July 9th, Friday Diary

Worked  00:29 to 05:54
1280 calories for 'dinner'
Since Denny was here, I got to take a nap  from 00;30 to 1:30
Denny, out 02:00
Watched TWW 1:1-4, started 5
Started Filter 3 of 4
OUt
Car 6:01
Home 6:44
Fed animals 
MDM  pork chops n rice
Watched TRMS-Thur
Bed 8:ish
Up 10, 12, 1400
Up 1630 to move to couch, continue sleeping
awake 18;30
Watched TRMS-Friday
Dinner  beans n weiners
watched "Downward Dog", 2 eps.
bed 20;30 ish.

Tuesday Jan 24th Diary

Lunch, so to speak  0015 to 0048.
Night so quiet, my associate, Jo, received NO outside phone calls.
I looked at spanko porn all night.
OUt 5:48
Stopped for e-cig filters, started on #1
Home  6:38  (455.4)
Feed animals...
MDM  GF hot pockets and veggie chips
Watched TRMS-M.
Sleep 8:00
Up to p 9:45
Back to sleep  until 15:00  
Kinda woken by loud convo between Merry and her PBS.
Problems with  Babyman at school, evidently
UP 17:00
Toilet..showered... dressed...prepped
Kissed Merry good bye
18:18 in car
19:23 at work

19:26 in
23:56 out to 'lunch'

Wednesday December 28th Diary Gas: $2.60/gal

00:05  stopped at 7-11 for e-cig filters.
00:12 at work
00:16 IN.
    at work 
Denny and I talked briefly, and he departed.
Four drivers still on the road.
Finished Tuesday with 48 rides; starting Wednesday with 44.
Watched TWW 4:10-15
Started on Filter #1
Out 5:43  (473.6)
Home 6:22 (498.3)
MDM  Chili n cheese and some kinda frozen/microwaved cheesy french fries.
Watched Animated Guardians of the Galaxy
7:45 sleep
1045, 12:30 awake
UP 17:30
Once I grabbed some coffee,  Merry had me talk to Nancy about house-related developments.
Then I called Water Heaters Only to tell them that all is finally well re water heater and gas.
Helped Stitch unload then reload the dishwasher
Toilet...showered...dressed
Kissed Merry good bye
Car 1829 (498.3)
  Price of gas up to 2.60
Office  19:10  ((523.1)
The day went up to 52 rides, with  40 for Thursday.
Watched TWW 4:16, 17.

Thursday December 22 A.M. RAIN Diary

at work
Unshockingly a quiet night
Watched The West Wing  2:22, then 3:0 -- 5.
Stitch called around 4:15,  said it's raining, and would I come home n take him to work?
Sure...
5:33 in car  (216.6)
6:10 home   (241.3)
Took my bags in...
Loaded up Stitch's bicycle so he could, after work, take it to a bike shop, get the back tire repaired.
6:51  Dropped him off. (251.4)
7:06  home  (262.4  177 m2e)
Fed the animals.
Relit the pilot light on the water heater.
MDM  french fries (frozen, but fried in oil on the stove) covered in spaghetti sauce made the night before.  Cheesey-dillas.
Watched TRMS - W.
8:30 sleep.
UP 1330, 1530, 17:05
Booboobear had borrow the car for an appointment at CoH; he wasn't home yet
And, no hot water.
I went out back and lit the pilot on the water heater again.
Changed clothes,  prepped, talked to Merry...
Booboobear AND Stitch arrived home, almost the same time.
Out 18:22  (323.2,  181 m2E.... Bbb had put gas in)
Work 19:11 (348.1,  157 mw3, astonishingly good time on a Thursday.
IN 19:16 to 23:48.
Some night work to do, dealing with flight arrivals and changes.
PM set up with 65 rides for Friday, pretty simple.
Left the office for 10 minutes to go to 7-11 for 2 new e-cig filters.
Started Filter #1.
Watched The West Wing 3:6 & 7.

Note to Merry: I feel THAT desire, the one we share, the one that brought us together... returning to me.
She just might get to start using her left arm.
The timing kinda sucks, though.
We're due to pick up Babyman and have him with us for about ten days. 

TUESDAY DECEMBER 13 DIARY

AT WORK

Watched 30Rock 3:12-22, then The West Wing 1:1, started 1:2

Stayed til 06:00 waiting for ANY morning reservation agent to come in.

6:03 (709.4)

Home 6:43 (734.1, 344 miles 2 empty)

Fed animals....

MDM   pot roast, made last night.  

Watched TRMS-M.

7:40 sleep

9:15 up to pee

13:00 again

15:00 awake and asleep every ten minutes til

17:05 up.

Tlt

Fed cats...showered dressed prepped

Kissed Merry good bye.

to car:

17:47 (734.1)  to  18:55 (758.9, 317 m2e).

In 19:06     

Started e cig filter #1.

Quiet enough until 22:45 when an agent wanted to change pick up time for her high maintenance client from 09:30 to 07:00 in Pittsburgh.

Normal affiliate who was doing 9:30 could not accommodate the change, so we called around until we found an untried affiliate who said they could.   (It WAS 0200 in Pittsburgh)

Meanwhile Denny and I talked about cell phone providers and bills; I'm thinking about either switching,  or upgrading and getting away from my fakokta Windows phone.

Merry sent a text, told me about an indoor broiler she liked.  This is almost the first time I can remember her specifically saying about some ...thing... "I want one of those."

Sat Nov 26th Diary

Up 1:30, 2:30 and
3:20  up/TLT   
Fed cats,   Showered n dressed
prepped coffee etc
Kissed Merry good bye
Out
Car 4:14
Office  4:45
Clocked in 05:00
1st rez-agent due in at 0600,   arrived 7:45.
Not much else....
SO
Watched TWW 6:08 to 6:16  and started 6:17.
Started Filter #1.
Car 15:37
Home 16:27.
Unloaded my various bags
checked on shopping list.
Stitch and I loaded 3 bags of laundry and off we went.
At l-mat,  Got the bags in,  loaded up two large washing machines, and I left Stitch there, to go on to Winco, do some shopping, and I returned to the L mat as the washing had finished.
We loaded up and returned home....18:00
I put away groceries, he started the first load in the dryer.
In the bedroom, we watched Elementary from the 13th.
Paused to start dinner... corndogs...Then watched the next Elementary.
Asleep 21:00
Up to pee 23:55.
Sunshine was in the kitchen yelling for 'Daddy' as I got up, so I went to check on her.
She said, "Bug!"
Yep, there was a longish skinny bug there on the floor.
I grabbed it with a paper towel, and tossed it out the back door, 
and went back to bed.

Thursday Oct 20th Diary

at work
The morning shows doing early work in Las Vegas after last night's debate had Al and myself quite busy...
Watched   Stud60 1: 13-16
Out 6:10

Home 7:04
Fed animals.
Unlocked the back gate, and left a check in the secret place for Joel.
C/L out
MDM  corn dogs  quesadillas
NO TRMS to watch because of the debate, so I read part of Thursday morning's paper.
Bed 7:35
Up 9:55 ...   14:00 ....
17:20  UP  TLT, prep   Fed cats..
Showered dressed talked to Merry about Bullfrog...
Kiss good bye
Car 18:00
 Got into some seriously slow traffic
Work  19:29
 Started Filter #1

The dispatcher I was relieving, "F"  left the board in such a mess... with no preplanning done...   that I had to jump in and scramble to find affiliates to cover work.   
I was so pissed off about that,  much later, I sent Denny an email, stating that if I ever walked in ... with him working the board, with a board like THAT, I would turn around and walk out.

Monday October 17 Diary

6:15  woken by Stitch, who said it was raining.
Which meant, I needed to drive him to work.
UP.... dressed...  
Car 6:26 Dropped him 6:55 and home 7:17
Fed the animals..
Back to sleep.
Up 11:30.
Merry did not know I had left until I mentioned it to here when I woke up again.
Snack: potato chips.
Trying to sleep 1330 to 1430   and up
Dressed   in car 14:46
MISERABLE traffic on Del Amo heading west.
Long time turning left from 223rd onto Normandie.
Arrived his workplace 1535. He came out 5 minutes later.
Decided to forgo Del Amo and take 223rd east towards home.
Came to a dead stop somewhere between Lucerne and Wilmington.
Waited and waited..
Watched a bunch of cars giving up, and making u turns to go the other way.
I did so, and in so doing, I could see the train in the distance, stopped on the tracks, keeping traffic stopped.
I had other options but I was annoyed, enough so that I drove back to Figueroa, turned right, and soon got on the 110 North,  then  the 91 east.... 710 S and off at LBB and home  16:22
Sat in easy chair to snooze for about an hour...
Then Adam called. Or Merry called Adam, and then brought the phone in to me.
I talked to him until 17:00.  
So up
prepped my drinks   fed cats 
TLT,   Showered dressed...   contact lenses IN
Took first two bags to car...
Kissed Merry good bye.
To car about 18:00 but sat listening to radio until pulling away  at 18;13.
Every night  This station has a "Name the year" contest, where they mention 4 events (tv shows, movies, top record) and you call into a number to state the year, and if you're first, you win.
This was one case I would've or might have won. I mean I knew the answer.  (What year was the first year of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' on t.v.?)  But the prize was tickets to Roger Waters (doing Pink Floyd) at Staples, later this year.  So, if I won, I could not/would not go.  AH well.
At work 19:11. 
Such a slow/quiet night, I checked the calendar to see if it was another Jewish holiday (no it wasn't).  
Started Filter #1.
Started on  "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip."  Began EP 1.
It lasted one season, 22 eps. 

Thursday Sept 22, Thursday

at work
My overnight associate, Al, came in at 0100  (as he did on Tuesday and Wednesday....
Watched  TWW 3: 11--16
Out 6:11.
Finished e-cig filter 2 on the way home
Stopped for a tank of gas at the Dinosaur,   $2.40 a gal.
Home 7:21
Fed the animals.
Unlocked the back gate for the pool guy.
MDM  chicken and quesadillas.
TRMS from Wednesday was entirely  about the rioting in Charlotte and I skipped it.
Watched  "Vice Principals" finale instead
Contact Lens OUT
0900 Sleep
1100 up 
15:30 up..
 and never exactly back to to sleep.
17:10 UP
Alka seltzer. Fed cats
Showered, dressed, contact lens IN, prepped
Kissed Merry good bye.
Car 18:06
Went south LBB to the 7-11 for 2 new filters, started #1
AT work  19:26.
Fred was leaving, as I relieved him, and the "Pair of Johns" were there,  working the phones, trying to assign/farm a quartet of four rides, LAX arrivals, between  21:10 and 21:30.
Which is what happens when Fred is running lead... waits too long to decide what to do with some rides.
We got the last of 'em covered by 20:15.  
Then we settled in.
 I read the LA Times I brought with me, then the TV Guide for the coming week.

Wednesday Sept 7 Diary

at work
03:00 Caller  "Where's our van?"  from Paris.
She had to call twice, I had to call Paris affiliate twice, to get them all together.
03:45 Caller  "I need two SUVs in Phoenix asap"
  This was a booker for 'Drake' btw.    I made SIX phone calls, spoke to two awake people, and four answering machines... no dice.   This booker, a notoriously (within my company) hard-nosed starts-with-B-rhymes-with-ditch, said, "Okay, I'll tell 'em we can't do it."  
Great.
Watched The West Wing  1:4-9.
Started Filter #2.
Two a.m. dispatchers in by 5:30.
Very tired, I left at 05:50
Needed gas, didn't want to pay cash (debit card) for a full tank at expensive local stations, so put in $5.00 worth (cash) at an Arco.
Pulled away from the Arco..a few blocks down SMB, noticed my E-cig, usually hanging around my neck..was gone.  Fell off at the gas station?  Oh well, gone.
So, I plugged in my remaining 2nd tube and started on Filter #1 that I bought a couple days ago.
Home 6:35
MDM pork chops (from last night) and rice
Watched TRMS from Tuesday.
8:00 sleep
1045 up to pee
1445 up to pee and snack.
On peanut butter   out of the jar.   In retrospect, bad idea.
16:30 awake
17:15 up   ... alka seltzer.
Showered dressed.. on toilet, pooping and throwing up.
Just sat in easy chair awhile.  More alka seltzer.
I've noticed this reaction within me whenever I snack on peanut butter...  gotta get it away from me.
Up and ready, finally... kissed Merry good bye
Car 19:01  at work  19:48.

Busy night with the events.  All rides were dispatched by the time I got in, but lotsa cars and drivers moving around.
And set up for Thursday ...another event night...was arduous.