Busy Busy Busy

So today Lisa and I made that deal that she's picking up Johnnie after breakfast, which was 8:30 AM and she would watch him for the day. We did that last week because I simply needed to focus on work for that day and since Lisa isn't working anymore, she wanted to take advantage of being able to hang out with Johnnie more. It was a win-win. And so we thought we'd try it again today. Frankly I should have done it yesterday considering how busy I ended up being and how much I ended up having to leave Johnnie alone, especially in the afternoon. All that, however, got upended with a phone call. Lisa called at 7:30AM. Now she has a head cold and she felt she needed not only to stay home but also to self-quarantine for at least the day. In this time of coronavirus...OF COURSE that woud be the prudent thing to do. And so I ended up with Johnnie for the whole day again today. Same routine as yesterday. Breakfast with Peep and Chirp and then off to his lessons, which he usually finishes in about an hour. In the meantime I had a meeting with my team mid-morning and it got contentious. It got that way because of me I'm not going to lie. We talked about deploying software to change the homepage of the remote work folks because we wanted to make sure they could get to the new Intranet page. Of course being remote, we now have no way of pushing out group policies if they weren't on our network. And so yesterday I thought I'd give homework to my team of finding a way to push out redirection changes to the home page of each browser via script and local admin.  It was already too much to ask a couple of weeks ago. I knew this was going to happen. It's too much to ask now I suppose. I mean my guys aren't scripting experts. However, I do lose it when I get the whiff that they aren't willing to try new things. I already feel they stick too much to old ways. The only thing you can be certain with technology is how fast it changes and evolves. Learning something new is built in to your job function as an IT professional. I feel like my team gets stuck too much on the status quo while I am a tinkerer and experimenter. Anyway I hope I wasn't too hard on them the way I can tend to be. No need to be an asshole. Not now. Anyway things were moving pretty quickly in the clinics. Tents are going to be going up by Friday or Monday at the latest. Something about a surge we're supposed to be expecting. Tents will be needed to triage. And then we're pushing out Telehealth to our patients by Tuesday. Boy, very much pie-in-the-sky 6 months ago, now it's a must-do. The challenge there was that I now have to find 30 headsets for the providers to use and now electronic items which I'm used to getting in 48 hours now have weeks of leadtime. Not only is supply short because EVERYONE and their mother is now a telecommuter, but there are not as many delivery people. I guess they're being refocused on delivering essential items. Anyway I'm sure i"m going to find solutions for all these, but some may take more time than I like. Still I was fully aware that this morning my vibration was not so high. And it didn't really improve in the afternoon. Here I am in the middle of that late afternoon huddle and it just looked like Barbara our CEO was just trying to keep herself busy and involved. But really all the things she was making suggestions on were already being handled through normal workflows and processes. In other words, we were humming along. And she involving herself just felt very unnecessary, and very micro-managing like. It was downright annoying actually. Let people do their jobs I say. When that meeting got done I was logged out of Zoom within seconds and off to get our dinner from Panda Express. Except... Johnnie had knocked off in the middle of my phone call. I guess I had tired him out. And he was complaining about some dull headache. I had to go anyway since I already placed the online order. It IS Wednesday night after all. By the time we got back after picking up the order in Westwood, he had fully wakened up and he was ready to eat his chicken teriyaki. And he was ready for more play and he was ready for more videos. I worried that he was having a headache from watching too many videos. But I don't think that's the case at all. In fact, he mentioned feeling better after he ate dinner.  And THEN we went back to watching the Magic School Bus. He gets into these preferential moods with these videos. We did have fun with his science activity, which was to make a toy wrecking ball and the use of FORCE. He really liked knockng down paper cups. Shocking I know. Anyway it was another early night tonight. I had logged in more than 7 hours of sleep last night. Looking for pretty much the same tonight.