Work, Instant Pot, TV, Sick
By Derek | February 8, 2020
A decent Saturday. (8th)
Regular work day for me.
I started feeling scratchy throat toward the end of my shift. By the time I was done with work, I had body aches.
Jill and I Made Instant Pot cheesy ham and potatoes for dinner.
We watched the third episode of Star Trek Picard as a family, then our younger son went to his room and Jill and I watched 10 Things I Hate About You.
After this I was still not feeling well, aches, throat still hurt and I started running a temperature, so I went to bed kind of early.
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TV, Work, Instant Pot, RackerGamers, Family
By Derek | February 7, 2020
A great Friday. (7th)
Exercised first thing, still watching Knights of Sidonia. They’re basically half-hour episodes, so I watch one while I pedal my recumbent bike. Actually, they’re 22 minute episodes, so I still need to run at least one Looney Tunes cartoon to finish my half-hour.
Regular work day for me. Pretty relaxed day at work, everyone was in good form. Got some good work done on my primary product.
Got some new Instant Pot recipes from my sister over our family’s Slack channel this afternoon. One of them was a Mississippi Pot Roast that sounds amazing.
I noticed a URL address error on the RackerGamers business cards, so we’re re-ordering them.
Left work a bit early to go watch our younger son test for his next rank in his martial arts class. He did really well, and earned a red stripe for his current blue belt.
Came home and ate Instant Pot leftovers from last night. It’s also what I had for lunch, but it was super yummy.
Kicked back and watched Grosse Pointe Blank with Jill while our younger son played for a bit on his computer.
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Health, TV, DSi, Instant Pot
By Derek | February 6, 2020
A great Thursday. (6th)
Exercised first thing, watched Knight of Sidonia.
My car windshield had “snow flurries” on it still from last night. Drove to work.
Regular work day for me, working my secondary documentation project.
One of my co-workers is leaving to work for another company. She brought in a bunch of cool stuff to give away. I ended up with another DSi, some Wii/WiiU games, a couple of GameCube games, and an AMD gaming computer that’s a few years old. If this DSi works out for my younger son, he’ll move his data and we’ll bring in the other one he was given to give away.
Ran our older son to work.
Got home and Jill and I made Instant Pot Sausage and Spinach Spaghetti together. Very yummy. I’m loving this Instant Pot thingy.
Picked up our older son from work, then played around with the couple of the new GameCube games before bed, while I moved our younger son’s data over to the newer DSi.
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Health, Work, Blog, Shopping, Snow
By Derek | February 5, 2020
A good Wednesday. (5th)
Got up and exercised, first thing. Still watching Knights of Sidonia.
Regular work day for me.
My blog post was published today, yay! MySQL vs. MariaDB: Choosing one based on your needs.
Worked on my secondary documentation project today, we’re supposed to be spinning up a blog of some sort, for posts like the one above.
Jill and I and our younger son took our older son to work, then went to Target and HEB shopping for ingredients for another couple of Instant Pot recipes that I want to make. Details on those coming up.
While we were in HEB, it started snowing. Like literal snow, but not enough to stick. We left HEB, and went to pick up our older son from work, and then headed home.
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Health, BBQ, Robotics, RackerGamers
By Derek | February 4, 2020
Busy Tuesday. (4th)
Got up early to exercise, got a call yesterday from a potential new customer, so I called him back only to get his voicemail.
Our normal Tuesday, BBQ Frito Pie, Robotics, martial arts.
I did get a call back and scheduled with my new customer.
RackerGamers business cards came in today.
Jill and I took our older son to work, watched part of a movie, then picked him up and took him home, then finished our movie.
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Health, Seguin, Family, Game, Movie
By Derek | February 3, 2020
A good Monday. (3rd)
Got up early and exercised. I had an on-site with a client in Seguin today. Some QuickBooks work, mostly. Took the family, they love hanging out in Seguin when I’m out there working.
While we were there, Jill got some lunch from this great place called Amy and Cathy’s. They have great sandwiches, and they have awesome cookies.
After I finished we went to a local park and ate lunch, and played a little Pokémon, while our younger son played on the play equipment for a while and we watched the squirrels.
Drove home and got to play some Star Citizen for a few hours before we had to take our older son to work.
Came back and watched Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Then off again to pick up the boy from work.
Time for bed.
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Health, TV, Pokemon, Food
By Derek | February 2, 2020
A good Sunday. (2nd)
Slept In a bit this morning, then got up and exercised. I’ve also been doing 100 curls with some 3 lb. weights, for the last few weeks while I ride the recumbent bike. Yesterday I moved up to 5 lb. weights. You wouldn’t think that would make that much of a difference, but it sure does. Oof.
Watched another episode of Knights of Sidonia while I exercised. Good show.
Jill’s sister got here early in the afternoon, so that we could all go play Pokémon. They had a special 3 hour research event today for a new monster, called Minccino. We each got around 40 of them.
After that, we stopped for food at a really good pizza food truck up in Selma, ordered a Saw-Cheese (sausage and cheese pizza) and went to take Jill’s sister back to our house to get her car, as she had to go home and sleep, since she’s working overnights.
We went back to pick up our pizza, then ran our older son to work then came home for a couple of hours. I got to play some Star Citizen, Jill watched a movie, and our younger son played Minecraft.
We left late to pick up our older son, and had to make a quick trip to Walmart, since we were out of allergy pills. They have boxes of generic Zyrtec; 14 pills for 88¢. Since our younger son needs one every day, it’s the best deal we’ve found.
After that, we picked up a late dinner (breakfast) at Whataburger, then came home.
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Digital Penguins, Work, TV, Movie
By Derek | February 1, 2020
A great Saturday. (1st)
Slept in a bit, didn’t get any exercise done before work.
According to Spotify, Digital Penguins had 200% more listeners in January than in December. Yep! Two hundred percent! For a total of three (3) listeners. Woot!
Got some good work done on my primary product today.
Watched an episode or two of Punisher.
Watched the first episode of The Mandalorian with Jill and my younger son. Liking it so far. His ship reminds me of the Cutlass Black, from Star Citizen.
Worked out after work, then we had to go run some errands, and play a little Pokémon.
Once back, we decided to watch Maleficent 2 as a family, it was really good.
Bed time!
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TV, Health, Work, Bylaws, Tea
By Derek | January 31, 2020
A good Friday. (31st)
Watched another episode of Knights of Sidonia while I exercised. I was able to earn my January Challenge badge, with enough exercise minutes. The badge required 1,170 minutes, or roughly 38 minutes per day. As my norm right now is 30 minutes per day, and I didn’t remember about the badge until, like, the 20th, I had to step it up quite a bit the past week or so to earn it.
Regular work day for me. Got a bunch of good minor changes in to my secondary documentation project. Also was able to review a couple of other submitted articles and finalize those.
Our younger son worked on cleaning his room today, he’s still not feeling 100%, we even skipped martial arts last night, to prevent any of the other kids from getting sick.
After work Jill and I worked for a few hours on Bylaws for the non-profit we’re starting.
We left to run a quick errand around 10pm, and when we got back Jill started brewing hibiscus leaves with some of her fresh mint leaves to make tea. The tea is so good, she sweetens it with monk fruit sweetener.
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Health, TV, Work, Family
By Derek | January 30, 2020
A good Thursday. (30th)
Got up and exercised first thing. Started watching a new anime, Knights of Sidonia. It reminds me in a good way of Evangelion, but in space.
Regular work day for me. I worked primarily on my secondary project, I was asked to write a blog post on choosing MariaDB or MySQL, pros and cons. That took most of my day, once it gets tweeted out I’ll be sure to link it here.
Talked with my brother and father over our families’ Slack instance about an electrical issue my brother was having, mostly just brainstorming the problem.
After work, Jill and our younger son and I left to run some errands, we played a little Pokémon Go while out, and got some ice cream.
Got back and we all watched the second Picard episode.
Our younger son wasn’t feeling well, so we sent him to bed a bit early.
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