Daniel E. Renfer’s Blog

I half expected to be woken up rather early on Friday morning. I figured that either Amanda would wake me up when she got home from work, or Christin would be over to wake me up and bring me back to Garden City. In retrospect, I am quite glad that I wasn’t woken up. I was hanging out at 7-11 for a few hours the night before, and when I finally got home, I wasn’t tired in the slightest. I didn’t get to bed till at least 5:30 a.m.

I woke up around 12:30. If I had to work, I would have been late. Thank god I didn’t work. Amanda was asleep next to me. Looks like she didn’t bother to wake me up. I got up, and begun work on a Live Journal post. At one time, I used to write like this every day. As time went on, I got out of the habit. It took me several hours to get that first post written.

Some time later, Amanda woke up, and took a bath. We talked for a little bit, and then she went back down for a nap again. Neither of us was feeling all too hot. We talked about going down to downtown Ann Arbor, but seeing as we were both broke, in a bad mood, and just didn’t feel like getting up and doing anything, so it quickly became apparent that that wasn’t going to be happening.

So, I didn’t really do all that much on Friday. I sat around, and watched TV. We watched Phone Booth again. I wrote two incredibly long LJ posts. I had some soup. Amanda got sick, and was throwing up. She later ended up calling in.

I did some work on my website. I still can’t find a good way to store Xml in an MSSQL server, and index, query against, and be able to retrieve information without having to manually convert all of the &lt; and &gt; symbols into < and > respectively. (trust me, it gets really annoying)

The other thing I did was, I looked through some of my old files, and decided to give playing The Sims a try again. I loaded the Hot Date expansion, which I had never tried before. I still need to install more of the upgrades, but I have to download them again.

All and all, Amanda and I didn’t get all that much time to really spend together. We work different shifts now, so we have different times that we need to sleep. She pretty much slept until I needed to go to bed, then she was up for the rest of the night. I really need to transfer to midnights. I’ve done the whole working a different shift as your girlfriend thing before, and it does not work. Things haven’t gotten bad yet, but I know it will always be hard to plan things around our schedules.

I couldn’t really go out and do anything. I wanted to be home in case Amanda woke up. I was thinking of maybe going out and doing something after she went to work, but she called off, so that didn’t happen.

So, I had a boring day, which is cool, I guess. Gives me a chance to sit down and relax.

I went out to see Kali for lunch for the last time. I can’t even remember how I got started going out to see her. I used to go to Southgate all the time to see her when she worked at Homestead, and when she went to Shore, I just changed the way I turned to get on the highway. I’m going to miss our times together those afternoons. It was pretty much the only time I knew we would have together. After work, was always somewhat of a crap shoot. I have all these things to do on different given nights, and she has a boyfriend that takes up a good deal of her time. So I never know when I will be able to see her outside of work, but those lunch breaks were our time.

We went back to the park. It was such a great day. We sat on the dock and watched the fish jumping in the river. Okay, I saw the fish, she always missed them. It seems kinda ironic that I’ve driven that way so many times, and right before I could actually make use of that driving time, she quits her job.

The next thing I really did was I picked up John. We went over to Ryan’s house. I had him listen to the new Weird Al CD. They handed me a book on the fourth dimension. I tried reading it a little bit, but it was a little too off for me. (And I’m considered somewhat of an authority on the fourth dimension) I started getting this horrendous headache. I could feel the blood vessels on the side of my head throbbing.

We went over to Schnyder’s house for the jam. My headache was getting really bad. They started playing and it just got so much worse. I made it through only two songs before I just had to go. I couldn’t handle it anymore.

I went home and just laid in bed. I know that I was kinda wasting my Friday night, but I was in so much pain and I just really didn’t care. I watched the season premiere of Stargate. One thing I’ve noticed about that show… It’s really good, but by the end, I have no idea what’s going on anymore. I was trying to talk to Candice, and my IM window was over my TV window, and I’m not very good at moving windows using only a keyboard. I suppose I could have just gotten up, went to the other room and used the mouse, but I was just too lazy. Did I mention I had a really bad headache? After all that, I just went to bed.