Friday, August 29, 2025

Sounds like a personal problem

Wednesday night I got very little sleep. Tossed and turned, fell asleep and woke up 20 minutes later, repeat... repeat. Anxiety will do that. 

Thursday all day I was grumpy. I forced myself to shower at some point thinking it would make me feel a little better but it didn't help. I rescheduled a meeting for Friday that I just didn't have the energy to deal with on Thursday. 

Doug and I had an argument about something stupid that afternoon which was extra dumb and stupid. Additionally, I told him the quote for the movers and the moving date. He had initially told me he wanted to move the Friday after we close, and then yesterday said he never said that.

Oh yes you did. You sure did. Something along the lines of: Let's take that week and paint and move things easily. But no, he said he didn't say that. So I moved the moving date. It makes sense to move mid-week but also, Jesus do not tell me you didn't say something when ya did.

I just do not enjoy being gaslit? 

Anyway. Friday before a holiday weekend we used to get early dismissal. My department head doesn't do that anymore because we're all home anyway. Which is a drag because every other department head lets their people go at 2 or 3pm still. It's a bit annoying. 

At 4pm one of my clients registered an emergency page for one of the products I support. I see the emails but I'm no longer on call. The person who was on call slacked me to ask if he could bother me to help this guy out. He called the client, got all the details of his complaint/issue and then reported back to me. 

"This is not an emergency. This can wait until Tuesday. Who does this on a Friday before a blessed holiday weekend?!" I gave the colleague the answers he needed to at least make the complainer happy-ish. And we talked about how stupid this was. 

Back in the day, my work wife and I would get helpdesk emergency calls at stupid times for stupid reasons and we'd basically say "This sounds like a personal problem..." about the issue. Usually it was. But we'd still have to be helpful and all that. Hatefully so. 

I still think this in my head a lot of times, your lack of planning is not my emergency. You have no idea what you are doing and chose to do this at the worst time on the planet. 

I had a deadline on Friday to edit/prep changes to at least 5 helpdesk documents and I got 4 done by 6:30pm when the chinese food showed up. 

That's how exciting my life is. 

Should have posted this entry on Friday night but I fell asleep on the couch watching a Great Courses series about the Crusades. Just like college, I would have fallen asleep in class. So I'm back-dating this to yesterday. Ha. 

Digits for 2 days below. 




Thursday digits

exercise: 11/12 hours.  Missed noon while teaching a class. didn't feel like big walk. 5500+ k steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

8:15am: 105
5pm: 119
11pm: 199

food & meds:
8:15am: phentermine+jardiance
9:45am: bowl of yogurt w/crushed granola bar
2pm: met+glip; pb& low sugar j on 647 bread
6pm: 2 fajitas w/chicken thighs and grilled onions, guac, shredded cheese, sour cream
2 beers
9:30pm: met+glip


Friday digits

exercise: 11/12 hours. 10 min indoor walk, .53 mile. 6600+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

8am: 145
4:30pm: 76
10pm: 194

food & meds:
8am: phentermine+jardiance
10:45am: a little mac & cheese with bacon
2pm: met+glip
6:30pm: chinese food smorgasbord 
white wine & diet ginger
9pm: met+glip

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