Good Corporate Citizen

It wasn’t the greatest sleep I’ve ever been associated with but it seemed to have been adequate as my body woke before seven. My brain quickly followed. The early start meant that I was done breakfast and cleaned up ahead of eight so started work early too. I didn’t feel like I had any pressing, tight deadline things on my plate and that was odd. I worked on cleaning up some files to be more accurate and then started doing a deeper dive on our database to clean out some long standing annoyances to me. I had a call at ten for an hour and that was followed immediately but a call with a coworker that handles some things for me in Canada occaisionly. I wanted to talk through some things to get aligned rather than sending a dozen emails that were just slightly off the mark for a couple of weeks. Sometimes it is better to be direct. That brought me right up until lunch as the call spilled over time. Today was the same as the past few days, a giant bowl of the soup I’d made over the weekend and a pizza bun that was about to go off. In fact, I had to pick some suspicious looking white pieces off it. They could have been flour from the orginal preparation but I’m not taking that chance. Warming up soup and scarfing a bun didn’t take very long so with the extra time I went out to clean up the sintered snow that the plow had unceremoniously dumped into my clean driveway the previous night after everyone had gone to bed for the evening. I heard it happen. It was a pretty serious workout. Especially because on one side I have to toss it over my head and the other side is waist deep but the pile comes to a defined peak now. Unless we do something we’re going to be short on space soon. While I was out and about I thought I’d march up to the mail box and get some justified exercise. When I got to the corner I saw that the efforts to clear the sidewalk stopped. Someone had cleared it except the last four or five feet, or more likely the plow had filled it back in. Regardless I decided that I would go back and get my shovel and rectify this. There was a layer of ice underneath and it was a challenge to clear out. I manged to get them all cleaned back a way and in a state where nobody should have to step through deep snow to get through. I saw that most people were walking out into the street or using the other side exclusively so hopefully my efforts are appreciated. It was a good workout for me. I told my family when I got back in the house. Mostly so if I expired from my exertion that they’d have a reason for my sudden demise. The Big T said that my grandpa would say I was being a good corporate citizen and be proud of me. I really appreciated that and needed it more than I would have guessed. Re-invigourated by that I got back to work ahead of one. I worked on some of the stuff that came up in the alignment meeting until a Zoom call about gene editing. It was very general but also quite interesting. I was able to get caught up on Canada’s position on the topic. We have none. After this I cruised to the end of the day updating files for the new year. I actually ended things off a bit early due to the early start in the morning and was able to clear my available MSC challenges before heading down for dinner. I stuck to the meal plan and prepared a soft taco bake kit. I’m pretty cheap so I used pork as my meat component. It was pretty fantastic. After finishing my portion and stowing the rest I cleaned up, ate a handful of marshmallows as a makeshift dessert and headed down to watch the Leafs with my eyes rather than just my ears. The game went well this time and when it was over I made my way to my bed to toss and turn.