Tech Council Meeting Day

Ahhh another third Wednesday of the month, another Tech Council Meeting day. I'm hoping it's like last month when no less than 3 people, including Eloisa, blew the meeting off at the last minute. Was I bothered by that? Not in the least. Hey you book a talk you better do the same talk whether your audience numbers 10, 100, or 1000. Then again I was not the least bit worried, since I had finished my presentation last night, and then finished my agenda and Meeting Minutes writeup before I even had my first meeting this morning at 9:30. That means I jetted Johnnie to school drop-off and then worked on it just as soon as I got home and as I was eating breakfast. All that allowed me to chill the rest of the morning until the meeting, which I even set for 15 minutes later in order to accomodate for the latecomers from other meetings. So relaxed was I that I even posted of me making a better-than-average, better-than-usual lunch. I made myself stir-fried rice with beef chips AND shrimp and spinach too. Mmmm. I made so much I was easily full with another serving left to spare. I ate so much I could have taken a nap right after I ate. THIS is what makes it nice to be working from home. To be able to cook lunch at home even though I'm pretty much tired of washing dishes right after. Still, no lunch I could have bought could have beaten this lunch. Don't get me wrong, I do miss having lunch at the FRB Cafeteria. After all, I only did that for 7 years before the pandemic. And just like if I were still at the FRB, I pretty much lingered and killed time before it was time to do the meeting at 1:45. This time there was a full complement of the usual attendees. I did have enough material for an hour but somehow we got caught up on the projects, which was fine because it at least let me know that now upper management knows what's going on. And we got caught up with the Role-Based Access stuff which is due for its annual review. I'm not even going to mention that at least 3 things on that project list I did yesterday and today just so I could say it's been addressed. Otherwise I'd let those go for at least another month LOL LOL. Anyway the bottom line was that the meeting got done by 2:47, 2 minutes over the hour and the longest I had had this meeting all calendar year. Another Tech Council Meeting successfully under my belt.  Immediately after the meeting, I headed out to go get Johnnie. And there he was, pants all dirty from rolling around on the dirty concrete, a little sweaty even. I guess I WON'T put shorts on him until it gets much warmer. We came home and we snap into late afternoon routine. And to my surprise I didn't even notice how quickly he got done with his SeeSaw homework but he did it almost stealth-like. I double checked. He did just fine and I never even noticed that he logged on! Of course it's Panda Express night too but tonight I didn't feel like going to Westwood. We passed by the Sawtelle Panda Express, noticed that there was no one in line and immediately went into the parking lot to get our food there instead. After all, we didn't have Claire with us. We could just walk in there Johnnie and I. As for Claire she was really really good all day and kept her distraction to a minimum. And so by 7:30, I was ready to give her a bath. With no Johnnie in the tub with her, we actually get done much faster, and I have also learned not to get her too uncomfortable in the tub. I did that by pouring the water slowly over her head and taking more time soaping her up as if giving her a massage. She liked that much better. And so I got done cleaning her up before it was even 8 AM, Johnnie was just fine simply watching more Dinosaur Train. This being the night after the Tech Council Meeting, it's a breathe-out time which means I don't expect to be working too much or too hard for the rest of the week. Certainly not tonight. Nothing to work on tomorrow anyway. Nothing on my schedule even except... one of those Leadership Meetings late in the afternoon. Tonight there WAS that play-in game between the Warriors and Lakers to determine the 7th seed in the WEstern Conference seedings. The Lakers had dropped all the way to the 7th best record simply by losing so many games when both AD and LBJ were out injured. This is attrition simple as that. They barely had any time off from the championship run and really broke down during the latter part of the season. Now they are fighting simply to be in the play-offs where us Laker fans HOPE they gel in time to make a run. Tonight was a good start. LBJ sinks a 3-ball with seconds left to win the game. After another mind-blowing offensive performance from Steph Curry. We're still in the hunt. Let's hope it's good enough...