The Hunt for Pepe Silvia

The trend is now established, I’m back on the coffee. And I’m not getting the same kick off it after a few days. My brain must have quickly re-established whatever pathways were involved. I had the normal breakfast otherwise, consuming the last two eggs in the house along the way. I’ll have to wean back off the coffee again to regain the effectiveness. I had a pretty lengthy pre-work time as I was up and out of bed so early. It’s not usual that I have this much luxury time in the morning. Today involved three meetings, two in the afternoon. The morning one went ok. I didn’t feel like I gave much excitement around a couple of products but the customer was plenty excited by the end of the call so I guess I did okay. Lunch crept up quickly after that and I rushed it. I just had a can of Campbell’s Chunky Chicken and Sausage Gumbo. It was all wrapped up within fifteen minutes but I dawdled for an additonal ten minutes or so as a means of taking a break. I got myself ready for the afternoon meetings and had a relatively enjoyable time during those two. The last one ended ahead of six so I took a full hour break and made some dinner. I just made the exact same thing as the previous night. I cooked some chicken bites in the Air Fryer and downed a can of Dr Pepper alongside those. Bacon Ranch dressing was the dipping sauce again. It was just as tasty the second day in a row. If you’re keeping track, I only had 75 minutes of respite since the work day began. After my little evening break I launched into an investigation that was requested by my boss and others the previous afternoon. I can’t say what I was investigating but after an hour or so of hunting I had the answers I needed and then I spent well over an hour writing a very detailed review of my findings, then I re-wrote that into an email. I was washed out by the end of that. It took me a full hour to get settled into sleep. So if you look at the overall day, for the waking hours I had two hours before work, then a half hour at lunch and an hour at dinner of free time. Then I used an hour to fall back asleep. The work-life balance looks pretty unfavourable when you consider that I put in thirteen and a half hours of work. So of the eighteen hours I was away, seventy five percent was spent working. It’s less bad if you count sleep as personal time.