End of Remote Work Week TWO

So today is Friday but it isn't the lollygagging Friday that it would normally be as recently as a few weeks ago. Instead of taking my time driving in to work, I'm already checking emails and TEAMS at 8 AM in the morning. AND taking a walk outside as well. It's funny how we all may be social distancing and staying at home but there sure are a heck of a lot of people out and about and walking around all day. Hey we all have to get our exercise in don't we? In the meantime, it's busy-busy-busy at QueensCare. Tents are going up in the parking lots, we're gearing up for telehealth as early as Tuesday and my team of course is involved. If it isn't making sure they have internet connectivity at the parking lots, it's running around scrounging headsets so providers can have their telehealth sessions. Sounds funny? Try getting 30 headsets when you can only purchase 5 at a time. And if you can't get them delivered next week. Solution? Gotta send my team to the stores and get them in person. This weekend. Smh. Fortunately, the team is ok with all that. I'm sure some of them are aching to go out and about anyway. I reminded them to be SAFE. In the meantime here I am sitting on my couch sharing my remote work experiences at QueensCare at the CCALAC HIT Roundtable. A few people on the call commented at how comfortable I looked sitting on the couch.  All while eating my Burger King Impossible whopper and also while Mike the apartment fix-it guy is installing my brand new washer/dryer. Awesome! I can finally do my own laundry again. And fixed my blinds in the living room as well (it was stuck and I couldn't open it). I was so excited I did a load of laundry just to try it out and figure out how to work the thing.  Just another day at work at home. By the 4 PM huddle, I really had nothing report other than everything was under control and we're good to go with all the initiatives going on. I have other stuff to work on too but I am in priorities-mode. And I had no intention of working past 5 PM. Not today. It's Friday. Working UNTIL 5 PM is already far longer than I work on a normal Friday. And so when Dr Liao closed the meeting with... can the C's stay on for a bit, it was like C'YA GOTTA GO for me. I logged out and thus ended the work week. Remote work week TWO in the books.

As soon as I completed the work day I headed out to Trader Joe's to do replenishment of my supplies. Not that I don't have any food in the house but the new reality now is not to wait until everything is done simply because some items may be available or not available simply due to timing. Toilet paper for example is only available for the first 36 customers first thing in the morning. I wanted to get penne pasta. There wasn't any. Plenty of spaghetti. Not penne. And there was no cookie dough for Tuesday night chocolate chip cookie night! Oh NO!!! and OBTW, I posted a pic of the new social distancing guidelines before you can even make it INSIDE Trader Joe's. 6 ft. 6 ft. 6 ft. Sign of the times for now. So not only was I able to make a pit stop at Trader Joe's, but I also got in to Mitsuwa to get some yakisoba noodles. Very VERY important. So I'm fully stocked again, at least for the following week.  And with that I went home and pretty much just crashed on the couch for the rest of the evening. I had done 11,000+ steps by the time I got home and so it was time for Netflix night. It's funny that I have all these new movies but haven't watched them just yet. Instead I ended up watching Shaolin. Yep, an older martial arts based movie made a while back. It's a redemption story and so aren't we all suckers for redemption stories? Ok Ok I did watch a few learning videos too, one from Aaron Abke and I also discovered another new "mentor" or "teacher" via another YouTube site from someone teaching manifestation techniques. I realize that the path I chose was to work from the inside out, instead of doing all the manifestation jiu-jitsu hacks to create "stuff". It's ok though... I am hoping to get a lot of learning in this weekend even as I spend time with Johnnie, which means I have to spend time with Lisa too as an extension of that. And that's ok. It's the new normal. Hmmm?