Day 54: Rough Start

 

Here we go ! It's a new year. Time to get back on track with diet and exercise. The goal is 100 pounds by 12-31-25. Can I do it ? At this point, probably not but I'm going to keep trying. My original Day 54 blog can found here. It was an uneventful day. Weather had improved so I went to work. I was still struggling with a lingering cold, so I wasn't using the treadmill. Knock on wood, I haven't been sick this winter !

I didn't go to bed until after 11:30 last night, so it was a little bit of a struggle to get out of bed at 8 am today. Of course, I had an interview scheduled for 10 am, so I stay up late .. what an idiot ! Well, turns out it didn't matter as my old laptop had some display issues so I restarted it a couple times. That pulled me right into a Windows update that didn't finish until after 10. I also didn't have any details of the meeting in the invite when viewed in my email on my phone. I could see them in Outlook on my laptop. I ended up emailing Karen to see if I could reschedule for tomorrow but she had no availability until next Thursday 3-6. I am fine with that as it gives me more time to be mentally prepared. I plan to download the job description and study that so I can ask intelligent questions about the job. Perhaps this hiccup was intentional ?

I threw in a load of laundry and tried chipping away at some of the snow outside the dining room window. It was clear that wasn't happening as it's basically a solid block of ice. The sun is out today and it's above freezing, so it will start to shrink. I can already see the neighbors house out the kitchen window, so that pile of snow has already shrunk considerably.

It's 3:30 pm and 2 loads of laundry are done. One I washed last night but forgot to put in the dryer. I also went outside and made sure the dryer went was clear. I'm glad I did as it had some lint built up, probably because the flaps on the vent couldn't open when snow was piled against it. The snow outside the kitchen & dining room window has shrunk down quite a bit thanks to the warmer temps and a couple hours of sun today. I can actually open the kitchen windows completely even though there is still a mountain of snow. High for tomorrow is 42 so the shrinking should continue ! I feel like I'm emerging from a very long dark tunnel. I know we can still get more snow but I feel like the worst of winter is behind us. Spring starts three weeks from today !

I've decided that if I do get a job I'm going to buy myself a new laptop. My "old" one is on it's way out since it cannot be updated to Windows 11 and Windows 10 will hit end of life this fall. My "new" one has a crappy processor and I've never been happy with it. I will buy the same unit from HP but with a better processor. I may also opt to upgrade my phone to the newest model. We'll see !

My online slot games have been up and down, but I've had some surprising windfalls. Yesterday I won over 1B during a bonus on Dancing Drums, so I'm now working with a bank of over 2B coins. Then today I won over 50M coins during a bonus in the 88 Fortunes app. I haven't been able to complete the daily challenge for the past 3 days, so maybe the algorithm felt sorry for me. I also won a few million coins in Quick Hits so I didn't have to struggle so hard to complete the daily challenge. Jackpot Party and Clubillion are being a bit more generous with the coins too, so I haven't gone bankrupt on either one. If I get a job I'm not going to have hours and hours a day to play, so things may change.