Shifted Hump

Let me start by explaining the title, as there were a number of shifts that happened on this day. First thing that shifted was me having to get groceries today. With the way things are shaping up with work I needed to use today to get them or face the evening hordes. Today’s soybean session was bumped a day to accomodate America and D&D night was shifted until Friday due to schedule conflicts in the party. So a number of things got flipped around, leading to the title above. Look at what I bought, see anything unique?

I had a McBreakfast and scooted through the grocery store as fast as I could because I had a meeting on the books with a colleague for nine. I promised him I’d be fifteen minutes late for it and I was exactly right. That was fine we blew through the meeting ending by more than the fifteen minutes so he got his money’s worth of my expertise. There were a couple more meetings in the morning, one stood out. My small team has been neglected by the new guy in charge of NA corn advancements this fall. He is brand new in the role and is trying to figure it all out. He’d never been involved previously, unlike his two predecessors who had worked their way up in that team. We scheduled thirty minutes with him in the only timeslot he hadn’t blocked with something. We wanted to align on expectations for the following week on how we’d be handled and where we fit into his new process. It was a crazy meeting, apparently he’d just had a bunch of coffee and it was incredibly rapid fire. I was able to keep up on notes though. Next the soybean guy called and we chatted while I prepared my meager lunch. I nuked some nearly rancid ground beef and the last of the Gutfill. It wasn’t pretty but it was filling.

The afternoon wasn’t as jam packed, which was good because I had to suddenly prepare some slides for a meeting that Canada was forgotten for. I got my slides done and learned them enough to present them. I had made a friendly wager with my boss and colleague that I could do it under five minutes. I got asked to split by maturity for my talk so I tried to keep it under eight overall and I did that. I wanted to do a good job still or I’d have just gone for the five minute mark. I’m not sure the audience really cared about what I was talking about but if a few of the corn breeders saw it then it was worth the effort. Anyways, I don’t want to get into the weeds. My day ended at six and I moved to the kitchen right away to get after dinner. I added some extra cheese and Cholula to my cardboard pizza. This one was Great Value brand Hawaiian thin crust. If you haven’t seen the trend yet, I have cardboard pizza on Wednesday, generally before D&D. Not this week though, shifted!

I spent the evening doing as little of consequence as possible and managed that successfully. I did some reading, cleared podcasts and MSF. It was as a quiet night. I didn’t get to sleep as early as I should have and I hope that I can kick this late night trend. It doesn’t jive with my early morning desires. Eventually though I was able to find the end of consciousness and get some rest.