Ennui

Dealing with work issues. Tenant not paying rent.

Don't quite know what to do about it besides evict them.

Will probably come to that.

Lots of kids back in school already. What happened to Summer Vacation? Summer ain't over yet.

Somehow ended up with new mattress this week. Haven't really slept on it yet, due to construction in my quarters.

Having problems getting parts for ARs. Thinking of making one a piston upper. Dunno.

Ennui.

Life goes on

Had dinner with the kids from the tour last Thursday.

Everyone seemed to have a good time. Had Korean BBQ in Temple City, then went for mango shaved ice at the nearby Guppy House. (the guppies are a lie)

Ex- is still mopey. I don't blame her. In an ideal world...well...let's not get into that.

Feeling quite snippy. Was rude to someone, and still feel bad about it.

Played many games of Hanafuda this last week. Quite entertaining. Also assuming we have the rules correct. Doubtful though.

Building a few ARs from stripped parts. Parts are annoying to find. Also expensive.

Took possession of a whole bunch of properties these last two weeks. Only one worth looting. Came out pretty good, but mashed a finger in a rocking chair. Will take some time to recover.

Work proceeds

Completed a bunch of things this week. 

Started and finished a minor DIY. Picked up a rusty flammables storage cabinet. Decided to sand it down and repaint it, and repurpose it for ammo storage! 

Related: I know how much ammo I have, therefore I don't have enough and will make for boring news. Also, can rearrange gun safe now! Yay!

Also had my granite people come and work on my bathroom!

Am pretty happy with it. Still trying to figure out how the glass enclosure will work though. 

Ex and I continue to have text chats. That is all. 

Life is bleh

Ex and I had a text chat.

Miss her. 

Spent the week in Houston unloading a shipping crate full of arcade machines and kiddy rides, then setting them up. 

Visited a restaurant owned by the family of a kid I met on my Taiwan trip. 

Very tired. Mentally and physically. 

Have determined I need to be more excited about things. About life.

Edit: Have developed some incredibly itchy full body skin rash. Can't sleep; hate life. 

Here, There, Everywhere!

Returned a few days ago.

Lots of good memories about this trip. Will try to keep in contact with new friends, young or not.

Highlights for the short week:

Visited my Aunt and Uncle. Probably my favorite Aunt and Uncle, though they don't know that.

Another aborted rendezvous, random archery, many stairs.
 
Fine mornings, quiet evenings, and lots of mainland penis(visited a bathhouse; bath was fine, company was not).

One of the young ones was more distressed than the others when we all had to part ways.

She got a sweater(Nike, with thumb holes. Didn't much like the color, though she seems to like it. Certainly wears it more than I ever will.)

Another got some hugs and a pointy nose.

The last bit me.

Only four of us left the island, the rest stayed behind.

Apparently, Flyaway buses are cheap. Will look into it in the future. Or not. Not like I can't afford a 60 mile taxi ride.


Straight to work the day after.

Father has decided to majorly remodel the back end of the house. 

Hurricane Crazy visited a new project. Back unit literally torn in half(truck + chains maybe?)

Crazy white people in Glendale and their trees. Planted cypress. Wanted Podocarpus. WTF is Podocarpus?

Shreve Rd windows installed wrong type. Need to be replaced! This is what happens when I'm not around! Another Thousand or so Down the Toilet we call Bureaucracy.

On my third beer of the hour. It's 0200, and I need to be up at 0700 to catch the plane to Houston.

Chatting online with a 13yr old, telling her not to drink and that males are bad.

Good deed for the day: Done!

Taiwan: Part the odd

Lots happened. Mostly typhoon. 

Met an Austrian Buddhist monk.

Kids getting drunk. People complaining about it.

Doing what I can to stay out of jail.

Odd late night encounter.

Calculated that I spent most of my money on booze.

Rolled off a grassy hillside. 

Finally, bacon. 

Taiwan, part the next

Been in Taiwan about a week now.

Tour group of 20+me. One other older than 18. Not too bad though. 

Am enjoy imagining that I am being a beneficially corrupting influence. 

Eating lots of 7-11, as the daily Chinese food does not agree with me. Some tacos and guac would be good right now. 

Or even a proper steak. 

Hoping that my clients are doing well after I referred them to my coworkers.

Visited a whole bunch of places, but will still need to find the time to visit my grandmother.

Going to be after we make it back to Taipei though, as we are now on the south end of Taiwan.

One girl in particular has been having especially severe reactions to the mosquitoes. Treating her twice a day, her once swollen hands have been much reduced over the last 5 days.

Kids these days. So carefree. 

Remodeling, clients, work

Tore out the bathroom, put in a new tub. A Kohler "Tea for Two."
Unfortunately, only one will partake.

Still trying to work out the tile pattern, though the tile has already be chosen. trying to go for a modern look, styled after water trickling down a stone mountainside, into a pool. Really a work in progress at this point.

Worked a bunch. New client. From The South. Purports to be a TV star, or at least aspiring to be one. Referred him out, seeing as I'll be leaving the country for almost a month.

Eyes are still no less amazing than they were a week ago. Just dry. But that could be because the weather is extra dry now

I Can See.

Went and got Laser Eye Surgery.

Couldn't Be Happier About It.

Went to IQ Laser Vision, lots of good things to say about the place.



But enough about that.

Everything else is life is going sideways and backwards, but at least I'm getting that remodel of my bathroom underway. 

Father is still an asshole, drinking lots

Nights and evenings are quiet now, but not in a happy way.

Had some friends over for mojitos and hot tub.

Had a very amusing morning after.

Still not feeling like writing much. Or doing much.

With the exception of drinking lots.

Spent all money this month on guns. A 10/22 Takedown and a Beretta 92.