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Wednesday I woke too early after sleeping too warm. I see the outside temperature just kissed 32°F as i was making tea; the skies are clear with Venus blazing away in the trees at magnitude -4 (which is very very bright as the larger the number the dimmer the star).
I played my first wordle Monday evening, and one again Tuesday morning, and then last night. I'm using the NYTimes version (no app required). I don't need one more entertainment that becomes a job, but it has been diverting
News from my sister is that B-- has broken up with her boyfriend and is moving in with my parents which is .... not shocking but also going to be interesting about boundary setting.
And i'm focused on planning a trip to Grandmámá's house as soon as she leaves to pack up and be Dad's eyes and hands. I was planning on staying in the house. Correspondence brought news that THREE of Grandmámá's husband's kids are coming, one of which is also staying in the house. I was disappointed and felt the stress in my body as i anticipate sharing space with people i don't know. After a phone call, it looks like they will be coming weeks after I do, so that makes everything much easier again.
I am having little bits of celebration here and there for my birthday, but mostly feel an acceleration of doing.
The "reopening-we-mean-it-this-time" has hit my company. The tone-deaf "my brand is leadership" CEO of the Whale -- who i think makes good decisions in general -- really really really failed in creating a communication to bring people back to the office part time. Then he had a follow up thing yesterday, where he dug the hole deeper. "I can't believe people don't think i care about your health and well beeeeeeeeing, look at all i've done," he whined. If he'd led with "here's every thing we've done to make the building safer" and "we've surveyed and find most of us have chosen vaccination so we're not going to ask" THEN led into the change that's coming, that would have been so much better. Instead he whined about people asking mean questions and accusing him and twisting his words around and, REDACTED man, get therapy or a good bartender. But you get paid the big bucks, so quit your whining and lead.
I'm focusing on that because the rhetoric is now back to forgetting that there are regional offices and people who work from home at a distance from the main office. My manager and his manager will support me if upper management starts "going after" US people who are not at the main office, i feel fairly comfortable about my job being secure. But it means a layer of bias that isn't really needed.
I'm signalling my willingness to travel to the main office and go to conferences, but it's not a willingness i'm excited about. I note that my sister's family has kids back in school with a school system dropping masks requirements soon (and both kids had COVID at Christmas, so there's that) and her husband is traveling for work. Christine says the restaurant at which we picked up food last night was packed. The grocery store still had mostly masked people there last night.
Fingers crossed i can get my nephew to help with garden fencing.
I played my first wordle Monday evening, and one again Tuesday morning, and then last night. I'm using the NYTimes version (no app required). I don't need one more entertainment that becomes a job, but it has been diverting
News from my sister is that B-- has broken up with her boyfriend and is moving in with my parents which is .... not shocking but also going to be interesting about boundary setting.
And i'm focused on planning a trip to Grandmámá's house as soon as she leaves to pack up and be Dad's eyes and hands. I was planning on staying in the house. Correspondence brought news that THREE of Grandmámá's husband's kids are coming, one of which is also staying in the house. I was disappointed and felt the stress in my body as i anticipate sharing space with people i don't know. After a phone call, it looks like they will be coming weeks after I do, so that makes everything much easier again.
I am having little bits of celebration here and there for my birthday, but mostly feel an acceleration of doing.
The "reopening-we-mean-it-this-time" has hit my company. The tone-deaf "my brand is leadership" CEO of the Whale -- who i think makes good decisions in general -- really really really failed in creating a communication to bring people back to the office part time. Then he had a follow up thing yesterday, where he dug the hole deeper. "I can't believe people don't think i care about your health and well beeeeeeeeing, look at all i've done," he whined. If he'd led with "here's every thing we've done to make the building safer" and "we've surveyed and find most of us have chosen vaccination so we're not going to ask" THEN led into the change that's coming, that would have been so much better. Instead he whined about people asking mean questions and accusing him and twisting his words around and, REDACTED man, get therapy or a good bartender. But you get paid the big bucks, so quit your whining and lead.
I'm focusing on that because the rhetoric is now back to forgetting that there are regional offices and people who work from home at a distance from the main office. My manager and his manager will support me if upper management starts "going after" US people who are not at the main office, i feel fairly comfortable about my job being secure. But it means a layer of bias that isn't really needed.
I'm signalling my willingness to travel to the main office and go to conferences, but it's not a willingness i'm excited about. I note that my sister's family has kids back in school with a school system dropping masks requirements soon (and both kids had COVID at Christmas, so there's that) and her husband is traveling for work. Christine says the restaurant at which we picked up food last night was packed. The grocery store still had mostly masked people there last night.
Fingers crossed i can get my nephew to help with garden fencing.
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