Guess what the theme for today’s haiku for you is. Go on, guess.
Meetings all day long.
Many hours of meetings.
Meetings never end.
Author: robertjames1971
I'm wicked tall.
What is That?
I just pulled into my office building’s parking lot. There are a bunch of fire engines here. It looks like they are running an exercise of some sort. Maybe a demo or a training or something. Weird.
Technology IS My Job
This is a hard question to answer because technology sort of is my job. Mostly. Kind of.
I work for a software company. We make information systems for hospitals (mostly). I won’t say that we’re on the cutting edge, but we try to stay up to date with the latest and the greatest. Sometimes it takes a while to get there, but we get there.
There have been plenty of technological advancements over the course of my almost 20 years here. Most of them have been internal as most of our systems are proprietary. As new ideas in the industry come along we try them on for size. Sometimes we make use of them, sometimes we give them a miss. It all depends on what those new ideas can do for our customers and our systems.
So I would say that changes in technology change the way we do things here, but nothing really turns things upside down on us. We are a tech company. Changes in tech are what we do.
Sorry I couldn’t give you a more exciting answer, but what can you do, right?
Nap
The cats are napping and I wish I was napping too.
Dad’s Appointment is Done
Nothing Earth shattering. A plan of action that is more or less the same plan of action we already had, just with mini-tweaks in place. No actual changes in the care plan. We have a follow up mid-April though, so we’ll see.
He’s not in trouble or anything, just a nagging thing that doesn’t seem to want to go away but will if he’s a good patient. I’m not sharing anything beyond that.
Scenes
Some snaps from my morning out of the house. Just because.
One more. This is what we call, “a mistake.”
Starting to Get Nervous
The nervousness is creeping up on me.
No details will be forthcoming, but we have an appointment with my father’s doctor today. It will be Dad, the doctor, my brother, my sister, and me. There is a potential for some difficult conversation about my father’s care going forward. There isn’t anything wrong right now, but it’s just day to day stuff that might need to be adjusted, and those adjustments might lead to some tough talk.
The appointment is about 2.5 hours from now. I have some errands to run (I might share the source of those later because it’s a “funny” story) and then I have to go and pick up my dad.
Stay calm, Robert. It will be okay.
Nope
Daily writing prompt
How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?
No is a hard word to say. I should learn to say it once in a while.
I’m not what you’d call a people person. I rarely get where they are coming from. I still want to be helpful though. I still want to make things easier for these weird people that I don’t understand. That makes saying no to them tough to do.
It is so tough to do that I rarely bring myself to do it. At work, in personal life situation. I’m rarely able to just say no. That doesn’t mean I don’t do it because sometimes I do. That is when the guilt takes over. I say no to someone about something and then I feel terrible about it for ages.
Saying no sucks, even when it is clearly the right thing to do.
How About a New Mix
Hey, I mixed one of the songs that I put the vocals onto yesterday and the lead guitars onto today. It’s a song from the RPM Challenge a few years ago that is now part of The Great 2015 Re-Recording Project, aka Quarantine Tunes Volume Seven.
I’m not sold on the mix, but when am I ever sold on something I’ve mixed?
Cats
I didn’t have my phone with me when I stumbled upon this scene. Thankfully the cats waited patiently while I went and picked it up. Snap.
Inside the Red Head's Head 