Tech Council Meeting Day

Ahh it's Tech Council Meeting Day and oddly enough it felt like just another day for me first thing. Maybe it's because I got my content done in just a couple of hours yesterday afternoon. I still had Minutes and Agenda I needed to get done but I figured I had that blip of time between coming home from dropping Johnnie off at school and my first meeting at 9:30 to do that. And as it turned out, not only did I do that but when the meeting came around I was missing 3 people. Eloisa sent a text saying she was going to miss it because she wasn't feeling well. Emma was already out all week. And then Maryam said she was stuck at the DMV taking care of paperwork for the dental vans. Oh well. Barbara was still coming so I had to go through with the meeting anyway. But it did feel very much anticlimactic. As in there was no pressure whatsoever. I just went through my slides, gave folks a lot of numbers for the first quarter of this year, gave them my monthly scare on Cybersecurity and how the numbers have not improved in 3 months, although as it were the numbers were still way better than most organizations really <there IS such a thing as getting the most one can expect... kind of like those visit numbers we never could meet back in the day>. Anyway I got done earlier than planned and before 2:30 meeting was over and it was nonchalantly uneventful. Best of all though is that I could call it a day! Heck I could call it a week, such as it were for TEch Council Meeting week. I did hear the faintest blip from my ego wondering if people were blowing off my meeting. But at the end of the day REALLY do I care? Hey my material was ready. Same as the CCALAC symposium. Really do I care if a lot of people showed up? Part of being a speaker is to be as prepared mentally and emotionally for everyone to come see you as when no one comes and sees you. And I did that. I was ready, I was prepared and I think I did a pretty good job. Now on to the rest of the day... 

For his part Johnnie had plenty of stuff for us to do. I was worried that he was already bored yesterday afternoon. Today, he had homework and that included a nature walk to find stuff. I posted a picture of him making notes on what he was finding. I mean I know I don't have a backyard and I know I probably should have taken us to the park. But there was plenty to log just taking the dog out for a walk as it turned out! Johnnie logged 10 things he found in nature. Homework done, dog got walked and pooped and pee'd outside, and we spent time outside. Win-win-win. And by the time we got done, it was already time to head out to get his Panda Express dinner in Westwood. Of course this being Wednesday and all, the big thing tonight is to give Claire her bath. And not a moment to soon too. She had walked around so much her paws were dirty. I could only imagine what she would be like running around Lisa's backyard all the time. And so it was that tonight, Johnnie and Claire got both their baths and for the first time we simply used one of my plastic bowls to get Claire wet instead of sticking her under the faucet. And she was much much calmer. And the bath went so much better I think. Look at the picture of her licking me with her tongue while she was still wet as a soaked towel! Man this dog has a lot of hair. I wish I had a blow dryer but even while thinking about that, I am pretty sure it isn't really all that necessary. Tonight I let Johnnie lollygag in the bath himself, as i spent a good half hour trying to get Claire all dried up. The best thing is that even when semi-dried both dog and Johnnie finally smelled so good again! NOW you can take Claire on the couch I told Johnnie. He had 20 minutes left before bedtime we started so early. And he took full advantage watching an episode of Ricky Zoom (another new animated thing on Netflix that caught his attention) AND he watched it with a still damp Claire on his lap on the couch. I went on and on about the bath didn't I? That's how little a focus I had on the Tech Council stuff today. I know I had sleep catch-up to do but I did a good 7 hours yesterday and without staying up and sneaking off to watch TV when boy and dog were asleep, I knew I'd get the same tonight. Both were soundly asleep by 9:15. Within 10 minutes, so was I...