Excessive

While today was a long shift at work, it actually went by fast, but that doesn't mean it was enjoyable. It was still ten hours, and I had to go on the pasta bar for most of lunch, and there was a deceptively large amount of prep to get done.

I woke up late this morning, about thirty minutes late, which left me roughly ten minutes to get ready and leave. Generally, my breakfast routine is to wake up at 5:25am, make two pieces of rye toast with peanut butter and drink a coffee, sit at the computer and wake up, but today I woke up, quickly toasted a piece of toast and ate it, drank half a glass of lemonade, and practically ran out the door. It wasn't the best way to start the day, I felt rushed and uncomfortable, but... I suppose everyday can't be great.

Work was unorganized, not because of anyone or anything specifically, but mainly because it was an irregular day, with seemingly random events happening and none of our normal stuff, which left me feeling a bit disorganized and lost, and since it was my first day back after two days off, that only added to my bewilderment. It took awhile, but I eventually got a list made and got to work. We had a plated lunch, and late night reception, and a plated dinner, and another reception, and I was told to have it all done early, so that Thursday's events could be prepped today, a day ahead, so that tomorrow, Thursday, we could exclusively work on Friday's prep, because we won't have time on Friday to do any of it... anyway, yeah, I felt a bit lost, and all over the place, but whatever, we got the work done, and left Kyle and Tom a list of the BBQ/Thursday prep that could get done, so hopefully I can go in tomorrow, put out the continental, make the sandwiches, and then work on Friday's stuff.

Tomorrow I think I work less hours than today, even though there is more stuff to do... yeah that makes sense.. but I don't think I'm going to stay late... I'm pretty sure I work 7 to 4, and as soon as 4 hits, I'm out of there. I'm getting pretty sick of that place... gotta say.

When I finally got home from work at like 6:30pm, I made a salad as soon as I got home (which was mixed greens, radish, mushrooms, grape tomatoes, red onion and cheese) with italian vinegrette. It was good, and was enough to fill me up (I guess) and I watched the Shield while i was eating, which put together to make quite a comfortable time to spend after just getting home. After my salad, I made coffee and ate a caramilk bar for dessert, and finished watching the episode of the Shield.

After dinner, I went into the computer room and turned on some In Flames all nice and loud... I've been listening to a lot of In Flames lately, specifically listening to Clayman, Reroute to Remain, Soundtrack to your Escape, Come Clarity and A Sense of Purpose. Yeah, that's a lot of their albums, but I generally just start at Clayman and let it play while I read or play a game or whatever, and I've been listening to it on the way to work, at work and on the way home from work haha. I'm sure I'll probably get burned out on In Flames eventually, but since there are so many albums, and they're all so good, it's easy to always have something fresh by them to listen to. I haven't even really started listening to their new album, and I'm sure once I do, I'll listen to it a lot.

It was already about 8pm by the time I was finished dinner and ready to do something, which kind of limits what I can really do. Michelle wanted to play L.A. Noir so I had to find something to do on the ol' computer, which was fine because I was enjoying listening to music, so I turned on FarCry and played through another level, which took about forty minutes or so and it was mildly entertaining.. it's not the most fun or addicting game, but there is a weird sense of satisfaction as I make my way through the game, which I'm about halfway through at this point. I figure I'll eventually get to the end of it haha... at my current rate of about two levels a week, I've got five more weeks before I reach the end.

After playing FarCry, I wanted to log into World of Warcraft to talk to Dan, but it just kept telling me that my authenticator code failed, which had happened before, apparently the authenticator can become out of sync and give wrong codes that won't work, and the blizzard rep needs to resync the authenticator codes, so they work... which is weird so I knew the problem, and last time I just had to email them and they fixed it within a few minutes, but this time, I was getting very frustrated. Every link to support, webforms, emailing support, all of it, redirected you to a log in screen, which I couldn't do! It was so stupid that I couldn't help but laugh, because there would be a link that said, "Can't log in? Contact support?" and if you clicked on that, it would bring you to the log in screen! BAH! So I just said fuck it, and called billing and account support, yes... on the phone, something I never do.

I waited for about ten minutes on hold, I guess, and eventually a nice man from california came on the line and asked me for my email address, something which I hate giving out verbally because people always have trouble understanding letters, but I did, and then he asked my my secret question, and then asked what was up. I told him why I couldn't log in, and about how it was the sync issue last time, so he reset it and let me try logging in, and it worked, so he explained that older authenticators can kind of die and this is the side effect, and if it was under a year old it can be replaced for free, otherwise it's just another $2 or whatever. I just told him that I would get the mobile authenticator for my iPhone and remove the keychain authenticator from my account, which he said would be fine, and that was that.

I logged in to WoW to find no one online (well... technically there were like five people including me) but Dan wasn't there, so I kinda went through all that work for nothing, but I did log into my battle.net account and cancel my WoW subscription and remove my authenticator. Yes, it seems shocking that a game that I've put thousands of hours into, 214 days of gameplay, I just cancelled without much thought, but really, it doesn't matter, because you can just resubscribe and it's like nothing ever happened, so I just end up saving money on the months I don't play, and I can just pick it up in the future if I want to go back.

Anyway, I saw Amanda on facebook chat, so I talked to her a bit about the situation with Pandemic's vent server, which is basically.. it's up for renewal and I don't wan to shell out $150 for it, since I don't play anymore and I haven't used it in months, so I let her know about that stuff, and eventually I sent a text to Dan, and he came on AIM and I talked to him for a bit about it, and I think I'm just going to reduce the number of people allowed on the server, and then renew it, so it's just a fraction of the cost it is now, because I always intend to have the server, since I'll alway use it for personal stuff like playing games with Ben.

After talking with them for a little bit, it was already after 9pm, so I ran a bath, listened to the morning stream while in there, and that was that. After my bath, I took a sleeping pill, ate some popcorn and watched Jimmy Fallon while writing, and now I'm just about done and now I'm watching the Colbert Report, and Stephen is embarrassing Jack White.

Tomorrow is a couple BBQs at work, and then a lot of prep for Friday. Should be decent I guess... hopefully I'll feel organized and in control, and hopefully I get out on time and can come home and relax! Minimal stress please!

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