Uneventful

CWs: work, family health mention, pet grossness

Well, as usual it has been a busy week. We have Juneteenth off tomorrow, which will be nice. I am glad it is a holiday but I wish more people had it off, y’know? In any case, tomorrow off, work Friday, then we have the whole next work week off for vacation. I am definitely ready for it and very tired.

We had a guy come out to start up our sprinkler system; we set a time for 11 and he came by a little later (no problem). I took my lunch a little early for all that. He walked through the whole system, got it turned on, and showed me how to get the timer working and make sure the schedule was good. One of the nozzles was broken, so he replaced it with parts he had. I was very impressed, and hey, now we have a “sprinkler guy!” yay! I have it set to turn on, for 12 minutes for each of the 8 zones, at 3am Tuesdays & Thursdays. Very quick and affordable, I was happy.

Not sure what we’re doing tomorrow. Both of us are fairly broke at the moment, so I think we’ll do something very low-key. We are seeing a concert on Friday evening, which will be lovely. I was going to go to Pride that day as well before the concert, but it’s supposed to be in the 100s, which is not ideal, so I think we’ll just do the show instead since we already paid for that and don’t want to be exhausted.

It’s an outside possibility that my parents are still visiting next week. I talked to my dad and he seemed like he was still interested in coming, although he has not been doing well healthwise lately. I’m going to call my mom on Friday sometime – or Saturday? since we’ll be out Friday night – and confirm whether they’re coming. My dad is having tests done tomorrow, so he is supposed to know more then. It will be nice to see them if they come, I just don’t want my dad to have a bad time not feeling well.

Just glad to have a stretch of days off. We have some backup plans for if my parents don’t come, but nothing major, just some fun stuff to look forward to. I need to recharge a bit, mentally and emotionally and such. Would like to take some walks on our days off, maybe a bike ride if it’s not too hot.

I submitted my site to a little webring community for consideration. I would love to join up. I even found a way to enable inserting raw HTML into Hugo on-demand, not site-wide, using shortcodes, so that’s great. I’ll need the raw HTML for the webring code, so that’s all good. Hoping I hear back soon; one of my friends runs the webring.

Otherwise I’m not 100% sure what I’m doing tonight. We need to remake the bed. Ajax puked everywhere earlier and I feel like I’ve been doing laundry all day. Duvet cover, insert, fitted sheet, mattress pad, and some other stuff. The mattress pad is drying right now and my spouse will help me remake everything shortly here; it should be done any minute.

Just wanted to set a few thoughts down and say hi to y’all. The new instance is going well, also, and I’m enjoying Phanpy on my laptop – please feel free to use it yourselves as well if desired! Thanks for reading, as always, friends <3