Thunderous Thursday

The late start to sleep translated into a late stop to sleep. Since I don’t operate with alarms unless required I slept all the way to eight. That is unprecented on a work day. The last interuption was around five and I’ve very glad I was able to get back to sleep and enjoy those last two hours. I’ll be working to avoid this situation tonight. I had enough time to shower and clean myself up but not enough time to have breakfast. I went straight from the bedroom to the office. I got going ahead of 8:30am. I tackled my spreadsheet and by the end of the day the nuts and bolts of it were finished. I had also consumed all the podcasts in my queue, which is good because I got the third Bobiverse book with my monthly Audible credit. Now I’ll have all weekend to polish that off and then I’ll have to wait a whole month for the next credit to get the fourth and most recent book. I unexpectedly got pulled into a call before I got very far into my workday and listened along to it while I hammered down on my spreadsheet. I had to jump directly to another call and then came back. I hate doing that but I did say it was unexpected. I think I can see the finish line of this long running seed treatment issue that I was push uphill. The product is ready to go and should be delivered early next week. The customer was looking for it in the front half of September and we are in the back half of October so that is mildly upsetting. As it turns out, they aren’t entirely ready for it due to other delays in other areas of their process so I’m mostly off the hook. Or maybe just lucky this time. Lunch came up fast with all this happening and I found myself with a growling tummy but not desperate. I ate a normal lunch of soup and pizza buns. I got a call right after chugging that and flitted from one things to another all afternoon. When the dust settled my inbox was back under control and I’ve mostly just got Tuesday’s mess to work on. This is good because we’re getting into the meat of my fall next week then it’s a sprint until Christmas. At least I’ve run through the flames once now and know how hot they can get. The pandemic will put a different flavour on everything so I’m doubly glad I got the experiences I did last year. I’ll leave all of that as cryptic as I hope it landed. I worked past six thirty again but I’m feeling less under the gun twenty four hours later. I wanted to do a quick supper again so I could get back to the office for some evening entertainment. Tonight I took a Great Value brand four meat pizza and added some extra cheese and some of the Hotel Oscar Tango sauce before cooking and some Cholula hot sauce after. I don’t find it hot at all anymore, that’s why I doubled down. The eating aspect of this meal was incredibly disappointing. I think I added too much extra cheese. It was pretty gross to slug back. Maybe my palette is finally maturing.

After dinner entertainment again focused on streaming my MSC challenges on Twitch. I got through them very quickly though and had some more time. I decided to pull the trigger on the Amazon order I’d setup the previous night. It should arrive next week and then we’ll see if that purchase made any sense. Eventually I’m going to have to upgrade my setup to have access to both monitors with both computers. Currently I’ve given my work machine the priority and it gets three screens to allow me to navigate several Excel files at once or take notes on one screen while presenting on the others. I’m not entirely sure how I’ll pull that off with one keyboard and mouse. I’m sure it will take time and research. Or maybe someone can let me know and save me the effort. In the meantime I moved along to playing some Command & Conquer and streaming it. I actually checked my stream on the iPad mini to make sure it was still working. It all worked and it didn’t glitch the game out for once. I might try that again at some point to make sure it still goes. It had been awhile since I tried that. The rest of the night was wound down with some YouTube.