 4:05.


6:45 out, and walking to HH.    ($1.50 left on TAP card)
6:52 on platform.   6:56 "3" and "4" on train.
7:12 "5" at 7th street.   7:14 "3" and "4" on blue line. 
7:15 Called Merry, 35 minutes away.
7:47 Off at DA.
Picked up by Merry.
Home  7:57.
Fed animals...
MDM   corn dogs n chips.
NO TRMS from Monday.  Holiday off, maybe?
Watched some interview with idioTrump on MSNBC.

8:45 sleep

13:30   Up to pee, and get a handful of GF cookies.
  I swear, they upset my stomach.  Gotta watch those
Back to sleep
17:20 awakened by Merry, very loudly  using voice-to-text in a back n forth with her PBS regarding Babyman's haircut, of all the stupid shit.  
 Babyman doesn't like the haircut, PBS said.
Bullshit. 
 PBS is the one who doesn't like it, and PBS convinced Babyman that he should not like it either.
 PBS wanted Merry to make a special trip out there (20 miles each way) to get Babyman another haircut. 
 More bullshit.  
I'm taking the car to work tonight.  Merry is leaving town on an overnight trip, tomorrow morning.  Friday, Merry will probably be with #2 at CoH all day.
  Babyman SHOULD just 'deal' with it ...  at least until next when, when Merry will be taking him to some other K appointment.
I went about getting ready.... took a shower and dressed.
And Merry hesitantly approached me.
And she finally blurted out, "I took Babyman home last night... and he left his cell phone in the car, he thinks.  Can you look... and maybe take it back to him, at your convenience, tomorrow <since she was going on an overnight trip out of town>?"
FML.
That phone is SUPERGLUED to his hand. How in the FUCK did he leave it in the car?
Anyway,  I told Merry, I would return it on MY terms.  I would not be locked into some window of time by PBS, like she tries to do (such as, after 9 or between 7 or 8,  or at 6:30 sharp or other bullshit).  
I found the phone in the back seat next to the empty water bottles that I've already told him ONCE to remove from the car when he's done with them. 
So... I guess I'll be returning, once I wake up  Wednesday evening.
18:36 rolling
19:22 at work.  Pretty good time.
Mellow night....