Keeping Me Company

Robin is keeping me company while I watch the new episode of Ahsoka.

Squinty

Lily giving me the squinty eye.

7:28pm on Day Nine

I am exhausted. I had a decent night’s sleep last night. Six hours without interruption. It didn’t help though, by the time I got to my lunch break today I was 100% wiped out. I am also coughing more tonight and my head is a little stuffy again. I feel like my symptoms are back-sliding and getting worse. I am very unhappy about all of this.

I called my father tonight to see how he was handling my mother’s birthday. He’s doing okay, but he immediately noticed that I sound worse than I did yesterday. It’s bad enough that dad could tell just by my voice.

Tomorrow is going to be a tough day. I am in meetings for five of the eight hours including one meeting that covers my entire usual lunch break. I’m going to be exhausted to the core of my soul by the time the work day ends. It’s going to be brutal. Here’s hoping I manage a better night’s sleep tonight to prepare for it. Wish me luck.

Happy MacOS Sonoma Release Day

Today is the release day for the new MacOS! Sonoma should be available, but it hasn’t shown up in my Mac App Store yet.

I have to say that there isn’t a whole lot here that I am excited about, apart from the normal “newer is better (and hopefully faster and more efficient, but who really knows)” vibe. I might look into widgets. I don’t really use them on my iPhone and barely acknowledge they exist on my iPad. Maybe I’ll see what’s out there for hockey and baseball and notepads and weather and news headlines and blogging stuff and random things like that.

I don’t use Safari so even though some of the updates are interesting, I am never going to see them. Oh well. That’s the downside of using third party browsers, I guess.

Whatever, Happy MacOS Sonoma Day, Apple fanboys and fangirls. Enjoy the day (assuming the download actually becomes available in your neck of the woods)!

Ironic yet unrelated note, I was prompted to take an OS update in Windows on my work machine today. What a small world, huh?

ADDENDUM: I guess the Mac App Store was just waiting for me to start complaining on the blog because the OS Update download became available to me just a few minutes after initially I published this post. Thanks, universe!

(Mostly) Daily (goofy) Haiku for You #39

I went outside today to cook my lunch on the grill. Today’s haiku came from that experience.

Why is it cold out?
It is barely even fall!
I want summer back!

I Could Do More

Daily writing prompt

What could you do more of?

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What could I do more of? I feel like I am lacking in so many areas of life. Nothing so much as to be a problem, but many things where I just want to be doing better than I am.

Helping/supporting/being there for my wife. I do some, but not nearly enough. Not even close.
Helping/supporting/being there for my step kids. Again, I do what I can but they are so far away from us now it’s very difficult. Any time there is the slightest hiccup in their lives I just want to drop everything and go running and I just can’t do it when they are a couple of hundred miles away.
Helping/supporting/being there for my extended family. This mostly includes my father, but also in a big way it includes my niece and my three nephews. I never feel like I am there for any of them. I chip in for my father when I can, but not nearly enough, and as for the four kids, am I the worst, most useless uncle on Earth? I think so. I am doing an abysmal job at being an uncle.
Helping/supporting/being there for my staff at work. I think I am doing an okay job as a supervisor, but I could be doing so much more.

Those are the big ones. There are a slew of other areas where I could be doing more that fall under personal, mental well being kind of things. More music, more photography, more travel, more exploration, more community stuff. Those sorts of things. They are clearly secondary to family and work though.

So I guess my answers for today’s daily writing prompt are pretty much the same as most of my prompt answers. Family, work, personal things. I feel like a bit of a broken record, but they are the most important things in my life, you know?

9:09am on Day Nine

Oh for crying out loud.

Another day, another positive test. Give me a break. I need this bullshit to be over.

I should have gone into the office today but due to The ‘Rona I am staying home. Same deal tomorrow. I was planning on working from Foxborough both days but now I am working from home while my staff works from Foxborough. I feel like I am cheating.

The symptoms are the same as yesterday. A little stuffy. A cough once every couple of hours. Generally tired. I made it through the work day yesterday but it was tough in the afternoon. I expect more of the same today.

Any time this asshole of a virus wants to piss off and leave is fine with me.