Some GoodNESs Amidst The Bad

I meant to write last night, but I didn’t. Seeing all that damn spam on the main page proved to be a real downer for me and I didn’t even bother. That spam has been running rampant too. It’s gotten worse and truly, it’s bothersome. I remain hopeful that it ends soon.  Don’t know if I hold my breath though.   

I did all right this weekend, considering what I was having to endure at the end of last week. I’m getting better. I feel it. I know that I’ll continue to improve and indeed, life will go on. Still, the healing continues though I have my moments here and there. 

I worked this past weekend, which was probably the best thing I could have done to get my mind off things. I did my writing as usual and prepared a few more reports for approval. Those reports should be approved by the end of the week, further reducing the number of active reports that I still have to complete. The grind will continue into the week and I look forward to seeing how productive I can be these next few days. It’s all business as usual really. I would like to step it up just a little and prepare more reports than usual. Maybe subconsciously, I want to impress management again like I did in May? Then again, maybe I also want to make other workers in the office look bad because of how efficient I’ve been? I don’t know. I don’t care that much. I just know that I have work to do and I don’t care what other people are doing. Whatever they’re doing has nothing to do with me as it is. I continue to move forward regardless. 

Perhaps on a whim, I spent a ridiculous amount of money yesterday on a top loader Nintendo Entertainment System.  The top loader NES is pictured above, though that’s not the exact console I bought yesterday.  The on that I bought is a heavily modified console, which should make it easier to connect to a modern television. The picture quality is supposed to be drastically improved as well. By all accounts, this is a definitive version of the NES. Gone are the days of having to blow into the cartridges to get them to work. I already own a top loader NES, but it was a stock console and had no other means of connecting to a television beyond the antiquated RF method, which delivers the worst picture quality available. I figured I’d splurge a bit and pick up a much-improved version of this classic and iconic piece of gaming history. The funny thing is that I never really cared for the NES in its heyday and here I am, raving about it now, some 40 years after its initial release. 

I bumped into Diana on Thursday morning. She happened to be in the office and we spent some time catching up. It had been a few months since I saw her. Beyond the occasional text message, we hadn’t spoken in the traditional sense. I think she intended to leave me another handwritten note at my cubicle had she not bumped into me. Looks like I saved her the trouble of having to write something down. At any rate, she’s doing well and she remains ecstatic about having changed offices when she did. We’re trying to coordinate schedules so that maybe we can have lunch this week. We’ve eaten lunch together in the past and thankfully, she doesn’t complicate it. Having said that, it wouldn’t surprise me if she chose to eat at Taco Bell. Again, she simplifies lunch, which I do not mind.  Her simplicity is part of her charm.   

Healing.  Work.  Some retail therapy.  Bumping into and catching up with an old friend. 

I continue to plug away, as I do.