Ravings of an Undead Cheese Minion

I plan to move to California by November 2025.  I want to spend a 3-week period in Utah every summer, and 1 week in the fall. I think I will also come up for FanX, and 1 or 2 other weekends.  This will get me some frequent flyer miles. I'll have to budget for an Airbnb or something. This will also allow me to keep my season passes and get lots of high altitude training. However, I'll stay far away during the winter.  Or, I could drive, so I wouldn't have to get a rental car. TBD. Will be a bit difficult considering yearly Disney trips and Cedar Point, but it can be done. 

I've been automatically rejected without an interview from so many companies, even for positions that I meet all of the qualifications for. Adobe, Vectorworks, Microsoft, 37signals, Twitch, Autodesk, the list goes on and on and on.  I'm doing fine at my current position, but I don't want to work weekends or be on-call late into Sunday nights anymore, and I'm stuck doing it.  What were the last 9 years of school for? How do I become great instead of being ignored and languishing in mediocrity? How long will I be stuck here? I hate sucking and I hate being mediocre and I can't be like that anymore. I used to get lots of interviews and recruiter calls. What on earth happened? Did we get this far just to feel your hate? Did we play to become only pawns in the game? How blind can you be, don't you see? You chose the long road but we'll be waiting

Mirror, mirror I'll tell you something I think I might change it all From RWBY. 

I've never gotten this day off work, so I've never done anything for this holiday.  All the water parks and pools are closing early today at 6 pm. Scera, Lindon Aquatics, Splash Summit. So I actually have less opportunities to have fun now.  Except the AF pool actually. Might be able to do that. Or one of the other pools if I can leave work right at 4.  And the fireworks are going to keep me awake.  This holiday sucks. 

I'm very interested in the backrooms. This will be important momentarily. I was also very tired today, to the point where I could not get through all of my creative and technical blocks post-work. Idk why I was so tired considering that the CrowdStrike issue made work quite slow. I was falling asleep in front of the piano, barely did any sketching or writing, etc. I got on the hammock to read and almost conked out right then and there.  I thought going to the Sabrina Carpenter VR concert seemed cool, but there were a ton of people around and I was told I was going to meet my concert buddy, or something. Due to all this I actually got quite a bit of social anxiety? So I dropped out after about 2 minutes. Lol. Social anxiety in the Metaverse; who would have thought. I need to do something about this, but then again I've always struggled with unstructured social events and I didn't realize how crowded it would be (I should have; Espresso is a banger even though it's played...

In a word, WOW. Lake Erie is beautiful.  And Cedar Point is everything I hoped it would be. I’ll definitely be returning here often, likely every summer.  Yes, I did recover from the paraflu on time but I’m still sniffling a bit. Hopefully that’ll be gone by tomorrow. Chilling in my room with Starbie's but I've got to check out in 30 minutes. Hotel Breakers is fantastic, even if their gym has no dumbbells for some reason. I got upgraded to a suite for free due to an issue with my original room and it's lovely.  When I do theme park trips, I ditch my productivity blocks on major park days. It just doesn’t make sense to try and get stuff done after 14 hours at a park. I've also been off my eating plan since Wyoming. But this morning while getting ready, I felt inspired as hell to keep getting everything underway. I’ll get back on my cut for the final few weeks and run and do Art Fight and ALL the things. Hopefully my Delta flight will have WiFi so I can submit my writing ...

...and I'm inside, sick, instead of being outside and watching fireworks. Well, I might wander outside in a little bit, but I'm not with friends.  I wasn't feeling that bad in the morning. In fact I made it through 100 minutes of lifting (longer workout which I had planned in advance) and an 8-mile run, and I felt fine and only coughed twice. So I thought I was basically over it. I was wrong. I started feeling horrible at Lagoon. Sat down in the queue for the Wild Kingdom Express and actually thought I was going to pass out. Drove by all the cool animals and just wanted the ride to be over. The kangaroos were super active and it took me quite a few seconds to process it and I didn't take a pic. Likely hyponatremia (yet again) and some form of heatstroke, which I usually don't get especially in the 80s but I guess when you're already sick... I took an easy 1-mile walk on the Lagoon trail, which I usually do without effort twice a day at various locations, and I h...