Author: kg4vma

Rapid-fire random commentary, as I’ve not a whole lot of time to write–but, hey, I’m writing!

Going back into work today after three days off. Was actually two scheduled days. I played hooky on Monday. Had worked six days last week. Last week was spring break and a week of PTO for Ashlee. I wanted an extra day off since I missed out on all that.

Planted a garden yesterday. The gardening began on the day I played hooky. I took a few hours here and there over the course of those three days to till the ground. The actual planting happened yesterday. With any luck I’ll have corn, green beans, radishes, carrots, cucumbers, squash, and tomatoes. Gonna try for some arugula, lettuce, cabbage and broccoli in a raised bed. Just need to build it.

Did a bit of yard cleanup over the past few days, too. Need to do more.

Hoping to build a playhouse for the kids on Saturday.

Had fun of an evening with Ashlee doing a little shortwave listening most of last week. Skipped out on doing it one night, thanks to needing to repair the washer. Night before last we watched A Clockwork Orange. We’d found a promotional VHS copy at the Winchester Peddler’s Mall. The interesting bit was that it wasn’t what we expected from a promo-copy. We expected that maybe it was some sort of award related review copy; what it turned out to be was a copy sent to retailers following Kubrick’s death. The beginning “advertisement” before the feature was a sort of history of Kubrick’s films, and a message saying that with the (then) upcoming release of Eyes Wide Shut and Kubrick’s passing, now’s the time to purchase and stock Kubrick’s films for sales revenue.

I don’t want to go to work. I want to stay home. Not to sit around and be lazy. There’s just too many side projects that need my attention.

Ashlee has an interview on Friday for a different position at work. We’re hopeful that maybe she’ll get the position, but we’re not very confident that it will happen.

*sigh*

I guess that’s all the time I have for now.

[Diarium] Friday, April 3, 2026

🗓️ Friday, April 3, 2026 08:51
📍 38.229338, -84.538281
🌤️ Weather: 79 / 65 °F
☀️ Sunrise: 07:21 Sunset: 20:03
🌖 Waning gibbous

It’s raining. I don’t wanna be here.

This morning isn’t quite going how I wanted it to, but it is going. I really wanted to afford myself more time to write, but have had little things nickel and dime the minutes away, thus shortening what time I have available. But, hey, I did eventually make it. I guess I just need to try and be brief and not think to heavily on things.

I have now mowed the yard twice this year. I’m surprised that old mower is still going, though it is a slight little fight at times. I still need tons of part for it, but I think that if I got a new battery and solenoid it would take care of two of the more inconvenient issues. I have yet to do any trimming, edging, or any of the smaller details in the yard. I’d hoped I could get to some of those things yesterday, but I ran out of time.

I had a pretty awesome morning/day a couple days ago with Ashlee. After I left work and came home–I was overnight for two nights earlier this week–we went out for a quick little breakfast at McD’s and attempted to do some browsing/shopping activities. I picked up a few records at the record shop and Ashlee bought me some tarot cards at the witchy place. After that, we had lunch at the asian place and headed home.

I learned of a brief period in the UK’s history when there was CB in the 964MHz band. I’m a little bit curious about that–think I might look into those radios just for the fun of it.

Violet’s 16th is this Sunday; she’s part way excited about it. Some of her excitement stems from having had a birthday on Easter when she turned 5. It was special to her to have a holiday and her birthday coincide, I guess, so she calculated when the next time it would happen, and has been waiting for it to happen again.

I dunno. There’s a ton more crap I would like to make note of and write about, but I guess that quick jumbled mess of highlights is all I can afford to do. Looks like it’s time for me to finish getting ready for work.

*sigh*

so, i originally set myself down at the computer this morning to try and take some time to write a little bit, and I ended up using most of my time trying to hunt down fragments of programs that I had previously installed that left behind a ton of data that was sucking up precious storage space keeping me from upgrading the system.

i love linux, but i do struggle sometimes with treating it like windows and leaving fragments of this that and everything everywhere.