Sobriety Blog Thursday October 9, 2025

Weight: 328.4 lbs ( 148.9 kg)
BMI: 42.2
Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm)
WtHr: 72.3%

Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs 
Lunch: Bologna Sandwiches Pringles Cheddar Sour Cream Chips
Dinner: Chuck Roast with mushroom gravy
Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull

Sober Month 9 (Day 289)

I was surprised to see the lower number on the scale this morning. I was thinking that the scale was glitching again. But it gave a consistent number over the several times I stepped on it.

I didn't do much before work again today. I've just been having a hard time gauging the passage of time. I was sitting here at the computer playing with the spending spreadsheet and weigh in spreadsheets thinking, “oh, it's coming up on 10:30 I should probably get ready for work. OH CRAP IT'S 10:30 I NEED TO GET READY FOR WORK!”

The rent check still hasn't gone through. But at least it's now in a time that I have the funds for it to go through.

I only worked a half day today as I had worked half a day on Monday. It was a nice day to work as I was scheduled to carryout for the first three hours and it was amazing weather to be a carryout today. And today I was scheduled to work three hours as a carryout and only one hour as a Supervisor. There is a red vest that the supervisor is supposed to wear to make us stand out as the guy in charge. And as I was only going to be a supervisor for one whole hour I wasn't going to bother changing from the apron to the supervisor vest. But then then the Produce Manager ran by and told me that a big wig was in the store. But I didn't catch on what he was saying as he just ran by and said a person's name. And HE'S in the store right now! And I am absolutely horrible with names. So I had no idea who this person was. The produce manager just kept insisting that this guy is in the store! I still don't really know who that person was. When I told the Customer Service Manager that this person's name is in the store she started freaking out about getting things cleaned up and arranged. Making sure that counter tops were cleaned off and lane blockers were up and stuff. I figured it would be better if a person that is making all of the managers freak out is in the store I should probably be in uniform.

I've been wanting to run by the Oil Change place to get an appointment all week long, but I keep forgetting to. So I wrote an “O” on my left hand and I was using a pen to refresh it over the day so I would remember to go set up the appointment. The customer service manager asked if I had gotten a tattoo as it did kind of look like a fresh tattoo of a circle right at the base of my left thumb. She got a kick of the explanation. And it did work as I did run by the garage after work. I have the appointment set for Thursday next week. I do like that the “oil change” notification hasn't appeared on the notification board, and the check engine light hasn't came back on since Uncle had turned it off. But I will be glad when the oil change gets done.

When I got home from work roommate was eager to set up the Battletech board game to play the one off scenario that I had thought up. I was wanting to have the 3D printer up and going before we were to play this game. But bills always came first before buying more filament for the printer. So I just fell back to the age old tradition of using bits around the house for fill in parts for the stuff for the board. When we were kids we used chess pieces and bits of rock for game pieces. Today a Mountain Dew can filled in for the part of the ship that he was fighting for. The story for the game is that he was playing as a mercenary group who was hired to do an "intel" run on a, "nowhere backwater planet" But the orbital defense was more than they were expecting and their "dropship" that they came in on was destroyed in the landing. So the story is that they had to basically pirate a new "dropship" to get off planet. I was playing the defense of the spaceport. He also had to "hack" several of the nearby servers to get launch codes for the ship. And by hack I mean that he had to pilot one of his giant robots by one of the cardboard boxes on the playing map and roll a die. It was a rather one sided affair as the game required rolling dice to see if your robot was able to shoot the other robots and how much damage was done in each attack. And the dice really didn't seem to like me this afternoon. 

We were playing a really simplified version of the game so a simple roll of the dice one of the five robots that I had was wiped out in one turn. And he had four robots and several infantry units. The game has a point system to balance out how many forces people can field in each game and technically my forces had a higher point value, but the more forces won the day. Along with some jackass dice rolls. I didn't realize until most of the way into the game that I didn't have a time limit for the game and that would have improved the game. 

But it was a fun game. 

Roommate suggested that we use ChatGPT to help with enemy forces and we could play through the various cannon campaigns of the board game.  This game has centuries of lore and various wars we could play through with the AI playing the other forces. Next week has his birthday, and I'm on vacation so that might be a fun thing to do next week.