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Day 1,858: Full Time

Today, I completed my first week of full-time work. Like, in an office building, 9 to 5, with some extra hours for writing on the side.

I’ve never done that before.

I’ve obviously worked full time for a very, very long time…in fact, I’ve worked MORE than full time for a very, very long time. I’m doing it right now, actually, with writing and the Netflix work…

…but never actually 9-5, Monday through Friday.

I like it.

I feel like I was insanely productive this week. Maybe not quite so much on...

Day 1,857: Le Quick

Has to be quick tonight because it’s late! But…today was a good day.

Building was stressful, work was good, podcasted with Josh…good times

Day 1,856: Brief

Tired. I shall be brief.

Work was good today. DMV was *also* good, which was a major win. Real ID coming my way! Time with Panda watching Lords and Ladles was also good.

A good day. Genuinely.

Night

Day 1,855: Electric Boogaloo

I left my sunglasses at Stephen and Thida’s house.

Nooooooooooo.

I have just learned this. Sigh.

I was actually looking for them this morning. The sun is bright and low in the sky when I drive into the Flix. Alas. I shall have to last without them.

Today was a solid day at work. There was problem solving, there was cooking with gas…speaking of, that was a metaphor just now, but in terms of actual cooking: the food there is dope. Real food. Every day. Those workers have it so good, they don’t...

Day 1,854: Is There Cheese?

Liz was just playing a song by Brandi Carlile. I think it’s called “I am the mother of Evangeline.”

Holy crap.

Got me a bit misty-eyed. She is so underrated, y’all. More people need to listen to Brandi Carlile. More people need to GO to listen to Brandi. Including the Ho and I. We’re going to catch her the next time she’s in LA.

If you don’t know who she is, she has one of those classically amazing bluesy/folksy/blue grassy kind of voices. An all-timer in that regard. She does amazing covers,...

Day 1,853: SunDAY

I got work done.

I’m halfway through organizing the finances. This weekend warrior will finish that shit next weekend. Just in time, I think. I hope.

I watched just enough of the Niners game to see that we are, indeed, a crap team. Possibly the worst in the NFL. So, that was fun.

THEN…I got to go over to Stephen and Thida’s house to surprise her for her birthday! It was a To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before-themed party. She was surprised. We were warm, because we all dressed in “ski lodge” win...

Day 1,852: The Cozies

Wow. The cozies are in FULL effect here at the Ho-Heinichen House of Whores and Hosiery…

We put on the comforter.

*ira explodes into a puff of fluff*

It’s amaze.

It’s finally cold enough to have it on. This is the ONE thing I like climate-wise about this time of year. The rest of it, down here in LA at least, can suck my D. Sun going down at 4:30 in the afternoon? Nope. When it’s cold enough at night to sleep under the down comforter? Yes, please.

I did work today, unfortunately. I paid for t...

Day 1,851: Under Da Sea

Guys.

I fed sea otters today. From my hand. Inches away from them. I also got a “high five” from one.

IT WAS AWESOME.

The Long Beach Aquarium does “encounters” for a premium price, and we wanted to do something special with Liz’s dad since he was in town for Thanksgiving…well, it was pretty freaking special let me tell you.

I learned so much about sea otters; namely that they are VERY aggressive, at least in comparison to most other wild animals who will just run away. They’re relatives of an...

Day 1,850: Thankful

I am so, so thankful today. It’s almost overwhelming…

I am thankful for my family. Thankful for my wife and my dogs. Thankful for my mom, my dad, and my brothers. I’m thankful for my in-laws! Lin was here today for thanksgiving, and it was wonderful.

I am thankful for my friends. Today most of all. We had suuuuch a wonderful group of people this year for thanksgiving. Good lord. Arg and K-bear of course, along with Ali who’s an Orphan’s Thanksgiving original (OG!), and even Matt came up from...

Day 1,849: Rains down in Sherman Oaks

I bless the rains down in Afri–…Sherman Oaks.

It’s raining! Always a treat down here…almost. It just rained so much where I grew up that it makes me think of…home, and it makes me think of the winter time. It never snowed in Humboldt, not down by the ocean. You had to get up to some elevation to get snow. But it rained.

It rains in Humboldt for seemingly six months straight, from October/November till April/May. Rain always meant winter time. And frost on the clear mornings that freezes the g...