One Last Presentation for the Week

So the day after Tech Council is always usually quiet, and is always usually followed by the CCALAC HIT Roundtable where I'm usually just bringing in my knowledge shares and making myself feel good about being an IT Leader let's face it. But today that meeting isn't so run-of-the-mill either because I'm supposed to be making a presentation on Remote Work. And so I stayed up last night yet again readying the presentation for today and I had over 25 slides in fact. Not to worry though, these slides were made up of stuff I had already put together from yesterday's meeting and the meetings prior to that and so I was just basically doing somewhat of a show-and-tell. In fact, I actually spent last night catching up on sleep. So much so I logged more than 7 hours!! That's the most in more than a week! And I did feel more refreshed than usual when I got up this morning.  And it was on to the Thursday routine... Johnnie's computer class, then music, concurrent with my IS Team Meeting. And then all done by right around 10 AM. The HIT Meeting was at noon though and ran thru 2 PM and so I needed to make sure I had lunch the same time Johnnie did... which was early. Hey I still had my unstuffed cabbage leftovers don't I? Still the meeting went fine and my presentation went ok. I had a feeling it went over many heads as I do believe I have QueensCare in a more advanced position than many of my peers. That we can STAY working remote pretty much indefinitely is a testament to that I think. So yes I'll give myself a pat on the back. Again. And I'll let my ego have its day.

By 2 PM, I could breathe out a sigh of relief as that pretty much concludes the heavy work for the week. As in I think I'm pretty sure I'm going to do a TANK DAY tomorrow. And Greg has us booked for 9 holes in Monterey Park as a matter of fact. Eloisa moved a meeting we were supposed to have tomorrow to a couple of weeks from then which clinched my golf game. Of course the focus now shifted to Johnnie and how to keep him occupied for the rest of the evening until Lisa picks him up. At least he had that computer programming class in the middle of the afternoon but that only lasts until 4 PM. He is now aware that tonight is hand-off night and that his mommy is coming to get him later. And so I tried to keep him focused on his Jurassic World videos and drawing to his heart's content. I realize that I am at the end of my patience on Thursdays usually and what I find myself thinking is about how I can minimize yelling at Johnnie for him being the hyper-active, precocious, game-playing child that he is. I mean do I really want him any different? This is starting to cement itself as who he is and that should be just fine. However he also needs to become aware that not everything is a game. And so I need to teach him self-awareness, impulse control, and empathy. Am I up to the task? I better be. Tonight was another night of Panda Express and I even ate orange chicken with him for dinner. And then at 5 PM I get a text from Lisa. She was home already and relaxing and needed to take a nap. And so she wouldn't be picking up Johnnie tonight obviously. I'm going to be bringing him at 7:30. Never the same way each and every Thursday is it? Of course I am NOT complaining. After all it wasn't that long ago we would have to rush to Cornerstone Music where Lisa would have violin lessons and that would be where we did our hand-off. I'm not going to comment now about how strange that sounds.  Tonight, the hand-off was uneventful. Johnnie collected his stack of pictures and Lisa was upstairs in bed and on the phone. And I went on home. For all intents and purposes the work week was done. Whoo-weee!