Friday, 27 April 2018
i got up early as usual to get ready for a day at work around 5:30a. coffee and toast with cream cheese was breakfast. i am mobbed by our three cats when i made my appearance and then settled in to read the book I was reading (Infinite Jest) and serendipitously found some movie on cable to bide my time before i had to leave.
at work, i did my work. one of the main things going on right now is hiring a new employee. it’s getting a bit hairy because the applicants are not rolling in like they usually do. worry is in the air. my place of employ requires a certain minimum number of people to keep it running past a week or two and if people are not hired and trained in then it could be bad. so, stress is upon us.
but i did find and interview a candidate that day and they seemed to fit the bill. they will begin work in just about two weeks’s time. there is still one position open though.
after work, i had to drive to pick up my two youngest kids from their mother’s. it’s an hour and a half round trip and my son has music lessons at 6:30p that i have to make it to. it’s usually not a problem since i get off work at 4:30p and can make it back to downtown Muncie before 6:00p most nights. during the drive, they put their chairs back and nap most of the way. they might talk with me about some things that have been going on for a few minutes but it’s not long until they succumb to their teenage metabolic weariness and learned coping mechanism for the large amount of time they spend on the highway and its white noise. but this night, there were no lessons because the teacher was out of state visiting his in-laws. so, we had dinner way earlier than we usually do. my older daughter joined us and, as a family of five, we descended on one of the local Chinese buffets to indulge.
my family often gets very silly especially when we’re together. we become a virtual mob. and i mean “virtual” in the cybernetic or quantum particle sense -there is a strong potential for this essence to manifest but it doesn’t quite ever make it to true mobness. we just get whimsical and goofballish. my wife wanted to crawl under the table at certain points and just dissociate herself with us, renouncing her affiliation. not because we were being obnoxiously loud but because we were unashamedly un-quiet. i really am going to have to start being more diligent in recording the details of times like this but they go by in a happy blur.
we all made it through dinner (including my wife) and retreated.
after dinner, we picked up some ice cream from the grocery and then reclined at home but did not play a certain game that is a bit like poker without cards where only bluffing matters as you assume roles and try to get others to believe what you are saying. we always enjoy it once we get going but we’re all introverts and it’s a major uphill climb to get us in the mood to actually step over the line and play it. it does get to be frustrating having and wanting to play some games to engage everyone and yet no one wants to play. My oldest daughter hung out until later but was still feeling a but under the weather after being ill for the last week and a half. we ended up spending the evening queueing up funny videos from YouTube through the Chromecast. hilarity and groans were had and heard in the house.
then we drifted off to bed. my youngest daughter first, then my oldest left to go back to her apartment, and then my wife and i. my son stays up to ungodly hours of the morning. i have no idea when he finally went to bed.