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I had a very busy weekend. I worked Saturday for half a day, and I got to catch up on some studying and cleaning (not much cleaning, but I did get a good 4 hour stint of studying done).
Saturday, OI Girl and I went grocery shopping, and I pulled into a parking space in the parking lot, just like normal, got out and was walking to the store just like normal, and this lady yelled at me from her car that she was waiting for four cars to go by to get the parking spot I took. I said I didn’t see anybody waiting but I was thinking, the only way someone could be waiting for that spot and me not see them, is if they were going the wrong way around the parking lot, against the flow of traffic. Anyway, I didn’t say that, and she called me an asshole and drove off. Then I got angry, walked back to mey car and moved it to a spot right next to hers and and as we were getting out of the cars I told her again “There’s your parking spot MA’AM, I didn’t see anyone waiting” I was furious by then, and she knew it.
Now I’m all pissed off again, just from thinking about it.
Prior to that, the OI Girl was in a crabby mood all day. I felt great when I got off work that morning, It was sunny, and I met The OI Girl at the beach. She was in a bad mood, I could tell instantly. Then she wanted to leave almost as soon as I got there. Four hours later, I loose my temper in the parking lot with some some weird woman. I did pretty good for those 4 hours I think.
Then we had a fun time making up.
Also Saturday we went and looked at cars for the OI Girl. She found one she likes, a Mitsubishi Pajero. Hopefully its still there when we go back to get it today.
Yesterday we were going diving, but it was raining really hard off and on all day. I don’t even know what happened to the day.

I’m officially done with the Trigonometry part of the course, (I HOPE!) I got 85% on the first test and hope to get the results of the second today. It was tough, and I hope to increase the pace from here on out.

Now it’s back to work.

See ya tomorrow!

Saturday.
Yesterday I worked from 7:30 AM till 11:15 PM with no breaks. then I came home and went to sleep. Woke up this morning with two missed calls and a message from 12:15 AM about another problem. that’s a whole hour after I left.
OI Girl says she feels like she’s dating a doctor on call all the time.
Wish I got the pay of a doctor!
I’m headed back into work, right now.

to say today. I’m glad it’s Friday. I am working late tonight and tomorrow a little. I’m mad at the swimming association because they notified us swimmers of a swim Saturday, and if I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have said “OK” when they asked me to work. I sent them and email, not too nasty, a little.
I need to go diving, hopefully Sunday, and we’ll be car shopping this weekend too. (For the OI Girl, not me)

I’m getting ready to get pissed off at a guy at work. He tells my boss things like “Tell Mark to stop by when he gets a chance”. He can call me his damn self. I have too much work to do to be running and seeing what he wants while he’s playing video games for 55 minutes out of every hour. I am probably not being reasonable in being offended. Maybe he’s having technical difficulties with something, but I get the feeling he sit’s at his desk and tries to ‘issue commands’.
I don’t want to get myself all wound up about that so early. I hate it when I feel like this.

I’m looking forward to the weekend. I’m too busy, as usual, but I’m looking forward to the beach and some diving. I don’t think I have never gone so long without going to the beach as long as I’ve been here.

My shirt today is the same color as this text. I used to call it babyshit green, but now I call it wasabi green.

Last night I think I slept good. If I woke up at 3, I don’t remember it.
I do remember a dreamI had:
I was at a moutainous place, at a hotel I think but it was more like little apartments. There were many travelers there and it was a big place, with many buildings, spaced far apart. I was outside and a girl asked me about an excursion, I think it was a dive trip. I told her it was cancelled, although I really didn’t know. After that, we started talking more, and she seemed pretty nice. Then I had to go and as I was walking away, I heard her tell someone else that the trip was cancelled, I had forgotten about my lie, and felt guilty for lying to such a nice girl.
Then I was walking arcoss a big hilly field back to our room (the OI Girl was at our room, sleeping) and I heard a noise. I looked over and saw a big airplane, coming right at me. It was going to crash, but I just stood there, waiting for the first bounce so I could tell which way to run. BOOM! the plane it the ground and took a big bounce, and flipped over in the air. When it hit the ground and started skidding towards me, I ran to the left of the planes path. I ran almost up to our building and turned around just in time to see the plane skid to a stop, upside down. It was adjacent to me, about 100 meters away. I could see the pilot, upside down in his seat. He unbuckled, got out and ran away in the opposite direction as fast as he could. I wondered if I was far enough away. Then the plane blew up and started burning.
I wanted to get to the OI Girl but couldn’t find our room. Finally I took a card out of my pocket with our room number on it and was surprised to find two cards. I found our door and could tell it was ours by the very green bush outside the door. Also there was a dresser on the “porch” and my checkbook was on it. I went inside and woke up the OI Girl (she was sleeping on a mattress on the floor) and told her about the plane crash. She said she knew, and that she was with me the whole time, and when I reached into my pocket and found two cards, really it was her pocket I was reaching into. That’s why there were two cards, one was in my pocket and and one was in hers.
Weird.
What do you think?

It’s a fast week so far, which is good. I’ve gotten a little studying in, and I seem to be going along OK, at least for a little while.
I have a split shift today. I plan on beachin’ it. BUT lately we’ve been back in that daily pattern of lunchtime thunderstorms. Maybe not lunchtime thunderstorms, maybe it’s better termed: “When I go to work it gets sunny then when I quit working it rains” pattern.
Anyway, I guess I got a little sleep and seem to have a better outlook on life in general than I have the past few days. Which is a good thing!

I’m tired, I feel like I’m wearing down. I worked yesterday from 7:30 AM til 9:15 PM. Today looks the same as I’m working tonight. I haven’t been studying, too much work.
No matter how late I stay awake, I wake up at 3 am.
Thank God for coffee!

Saturday, when work was doing the power switchover, our competitor lost power too. (Their transmitters are on a tower that is in our yard, while ours are out in the center of the island.)
It never occured to me to tell them about the power switchover. I thought their power came from somewhere else, and they have 220 volts, we don’t even have any 220. The Public Works guy said that he thought their power came from a different feed too. Plus, the power company should have the responsibility to tell their customer about a power interruption, shouldn’t they?
I consider their engineer to be my friend, and I feel bad, because he may not be my friend anymore. If I had thought about it, or even talked to him, I would have mentioned it, but I didn’t talk to him and didn’t even consider that they might loose power too. I didn’t think about them at all. His employer and maybe he thinks we/I tried to purposely screw them over by not telling them, but that’s not the case. I expect I’ll be hearing more about it today.

I decided not to re-start that trig chapter. I muscled my way through the test and have started the next chapter, (which is more trig). I’ll let you know how I did on the test.

yesterday I worked all day. I didn’t even turn on my computer or check my email at all yesterday.

I finished the trigonometry chapter in my stuudying. I was taking the test. I decided to start the whole chapter over, because I’m just not able to apply what I learned in the chapter to the questions in the test. I thought I was getting a pretty good handle on it as I went through, but apparently not. I wantd to do a chapter a day and finish the 2 year course in less than 6 months, but I’ve been on this chapter for a week. It’s not really a two year course per se, but I have two years to complete it. you can read about it for yourself here.

Tomorrow is the OI Girls first day at her new job.