Another Tech Council Meeting

I'm not sure exactly why I woke up this morning and felt some negative energy. I'm thinking it's merely another imprint or echo of something going on elsewhere. After all, it was a pretty distracting weekend and I think I did a little too much giving in to the negative push/pulls. Today is merely one of those push/pulls I think and it is totally up to me to determine how I want to experience today. I focused on the feeling of having a pretty successful IS Tech Council Meeting, my definition of which is that I was able to articulate that everything is stable, we're going in the right direction and whatever we need to deal with now and in the future, we're in a position to deal with. In the meantime, I'm reminded that it is St Patrick's Day today and Johnnie already declared he needed to wear something green today. Ok then. Green Hawaii shirt it is. And if that first class he had <Library> where they sang Irish dirges for 20 minutes doesn't distract you, I don't know what does really. Ok it WAS amusing and you can see how attentive Johnnie was to the whole thing. As for me, I was all done with my prep work for the Tech Council Meeting and I pretty much focused on Johnnie's classes for the morning. That alone sort of helped me focus on positive stuff and kept me from obsessing. And so by the time the meeting rolled around I was pretty relaxed. And it came off without a hitch as usual. I had about 40 minutes worth of material and the thing took the entire hour because I let Barbara present her pitch on a folder structure for the Sharepoint sites, simply because she can't find anything she claims. I didn't want to be the one to tell her that finding anything in Sharepoint is the same as Googling something on the internet, in fact that was the very reason we moved everything to Sharepoint. But try telling her that. Try telling anyone to do something they are not already used to and it becomes somewhat of a challenge depending on the open-mindedness of the person. To be fair, Barbara has come a VERY long way but in certain contexts she simply forgets. And I WILL not knock her or anyone for that. Far too many people in the organization doing that to condemn them all LOL LOL. Anyway, the meeting went fine and then it was on to the next one, which was the OCHIN quarterly. That meeting surprised me in that I got a message from Eloisa right after commenting that she expected to see more engagement from our team. She's right. It's our biggest expense, certainly on the IT side and the management of all things EPIC doesn't flow up and down the leadership chain I don't think. Never had. But should I take that activity over? That's what Eloisa asked. I am not sure. I don't take on anything I don't succeed at. I knew I would with Data Analytics. I was successful with it before. But the EPIC TEam? Gotta give that one some thought... 

And so after that meeting it was on to Wednesday night, me and Johnnie goofing off with the dog, going to Panda Express Westwood to pick up dinner. And the highlight of the evening: giving Claire a bath. No small feat I don't think, since I have put Johnnie in charge of that activity. He's still more play than anything else and even the act of taking the dog out to pee sees me yelling at Johnnie because he loses focus inside of 5 minutes. Can't really blame him though can I? He IS 6 years old. I still have to remind him that the reason the dog barks is because he isn't being very gentle with her and sees him as an adversary sometimes. And so my little Johnnie is still learning control.  And Claire? She's blasting around the house trying to get dry after we gave her said bath. But afterwards? She smelled so good! NOW we can let her sleep anywhere on the bed. And after Tech Council Meeting Day, I can focus on simply getting rested again. It's all good.