TUESDAY MAY 8TH DIARY

In 0019
Merry called to say 'g'night at 0030
out 550
Home 6:52
Fed animals..

Dinner, a mix of ham, pulled pork and cheesy potatoes
Watched one episode of Comic Book Men,  as Merry came out of the bedroom.

In bed 0800

Up 1100  and 1600 and 1709
Ate yogurt with pineapple and blueberries
Showered dressed packed
Merry was actually up and sitting on the couch
Kissed her good bye
In car 1817
Helluva time keeping my eyes open on the freeway
Office 1929  in 1936
With Denny's permission, sat at my desk, head down on my hands, eyes closed for like 30 minutes.

Otherwise not much to talk about...
Other than some account holder calling at 2230 looking for Four sedans and an SUV in Las Vegas at 0300.
Uh, sorry, no.
Out 23 59

March 21st, Wednesday Diary

Up to pee 6 times
815 up  fed animals 
drank tea, 
Watched Comic Book Men
Through out the day, watched all of Shameless season 8

Lunch ; Bean burritos and chips
P'd  9 or10 times

Dinner:  Beef stew n Fritos

Bed : midnight 

march 18 Sunday Diary

Headed home 0055
Home 0126  (082)
130
eat  grilled cheese n egg on toast
bed
400  800  950
and up   for coffee and reading
1100  1130
1150
dressed
three of us in car  1155
Dropped Stitch at his son's place  1216 (091)
Daiso til 1300
Big Lots for a minute
Foods for Less for a minute
Albertsons for 3 minutes
home 1400 
Looked under both sinks for leaks
unpacked bag from Daiso
1430
Lunch  grilled cheese with bacon bits
while at desktop ..
bill pay and diarys update.
1520
watched "Gotham"  "Criminal Minds" while looking through tv guide
1653  1725
watched "XFiles" "ComicBook Men" 
1900
started watching "Ash vs Evil Dead"  when Merry caught it and starting ranting, "Why are you watching THAT? We're supposed to watch it TOgether!"
Well, honestly, I didn't remember an agreement about this particular show.  A few others, yes, but not this one.
This discussion did not make me feel warm and fuzzy, and when it was over, I announced, I was going to bed and did not have an appetite for steak n potato, or anything else.  
In bed 1945

2100
2230
2359

Sunday March 11 Diary

Up to pee 1, 3, 5
845 up on couch
Coffee pills
Finished XFiles 12:8
Watched Gotham 4:10-13
Watched Comic Book Men
Started Alien Covenant but couldn't get into it
Watched new TBBT
Bedroom 1755
Played HQ, then nap starting 1810
Up 1935
TBBT reruns
Dinner .slice London broil, and rice
Watched Young Sheldon
Bed 2145

*From the time I got up at 845, to 1400, it seemed like I went to pee very often.
So I started keeping track. 
The results:
14. 1430 .1507 .1640 .1708. 1752 nap 1938 .2028. 2145 bed 2350

Monday December 26th Diary Gas $2.47

Booboobear visited Babyman at the hospital, and once Babyman was discharged,  Booboobear took him home with him.

A crew of plumbers arrived.

I watched The West Wing 4:1, 2
And football.

The plumbers determined they did not have the necessary parts, what with parts houses closed for the holiday.
They'd come back the next day.
I was in touch with Denny, my supervisor.  Given the events of the day, and having no hot water to take a shower, could he get me the night off work.
He did so manage.

We opened presents.
Merry and I gave Stitch a new belt, the only thing he asked for, and I gave him a card indicated that a subscription to SI was ordered in his name.
I gave Merry a new pair of "Mary Janes" ... that she had picked out and bought at Payless three weeks ago, and had been in the trunk of the car until now.
We gave Sunshine a  Feisty-Pet, Sir Growls-a-Lot.
Denny, from work, gave me a portable speaker system that I can plug into my phone or table or computer... but it needs a USB connection for power.
Merry gave me ... something that I did the 'work' in ordering it online, so just she had to wrap it after it arrived in the mail...
Two two-packs of Jockey Tall y-front tighty-whities, size 36.
This might seem like an odd Christmas present request, when I could have chosen from a long list of non-necessity-type gifts.
But:
I collect underwear like some women collect shoes or purses.  (Not Merry, for sure, but some women).
Back when I had more money than sense, I collected a couple drawer's worth of underwear, whether backless that might better appeal to the gay community or women's panties... and some conventional men's, usually boxer-briefs.
In the intervening years, my body shape has changed.
I have developed a beer-belly, tho' I don't drink beer.  But the belly is on me, and as a result, most undies come up to under my belly button, and quickly slump down.
So research found the Jockey Tall size, with more length from  leg band up the hip to the waist band.
I started out with two pair in 38  but these are loose at the top, and STILL slip down.
So I've been anxious to acquire them in 36, in the hopes the tighter waistband will aid in keeping them up.
It's notable that I have many pair of boxer briefs. One singular problem with most of them is that the bottom hem, that start out at mid thigh, ride up,  til they're bunched up at the crotch.
I have a few pair that I'm happy with;  the waistband is high enough on my belly that they don't pull down, and the legs don't ride up.
However, I'm currently on a tighty-whities kick.
Why?
Because I'm feeling the urge, the pull, to get back into the 'thing' that brought Merry and myself together so long ago.
My strongest, primary fantasy in this regard involves a younger, submissive man and an older dominant woman.
Like Mother/son; Aunt/nephew; Stepmother/stepson; Mother-in-law/son-in-law.
With the male reduced to naught but tighty-whities before the real fun begins.

So,
Dinner mean, Stitch and I went to a Subway and fetched sandwiches.
Home...
Watched 4 eps of "Life in Pieces" then 2 of "Comic Book Men".
Sleep  23:00

Tuesday December 6th, Diary

at work
Finished The West Wing for the 2nd time, with 7:21-22.
Started watching "30 Rock"...1:1-7.
Yawning so hard I thought my jaw would break..
Out 5:34
Home 6:12.
"Tuesday" parking annoyances... but I stalled long enough to see Bull pull out of the driveway in my car, and so I pulled in.
Fed cats...
MDM  steak, from last night, and rice.
Watched CBM  11/27.
Not feeling well....  Merry asked me to ... get up and do something, thing it had to do with her heating pad, and I declined, while coughing, and I threw up a little, in my mouth, swallowed it back down, and tried to go to sleep  7:00
8:45 up to pee
10:45 up to pee again, and feed Donna, since I had simply forgotten, earlier in the morning.
I heard Merry talking to  booboobear  out in the living room, so I remembered he was borrowing Merry's car to go to an appointment at CoH.  
15:05 up to pee.
16:45 up.
Alka/s   fed cats   Tlt
Merry told me that booboobear should be back soon  (he was).
Stitch was late getting home, stopped to put air in a bike tire...home about 17:30
I signed into the desk top and checked various account statusus.
Merry told me the latest news about booboobear and his g/f.
Kissed Merry good bye.
In car 18:11.
At work  19:16.
IN 19:21.
Res-agent said, the closing agent scheduled did not show up.  Not sure if that meant, did not show up,or called in to somebody and said, 'not coming in' but no matter, this res-agent said, "I'm leaving, last one out..." at 9:08
Phones were very quiet, and at 9:45 I checked the queue .... res agents were not properly logged out, so anybody calling on the phone in to Reservations would be in the "please hold queue"  for seven minutes, until the call gets kicked via overflow to Dispatch.
By 9:55, Denny and I figured out how to get the last agent logged out, when it didn't much matter, as the calls are automatically routed into dispatch after 10:00pm anyway.
Denny took a "where's my car" from a lady at EWR around 10:10, which would be 01:10 THERE.   Could not get the NY dispatcher to answer the phone...it just rang.   Lady finally said, "Taking a cab" at  10:20.   NY dispatcher finally answered around 10:30   with kind of a "What's the problem?" attitude.  
Denny passed on the problem to our CEO via phone call.
Then Denny asked, "So what's next?"
I said, "Don't ask, you might get an answer"

Friday November 25, Diary

at work

Finished 6:02, then 03 to 05.
Nap for hour and a half 
Then 6:06 --07
Out 6:05   home 6:39
Fed the cats.
Looked for a specific pen.
Went through notebooks looking for mileage charts.
Went out to car, to look in bags to gather all my paycheck stubs, and get them in one place.
MDM  last of the stir-fry-beef, and chips.
Watched a Comic Book Men.
8:30 sleep

Awake 11, 13, 
Up 1530
Sat in living room.
Fiddled with lap top, seeing if it 'wants to' operate.
Read Thursday's paper.
Dinner  Bean soup and chips.
Watched a one hour special of "Charlie Brown Thanksgiving".
20:00 sleep

up to pee, 23:00.

Thursday Nov 17th Diary

at work:

The after-midnight shift was easy enough. 
Watched The WW  4: 4--9.
Spend a bit too much time talking to morning dispatcher Sammy about this and that.  
Car 6:30
Usual traffic until I got onto the 5-s into the 710-S.  
Four small cars and one 18-wheeler got tangled. Freeway was shut down  until CHP could get all the remnants moved to the right shoulder.
Home 7:43
Inside to pee, as 'it' was already starting to dribble in my shorts.
Let  Merry up out of her chair so she could do same.
Fed animals
Unlocked back gate for pool guy
Unloaded a sink ful of dishes into dishwasher
MDM   leftover steak n onions,  and rice.
Watched CBM from 11/6.
Sleep, around 0900.
Up to pee like 3 times
UP with alarm 17:10
Alka/S.  Fed cats.  Took Pill
TLT, showered, dressed,  prepped....
Kissed Merry goodbye
18:06 in car
Typical Thursday  fucked-to-the-moon traffic.
Office  19:33.

As I expected, TOO much to do at work.
Several untagged rides for lack of our drivers OR affiliates.
Took time to sort that out.
One woman at LAX, one affiliate trying to find her, started from her call at 8:20 pm.     Many phone calls later,  Pulled my own driver out of Terminal 7 to go find her in terminal 6 parking lot, which he did, about 55 minutes after her first call.

I didn't get started on the next-day-PM setup until 2230 or so.

By midnight, the dust had settled.   

Wednesday Nov 16th, Diary ($2.30/gal)

at work
Quiet enough...
Finished TWW 3:16, on to 3:17--21, and 4:1-3.
Out 6:14.
Went southbound on LaBrea, heading for the Ralph's.
Some car was in my blind spot in the lane to my right, which distracted me such that I blew by the Ralph's.
AND I was in the middle/right lane, and could not get to the left in time to turn west on SMB to go to the 101.
So I went on to Mel, and turned left...
And drove along and found a Pavillion's.
I'm sure it's been there for, like, 20 years, but I found it.
I went in and purchased  five 12-packs of soda (by buying five, I got 'em at 2.77 each instead of 5.99) and a couple gallons of unsweetened tea (1.99 each) and some  gluten-free snacks, for work
Rolling again,  into a big traffic mess on the 101 then 710.
7:37 home
Had to pee like a race horse  but
Still parked in front for a minute, enough to unload the groceries then my 2 bags...
Moved the car to the driveway  due to Wednesday no-parking on our side of the street from  8 - 12.
Then ran inside, to first pee, then bring in the groceries and my bags.
Fed the animals...
MDM   2 leftover pieces of chicken, and tortillas.
Watched "CBM" from  Oct 30th.
Sleep 08:45
Or tried to.
Very fitful.
Up several times to pee 
Son#2 came over .... or rather, tried to drive to our house, then his car broke down, and he got towed from wherever on the freeway to our house, just so he could take Merry, in her car, to the market, for some quick shopping.
I switched my alarm from 17:05 to 17:30.
And up.
Alka/s;  fed cats; Tlt,   showered, dressed, prepped,  Tlt ...
Kissed Merry good bye

IN  car  18:07.
  Price of gas down to $2.30/gal
Traffic just ....  awful
Halfway along, while nearly parked on the 101, about halfway there, I thought about getting off, turning around, and going home.
I didn't.
At work 19:29.

Quiet but busy.
Many farmed-out rides.
Many phone calls.
Many notes to check for Thursday's VERY BUSY night work.

Thursday evening is gonna be a hugga-mugga futha-mucka futt-bukka.  

Sunday Oct 30th, Diary

Up 04:00 toilet n trail mix; 
Up 9:45  alka/s .   coffee...
Gathered Laundry.
Laundry in car, with Stitch, to laundry mat...
All in one washer,  sat reading newspaper.
Done in 45 minutes, returned home.
Stitch put first load in dryer.
Sat in chair to finish paper.
Nap in chair.
Stitch brought first load in from dryer: I helped fold and put it away.
13:30 started on Agents of Shield
14:30 Criminal Minds.
 brought in 2nd load, folded and put it away
15:25 Watched Code Black
16:15 watched American Horror Story
Brought in final load, folded and put it away.
17:10 watched Better Things
18:00  Life in Pieces.
Got up to go to kitchen, and cube a package of meat, in prep for beef stew, sometime.
Watched Comic Book Men  then The Circus.
Dinner:  pork chops n rice.
Watched Ash vs Evil Dead, then Blunt Talk, then Shameless, then Elementary.
To sleep 23:15
Awake, 00:30, in time to help Sunshine with ointment on her bad shoulder.

06 April, Wednesday Diary

at work:
 Watched The Newsroom 1:10, then  2:1, 2, 3.
6:25 out
6:26 walking to HH station
6:34 on platform
6:37 on board, and rolling
6:53 off at 7th st
6:55 on board the Blue 
6:57 Rolling out
7:31  arrived DA
  called Lyft for a ride home
7:55 home
Fed animals...
MDM  pot roast, t-chips, ice cream
and watched TRMS from last night.
and WIDE awake. Eyes would not stay closed.
Moved to the living room...
back to the bedroom... 
THen the living room
Watched TNR 2:6, 2:7 
Read a NYT and WSJ ...until 13:00
Back into BR1 where it was 85 degrees
Tried BR2,  but the bed seemed too hard.
In living room chair, napping...
17:45 up  took pill
moved to BR1      watched TRMS
And Comic Book Men
Ate dinner at the table.... gluten-free pizza, and a banana...
In BR1, watched the two eps of Criminal Minds Beyond Borders...and managed to go to sleep  2300.



#12 of 13

Merry's only excuse is  "just because..."

03 April, Sunday Diary

Still sick, still sleeping  ....

Merry announced, they had made room  in the garage.
I managed to get up, and go outside.
I got behind the wheel of #2s car. Merry, behind the wheel of her car, Stitch in the garage spotting.
We got it in.
I went back to bed.
Watched "Guardians of the Galaxy".
"Comic Book Men"
"Scorpion"
Lunch
Read the day's paper
watched "The Circus"
"Law and order SVU"
"Criminal Minds"
"Criminal Minds Beyond Borders"
"Gotham"
"The Big Bang Theory"
Dinner
watched "Life in Pieces"
"Agents of Shield"
......   00:45

#9 in the series

Look at em jiggle!

24 March, THursday, Diary

00:01  up to pee... snack: peanut butter on t-chips.
05:00 up to pee... Alka seltzer
12:00 up to pee, get coffee
in living room, fiddlin with lap top...
Laundry wash...
...laundry dry....
in BR1..
Nap  1500 to 17:30
Laundry in and away
18:00 watch TRMS from Wednesday, as there was a guest host on for tonight
In living room...coffee...trying lap top
Dinner:  chicken n rice in tortilla wraps..
Watched Guardians of the Galaxy (last Sunday), Comic Book Men (last Sunday), Criminal Minds (last night), Lucifer (last Monday), had an ice cream bar... watched  Elementary (last Sunday) ...
 23:50 sleep.

16 March Wednesday Diary

at work:
 Watched  The Newsroom  2:1, then 6-7-8-9
 Didn't get to really watch the last two as the phones ...just from drivers calling in... were so heavy. 

I coulda shudda stayed another hour...and get paid for it, but with the two bestest dispatchers we got already here, and the phones not ringing, and having been here 12 hours...
7:32 OUT
7:36 walking to HH train
7:44 on platform
8:04  at the 7th street transfer station
8:08 on the Blue
  ...called Merry when I could get a signal (I'm on the way!)
8:48  pulled into DA station
She was waitng.
8:51 in car with Her
9:01 Home

Feed cats.... 
MDM   leftover pork AND chicken...and rice, and a GF English Muffin.
and We watched "Major Crimes", season finale.
10:00 sleep
13:30 up to pee, get ice cream
18:10 Up
  Pee... pill  
Back in BR1, watched "TRMS"
Dinner:  Meatloaf, rice, t-chips.
watched Guardians of the Galaxy,  Comic Book Men.
Started on "Criminal Minds" when Merry joined me, and She fell asleep halfway through.
Watched the new "Criminal Minds Beyond Borders".
23:00 sleep.

09 March, Wednesday Diary

at work:
 Watched The Newsroom 3:6  then 1:3, 4, 5, 6
Out 7:41, and walked to the Metro stop.
Arrived DA station at 0900.
Merry was at CoH with Babyman...
So I called Lyft to come in get me. 
Arrived in 10 minutes, home at 9:30.
A fine ride, until we almost both died,  when he pulled all the way to the right, preparing to make a u-turn to put me in front of my house and he didn't look to see the big SUV coming on his left...
Close but no collision.
Stitch was home, called in sick.
I fed the cats and prepped MDM... pork and tortillas... while reading some more of the paper....
10:30 sleep.

14:39 up...pee and snack...
17:45 UP.
  P, snack on chips... pill...took contact lenses out...  
Watched TRMS
 Then the Demo Debate.
  Merry and Babyman home... 1945... 
 We talked...
 The kitchen was running very slow...I worked on fixing it.
Back in bedroom watched  "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Comic Book Men" from Sunday.
Dinner... chicken and rice.
Back to sleep, 2130.

02 March, Wednesday, Diary

at work
SO, about midnight, this woman calls, looking for a REP for an airport  departure in Atlanta for (the director of Boyz in the Hood)..at 07:15.   4 hours from now.  Would not take 'no' until I tried.
So, I tried.   Two car companies and two national rep companties. NO. The end.  Jeez.

Rather uneventful night thereafter.
But, I did not watch any 'tv'.
Out 7:51 and headed over to catch the train.
I had to buy a 'TAP' card, and load one trip on it...easy enough....on the train.
Had to change at the 7th St Metro...and got on the wrong train.
However, both the train I boarded AND the train I wanted to be on had as their first stop, Pico station, so I got off at Pico, and waited 5  minutes for my train.
Pulled into DelAmo at 905, where Merry was waiting for me, and home by 09:20.
I fed the cats, while She prepped MDM...chili and chips.
In BR1, we watched TRMS from Monday
1045 sleep.

Awake 1630
Watched "Guardians of the Galaxy" (Sunday)
 "Comic Book Men"  (Sunday)
TRMS (tonight's)
'It' came up, and we ...had sex... to Her satisfaction...
We watched 'Elementary'  (last Thursday)
Dinner...pork chops and rice...
Watched "Criminal Minds" 'live' while SUV was recorded...
22:00 sleep.


It's been a LONG time since I got THIS drunk.
Maybe, the last time was my wedding night....?

27 FEbruary, Saturday, Diary (no boot)

00:05  up to pee, and snack
03:00  up to pee
06:00 awake ?
07:45 awake...
 and  well  sexual intercourse.
  I stopped when it appeared she had a couple of good ones.
She almost immediately put on her mask, to go to sleep.
UP...
fed 'em all, heated up old coffee
changed to outside clothes.
Stitch was getting ready also.
We both went outside...him to start cleaning up the mess I made yesterday, me to start on a new mess.
I finished whipping the outer yard.
I started trimming down the Sticky bushes...not roses....  red blooms ..very thorny...name starts with a B? ...total of  three bushes, two of them small, one BIG ..whose thorny branches grow over the sidewalk....
She came out.. and started directing how she wanted the remnants of the white picket fence during that last slamming wind storm ...put away.
So Stitch and I did that.
She went in.
I finished bush trimming.
Stitch helped me with the clean up.
I helped him move some sections of fence to the particular side of the house that Merry wanted it.
11:00 I went in and collapsed in a chair.
12:30 finally was able to get up and shower and dress.
   Began starting and restarting my up to now long unused laptop...
Eventually we went into the bedroom.
She was very unhappy about something that happened a couple weeks ago... when I spoke badly to her ...and something happened to remind her of it....so she was so upset she couldn't talk about it, so she sent me texts about it.
I offered her 'something to help her feel better, but I couldn't say it directly myself'
She figured it out, and sat on the bed, upright, legs extended, holding the pink studdy paddle, and 'invited me over her lap.
I went...she took down the grey tight tights I wore, and she applied a number of good strokes to each cheek.

We watched "Suits" ... "Criminal Minds"
Got up and dressed and went out, to the 99C store, then the Dollar Tree...returned home...
Watched "Code Black"  and "The Big Bang Theory"...
She went to start dinner.
I watched  "Scorpion"
then went out to the living room..to test my laptop..
Found it so ....COOPERATIVE, than THIS makes FOUR days worth of Diaries that I've input in very little time. 
Wow. ..............(in reference to this laptop...)

Back into BR1
Watched "Comic Book Men"
Dinner:  beef stew and chips.
Watched the finale of "The X Files."
Merry joined me, watched "Life in Pieces".
23:20 A-sleeping.

A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away:

18 February Thursday diary (116)

03:45 up to pee and snack:  peanut butter and p.chips.

Raining like hell, so Merry took Stitch to work.

08:00 kinda awake.  Fed the cats, scooped....

Watched CBS News from Tue night, featuring a report on Waze.
Watched  'CSI Cyber' (Sunday);
Watched  'Comic Book Men' (Sunday);
Watched 'Major Crimes' (Monday);
Watched 'Rizzoli and Isles' (Tuesday);
Merry went to get Stitch.
Watched 'Law and Order SVU' (Wednesday);
Watched 'The Muppets' (Tuesday);
17:00  Watched Rachel Maddow's interview with Biden;
1800-2000 watched the Democratic Town Halls in LV while reading the LA Times from Sunday;
Dinner:  chili and chips
20-21  watched Rachel's overview of the town hall, etc.
21:00 sleep

23:00 up to pee...
    snack... (peanut butter)
back to sleep.



Funny:  

Nov 9th, Monday, Diary AD16

At work:
  w'd TNR  3: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

6:19 Merry pulled into the garage
6:23  in car with Her
7:05  Home

We  fed all, dogs and cats.
PUt together my dinner.... leftover pork chops and rice, and warmed tortillas.

In BR1,  ..watched "Comic Book Men"

That ended at 8, and I was ready to get to sleep.
As a movie was starting on the channel that was on behind the DVR... "Calendar Girls"
Merry said, "That's a good movie...."
So...
Movie over 09:45, and to sleep.  I still blame Merry for it.

Up 1300, to pee, and get a peanut butter cup.

Awake 17:00, needing to pee again.  Alarm was set to go off in 30 minutes; saw no point in trying to get any more sleep, so I was up to stay.
 Toilet...    brushed teeth and hair...
  Took off boot, changed underwear and socks, put on pants, put on boot...     made a big cup of coffee.....

18:20 three of us in car
19:22  at work.

A busy night with reservation over flow calls... which is what happens when somebody calls the res line and waits in the queue longer than five minutes--the call 'kicks' to the dispatch queue.  
My associate took most of them, and good practice for him.

Oct 26th, Monday, Diary, AD-2

note: this is being composed six days after the events took place

We watched an hour's worth of Comic Book Men, followed by TNR 1:1.    
  .................. 02:45

We woke up at 0850,in order to call my doctor by 0900.
Which resulted in getting a referral to an ortho..
And calling that doctor, twice, and getting an appointment for 5 hours later.
Sleep til noon...
Coffee and toast...
Dressed...and hobbled to car, 1345
At Doctor 1400, filling in paper work.
Got to see doctor oh  1500...
Diagnosis: 
  broken fibula, at the ankle..and a torn  tendon or ligament. Not sure, no doubt Merry will correct me.
 Rewrapped the foot in a splint.
Was told, they would submit a request for a walking boot, which I'd have on oh 6 to 8 weeks....   
And it's my driving foot, so ...i won't be driving.
Left there 16:00.
Drove through McDee's; She wanted a chocolate sundae, and I was up for an iced coffee... then around the corner to get a newspaper...
and home...in the living room.
I watched TNR 1:2 and 3.
Then Toilet.
Then watched TNR 1:4
Then moved to BR1.
Watched TRMS, 
then Scorpion,
dinner  chicken and rice...
watched TBBT
Started on Gotham,  2330 ..........................................