Sunday, January 31, 2016

January 30, Saturday (97 days)

after midnight
Watched Oz 3:2 
03:00 sleep
09:00 awake ish.
Watched Oz 3: 3, 4, 5, 6
Stitch went to the library on his bike
When he got home, he said he got lost, couldn't it, and came home.
I loaded an app on his phone called Citymapper, and I hope he can figure out how to use it.
Merry and Stitch went out, to the bank, the library ..where they did not have the tax forms yet..then the market.
I went through a pile of mail, while watching
Oz 3:7 & 8
Oz 4: 1 & 2.
By which time they returned home.
Merry began prepping dinner.
  which included potatoes au gratin.
  which meant,  Slicing the potatoes.
  which meant, she did 80% of the slicing on the grater then had one small chunk left to slice that she asked me to do with a knife.
Mission accomplished, I went to take a nap, until called for dinner.

Called for dinner... pork chops and cheezy potatoes.
I ate at the table, rather than in the bedroom.
I took my contacts out and put on my glasses.
After dinner, I went straight to bed.






January 29th, Friday, 96 days

after midnight:
watched 'Code Black'
watched 'Scorpion'
watched Oz 3:1  
03:00 sleep
04:00 awake
08:00 Up
Fed animals, put away, put up dishes...
  Moved my laundry from wash to dry
  Scooped litter box..changed a clock battery
1100 back to sleep
13:30 up and talking...
14:00 sleep
17:30 up..
Watched 'TRMS'
 Merry and Stitch went out to pick up #2 at the C of H, and take him home...
Watched 'Suits' from Wednesday
Watched 'Unforgettable' 1:10
Watched Unforgettable' 1:11
 Merry called, and asked me to set the oven to preheat at 400.
I went into the kitchen to do so, and turned around, without looking down.
I got my left leg caught under Donna, who had snuck in behind me, and I tripped over her, landing hard on my right foot, and judging by the pain, probably re-injuring it to some extent.
I limped back to the bedroom.
Watched 'Unforgettable' 1:12.
They came home.... Merry served up baked chicken, and quesadillas.
Watched 'Unforgettable' 1:13, the end of the season as it has appeared on A&E, which ended on a nasty cliffhanger.
....................................................................................00:00

January 28th, Thursday (95 days)

at work

Kind of a tough night, got started watching my stories late...
OZ 2: 7 & 8. 
My morning relief was SW, not one of the regular guys.. 
I've been relieved by him before, all he does is look through all the orders, leaving me to answer every phone call, right up to when I leave... including one that would have been handled by a res-agent, had one come in on time, but he didn't ..again...so I had to deal with finding  ASAP an SUV or van to go from some hotel in Boston to some office not in Boston.  I managed, wasn't a big deal, but was something that should have been handled by a res-agent, had one been here on time...

6:09 in car with Merry
6:41 home
Fed the animals...
Started MDM,   (bean soup and toast)
Once undressed, I started my laundry...getting it into the washer, while unlocking the back gate to allow the pool guy in, later...
In the BR, watched TRMS from last night...
0900 sleep
12:00 awake
16:00, 16:30 , 17:00 awake...
18:00 awake... started watching  Rep. Debate...
While reading a bunch of papers ...
Dinner... taquitos and rice
Watched TRMS from tonight
Watched 'Lucifer'  from Monday...and laughed a lot
Watched 'Criminal Minds' from Wednesday..................  to 0000 



Thursday, January 28, 2016

January 27th, Wednesday (94 days)

at work:
Watched  OZ 2: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Called Merry to come n get me... 0515.
She arrived.
6:09 clocked out
6:12 in car ...with Sunshine
  stopped at a 7-11 on the Blvd for e-cig filters...
7:00 home.
Fed the cats n dogs.
Sunshine went back to bed while I assembled MDM: 
  Roasted chicken, from last night... rice...  last of the leftover sweet-potato-special ... chips.
And in BR1, watched TRMS  from Tuesday night.
0830 to sleep...

#1 made a rare appearance at the house, around  17:00.
Strange that it's so rare, since he ostensibly lives in the garage...  
But I'm assuming that he lives out of MY car, in between his jobs.
Having him here  just brings on all sorts of stress for me....  I feel anger,  my heart rate jumps, I can feel my BP increase....
His idea of paying rent has been to give Merry fifty bucks every now and then (the last time was before Christmas) and he has had free use of my car for three months... like since my accident, and I haven't been driving at all.
Merry worked on a 'new plan'
I got up and showered and got ready...
18:07 in car  without Stitch, so She and I could talk..
 We talked about this new plan involving Bullfrog...
It's a big question of whether he will go along with it any better than he's gone along with previous plans....
19:14 at work.

Another huge event going on .... the premiere for "The People vs OJ Simpson" which starts on t.v. on 2/2. 
Not much to say about today, even though there's 124 rides for today...   mostly LATER.

And finally, something I've been 'thinking about' : 
I do not remember the last time.
It's been WAY too long since I was told about it OR it actually happened. 

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

January 26th, Tuesday (93 days)

at work

Watched "Oz"  season 1:  5, 6, 7, 8 and season 2:1
 Called Merry at 0515
 She arrived  6:01, I clocked out
6:08 in car
6:45  at home
I fed the animals, while She went directly back to bed.
Prepped MDM:  one leftover piece of pork, on rice, and a few peanutbutter-dillas.
And watched TRMS from Monday night.
08:00 to sleep

12:00 up,  pee then snack.

1730 UP
Shower....dressed...packed....
18:10 three of us in car
1905 at work.

97 rides for Tuesday, tagged and dispatched.
But a lot of prep work  for  Wednesday, as we are doing the premiere for the upcoming show, "the People vs OJ Simpson".
Lotsa cars.

What spare time I had,  I spent reading and commenting on the Yahoo group,  OTK_FMS (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/OTK_FMS/info)


Tuesday, January 26, 2016

January 25th, Monday, (92 days)

at work...
Watched the new "Shameless"
Watched "Oz"  1: 1, 2, 3, 4 ....
Called Merry, shortly after 05:00 ...
Despite some traffic disturbance, She arrived at the office 0550
I clocked out, and 
06:00 in car.
06:34 at home.
I fed the cats, and the two dogs...  (we have a houseguest, as when Coco visited, the day before,  she left her white mid-size dog behind for 'about a month'.)
Prepped MDM ....  leftover Bean Soup, and warmed tortillas with butter.
Went to the bedroom, to watch the premiere of "The X Files".
SO....the Fox broadcast of the NFC conference final game ran long, so "The X Files"  started about 30 minutes later than planned, and my DVR did not record through the whole show, but just the half hour remaining of the time slot.  
Well.... Merry found that the whole show is available on-demand, but fast forwarding is not available when watching on-demand.
I'd have to rewatch the half of the show I just saw to be able to see the second half.
Fuck that.
I went to sleep,  07:45

15:00 awake to pee

17:25 up, getting ready.....
Dressed and packed...
18:01  Merry, Stitch, me  in car
18:56 at work

118 rides done today
 96 starting tomorrow




Monday, January 25, 2016

January 24th, Sunday (91 days)

..after midnight...
and watched Oz 2:2, 2:3  then Dexter 8:8.
I fetched some chips to chomp, and so She's having something to eat with Her nightly meds...
And to sleep, or trying to,  03:00.
I wasn't wired exactly, but sleep was not coming easily....which was probably understandable considering how much I slept on Saturday.

Ten-ish, kind of awake, when She woke up and started again on Oz, with 2:4, 2:5, and maybe 2:6 as I was getting ready, starting about 13:30
Toilet..alka seltzer... toilet...shower...dressed... packed ...

In car, Her (or Sunshine at this point) and #4 , 14:29
Gas stop at the super cheap Arco ($2.499) 
Work  15:24.

Only '89' going for today, and my supervisor was in, in place of KW, using his floating holiday.
105 to deal with on Monday, but it was a mess.
Way too many 'hourlies' or 'wait and returns' for the number of available drivers I have, so I wound up farming more rides than I covered with my own drivers.

I heard from DB that our old friend, ex dispatcher/supervisor MT had told DB that she would be dropping in to visit this coming week....(and maybe inquire about a job...)
and that we have a hybrid dispatcher/reservationist in training, with the plan for him of working both ... hours 0100 to 0600 Monday-Friday.  

Moving on....

Watched episode 2 of "The Circus..." starting at 23:30 .....