Quick and Quiet

Thursday turned out to be a fairly unremarkable day as I look back. I started things normally with some breakfast. The normal breakfast was enough to tide me over and abolish my fast. While I was preparing it I nearly witnessed an unprovoked disaster. I was standing the kitchen when without warning my much beleaguered cactus slowly slumped over. I’m not sure what caused this but my theory is that I fed it some 20-30-20 a few days back and it started to put on some growth and that made it top heavy. I carefully shimmied it over against the wall for now to get some proper support. I could try and find a bigger stick but honestly the pot wouldn’t be able to support it. I should have moved it to a larger pot ten years ago. The wall will have to do, hopefully the closed register doesn’t mess it up further. I got that in March 2006, not long after returning from SB06.

After that troubling start to the day I set about my work business. With only one meeting on the books for the day I found myself with some spare time. There is a low priority task that I should have done already drifting in the background but when I tried to take it on I found that there was an error I couldn’t resolve on my own. I’m going to reach out next week during office hours for this application and try and get things cooking. It is low priority, it can wait a bit longer. It’s the classic function of trying to shoehorn Canada into something built with only the US in mind, it happens more than you’d think in big companies. Undeterred I set about updating other files and queries that I’ll need after the seed order is over. I kept working through things on the seed order front also. I’ve got corn plot seed all squared away and it was entered into the system. Now we have to make sure everything works and play a bit of the waiting game. There is more work to be done with corn, probably the bulk of it, but I’m in limbo for a few days. The soybean side is moving along quickly as well. I’ve got most of that figured out. I’ll have to confirm a few things more and then I’ll be wrapped there. I’m well ahead of last year on that front. Turns out that going through a season lets you learn quite a bit, much more than the legends do. Either way, only I’ll get that one and since I’m the only one reading most of these I’m leaving it in. Lunch was unremarkable too. I loaded up with some soup and a Stouffer’s Bistro Crustini - Mozzerella and Meatball. The afternoon was more of the say, a few calls mixed in to keep it fresh. The next thing I knew it was after five and I hung it up for the day. Dinner was not what was on the whiteboard but instead a combination of chips, Dr Pepper and a granola bar. The picture of health. I did my MSC challenges and then wandered a bit, looking for something constructive to do. Finding nothing I crawled into my bed and watched some YouTube and finished off some podcasts while dozing in and out of consciousness until closer to eleven when sleep took the wheel.