312 in Book Four: Ichi-no-Tani 2017

Today should be interesting.

I have already demonstrated my ability to be less adult than I should be.
I woke up at 6:30 intending to eat breakfast, shower, head in to work early, and be a super functioning adult man.
I woke up at 6:30. I got out of bed. I started breakfast. Then I realized… I hadn’t played a video game in a while. What with Wife’s work schedule and my being gone most weekends now. So I powered on the Playstation 4 and discovered a few things that might be able to help me in the future of my video gaming. Then I took a shower, headed in to work (dropped something at the Post Office on Wife’s request) and… arrived at work at 8:30. Yeah. I’m… not an adult.

Though… speaking of not being an adult… I found a house in the DM area that I liked/wanted. Of course, the price range is fucking ridiculous! Current Zillow.com listed price is $319,900. 4 bed; 4 bath; 2,576 sq feet; big yard; big completely finished basement. It is, without hyperbole, everything I want in a house. Too bad it’s out of reach.

Onto my schedule, which I had originally intended to start at 7.
Add to that the fact that both our internet and phone systems will be down “at some point” today “for who knows how long”… today may be… well, like any other day! To that end, I have already told Ran and Wife that after my mental health hearing at 1… I may just take my Work Laptop and Go Home. Work from home with a “reliable-ish” network (slow, spotty internet is better than no internet). Working from home could be good simply on the space, windows, etc front as well.

7:00.... sign Payment Agreements and Return E-Mails (if possible)
(Of course, this didn’t actually start until 8:30 because of the aforementioned lack of Adult Behavior. But uh…Huh. In 30 minutes; we had 5 phone calls… the phone was the same person each time. Our system kept hanging up on the individual. Seriously, phone people… it looks mighty unprofessional for our phones to hang up on people… either shut ‘em off or keep ‘em on, this in between stuff is costing us time and people’s patience. Plus… this is a guy that is a Motor Vehicle Enforcement Officer who is pissed that I dismissed a seat belt ticket. The guy paid the court costs; didn’t pay a fine; and didn’t have to re-route to our courtroom, costing him a week’s pay. Maybe I’m the asshole. Anyway… I signed a bunch of paperwork; and dealt with backed up e-mails. The process took longer than it should have but, again, I’m not an Adult and this job certainly doesn’t require me to act like one.)

FOR reasons beyond my ability to explain… I am suddenly sore and sleepy. BAD. I don’t need something more distracting me from getting my work done. I say more because… well, besides the infinite internal things distracting me… I have to return phone calls… on a phone system that hasn’t been working. Thus, waiting for that phone system to work OR wait for my cell phone to charge. Meanwhile, I again get sucked into the bullshit of our world. Trump is lying (about everything… anyone who claims otherwise isn’t paying attention considering that most of what he says and most of what his administration says is easily debunked via research)… and Representative Steve King (4th District, where I currently live) is again proving to be the hate mongering total douche hat he has always been. Seriously… ANY Iowa Senator that has a Confederate Flag displayed in his office is a Grade A asshole. Iowa was a Union State. LOTS of Iowans lost their lives in the Civil War. Waving the flag of the Confederacy in your office either means (1) you are an open racist; or (2) you are “respecting history” by waving the flag of the enemy of the state you claim to care about. Which is dumb, really. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Now… I’m in a weird mood. It is down to me, and case specific stuff. And I don’t want to do it. I want to play video games and hang out with friends and have a party. And I have to wonder… is this me realizing how not adult I am… does this stem from the fact that I’m not getting enough Play Time in my life? I don’t know. Bothersome. Because… seriously… I just want to take a few days off and have some fun. It is funny. Wife and I have never taken a vacation. There is no job that I have ever worked where I have taken a vacation. And yeah, I may be coming up on a long forced vacation coming up (“vacation” as my job would become looking for work)… but… I don’t know. The concept of going on vacation is certainly starting to sound like something I need to investigate more thoroughly.

I don’t know whether to laugh, roll my eyes, or ignore it. Ran is yelling, which he never does, because the Board of Supervisors is making him file a budget on Toilet Paper. Because we have to pay for toilet paper under the “Business Renting County Space” bullshit as opposed to WE ARE A COUNTY ENTITY, motherfuckers. It is an entire County openly treating the County Attorney’s Office like an unwanted, disconnected, non-government entity. These assholes suuuuuuck.

I think that is all I’m writing for today. Hearing, super late lunch, then coming back and… finishing at least 80% of my scheduled ideas. 80% is better than 0%. And there’s always Friday; which is presently wide open with nothing to do.