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Lessee, i "posted" last on Thursday morning.
I have lots of work to do: end of month reports and beginning of a new fiscal year and beginning of a new iteration. However, there's the usual out of the blue stuff, which should not be out of the blue if it's usual?
Thursday was intense with a long meeting with the least integrated Project team members sharing their work: i hope it was not painful and that it moves a step towards more integration. (See my anxieties on Wednesday.) In the afternoon, i led the discussion about our commitments for the quarter and then for the next three week development cycle. I have yet to transcribe the photo of the white board into task records in the tracking database (JIRA). Then long conversations with the guy working on the Product. I leave for home late, there's a fender-bender (only blocking one lane instead of three, like on Tuesday), and i walk with Christine (feeling the asthma in my chest).
Nothing but an eight am phone call on my calendar for Friday: i should be able to get those reports done.
( What came out-of-the-blue on Friday? A day's worth of work. )So, at 6 pm on Friday, i've not done the work for the day. I'm wiped. I turn to genealogy to refresh myself and end up working on it too late into the evening.
Saturday morning, i pick up the genealogy again. What seems so rewarding to my mind is a combination of the research and the relational database backed software to which i am switching. But reward an analysis circuit in my mind much like a tetris game, fitting data together in neat ways, with a continuous learn and reward curve. The element of repetition (what might seem tedious in the data entry) allows applying what has just been learned and provides the sense of reward: yes that is better, faster, more elegant than what i had been doing the day before.
The data import to the new software may have caused some problems, or perhaps those problems always existed: i've run some reports, and see places i need to go clean up details. Some other time.
( A digression into health details leads to the conclusion that ) I am either sick or having some sort of immune system flare. I'm not sure what the distinction is (guilt for not managing my immune system?), but my energy levels on Saturday were quite low.
I stayed distracted and Christine slept -- she's had back pain all week and a low grade depression -- until far too late in the morning. Breakfast at Hobee's was actually lunch, and on return home i ended up napping for some hours. I did work in the afternoon, but the monthly report with the milestones for the coming year (Project) and months (Product) are not complete, the task entries for the iteration remain unstarted. In the evening we did not go see "Knight and Day," which looks like amusing fluff, but stayed home to watch the Netflix movie "Blood Work," Clint Eastwood
Today's Meeting for worship is followed by Meeting for Business. Last Sunday i was drained by worship. The Meeting for Business seems likely to be intense this week as well. I weigh my commitments, to myself, to work, to the Friends community. Staying home, worshiping with Christine by sitting together for perhaps a shorter time, and working on those outstanding tasks seem to be the lowest drain on my energy and most likely to lead to peace of mind. I will miss the community time, but i don't think it's the tonic i need.
So, there's a little plan. I need to commit to myself: i am taking Friday off as vacation, possibly Thursday as well.
Christine woke this morning in a good mood, and then suddenly crashed again. Maybe we can find some joy today, as well. We have been enjoying the deck, our walks together, and the cats' affection.
In bad-good news, we realized food was spoiling not because our grocery's quality was going downhill, but because the fridge was set too warm. Fiddlesticks.
I have lots of work to do: end of month reports and beginning of a new fiscal year and beginning of a new iteration. However, there's the usual out of the blue stuff, which should not be out of the blue if it's usual?
Thursday was intense with a long meeting with the least integrated Project team members sharing their work: i hope it was not painful and that it moves a step towards more integration. (See my anxieties on Wednesday.) In the afternoon, i led the discussion about our commitments for the quarter and then for the next three week development cycle. I have yet to transcribe the photo of the white board into task records in the tracking database (JIRA). Then long conversations with the guy working on the Product. I leave for home late, there's a fender-bender (only blocking one lane instead of three, like on Tuesday), and i walk with Christine (feeling the asthma in my chest).
Nothing but an eight am phone call on my calendar for Friday: i should be able to get those reports done.
( What came out-of-the-blue on Friday? A day's worth of work. )So, at 6 pm on Friday, i've not done the work for the day. I'm wiped. I turn to genealogy to refresh myself and end up working on it too late into the evening.
Saturday morning, i pick up the genealogy again. What seems so rewarding to my mind is a combination of the research and the relational database backed software to which i am switching. But reward an analysis circuit in my mind much like a tetris game, fitting data together in neat ways, with a continuous learn and reward curve. The element of repetition (what might seem tedious in the data entry) allows applying what has just been learned and provides the sense of reward: yes that is better, faster, more elegant than what i had been doing the day before.
The data import to the new software may have caused some problems, or perhaps those problems always existed: i've run some reports, and see places i need to go clean up details. Some other time.
( A digression into health details leads to the conclusion that ) I am either sick or having some sort of immune system flare. I'm not sure what the distinction is (guilt for not managing my immune system?), but my energy levels on Saturday were quite low.
I stayed distracted and Christine slept -- she's had back pain all week and a low grade depression -- until far too late in the morning. Breakfast at Hobee's was actually lunch, and on return home i ended up napping for some hours. I did work in the afternoon, but the monthly report with the milestones for the coming year (Project) and months (Product) are not complete, the task entries for the iteration remain unstarted. In the evening we did not go see "Knight and Day," which looks like amusing fluff, but stayed home to watch the Netflix movie "Blood Work," Clint Eastwood
Today's Meeting for worship is followed by Meeting for Business. Last Sunday i was drained by worship. The Meeting for Business seems likely to be intense this week as well. I weigh my commitments, to myself, to work, to the Friends community. Staying home, worshiping with Christine by sitting together for perhaps a shorter time, and working on those outstanding tasks seem to be the lowest drain on my energy and most likely to lead to peace of mind. I will miss the community time, but i don't think it's the tonic i need.
So, there's a little plan. I need to commit to myself: i am taking Friday off as vacation, possibly Thursday as well.
Christine woke this morning in a good mood, and then suddenly crashed again. Maybe we can find some joy today, as well. We have been enjoying the deck, our walks together, and the cats' affection.
In bad-good news, we realized food was spoiling not because our grocery's quality was going downhill, but because the fridge was set too warm. Fiddlesticks.