So, picking up from a few days ago, Robyn spent the night at Lake Lanier for her works big summer blowout, I was left here with three cats, two of which seemingly have an abundance of energy, as long as it’s after 10pm.
I didn’t get much sleep that night for whatever reason, then I slept in later than I wanted to and felt generally kinda “bleah!” by the time I did eventually leave, not before remembering it’s trash day and having to empty the trash, I left the kitty litter as I was in no mood, and I’d sort it when I got home. Well, remember how I was saying work was kinda borng? This would be the day I’d show the new Web Development Manager how to basically build a website the way I’d do it, it was supposed to be simple, a nice clean header/footer layout with 2 rows of content layed out in 2 blocks and 3 block respectively, simple as “float: left;” and “float: right;” are my two bestest friends and I had done this kind of layout a million times before, it should have taken 30 minutes tops, but with the manager sitting over my shoulder taking notes, and me feeling a bit “bleah” it took considerably longer, but not through any fault of my own, padding wasn’t playing ball through cross-platform, cross-browser testing.
But at least it killed the time of day instead of sitting around archiving and researching.
As such I left early at 5pm and fought my way through traffic to get home and no sooner had I walked through the door than my phone rings, it’s Robyn, and she’s in a pickle… She’s up at Lake Lanier Islands and she can’t find her keys and could I come with a spare set? Now, this isn’t some little drive around the corner and up the road, we’re talking Hall County here, and while the map said go around 285 to 85 to 985, the all knowing Atlanta driver in me knew that 285 and 85 (as far as GA 316) would be nothing more than glorified car parks on a Friday evening, so I took the GA 400 to GA 20 route… Big mistake, two wrecks within a mile of each other in that Roswell/Alpharetta area meant heavy tailbacks all the way through the Winward Parkway exit, then due to (much needed) construction work on GA 20 in Cumming, and some really shittiy lights just after the Gwinnett County line meant it took almost 90 minutes to get to Robyn.
At least the drive back wasn’t as horrific, plus we stopped for some Mexican food on the way… Apparently Cumming and indeed Forsyth County don’t like Mexican food, they prefer BBQ places as the first Mexican we found was on the outskirts of Alpharetta. We made it home by 10pm and were probably sleeping at 10:05.
Yesterday was pretty much written off, but I was sent to Costco to get some waters, and you can only imagine what a place like Costco is on a Saturday afternoon right? The rest of the day was spent job searching, watching Mythbusters and eating dinner from The Loop.
I wish I could be more productive during the weekends, I just don’t have the motivation anymore…
