Thank you, past me

I got up early, like I had hoped to. 

Last night I couldn't sleep and woke up at 3am. I went into the guest room and opened the window. It was about 20 degrees cooler out there than in my house. The joy of the cold air, and the snuggly dog, helped me fall back asleep nicely. I woke up at 6, and thought I'd just be up for the day but ... no. Got back in bed. 

Geoff was in the kitchen at 7:15, making a pot of coffee and feeding the dog. Knowing I wanted to get work done early, I determined it was time to be up. Oh wow, was it pouring out. One of the nice things about this house is the roof overhang. If there's no wind, the rain does not come in the open windows. 

I shuffled around, did my blood sugar, took the morning meds, shuffled into the kitchen and realized I had to load the dishwasher. I usually load it before bed, but last night (and tonight) too tired to do it. Rather do it in the morning. Early as it was. 

Toffee came in after going out - I was surprised she even went because of the rain, and she hates going out when things are wet. I guess she really had to go! I dried her off, settled down on the couch with my extra large mug, and snuggled her. The sound of the dishwasher and nothing else but her snoring was very relaxing. 

Held off on picking up my laptop. As the saying goes "But first, coffee." In this case ... But first, Toffee. Around 7:30am I got to working, checking my emails, I'm logging into the help desk so I can go edit that help document that needs attention. My colleague slacked me. 

"I think we have a problem. I don't even know what to do with this one."

Lord. This is why we can't have nice things, friend. 

I read the helpdesk ticket, he and I chatted back and forth. I took it to the dev channel, wrote up the problem, showed examples, and asked if someone could troubleshoot/triage/oh god please fix this. 

It was figured out relatively quickly, and another team was responsible for the situation. They jumped in, figured out what they did, and fixed it. 

All before noon. 

I was impressed. Usually with some of our products, things break, folks dig in, and then if there can't be a "hot fix" to the problem, it can be days. 

Thank Goodness. 

Then all my meetings started. Noon, 1:30, 2, 3pm. I had my weekly check in with my manager and he mentioned a meeting next Thursday about a thing. I said I was super psyched for it to happen. He said "well, you're off that day."

I... am?

I looked at my Outlook calendar and sure enough, I took off Thursday and Friday next week. Not just Friday for when we travel. 

Thanks, past me, for thinking to take that day off! I figure we have to be at the airport by 6am, I think, so I wanted to be 100000% all set Thursday and didn't want to have to think about packing during the workday. 

I never did edit the help document. I'll ... do it tomorrow? I have to do it before someone reads it and submits a ticket saying "this is all wrong." 

After my check in, I told my manager I was going to go to the market and the gym, and be back online to finish things up. There is a sweet spot timing-wise to get to the gym and that is no later than 4:30pm. Did it, no one was there, had a good time doing the treadmill and didn't get bored until about 25 min. in, and made myself go to 30. 

Got everything I needed for dinner tonight and tomorrow and headed home. Geoff cooked dinner so I could do the last check-ins with email and tickets. 

Then hockey. 

What am I going to do when hockey is over? 

Well, off to bed. Maybe up early tomorrow. Maybe not. Maybe back to the gym again tomorrow. Get back on my bullshit, as the kids say. 

No picture. Digits below! 

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours.  Treadmill walk/jog 30min/1.6 miles; 10k+steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

7:30am: 133
5:30pm: 135
10:30pm: 118

food:
7:30am: phentermine
9:30am: met+glip
11am: english muffin w/pb and low sugar preserves
5:30pm: met+glip
6:30pm: bowl of penne pasta w/meat sauce
10:30pm: jardiance
no alcohol