I gave up and slept at 7:30pm. I just couldn’t keep myself up any later.
But to my body that was the wee hours, not an afternoon nap. So at 4:17am I am awake again. Initially confused and then able to locate myself in time and space: I’m home.
And I’m up too early, for where I am. Try to go back to sleep for a while.
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Zzzz
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7:30. Alarm. Nope.
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7:49. Ok maybe I’ll move. Anyway, coffee would be a good idea.
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8:00. Log on at work
8:05. Actually get logged on.
8:06. Reach out to the local client with an issue on Friday, to see if she still needs help.
8:10. Try to trouble shoot the Asia issue that came in over the long weekend.
8:44. Can’t fix the Asia issue from here, but send them tips of stuff to try that might help.
9:05. Check in with the boss on every thing that came in. Start to fix the thing he broke.
9:45. Get thoroughly confused about what is happening here with the thing he broke, and have to reconfirm with the boss on what I’m looking at. Go back to fixing.
10:00. Team meeting to divvy our projects.
1:00. Realize food might be good. Microwave some Lean Cuisine pad thai.
1:05. Beep beep beep food. Taste & add sriracha. Mix well.
1:10. Realize there’s egg in the pad thai. Spend time fishing the bigger pieces out because otherwise (vomit).
1:44. Done fixing the thing for my boss.
1:45. Have a 10-minute WebEx with the client from 8:06 and get her squared away.
1:55. Send the simple email to the people with the questions that we keep explaining that a different team has to answer.
2:00. Check over the thing that the team did exactly right in my absence but felt better if I looked at it.
2:05. Start drafting the email to explain the big hairy complicated thing that came in while I was out.
3:20. Dang that was a loooong email. Send to my team to make sure it makes sense.
3:22. Follow up 2 other issues that came in.
4:20. Review the content for tomorrow’s morning meeting. Also my boss confirms the 3:20 email is perfect (his word).
4:47. Touch base with my teammate about a different hairy mess they got while I was out.
4:50. Start tinkering solutions for the 4:47 issue.
4:51. Realize I’m missing incoming prayer requests. Pause to pray for them.
4:57. Start programming options for the 4:47 item. Multiple false starts ensue as I work through the nuances.
5:24. Pause to webex a solution for a friend’s Excel question.
5:27. Go back to programming.
6:30. Realize it’s crazy late and I should be “done” for the day.
6:44. No really. Be. Done.
7:30. For the love of all that’s holy… Get off the computer and go have dinner. Or go to bed. Or something!
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Ok so. Yeah. I’m totally back.
And having had dinner and watched a little TV and taken a little cold meds I think I will just…
Zzzzzzzzz
