To Do List

Geoff finally got his class schedule all buttoned up. Thursday and Friday classes. I set up a to-do list for us, just like a dev sprint, and we'll approach things with some daily scrums together, just like work.

Unlike all the other times he took classes and just drove from our old house, we're further away, and we have to figure out housing for him. He technically would want to stay over at least on Thursday night. And to be honest, I'd want to stay a Wednesday and Thursday. 

Doug and I were talking about hotelling, or Furnished Finder. In theory, a hotel 2 nights a week vs. a furnished room in a house for 900 a month, it may be better if we commit to him renting a room. He can decide how often he comes home. 

While we were talking, Doug looked at Toffee, and I said "oh yeah, he can't live without her!" 

So we are making Geoff progress and that's a relief.

This morning, my helpdesk tickets were flooding. And I had a panic attack. I messaged my manager and told him I just can't today. I cannot. I .... can't.... so he said "jump on a call? I have 15 minutes before my first meeting." 

We jumped into a video call, and I'm super proud of myself for not crying as I just said "okay, so I'm t he one who normally cheerleads through things and keeps it together but I'm freaking out about all this, all the tickets, all the broken things, and I cannot today."

Thankfully he said "I hear you, and me too." 

"So how do we handle this, what do we do?" And we talked about how we know that the devs are working on this. The lead guy - I love him - he owned the problems, "this is on us and we are working to make it right." 

JB said, the best we can do is answer the tickets, and help the users. I told him that I am super so good at answering the new tickets that come in, and bad at going back to when they reply to me with an update or further questions. So good at the new tickets, super bad at the follow up. He said he'd be happy to jump into my Open cases and take some and reply. 

After our morning meeting today (where I walked for a solid 15 minutes without stopping!) the devs are making incredible progress at restoration of broken data and everything. We are doing one-off "hey, so, this client is still missing XYZ since the restoration, can you find that." 

And they find it. 

I was answering a ticket and the product crashed. Just absolutely crashed. I screamed "THIS IS FINE!' and walked away and made chicken salad after I messaged JB and my work son to say "okay. alright okay. She's crashed. Someone just let me know when she's back because I need to make chicken salad." 

There was too much traffic to the server with all the users in there, and with the devs attempting another data restoration. They got it back and I made lunch.

Today didn't suck nearly as bad as I thought it might right out of the gate and I'm very glad I don't have any Vodka otherwise I would have started drinking so early. Instead, I worked to a reasonable time, walked the dog, and then came back to go to older tickets from Monday to try and tackle those issues. New tickets can wait. 

Digits below this classic internet meme that is me.

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours. Morning Meeting Pace, 10 min/.43, Toffee walk, 25 min/1.19 mi. 10k+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

8am: 134
4:45pm: 146
11:30pm: 169

food & meds:

8am: jardiance + phentermine
1:30pm: big bowl of chicken salad
2pm: met+glip
6:30pm: shrimp and pasta dish by geoff
8:30pm: met+glip; 1 beer
10pm: another beer