#382 - Back to Work, Back to Reality

The cherry and magnesium pills did their jobs last night.

I slept extremely well, even knowing that I had to get up for work. My phone started bingeing almost exactly at nine AM. I could just imagine all the early birds with their itchy fingers on the send button, desperate to say good morning.

I know that is just the cynicism of a night owl, but sometimes is really feels that way. Being a short week, I didn’t expect a peaceful week. The week might have one less workday in it, but our schedule doesn’t reflect that reality.

I was at my desk answering messages right away, and then when things slowed down; I went downstairs and made a tea and some Eggo waffles with maple syrup. I wanted something quick, because I knew the messages and requests would be coming in fast and furious today, which they did.

Even so, I was able to focus most of my attention on doing approvals, which was our priority today. We supervisors have become a bit of a bottleneck, and we needed to clear the deck. Luckily, we were all hands-on deck and were making excellent progress. Our goal for today was to get through half of the assigned approvals,so that tomorrow we could finish the remainder and then move onto the next show. We are attempting to make up some time that we lost at the beginning of the series.

At noon, Robyn and I went for our walk, but just around the neighbourhood today as I had a full schedule and not enough time. It was very hot and muggy, and I figured it was only going to get worse. The batteries for the thermostat hadn’t arrived yet, so I stole some from the TV remotes until the Amazon delivery arrived.

And a good thing too, because it was only getting warmer, and the upstairs area where I work felt swampy. The cool air started flowing, and I was nice and cool by the time my three o’clock meeting started.

Luckily, it wasn’t a meeting that I needed to prepare for and for the most part I could just listen in and wait to see if anyone had questions for my department. Which they didn’t, since we had gone over it all at the last meeting. At this particular meeting, the clients are there as well, and we get to ask them about anything we are unsure about. Usually, it ends up being animation questions and questions about character motivations and facial expressions. Nothing to do with the paint department.

I finished the rest of my day by doing approvals and I managed to get more than I was hoping to, putting me in a good spot to get all my approvals done by end of day tomorrow.

After work I headed to the bedroom to relax. Robyn left for school and wouldn’t be home until after eight PM. I didn’t have any desire to cook, but I also had no idea what I wanted to eat. I searched through Uber Eats and initially gave up. But then I decided to order from a Mexican place I had never tried. They had this crunch wrap thing with Barbacoa, and I love me some Barbacoa.

I ordered their extreme fries as well which has some ground beef and white sauce on it. The crunchy wrap was okay, but the fries stole the show. They even smelled amazing and tasted even better. I’m not sure what spices they used on those fries, but I would definitely order them again.

I ate my dinner and watched some YouTube essays about Slow Horses and Gary Oldman’s portrayal of Jackson Lamb, which the video compared to George Smiley, a famous spy character from John Le Carre’s spy novels. I found it all fascinating of course.

I only ate half of the wrap thing and gave the rest to Robyn when she came back from school. I managed to catch her just before she put something less tasty into the microwave. I figured if I didn’t cook her a nice meal the least I could do is provide her with something tasty and ready to eat. And she was grateful to receive it.

Amazon arrived and dropped off my AAA batteries, which I swapped into the thermostat. We all are thankful for the cooling the AC is providing today.

We headed upstairs and watched John Oliver, followed by Seth Myers. It was still early,maybe nine thirty, and I didn’t want to end the day yet, so I put on an episode of Neagley to see if it would get any better. I didn’t think it improved after that hour, but I have watched much worse shows.

Tomorrow, I’ll have another episode of Slow Horse to watch and look forward too. At least I know that show will be good.

It would have been nice to end the evening listening to Dune, but I had to go down to the cave to write this and get some word quota racked up for the day. I was able to listen to the audiobook a little during the workday while I was approving and the messages had died down for a bit. But eventually, my headphones ran out of battery, and I had to charge them.

It gives me something to look forward to tomorrow at least.

Until then.