Monsoon Day

The day started off as terrible as the weather. There was a violent monsoon going on outside. That isn’t good news for anyone. The whipping wind was doing all kinds of weird stuff to the rain. Nothing perverse, just regular weird. I had slept in a smidge and had to hustle things along to get some grub in my mug; mug being face in this instance, not inside a ceramic mug. Although…… Today is my younger sister’s birthday, we all wished her happy birthday, one after the other in our family group chat and that is apparently sufficient in today’s world. It used to be a phone call but we’ve gotten so efficient and lazy that a simple text does the trick. It takes only seconds to do and is somewhat meaningless to the receiver. The absence of it is more critical. Interesting social norm we’ve developed there. Maybe something to think about if you took time to ruminate on such issues as people once did, before the advent of smartphones and electronic designed to monopolize our thoughts and time. That’s getting too heavy and I need you to stay focused on reading on to the end of the post. Work started itself off with three consecutive conference calls of increasing exclusivity. By the third one, it was just me and two customers on the line. That one went about thirty minutes over as I managed to get them to do what I was hoping for. This lead into a later lunch. I ate the last of the soup, a much smaller bowl and had a couple of pizza buns. They had the yellow sticker of expedience on them so I needed to get them sooner rather than later. There wasn’t much nutritious about the experience, more about shutting my guts up. My innards must have been done with dealing with that soup because they got a bit angry. The afternoon moved by at a fair clip. There were a number of phone calls with colleagues, partly for business, partly to stay connected to other parts of the business. I got to return to my glorious spreadsheet and should have it wrapped up by the end of the week which I believe is faster than I did last year. I kept working past the quitting bell and it was half six when I finally powered down, truthfully it was closer to seven. This was going to mean a late meal which can be dangerous on a number of fronts. I decided that I would hit the easy button and mircrowaved a couple of patties and slapped them into an english muffin with some Kraft singles. Not my finest hour but I was zapped of drive to do anything more and wanted to eat before I got too far into the night.

After such a dinner my guts really started to roil. I returned to my office where I spent my entire day and set about beating my MSC challenges. As I often do, I streamed the affair on my Twitch channel. As I rarely do, I told someone about it. Theodore Complete tuned in for a few minutes allegedly. It was a useful activity as I was able to confirm that the microphone was operating with that software. I played some music and said something at the end. I will continue to dabble in this. I might try recording and posting a video at some point to fill out the channel some more. I really do think that Twitch will replace some of the platforms we have now. I spent way too long searching for a webcam to buy after that. I’ve been thinking of buying one for about a year now and never bothered to do the research. After looking at a number of them of varying prices I decided that I wanted sixty frames per second, autofocus, and a privacy screen. I was trying to get weird with the video output but it didn’t seem important. The champion of the field is Logitech but they got really expensive and hard to find at the start of the pandemic. There are many brands at reasonable prices that seem to do the job for most people. I am shooting for something a step up from normal with those specs and so I’m paying a bit more. We’ll see how this experiement turns out. It’s in my cart on Amazon but I haven’t pulled the trigger yet. I’ll sleep on this one. Sleep is the next topic, it came late. It was nearly midnight by the time I got it. I wasn’t tired and couldn’t get tired. The late dinner apparently came back to haunt me afterall.