Still Busy On A Thursday

Used to be Thursdays wouldn't be all that busy, especially during this year of the pandemic. Thursdays used to mean different things over the years. From run nights with Lisa all the way back 15 years ago, to dinner nights at Westwood, Denny's with then baby Johnnie, then to the most recent iteration: Johnnie hand-off night, one night never resembling the one from the week before. And with this most recent iteration, I also notice that I start to let my patience go a bit too. It's like I anticipate alone time and I start to get irritated a little easier compared to the previous few days courtesy of antics from both Johnnie and the dog. And so between the 3 meetings I had to do today, and the hourly taking the dog out to pee thing I still tried to find pockets of peace whenever I could, just to provide a counterbalance to whatever negative bubbled up.  I was actually looking forward to cleaning the house early like I was able to do last week when Lisa came at 6:30 PM to pick up Johnnie. What are the chances that we could actually have a reprise of that night?  The telltale indicator of how the day was at work was how quickly the 4 PM meeting would get done as it usually lasts only a half hour if there isn't much going on. So today, that meeting went all the way to 4 PM taking up the entire hour and we were talking about vaccines yet again. There seems to be a gap between our organizational will to vaccinate people and following the tiers as defined by the state and the county. In my opinion, the CMO is just following the guidelines a little too closely and not really following with the spirit of what we need to accomplish: Get the damn vaccine in people's arms. I mean are they really going to fine us if we vaccinate those that don't qualify for the tiers? Easy for me to say I'll give you that. It isn't my medical license on the line. Anyway despite a lively discussion, the meeting did finally end and I could then move on to dinner.   

I was still thinking that Lisa might come pick Johnnie up at  6:30 today. So much so that we get out to get Panda Express earlier than usual and started to clean up and pick up and pack up earlier than usual. Already she had called me earlier asking me if I could watch Johnnie again tomorrow like i did last Friday so she could go to a doctor again. Apparently they had found "something" with her UTI test which might be more than the bacterial/yeast infection that they originally thought it was. She sounded worried. But then again she always sounds worried and she always thinks of the worst first. I'll let the medical professionals do their job first. But tonight 6:30 came and no phone call from Lisa. 7:30 still no phone call. And so her streak of no 2 consecutive Johnnie pick-ups ever being alike sticks. At least Johnnie and I was having fun all the way until I finally called Lisa. Turned out she had Jorge in her office working on putting up a workstation. And she asked me to drop Johnnie off instead of picking him up. I was not going to wait for her to call back as I'm sure she's going to be in that office for at least another half hour. I drove Johnnie and the dog over there and true enough, Lisa was putting a plate together for Jorge to eat. Oh well at least I got to talk to Jorge too. And so finally, hand-off done I got to go home. No feelings of emptiness today. More like relief actually. I didn't get to clean up the house like I did last week. But I didn't care really. I just crashed on the couch and just watched more episodes of Fringe. I had to remind myself that in fact i had one more day to go for the work week, albeit it's a Friday. I fell asleep on my couch right in my jeans. I didn't care. I was tired.