Chip's Spynotebook

Outside the door of my office :

Inside my office :

I have warned everyone in my office that I will probably be grumpy for a while. So, pretty much nothing will be different.

I had big plans to get up and go to the gym this morning. But it is still raining and I have a headache which I am assuming is my body telling me to eat some sugar or something. I think a shower and coffee is a better plan. 

Haven’t died yet, but I did use a selfie stick for the first time.

We had soft-boiled eggs over sweet potato, pepper, and onions for breakfast.

For lunch I mixed chicken breast with avocado and cashews and had it over some leftover broccoli kale slaw from Trader Joe’s. Healthy AF.

Dinner is cooking now. Lamb in the oven, potatoes in the instant pot and spinach in the microwave.

So, long story short, Amy’s got a bad eye so I’m starting the Whole 30 tomorrow. There are some interconnecting reasons and causes and effects and maybe some string theory in between. But what it boils down to is that I am eating a pop-tart from Ollie’s because all the crazy starts TOMORROW.

I would be remiss if I didn’t blog for Back to the Future Day.

Still don’t have a hoverboard, but I carry a computer in my pocket which I can watch TV on, so that is kind of cool.

We’re back on the cable wire.

We cord-cutted for a couple of years and went through a number of services including: Aereo, NimbleTV, USTVNow, Netflix, Hulu Plus, Plex, HBOGo with a borrowed password, Amazon Prime, HitBliss, and probably others that I don’t even recall.

But, to watch live network shows, sporting events, and news, cable is kind of what you have to have. We spent so much time and energy trying to find out how to get around restrictions to watch what we wanted to, we decided to go the opposite direction.

We are now proud owners of a new six-tuner TiVo Roamio and hundreds and hundreds of channels. I didn’t have much planned for the next few months anyway.

Dear the Internet,

I’m Chip and I used to be a blogger. Then social media happened and instead of writing long posts here, I just got to click buttons that tweeted links and shared posts and the most creative thing I did was tweak word choices until my tweets came under 140 characters. But, I’m still paying for the domain name so I might as well use it. So, I’m blogging for the first time since 2012.

It’s 2015. Welcome to the future.

To usher in the future, I spent last night on the couch with a fever which has now gone away. I finally learned how to read a glass thermometer today, so check that off the bucket list.

We’re cooking chicken and brussel sprouts for dinner. I know your saying, “Chip, it’s 2015, just take a food pill.” What can I say, I like to do things old school.

That’s enough for now. Don’t want to blow a fuse. (Do we still need those in 2015?)

Bye for now Internet!

Chip

Fun Fact: I remembered how to log in to my blog!

We went to Maine this year. This was the view from our porch.

So, we’re having an electrician come over today to help install a new TV antenna in our house. The hope is that we will be able to get more channels out of Atlanta, Greenville, or Augusta. I still have not figured out the rotator thing yet so that it a project for today.