I am a sprinter at heart. I started out that way when i was a lot younger, but now I'm that way with work too it would seem. That means I tend to procrastinate and then for little pockets of time, I put my head down and sprint sprint sprint and get a bulk of stuff done. That was what I did this week. Of course sprinting means you can only go so far until you tire out and have to stop. Today I'm at that stopping point. And on Thursday Johnnie is at his highest energy because (a)it's Fuzzy's birthday today (2) he already knows he's going back to his mom's tonight. We woke up to a shower the both of us since we didn't take one last night before bed. And I felt sufficiently refreshed to head out, get breakfast, and then do my 9 AM meeting with my team. Not much to talk about really but I do have a lot to do. They're all mostly administrative but I was thinking to myself, if I were at the office I'd be just as procrastinating. It's just a little easier to veer off that way because Johnnie is in the house. And he is in full "science mode" this morning too. I introduced him to Newton's Third Law earlier in the week and as you can see from the video, he can confidently recite what it is by now and has even related it to practical applications. And so it was easy to simply leave him alone while he got busy with his build projects in the living room while I worked in the bedroom. As i said though, I had no sprint energy left and so I just picked and pecked and did what I could in small bursts of work. I did notice I had plenty of energy to make Johnnie lunch <he requested udon today> and of course I had to make lunch for myself too. And I barbecued that Italian sausage that we seemed to have stopped doing on Tuesday nights. Fine with me... I was happy to have it for lunch today with a little bit of penne pasta. It would have been great to have a nap after lunch too, but Johnnie commanded too much attention. By the afternoon I had gotten an email back from AT&T actually. It would seem that they DID miss a bunch of payments we had made this year and I spent a good half hour tracking it down with Finance. That I was able to provide them copies of the cashed checks as they requested on the same day is a testament that (a) we really could do business remotely... I mean after all those check copies were unscanned and somewhere in a file room at the FRB. But i got the digital copies anyway didn't I? (b) and that I was at least doing something productive today. If this goes through, this means that I would get a very favorable outcome regarding this whole situation and I immediately felt SO MUCH BETTER about it... after actually bad-mouthing AT&T this morning. Just goes to show... you have to be patient. A recurring theme it would seem LOL. Still I was pretty satisfied that I did work today, even though I didn't actually get to those work items I wanted to get to. Those will have to wait... there is still tomorrow. By 4 PM I had checked out mentally. Johnnie was still watching Octonauts and was still in full science mode. Now he wanted to build a wrecking ball experiment with a cup (see picture) and of course I was going to help him do this. He was so engrossed with this that he didn't want to go out to get dinner. But his choice was still McNuggets so out we went for a little while just to get his dinner. For my dinner we went to Ralphs to get me a chicken breast and I made chicken marsala with it. Easy enough to get the sauce and it was something I hadn't eaten in a while. By 7:30 PM I wasn't going to wait for Lisa. I even got Johnnie to help me clean the living room. As in literally he helped me vacuum and squirt clean the floor. I had it in my head that I was going to clean my apartment this weekend... well this gives me a pretty good headstart. I dropped him off at Lisa's by 7:45, got a rundown on the upcoming weekend and then headed home and finished cleaning the living room. I had momentum now. Didn't even watch anything on TV. This is how you get things done. By not doing that which distracts you. I went to bed tired. But I felt like I got a lot accomplished. And it felt really good.
I am a sprinter at heart. I started out that way when i was a lot younger, but now I'm that way with work too it would seem. That means I tend to procrastinate and then for little pockets of time, I put my head down and sprint sprint sprint and get a bulk of stuff done. That was what I did this week. Of course sprinting means you can only go so far until you tire out and have to stop. Today I'm at that stopping point. And on Thursday Johnnie is at his highest energy because (a)it's Fuzzy's birthday today (2) he already knows he's going back to his mom's tonight. We woke up to a shower the both of us since we didn't take one last night before bed. And I felt sufficiently refreshed to head out, get breakfast, and then do my 9 AM meeting with my team. Not much to talk about really but I do have a lot to do. They're all mostly administrative but I was thinking to myself, if I were at the office I'd be just as procrastinating. It's just a little easier to veer off that way because Johnnie is in the house. And he is in full "science mode" this morning too. I introduced him to Newton's Third Law earlier in the week and as you can see from the video, he can confidently recite what it is by now and has even related it to practical applications. And so it was easy to simply leave him alone while he got busy with his build projects in the living room while I worked in the bedroom. As i said though, I had no sprint energy left and so I just picked and pecked and did what I could in small bursts of work. I did notice I had plenty of energy to make Johnnie lunch <he requested udon today> and of course I had to make lunch for myself too. And I barbecued that Italian sausage that we seemed to have stopped doing on Tuesday nights. Fine with me... I was happy to have it for lunch today with a little bit of penne pasta. It would have been great to have a nap after lunch too, but Johnnie commanded too much attention. By the afternoon I had gotten an email back from AT&T actually. It would seem that they DID miss a bunch of payments we had made this year and I spent a good half hour tracking it down with Finance. That I was able to provide them copies of the cashed checks as they requested on the same day is a testament that (a) we really could do business remotely... I mean after all those check copies were unscanned and somewhere in a file room at the FRB. But i got the digital copies anyway didn't I? (b) and that I was at least doing something productive today. If this goes through, this means that I would get a very favorable outcome regarding this whole situation and I immediately felt SO MUCH BETTER about it... after actually bad-mouthing AT&T this morning. Just goes to show... you have to be patient. A recurring theme it would seem LOL. Still I was pretty satisfied that I did work today, even though I didn't actually get to those work items I wanted to get to. Those will have to wait... there is still tomorrow. By 4 PM I had checked out mentally. Johnnie was still watching Octonauts and was still in full science mode. Now he wanted to build a wrecking ball experiment with a cup (see picture) and of course I was going to help him do this. He was so engrossed with this that he didn't want to go out to get dinner. But his choice was still McNuggets so out we went for a little while just to get his dinner. For my dinner we went to Ralphs to get me a chicken breast and I made chicken marsala with it. Easy enough to get the sauce and it was something I hadn't eaten in a while. By 7:30 PM I wasn't going to wait for Lisa. I even got Johnnie to help me clean the living room. As in literally he helped me vacuum and squirt clean the floor. I had it in my head that I was going to clean my apartment this weekend... well this gives me a pretty good headstart. I dropped him off at Lisa's by 7:45, got a rundown on the upcoming weekend and then headed home and finished cleaning the living room. I had momentum now. Didn't even watch anything on TV. This is how you get things done. By not doing that which distracts you. I went to bed tired. But I felt like I got a lot accomplished. And it felt really good.
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