Working On A Friday
Why is it so hard to do a TANK day on a Friday when you're working from home? Maybe it's because you're in work mode pretty much all the time. You never know when you're going to get a chat or a text from one of the higher-ups at work. Especially those that are insomniacs LOL. Or maybe it's those higher-ups deciding to do an All-Staff meeting at 8:15 AM this morning, mostly because they did not want to lose visits today. Ironically, today would have been our Employee Celebration Day somewhere and I'm sure it would have been a lot of fun. Instead we get a rah-rah from Barbara, a progress report from Chad, a guidance memo from Dr Liao, and a bit of a lecture from Eloisa about watching our expenses. All very dry really but then again the staff feel that these things are productive because they at least get communicated to. Easy for me to brush it off since I get to hear from all 3 times a week already. Still, I do agree with Barbara that we've been more collaborative now that we've been all apart than ever before. And so it was that right after the meeting which ended before 9 AM that I tried to do my TANK FRIDAY. Not like I am at the office of course where I would have been in front of the internet all day long. But who's stopping me from doing it now? Actually I envisioned doing a little walk in the morning, having a nice lunch, doing that 1 PM HIT COVID meeting, then closing it out for the day. And for the weekend. Do I even need to participate in the 1 PM meeting after all? I remember last week I got chippy. No need for that. That was just all ego. After the meeting I made myself breakfast and then tried to do some meditation. But I found myself too tired to focus. Is there such a thing? Too tired to focus? What was clear was that I didn't get a good night's sleep last night and so there went the nice mediation, and there went the walk-around-the-neighborhood in the morning idea too. At least I did get some "reflections" done via YouTube. I saw this YouTube synopsis video on Reality Transurfing by Vadim Zeland. What struck me about this particular video was that it was done by this older gentleman from Israel. And his channel had about 2000 subscribers. I mean if he can do it, why can't I be doing the same thing to help others wake up? His stuff is geared towards those seeking a better reality. Same group I wish to reach right? Hmmm...
In any case, although I did get to do some internal work by watching a video, the 1 PM meeting pretty much took away the time I set aside to take an early afternoon nap. And maybe it was more so because I was still amped an hour after the meeting. I tell you it's that ego thing. Finally by 3 PM I headed out to Trader Joe's to get my Friday after-work shopping done. Hardly a line this time and I was in and out of there inside of a half hour. It's like we're all finally figuring out how to be efficient while keeping up social distancing and limits to the number of people that can be at any one place. It's a good thing too, since a lot of business re-opened today here in Cali. Golf courses have finally re-opened and if it weren't for the fact that this Sunday is Mother's Day, I would for sure be out there. But I contacted our group and it looks like we might be out playing by next Sunday. Anyway it was a good a thing I got back early because there was one more thing I needed to take care of for work. I had to ship a laptop to the CFO consultant Eloisa just hired. At least I was still able to demonstrate that I AM working though it was already close to 5 PM. The only time I would stay until 5 PM at the FRB was because I had nothing better to do and I wanted to get a personal pizza at Pizza Studio on 7th and Fig. Man do those times seem so long ago or what? Even when we go back to the FRB I doubt if that food court is going to be the way it was. How would you enforce social distancing? And so with that I get a call from Johnnie asking me to pick up Panda Express for him for dinner. That child has me wrapped around his little finger doesn't he? I was only all too glad to get it too. It was 6 PM when he called and by then I had eaten the last of my ground beef/lamb Moroccan style casserole over rice. And so I wasn't hungry anymore although Lisa insisted on preparing a Mediterranean wrap for me. And so it was that I would get to see Johnnie on a Friday night and he and I got some play time in together after dinner. I didn't care so much only because I had already made plans to come to breakfast tomorrow morning and to bring some brioche bread to make French toast. And of course Sunday IS Mother's Day. Seeing Johnnie tonight was simply a little icing on the cake. And so even though there was no TANK DAY Friday today, it was still a relatively stress-free eezy-peezy week. And we like that. We like that very much. And we will take it any time.
Why is it so hard to do a TANK day on a Friday when you're working from home? Maybe it's because you're in work mode pretty much all the time. You never know when you're going to get a chat or a text from one of the higher-ups at work. Especially those that are insomniacs LOL. Or maybe it's those higher-ups deciding to do an All-Staff meeting at 8:15 AM this morning, mostly because they did not want to lose visits today. Ironically, today would have been our Employee Celebration Day somewhere and I'm sure it would have been a lot of fun. Instead we get a rah-rah from Barbara, a progress report from Chad, a guidance memo from Dr Liao, and a bit of a lecture from Eloisa about watching our expenses. All very dry really but then again the staff feel that these things are productive because they at least get communicated to. Easy for me to brush it off since I get to hear from all 3 times a week already. Still, I do agree with Barbara that we've been more collaborative now that we've been all apart than ever before. And so it was that right after the meeting which ended before 9 AM that I tried to do my TANK FRIDAY. Not like I am at the office of course where I would have been in front of the internet all day long. But who's stopping me from doing it now? Actually I envisioned doing a little walk in the morning, having a nice lunch, doing that 1 PM HIT COVID meeting, then closing it out for the day. And for the weekend. Do I even need to participate in the 1 PM meeting after all? I remember last week I got chippy. No need for that. That was just all ego. After the meeting I made myself breakfast and then tried to do some meditation. But I found myself too tired to focus. Is there such a thing? Too tired to focus? What was clear was that I didn't get a good night's sleep last night and so there went the nice mediation, and there went the walk-around-the-neighborhood in the morning idea too. At least I did get some "reflections" done via YouTube. I saw this YouTube synopsis video on Reality Transurfing by Vadim Zeland. What struck me about this particular video was that it was done by this older gentleman from Israel. And his channel had about 2000 subscribers. I mean if he can do it, why can't I be doing the same thing to help others wake up? His stuff is geared towards those seeking a better reality. Same group I wish to reach right? Hmmm...
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