Tuesday Spelt Relief

Woke early and too stressed out to get back to sleep. Elected to skip breakfast based on the nerves I was feeling. I had a big meeting with a customer to address an issue that I contributed to. A small error on my part has escalated into a bigger thing, with the worst aspect of many other processes pushing the snowball down the hill to make it worse. I hate making mistakes and take them way harder than I should. Probably building it up way worse in my mind. The meeting with the customer was first thing but I was at the helm around seven so was able to get things ready for the rest of the day. I had four meetings on the books with the first one being the most fearsome. In the end it was nothing. Customer wanted to make sure I understood why it’s an issue and to see if I was willing to help with it. I’d already started working on it in fact. With that all out of the way we caught up for the last half hour. I don’t have anything else until lunch so started working on clearing my inbox and I can say that I’ve made good progress. It is getting tightened down to a manageable level again. In that period my big delivery showed up thanks to UPS. Everything was there and intact. I’ll have to hang my new whiteboards at some point now.

Lunch was a bowl of soup, I finished one of the containers off. The afternoon went pretty fast with the various short meetings and I further advanced a number of topics before shutting it down after five. Dinner was quick, easy and delicious. I made some Our Finest pad thai. It gave me a chance to bust out my chop sticks. After patiently enjoying this treat I descended to my lair. I had intended to call into a business call at half seven but I couldn’t get it going in the basement so I decided to crush some IT Crowd episodes. I got close to the end around bedtime and tried to gut it out. I didn’t realize the series finale was a double episode so I ended up staying past eleven to finish it off, but I did it.