Sean and I decided it was time to venture out on our own for a little while in an effort to clear our heads and just get out of the house in general. We made our way down to Cape Henlopen State Park with the anticipation of comfortably relaxing and catching some fish. Typically just going down to the water helps us to clear our head anyway… it wasn’t the case tonight. We caught absolutely NOTHING and were freezing our asses off the entire time. Typically on a Saturday night the place is packed and you can’t get anywhere near the end of the pier where the waters a little deeper considering we’re in the bay and not on the ocean. Tonight was a completely different story, it looked more like an abandoned beach than a year round fisherman’s paradise. There was one car in the parking lot and I’m almost positive it belonged to the gentleman who runs the bait shop in the parking lot anyway. So we chocked that up as a complete and total bust.
After we attempted to warm ourselves up by curling into balls on our chairs, and saw that there wasn’t even a nibble on our lines – let alone a catch – we said “eff-this” and left. Knowing that we were only out on the pier for about an hour we mutually decided that it wasn’t time to go home just yet and ventured over to Applebee’s to fuel ourselves up for the night ahead being as we both have tight deadlines to meet. We filled ourselves up on the appetizers so we barely touched the meal, damn the 2 for $20 menu!
Now we’re home, the dogs being annoying and I’m still cold. I don’t get cold very often and sat outside long enough to get the typical “ehh, just a chill” straight down to the bone. My fingers are still blue, my stomach is killing me from crappy food and I just want to curl under a blanket and watch TV. BUT – There’s an entire eCommerce backend to create (fuck you Zend Framework), a WordPress site to completely transfer to a new server AND recode, and lets not mention the crackhead client who’s been dragging me along for the past few months because she can’t make up her fucking mind.
I thought the saving grace to today would be that Sean ran out earlier this morning and picked up an adaptor for the TV in my office so I could actually have some kind of background noise. The TV was on for almost 8 hours for the “45 Minute” window Comcast needed to activate the box. It’s still not working, and calling them 3 times was pretty much pointless cause they did absolutely nothing for us. On Tuesday we can expect a tech out for an upgrade, hopefully he’ll crawl under the house and explain why there’s no feed coming into this room and things will be back to normal.
For now I’ll stick with Project Free TV, or Netflix and have it running in the lower corner while I work. I would prefer to not eat up the bandwidth so that Sean and I can actually get something done but at this point there’s nothing that can get me to concentrate. I need to have something going on in the background for when I need to take a break from coding and music just isn’t doing it anymore. I wish the TV worked, but I guess I’ll just have to hold off for a few more days.
Either way…as stated… it’s been uneventful.