Wednesday Thoughts 03
It's an extremely busy work day for me, so I'm taking a break to hash out some thoughts floating around in my head. Actually, that's one of the things that's on my mind today.
I took the day off yesterday - just one day - and came back to a flurry of activity. So many things happened yesterday, apparently, that I spent about an hour catching up on everything. It's to the point where it feels punishing to take a vacation day. What I came back to this morning feels like what I should be coming back to after a long weekend plus a vacation day - which happened at the beginning of October. I was travelling September 30th & October 1st, and when I came back to work on Wednesday October 2nd, I had a lot to catch up on. Technically that's only off one day, but there's always an extra days' work on long weekends for us. So it makes sense to me that I came back to a lot of work.
But one day? Why is it fair that I have to do so much work leading up to the vacation day, and then have things piled on when I get back? What's the point of taking the day?
Oh, and I have another day off coming up on Monday...
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On glasses.
My wife and I picked out new glasses on the weekend. We're very excited about them - but the thing that bugs me the most is that there is this waiting period between when you pick out & purchase the glasses and when you actually receive them. Will we still like them when we get them in a week or two? (I'm pretty sure we will.)
Glasses are an especially tough thing to pick out though. They are prosthetic devices but function more as fashion than aiding us in seeing. And then you're tied to them for at least two years because they're so expensive. Even though our health insurance coverage brings the cost down significantly, it wouldn't make sense to get a new pair because the next pair wouldn't be covered.
I mean, we paid $1200+ for two pairs and we're probably getting back most of it by coordinating benefit plans; but we'd have to pay all of that if we decided we wanted something new. And we're not allowed to claim a new pair of glasses for two years. So there's a lot of pressure in picking out glasses.
But I think we both made the right choices.
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I wrote about suspense files yesterday, and I decided I needed to create one for work. This morning I set up a tidy little todo.txt and I only have two follow-up lines at the moment. That's actually really good. Had I started it earlier I probably would have had three, but the thing I was waiting on was resolved before I created the file.
But I have one particular white whale sitting on the file. I decided to follow Cory Doctorow's format by adding the date you first added it, and then adding each date you follow-up on it. By doing this I got frustrated all over again by something I'm waiting for. Here are the date lines I entered:
1/29/24 2/6/24 3/25/24 4/26/24 5/16/24 6/6/24 8/28/24
It's a little hard to parse in plain text but basically I have been following up on this one thing since January and it's still not resolved. I will probably follow up on it today so in your heads, add 10/30/24 to the list.
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