Holding Down the Fort

I, again, was the only one in the office yesterday. Being the only one has its perks. There are also times where it is not all that much fun. I like having the other two around to bounce questions off of or to balance the workload. I am still learning the job and do not know all the ends and outs, I will get there. I am hoping today goes well. Yesterday I had an angry customer, I doubt his temperament has cooled off much since then.

Thankfully this week has gone by rather quickly. I do not have any solid plans this weekend, but a a break is always welcome. The One and I are very serious about playing Zombie, Run! this weekend even though it seems we did not have any takers to join us. Other than that, I plan on sleeping. For the last few days waking up has been more of a chore than it normally is. It might be because I have gone to bed earlier than I normally do. I also have not been taking naps, which is certainly odd for me.

I have a morning process that I attend to. My alarm goes off at 530, I dismiss it and climb out of bed. I let Dog out for her morning break. After that I come sit at the computer and pull up sites for reading; my main choices involve Facebook, sports, web comics, and Magic. Dog, lately, has been all business when it comes to her morning break. I will let her in after only ten minutes or so. I feed her, feed myself and sit back down to finish the reading. I generally do not start to type this until after 6. I start to actually get ready around 630. Depending on how long it takes me to shave and shower depends on how much free time I have afterwards to relax before setting off to work. It might all seem strange for most people, to wake up so early when I do not have to be at work until two hours later. I like it. The whole process helps me wake up and relax before starting the day. It provides some quiet solitude in a day that otherwise might not have some.

I started this habit when I was younger. I would have to wake up early to deliver papers. (Yes, I was a paperboy.) I would sometimes get up at 4 in the morning. I had the house all to myself in the mornings, a certain rarity in a family of 6. I could get on the computer, watch what I wanted to watch on TV, play games all by myself, finish up some last minute school work in quiet or do whatever it is I wanted in a peaceful house. I also served as an alarm clock to the rest of my family.

An aside: I laughed when I originally put down homework. Even schoolwork is a bit of a joke. I rarely accomplished any such thing during my school days. I much preferred doing well on tests to homework. Though there were some science projects, and a 7 page term paper that I threw together in those early hours. The science project did not go over well, it was hard to tap-dance my way through plastics when I decided to go molecular instead of just a broad overview. It was pretty obvious I had thrown it together. The term paper on the other hand was a thing of beauty. After not having done a lick of the preliminary work, I had to accomplish everything in only a few hours what most took an entire semester working on. It was not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but pulling out an 85 on a very last minute paper was a nice prize for a procrastinator. It helped that it was still one of the better grades in the class.

And then it ends,

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