Chad Was Here

I forgot about all the pictures I took of Hailey on Thanksgiving until a few minutes ago.

Making breakfast with Mimi

Chocolate Milk and Oatmeal ... the breakfast of Champions and little girls

Hailey and Mimi making faces a Pawpa Chad

Love you Hailey Bug

What?

"I want to get in there Pawpa Chad" ... "No Hailey, it's dirty, and you're too big." ... "I do it myself"

Surfing the internet

Talking to the nurse at the nursing home about Santa Claus

Playing on the computer with Mimi

I forgot about this picture. She imitates everything Mimi does.

She grabbed this deodorant from M and took the lid off and did this.

I came to work today. No one else did. Well, there are couple guys down the hall. They’re weird though. Kind of like me. They’re always the first ones to get here and the last ones to leave.

It was kind of spooky this morning. It was dark outside. There were no lights on in the building except for the few entryway lights and exit signs. I left them off. Didn’t want anyone to know I was here. Although, I have been listening to music loud enough to be slightly heard in the hallway if someone was walking by, but there’s no one walking by, kind of like a tree falling in the woods. Anyway, that was a clue I’m here and I exist.

I felt pretty dumb for being here this morning. I didn’t have anyone’s phone number. So, I called 5 people trying to get ahold of the man that might have an answer for me. He didn’t tell me what I wanted to hear, which was, “have a good day at home.” He said that today was a regular work day and unless I was on leave I had to stay. Well, I don’t have enough leave to be wasting it. I’m here, might as well stay. Another thing I thought was that I didn’t get a memo or something.

The thought crossed my mind that I could leave and not a soul would know, but as they say, “Character is what you do when no one is looking.” But the bottom line is, there’s not a lot for me to do here alone. So, here’s what I’ve done today in no particular order.

• Created a webpage for a joke
• Fixed a small problem with the arcGIS server
• Shopped online for Christmas presents
• Updated this webpage by adding descriptions to yesterday’s pictures
• Looked at yesterday’s pictures 47 times
• Wrote this post
• Drank coffee
• Took a little nap and had some really really weird dreams
• Went to Quiktrip, but wasn’t even gone long enough for my screensaver to lock my computer
• Texted with Michelle
• Called my mom and wished I was there to have Thanksgiving with them
• Listened to Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin
• Considered playing a practical joke on my coworkers, but I’ve it made a rule to not mess with them because I don’t want to be messed with
• Wondered “does anyone read my blog and, if so, are they ’into it’ enough to register and comment?”
• Stared at nothing in particular
• Bought that thing Jeremy was telling us about last night
• Updated my facebook status 2 times with the iPhone
• Read some training slides for arcIMS
• fiddled around with the server
• Played spider solitaire
• Stared at nothing in particular … again