Well… shit.
At least the test line is pretty faint. We are trending in the right direction, I guess.
Top Priority
You want my number one priority for tomorrow? It’s only 6:18am right now, you don’t want my priority for today? Okay… I haven’t thought that far ahead yet. Maybe I’ll give both.
My number one priority for tomorrow, Tuesday October 3, 2023, partially depends on what happens today. First and foremost must be to no longer have Covid-19. I am planning on testing today, but as soon as I made that decision I sneezed so… yeah. Other top priorities for tomorrow include doing whatever needs to be done to help any of my customers that might need help, closing my activity watch rings and hitting my food and water goals for the day. Fun stuff like that.
My number one priority for the coming day is to take that Covid-19 home test that I mentioned and have it be negative. I am positive I will achieve the first piece of that goal, but also pretty sure I will not achieve the second piece. Other goals include restarting my exercise routine again, hopefully without completely wiping myself out with Covid-19 fatigue symptoms. As soon as I publish this post I am going to have a faux run (running in place, or jogging in place which I pronounce yogging, with a soft J). I haven’t done this routine in two weeks, thanks Covid, so I am a little nervous, but here goes. Also, goals for today include all of the helping customers stuff I mentioned as goals for tomorrow. That’s pretty important.
Okay, so the prompt asked for tomorrow’s priority and I gave today and tomorrow. Two priorities for the price of one! You’re welcome, internets!
Daily (goofy) Haiku for You #44
I want to help out,
but it is so far away.
What else can I do?
Sun Cat
I’m truly sorry for all the cat pics I’ve been posting today. They are just so ridiculously cute, you know? It’s really hard to resist.
Nap Cat
Just before she fell asleep for a nice afternoon nap…
A couple of hours later as she was starting to wake up.
Just me having fun with a new lens on my Z5. That’s all this is.
Grill
Every time I cook something on the grill I have to wonder if it’s going to be the last time until next year.
Also, it’s October 1st and the leaves are already changing. Bah humbug.
Curbside
Curbside pickup. Contact free, covid safe. Jen needs stuff for her office and Covid can’t stop us from making it happen.
Photo a Day Cats
I almost talked Jen into letting me buy a thousand dollar point and shoot camera today. Heh heh. No, I’d rather spend the money on guitar maintenance… assuming I ever get over Covid and can do business with people face to face again. Stupid ‘rona.
8:32am on Day 14
I am so tired of this.
When I got up this morning I put all of the stuff I need for my morning routine onto a table in the living room. My water bottle, my morning vitamins, a protein bar breakfast, the Apple TV remote control so I could finish the first (and so far only) season of Silo…
…and a Covid-19 home test.
The test is still sitting on the table. The box is unopened. I am not going to take it today. I just don’t want to be disappointed. I’ll take one tomorrow so I can use the positive test as an explanation for why I won’t go into the office on Wednesday. Outside of that… shit, man. This sucks.
I haven’t closed the exercise or move (calorie) rings on my Apple Watch since September 18th. Today is October 1st. I think, despite any issues with Covid fatigue I am still having, today is the day I start closing those rings again. I need to get back into that for my health. Exercise is a post-gastric bypass requirement. Get to it, Robert.
I have a couple of chores to do today. The cats’ litter boxes need cleaning and changing. Also, we made some changes to Jen’s office space yesterday and there are a bunch of devices that need to go down cellar. One might end up on my work desk, the others will just go into storage.
Other than that… it’s another much needed flake day for ol’ Robbie. Up yours, Covid.
Hard Work
Hard work is fulfilling. Does there need to be more explanation than that?
For me, the biggest rush in my job comes from problem solving. A customer has an issue with their system. It’s something that we haven’t seen before. We dig into the data. We dig into the code. We step through the customer’s workflow. We follow the progression of the system. We find an inconsistency or a bug or something that needs to be enhanced. We tell the customer what’s going on and what they can do to get around it. We let Development know about it and make a suggestion on how to change the code.
A situation like that, solving a problem… it just feels good. Really good. Would I call it fulfilling? That seems a little strong, but I guess it fits. Maybe if you squint a little or look at it over time and see a trend. I don’t know. I just know I enjoy that and love how I feel when it happens.
It’s different than the feeling you get when you do some physical task around the house or something, but it’s good enough for me and my little brain and my heart and what passes for a soul.
Inside the Red Head's Head 