This one is easy. It isn’t. Zero percent important. I prefer to focus on things that are real. You know, people, places, and things that actually exist.
Category: Generic
Mood Music
Bad Vibes on a Bad Monday
I am not going to go into details but there was something in the track record of the company I’ve worked for for almost 19 years that made me very happy. As of this afternoon, that something is no longer in our track record.
It doesn’t affect me or anyone that I work with directly, but I really feel let down. I was proud of this little factoid and I can’t be proud of it anymore. It sucks.
Also, it’s gloomy and rainy out and I had a crappy night’s sleep last night and I don’t feel like I’ve physically recovered from this morning’s exercise. I guess I am just not having a terribly good day today and I am bummed out.
Daily Writing Prompt – How Do You Practice Self-Care
First, WordPress.com has been putting up these daily writing prompts for a while now and I was on the fence as to whether or not I should play along. I thought yesterday’s response might have been funny so I finally joined in. Now? What the hell, right?
How do I practice self-care? The brutally honest answer is that I asked a doctor to butcher my stomach and my digestive system so that I could lose 200 pounds and not feel like I was on death’s door 24/7. That’s the real answer.
The practical answer is spending time with my wife and spending as much time as I can with the kids now that they don’t live around here anymore. Those and playing the guitar and playing with cameras. Those are the answers that matter, at least on the mental health side.
Still Alive
I had to re-do workout number three, but the app didn’t crash this time and I topped two miles at three minutes walking followed by one minute running, repeated eight times.
Ouch.
Daily Writing Prompt
Sleeping? Is that the correct answer? 6-7 hours a day asleep, is that the biggest waste of time?
Look What I Did
It was 10:30 at night. I still had 40% of my move goal left to do. Jen was asleep so I snuck down cellar and yogged for a while. Once my move goal was closed (stand and exercise goals had been closed for many hours by then) I took a little time to recover and then…
That’s right, kids, the guitar playing streak is alive. I only played for about 10 minutes but it counts, babie!
On Call
Back in the olden days of this here blog I used to regularly complain about having to be on call for work. There were a bunch of different varieties of on call-ness and I didn’t enjoy any of them. They all stressed me out. The good part though is that they usually come with some form of compensation. That was something I could get behind, and that was why I took the on call shifts when they were available to me.
When I was promoted, almost 10 years ago, I made the decision to make the on call shifts available to my staff whenever possible. I wanted them to receive the compensation and I pledged to myself that I would only take shifts when my entire staff were unavailable. As it turns out, I haven’t had to take many on call shifts since. There was one where I was covering a customer’s catastrophic system failure and I knew I was going to be working around the clock for a whole weekend. I took that one to protect my staff. That was a, “the buck stops here” kinda thing. It was awful, but I handled it. Every other on call shift, and the pay/comp time/whatever compensation was involved went to them. I feel pretty good about that track record.
Well… looks like I am on call this weekend. Sort of. Not exactly, but close. I’ve been the go to contact for the last couple of weeks anyway. It just seems easier to have me be the off hours contact too.
Yeah… I’m starting to remember why I didn’t like being on call. Memories, am I right?
Watching TV
File Under: Things You Don’t See Every Day
Inside the Red Head's Head 