Another Tech Council Meeting

So today is Tech Council Meeting day but unlike those Wednesdays when I used to work in the office, I was oddly not too concerned about it. Maybe because I had a lot of material to cover today, so much so I don't think I'd be able to cover everything I put together in fact. Or maybe it's the fact that a couple of people aren't even going to be at the meeting, most notably Eloisa, Chad, and Alan. With a couple of chats in fact, Eloisa sort of gave me her walking orders for the meeting already. One was that I was to steer Maryam away from using EPIC for QFHP. The second was that I was supposed to take over all the cybersecurity insurance stuff from Alan. Great. Another administrative stuff I need to add to my list of responsibilities. But hey I didn't think what he did was such a big deal anyway didn't I?  Anyway when I used to work in the office I spent the morning of Tech Council Meetings basically augmenting my presentation and making sure I had enough stuff to talk about. Not today. I spent the morning pretty much making sure Johnnie did educational stuff actually. Had him spend time at the Khan Academy website, came up with a couple of exercises on my own, had him do a bunch of sigh word exercises. Look at the video I posted of him even trying to learn Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on a pano app on my iPad. I kept him occupied enough until lunchtime and then I flipped the switch to Tech Council mode. So sure of myself was I that I actually wasted a good 5 minutes doing banter at the beginning. Anyway to make a long meeting story short, I took 59 minutes from my meeting and I had a bunch of takeaways actually. One was that the cloud infrastructure was stable and that the utilization benchmarks looked good. And then I focused on the QFHP EPIC stuff only because Eloisa made a special point to mention it this morning. It really wasn't a good idea but I was trying to get Maryam to realize it with facts. And I allowed her to do some discovery on her own in my anything-is-possible personality. Today though I had to buckle down.  Unfortunately her fixation on an EHR for her operations made her focus on different facts, just on whether it can be done, not whether it should be done. But that would be my job wouldn't it? And after today's discussion, getting chimed in from Barbara sealed the deal and that she shouldn't be using it. Too much stuff to do to integrate that operation anyway. And so that was that and then I gave out homework for the rest of my presentation. BYOD policy. Fax numbers that need to get converted to Efax. Lots more stuff for me and my team to do LOL. 
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After the meeting was the usual breathe out and shortly after Johnnie and I could be found on our scooters riding around the neighborhood (see picture). He has really started to get confident on this thing. Yesterday he had it in his mind that he wasn't going to fall and he didn't. And today was more of the same and we went farther. We went to Mar Vista Park all the way to Whole Foods and then around the neighborhood again. We must have gone almost 3 miles actually. So much so that Johnnie worked up a sweat and he actually had started to get a little tired. Not tired enough to be his be-bopping self though. Look at the picture of him I took doing acrobatic stuff on a handrail at Panda Express Westwood. Yes it is Panda Express night after all. And we went almost just as soon as we got home from riding around the neighborhood. Today Dad and son had dinner together in the living room and I allowed him to watch Peep and Chirp actually, the cartoon story of a ducks in a pond. Not all that educational I know but very funny. Hey I had to let him watch a couple of hours of videos tonight. He behaved so well while I was doing my meeting, did all his lessons that I put in front of him, even the ones I made up on my own. Actually those took about a half hour of his attention actually and I am for sure going to keep doing those. I did find myself getting a little tired though. As in sleep tired. I didn't actually get a good night's sleep even though I went to bed at midnight. Or maybe BECAUSE I went to bed at midnight. There are still so many things on my mind and it is easy to see what causes the anxiety actually. I see that I have to intentional maintenance work on my thougts just like I would taking a shower to keep my body clean. I am still on auto-pilot way too much. And so it was that tonight Johnnie asked me to take a shower with him and I was happy to oblige. Daddy and son worked up a sweat after all. And i was thinking it would actually help me to go to sleep tonight. It turned out that for the first time in a while, I actually fell asleep before 10 PM. I know this because just as soon as Johnnie handed me the iPad after watching Bert and Ernie, I closed my eyes and I was off. That is very very good.