Tuesday Thoughts 02
It's a quiet day at work today; I don't know if it's actually quiet or if I'm projecting that feeling because of how tired I feel. In short: I feel tired. We had a late night last night (as is the case with 9:30pm softball games), and didn't end up really sleeping until after midnight. In fact I think I'm going to be feeling tired all week until Friday. I've got:
- A 6pm double-header tonight (we play 2 x 1h15m games, so we won't be done until closer to 9pm)
- Wednesday: 6:30pm 1hr personal training session at the gym followed by a 9:45pm softball game
- Thursday: 9am in-person annual check-up with my neurologist1
I intended to take Thursday as a vacation day but I didn't realize I already had one of my employees off this entire week, so I'm going to do my best to fit some at-home work between when I get home from the appointment and when I need to take my wife to the airport in the evening. It's do-able, it's just a lot of rushing around. But I think this is the busiest week we have this month, I can muddle through it.
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I also feel like this will be a "low output" week for me in terms of blogging. ...I say, as I type out a blog. I have some blog posts saved that I want to reply to, but I don't think I have the mental capacity to give them the attention I think they deserve. Maybe at the end of the week, when I plan to carve out some writing time for "offline" projects (epilepsy essay).
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It's funny how tiny inconveniences blow themselves up to bigger problems. I didn't realize it until just now, but one of the reasons I don't have that "writing" feeling is because I broke my walkman yesterday; I was trying to adjust the playback speed (because Dave Grohl's voice is not supposed to be that high) and ended up pushing too hard, and broke the speed adjustment pot. Now the walkman plays at chipmunk speed and I can't fix it. Hopefully I can source a replacement part and get an electronics repair shop to solder it on for me - it's in otherwise great shape!
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Days like this are especially tough for me to be in the office. Even worse, I have a one-on-one conversation scheduled with one of my employees (in about 24 minutes as I type this). I have a list of topics to talk about but my heart really isn't in it, so I'm going to have to fake it. These are merely formalities - the topics I have on my list are things we talk about all the time in informal settings anyway; it's just a checkbox item for HR purposes.
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Trying a different "section break" symbol (rather, set of symbols) for this 'Thoughts' post. I usually use ¶ (¶ in HTML) but thought I'd try something a little different. I found them from this list of symbols.
I think that's all my thoughts for this morning.
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