Tech Council Meeting Day

Today is Tech Council Meeting Day and because I had done the bulk of the work yesterday, all the other stuff I needed to get done seemed to come much easier, and all got done in almost no time to me. That would be my meeting minutes, that would be the Meeting agenda, and even a daily journal log entry got done. All by the time Johnnie did his first class. And I even had plenty of time to do a Data Analytics Meeting with Kennedy and James just so I could address the only other stuff that could have possibly caused me work anxiety today, which is all the dashboards that are behind and need refreshing. On the one hand, I did figure out where the source programs are. The trick, though, is that they still need to be ran and data still needs to get loaded. Still I felt reasonably good that we'd get a chunk of it done by the end of the week, particularly those that people were pinging me on. And so in the meantime, we (me, Johnnie, and the dog) were pretty much relaxed and in play mode for the bulk of the morning. Look at the pic of Johnnie teasing the dog in the bathroom. This was first thing in the morning at 7 AM. And then Johnnie got into his art work, doing the American flag in water colors. Pretty cool actually.  Anyway, by the time he got done with his first 2 classes, I too had gotten my stuff done so fast that I actually had time to work on my steps outside. I'm doing this again because I read recently that 2 hours outside is now a self-care imperative, almost like, if not better than doing 10,000 steps. And then it was udon for lunch for Johnnie and Trader Joe's Cuban chicken bowl for me... with some leftover fried chicken on top. Mmmm. As far as the Tech Council Meeting itself, there were only 5 people that attended. Chad of course is on his way out and I didn't expect him. Maryam had to meet about the COVID vaccination event, Sheila was off, and Emma... I don't know where she was. Anyway with such a small audience I could have breezed through the whole thing in a half hour really. But I thought it was a pretty good presentation anyway. I focused on the Projects In Progress, and the not-so-good phishing test numbers were from the last month. Am I concerned? Yes, because it was a significant spike. Gotta figure out a way to reign in the clinical folks, there's no avoiding that. Anyway as it were I did take the entire hour for the meeting and my visualization of doing well and being acknowledged actually did happen. I felt satisfied that I did a good meeting and that it was productive. And when it got done by 2:30, there came the usual sigh of "a-h-h-h" relief that I accomplished Tech Council stuff for the month. Really though I just wanted to show that the Data Analytics side is under control. Help is on the way of course because I hired Shilpa, but it is still under control. I had to anchor the feeling of today still. The feeling that I knew the outcome, that it was going to be good <and it was> and that I had almost no anxiety at all from yesterday on. THAT IS HOW I GET IT DONE. After the meeting I called it pretty much a done day in terms of the work day. If I were at the FRB I'd be heading out getting myself a frozen drink at Starbucks. It had, after all, turned into a nice, warm, breezy day outside. That is not insignificant. Apparently parts of the country are freezing due to abnormally cold weather. I remind myself that it IS actually still winter. And I'm happy to be walking around in shorts outside. 

And so it was that I got to relax for real by the end of the afternoon. The video I posted encapsulates the rest of the day actually. That was me and Johnnie dancing to Chuck Berry. I had to show him a video of a song with his name in it. There are lots actually but I picked this one. And that was just to slow Johnnie down from bouncing up and down on the trampoline all night long. The thing is already fraying at the edges and yesterday, Johnnie felt sick because he did it right after he ate. Well OF COURSE he would feel sick.  Anyway, THAT would be my sort of victory lap for today. Lots to be grateful for. My TECH COUNCIL meeting went well, even IF it went barely unattended LOL LOL. Note; I totally didn't care about that in the least. The dog pooped and pee'd pretty much whenever we took her outside, which was every few hours or so. Anyway the victory here is that she didn't once go do her thing inside the house! Yay! Although she is starting to bite a little bit more. So much so Johnnie wanted us to buy a bite-proof jacket LOL LOL, whatever that is. Anyway I looked forward to some nice sleep tonight, although I actually had 6+ hours yesterday as I didn't have to stay up late to work on my presentation. Still, I'm in bed and snoozing with Johnnie. It was 9:30. It's all good...