It was such a long week.

A fucking long week.

I honestly don’t know why.

I guess Monday was slow. It was so slow that Benjo called the helpline from his desk to make sure that the phones were still working. That’s how bad it was.

Another thing was that my Monday routine has been changing. Mondays are my going out nights, my #movienightmondays, but for the past month or so, things came up and I had to do it some other night.

This week, I went out on a Tuesday instead. It tricked my brain into thinking that I’m a day behind.

Another reason why it was such a long week, a shitty week, was the DASH preview meeting with the higher ups and stakeholders. They roasted it, believing it to be incomplete.

I guess they wanted it to be more of what we were thinking of for a phase 3 or a phase 4, even though the project and what we presented was in scope and originally tasked.

I spoke with the main PM about it the next morning and it seemed the higher ups forgot the scope. It was a slow roll out of functionality.

The whole point of the new DASH was to change the front-end intranet. That’s what we presented.

Now, I was scrambling to setup meetings, get other stakeholders together, and think about our next steps to make this happen. It doesn’t help that one of the main PMs on this project hasn’t been pulling his weight.

Well, I guess more on the second part of the project that was in scope with Cyclotron. I need hierarchy. I need structure and they come to me with nothing and so I make all of the decisions on a process that I do not know or understand.

Frustrating.

Yeah, Wednesday was a difficult day, but I got alcohol to help me through it.

Things started to settle down as I had some progress on some of the projects that needed attending and our new Developer was great and helpful. It’s his first week and he held strong.

I am hopeful that he’ll do great. He seemed very eager to jump on the projects.

Here’s to hoping and here’s to another busy week coming up.

* * *

Had a doctor’s appointment yesterday.

Some progress I guess, but no different. Prescribed me something for stomach cramps and recommend some peppermint oil to calm my stomach and some probiotics.

They’re going to run some tests to see if I have celiac and see if I have any other bad bacteria in my stomach. Fuck, I just want this to be over.

Like I told the nurse, it’s manageable, but just fucking annoying.

Blah.

Blah indeed.

* * *

Someone told me my dating profile was too nice. That, because I’m in LA, I have to make it seem that I am an asshole and I shouldn’t look over the girls’ profiles and write an email specific to them.

So, everyone in LA is superficial and I should play the game, but why would I want someone like that.

Blah.

Just going to live and see what comes up.

Right?

That’s how it should be.

Blah.

Blah indeed.

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Something interesting struck me a couple days ago about my brother and me in terms of our similarities. I know that we are very similar in a lot of way, but we are so different.

What struck me as interesting is what we care about, in terms of taking care of things. I love animals. I have pets and I will do most anything to help an animal if I can.

We are both caring people in terms of wanting to take care of things. It’s within our nature. What struck me as interesting is that instead of animals, he takes care of plants and I think it is very fitting and very fascinating.

I know he likes animals, but not to the extent of me. He claims that he would like to get a dog, but he never had, claiming that he doesn’t have time to take care of them, which may be right.

How I see it, is that there are two people living in that household that can take care of the dogs, but they don’t have any.

Plants. Plants are easy.

You nurture them like any other living thing, feeding them, water them, give them air and sunshine. It’s just a more tranquil and quieter approach to it, which is how I see my brother. Quieter, more tranquil.

I tend to be a little more social, more verbose, and outgoing than my brother. I’m also a little more adventurous too.

Just fitting how our personalities differ and our interests vary to match it.

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My Nexus died.

I need a new tablet and the best and most worth-it option is an iPad.

Ugh.

So sad.

First world problems.

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Tomorrow will be another day and today I’ll end it here since I have a lot to do today.

Need to pick up the new toy.

Need to take pictures for insurance sake.

Need to cook.

Blah blah blah.

Blah indeed.