Oh The Summer Rains.

It’s so quiet with the kick off of summer. Not like the last few semesters have been loud. Since the pandemic things have not been the same. I kind of like it right now. Mask are no long mandatory on campus. This actually might take a bit of getting use to. Is the world going back to normal? Unfortunately, not. Products are still on back order, a lot of the country still lockdown & we will probably have to get a vaccine for the rest of our days. But you know what’s great? We live in a beautiful world and can adapt to such small things.

A week of rain again? Well I woke up to rolling thunder Tuesday. RAIN!!! Already half an inch by 7 AM. Let’s just say getting up before the alarm goes off I’m generally not happy. This Tuesday I was a happy f***er. Great way to start the day. Saw some pretty gnarly video of tornados not that far from us on The Weather Channel that morning.

It didn’t rain enough for me but beggars can’t complain. Actually, let me complain. I wanted to get out in it. Drive in the rain. I was out the door and a f***ing painter came in. They are the worst. We have to wait on them. Wait for a phone to ring. This gut likes to wast time. I called him out to his boss once before. I might again. He killed my rain drive.

I said the campus was quiet, but my office was not. I was a busy busy bee. With the kids gone it’s time to fix everything. I was all over the town. Some weeks I have to find things to do. Not this week. It should have made the week go by fast. What it did was this: the morning half felt like a day of its own and the afternoon was another day. I thought: “That was yesterday. Nope, it was this morning. Wednesday felt like Friday. Not a good sign. We did get some more rain, lots of gloom & some Mammatus clouds.

I hate the words “abundant sunshine” together. It means misery to me. When I hear that in the mornings before work I cringe. So Thursday that was it. I was blinded going to work. I had forgotten what the morning sun looked like. I hate it. “Abundant Sunshine”. I don’t even want that s*** at the beach. Dreadful. Why do I live here?

Friday was my burrito day. It almost wasn’t. Someone else was going to buy thinking it was their day. Technically I suppose that was correct, but because of my flawed Friday the week before I was unable to buy. In the end I couldn’t let them do it in good conscience. Silly, I know. But it felt like I was cheating. Skipping out. Not going to be “that” guy.

Once again it was a busy day. The week was relentless. You’d think that would make it go by fast but nooooooo. People had me running well after the usual hour on a Friday. Finally 3:30 rolled around and I said screw this and took off on the golf cart. The ribbon cutting for the museum that my dads exhibit is in was happening at 4. I gathered with friends across campus and watched a live stream. Yeah, exciting it was not but it was good to watch and I kind of felt I needed to.

Bekah was staying at her sisters so I had some “me” time. I was going to cook up some heavy carbs and I had paid for a live stream concert I was excited to watch. That’s pretty much it, friends. Hope you all have a nice safe exciting weekend. Cheers!!!

Edit: The concert isn’t until the 25th. F***! I had everything set up. Ha ha. Oh well.

Song of the Week: “Empire Builder” by Typhoon

Jalapeño

For Sunday brunch we did something different. French toast. Bekah did the cooking of the toast while I knocked on the prep work and the bacon. It was delicious and we were in carb overload.

For dinner I decided to just make something up and use things from around the house. Made Mac and cheese with velveta and bow tie pasta. Cooked some chicken breast seasoned with Italian dressing. Topped with bacon, green onion and jalapeño. It was a high carb day before Bekah starts her diet.

Steak kabobs with some southwest macaroni salad.

HEB stuffed salmon with some cheesy broccoli. The broccoli though.

Steak bites and some veggies. The veggies were good. The steak was trash. I f***ed up. I was lazy and just bought already cut stew meat. Idiot. That was TUFF!!! Flavor worked, but it was a workout chewing.