Back To Work

One thing I can say about this past 3-day weekend was that I did not once think about any work stuff. That's good right? Except that now, I am back to work and I'm starting to stress about all the stuff I DIDN'T get to. I can make a list of them here but instead, I did manage to quiet my mind down this morning and do some pretty well focused meditation. After all, I reminded myself that the reason I'm stressed is because of a fear of loss of some kind. Loss of my job, loss of security, when instead I should be focusing on providing massive value regardless. I am GOOD at what I do and I need to anchor on that and just flick off all these tasks like I've been doing forever.  I posted a pic of the Monday morning Huddle if not just to remind myself that I am back at work. Hard to distinguish, now that I don't go in to the office actually. I got my meditation down and did those Nitric Oxide exercises for the first time in a while.  I reminded myself to do that since my resting heart rate is back up to 73 today, which is an indicator that something is elevating it. I enjoyed being below 70s for a couple of months. But now it seems like I'm stuck back at 70-71 and even going beyond that. It started doing that when I got those muscle aches in my legs. But then again I also started today with about a 20-minute aerobic exercise routine too. Gonna knock off 11,100 steps today easy. As it was, the Huddle took longer than usual, but still got done by 11:30. I had nothing to update actually, but I was thinking that with the coronavirus cases spiking all over again here in LA, which is probably a good indicator that we dropped our guard too soon or opened up places too soon, that pushes as out yet another few months before we even BEGIN to think of coming back to the office. THIS is the normal now and will continue to be for a bit.

For lunch I tried to replicate one of my favorites from Crimson, where I hadn't eaten since stay-at-home started mid-March. I grilled some salmon and put that over white rice and lentil soup. Mmmm. My version was not bad at all to tell you the truth. Perhaps even better than Crimson's LOL. Later on I took a walk to Ralphs to pick up some side dishes. Macaroni salad and not much else. REally I just wanted to walk outside. It had gotten hot again. Not blazing hot, but summer hot. Just as it is supposed to be in early July. On the walk I was recalling a year ago this time. The Clippers had just gotten Kawhi Leonard stiffing the Lakers. At QueensCare, it was Victor's last week and my team was scrambling to transition stuff and I was working with HR to get him replaced. A year later and I have to say I think it fair to say he isn't missed that much, which is a pretty big surprise to me, and maybe a testament to the job myself and my team are doing. And a year later we're just basically settling in from the urgencies of the last couple of months and we did just fine. Got a lot of timemarkers coming up too, but I'll remember them when they come up. Tonight, it's just Monday night waiting to pick up Johnnie after 5:30. I was actually doing a Paycom mandated test on infectious material handling when Lisa called. Johnnie knew it was time to go to dad's. And I came by to pick him up and his scooter. He had had a pretty good weekend at the Elams. But even Lisa had mentioned this was pretty much as much as she could handle. No control when you go over there you know LOL LOL. Still Johnnie and i took off to start our week together and of course it had to start with McNuggets for dinner for Johnnie didn't it. Except that it wasn't enough. He ate almost 2 bowls full of the leftover penne pasta in chicken broth Lisa handed me when I picked him up.  It was a lot. Not anymore. Johnnie ate up most of it. And a good thing I had it too.  And of course he had to conclude the evening with his Octonauts. At least Lisa knew about them if not watching them on Netflix. I'm sure Johnnie missed watching them the last few days. And so as it was I didn't really attack work today with the urgency that I felt feeling like I was behind. I'll still get them all done somehow. I always do.