Muggy Monday

Great start time today. Eyes were open ahead of six and was up and running before half six. Breakfast started and ended early too. There was some guilt for no walking before work but I got a personal errand done before starting work at eight. Low turnout out for weekly meeting, we’ve officially entered vacation season apparently. As a result the call was relatively short which allowed me to join a stats call. This call was well, well, well above my head and has very little to do with my role but I was invited and I could continue my work on the side. The call was long and was more than just radio. It was an escape but also allowed me to learn a bit more about what tools they’re planning to use going forward. It’s high level stuff. There were some side conversations I got pulled into and I was able to schedule some meetings for August. It was a productive and interesting morning. Here is the customary Monday scorecard and you can see that I nailed it last week. I mean, the meals themselves are basically layups but I did them all. I probably have to consider raising the degree of difficulty on this project.

Lunch was a pretty basic affair. I bought some luncheon meat this week in preparation for some days out of the office and needing lunch on the fly. I recall my many years working the field when I just didn’t think about make lunches, preferring to fly from the seat of my pants. Now that I’m down to here and there field days I think ahead. I’ve got some smoked ham and sliced cheese rolled up in those wraps. The soup is potato and bacon from Campbell’s Chunky, just the soup you’d want on a hot, muggy summer’s day.

A portion of my Amazon order from last week arrived sooner than expected. It is a backpack/cap clip for the Chef’s GoPro3. I thought since he’d dusted the snowboarding helmet I’d try this as a mean to get a bird’s eye view of what I am working on. He didn’t seem to mind and for me it was only a ten spot to buy. I’ve got a part of an idea cooked up to try and this will be used in it. I have to do some testing to see what configuration works the best but I might have something to do on the long weekend, I’ll keep you up to speed.

I had a decent shaped meeting after lunch and that provided me with an action item to worry over. I tried to tackle it straight away, it’s for a meeting in a couple of weeks but I was asked to get it early. There are so many people on vacation right now that scheduling stuff is problematic. You have to be way out in front to account for changing schedules and availability. The rest of the afternoon was pretty quiet. The benefit of those people being out is a marked reduction in email traffic. I got my stuff done and realized it was half five so I powered down. I went to the main floor and it was a scorcher outside. I stepped out to water the plants and confirmed it. I decided to close the back blinds for the first time in six or seven years. It’s a less impressive view when you do this but it helps to keep the house cooler. I think I’m going to institute this daily around three in the afternoon to mitigate the sun’s influence on my home’s temperature.

With my less exciting view, a drained energy level, no direction at the moment from the meal board and a general malaise, I decided that I would just make something simple. I rammed four blueberry Eggos into the air fryer and warmed them up. I applied some butter and real maple syrup to my short stack before inhaling it. It was a dense but tasty meal that didn’t do much to fill me up. I sucked back a considerable amount of water along with this. It felt like a strange dinner.

There was something I was meaning to do in the evening but I couldn’t think what it was. After wandering around for a half hour, post dishes, I decided I didn’t know what I was supposed to do so I opted instead to do nothing. I did some reading, caught up on the news. Then it was nearly eight so I just focused on YouTube until it was time to go to sleep. Then I had the brainwave that I should mentally plan what I needed to pack for my adventure tomorrow. Eventually I passed out around half ten. Very mundane day.