Thursday Late Pick-up Early Hand-off

So this being the Thursday right after Tech Council Meeting day, I would usually be at the CCALAC HIT Roundtable at noon and then lollygag the rest of the day. Even do some browsing at Macy's sometimes on the way back. Even then it wasn't much different than working from home other than I actually did drive in to work, but I didn't do much. Funny thing about working from home is that I actually work more I think. This being Thursday and I see myself running the Lookahead Covid vaccination schedules report through the next few weeks. After all I did show a graph of the thing at the meeting yesterday. I see myself having my IS Team Meeting like I have every Thursday although that is more entertaining than not this week. It's one thing to pretend like I'm getting down on the guys but really they know I'm just pushing. I really do want to push Noriel a little more and James a lot more but we're still all good. Which is why I chose to post a pic of Johnnie enjoying his breakfast before I dropped him off at school. Today I told him I was going to pick him up a little later than usual. I have that Leadership Thing going on at 2 PM and it is supposed to go until 4 PM. Really my intent was to see what we're going to do and if I am able to bug out by 3:30 PM then I will. After all I have already had a pretty productive morning and the day had actually turned warmer by lunch time and I enjoyed taking Claire out for a walk, though I admit I didn't want him running around so much to dirty herself up because she smelled so nice and clean from last night's bath. I actually spent the rest of the morning focusing on doing steps, which is one thing I can do on demand when working from home. 

So by 2 PM I started the Leadership Retreat thing and actually participated. That means I asked a couple of questions, and really that was just to let my team know I was on and engaged and participating. Still, it seemed like the presenter was mostly asking questions rather than leading us through material. She kept talking about leading us through material but spent more time with Q&A and that really annoyed me. By 3:30 I didn't even have to make up my mind. I just bugged out and picked up Johnnie. As usual he was dirty and sweaty and that was still a good thing. Because I picked him up later, it felt like no time at all before we had to go get dinner at Panda Express. We left the dog at home and had every intention of bringing the food back... Except that Johnnie noticed people eating IN THE STORE! Now that's a first in a long time. Has it been a year since we were allowed to eat in at Panda? So OF COURSE we took advantage. We ate right there! How happy am I?! How happy was Johnnie?! No need to clean up after himself today though he still had to clean up all the stuff he put up in the beginning of the week. Neither one of us were too motivated to clean the living room really which was ok. And in keeping with her pattern of unpredictability, Lisa came early to pick him up today! And so Johnnie hand-off actually got done by 6:30 PM. It was still light out and I didn't have to do much left to get to 11,000 steps today. So I decided to chill out for my Thursday night. What did I end up doing? I watched ANGEL HEART, that movie that scared the pants out of me in the 80s with Mickey Rourke, Robert de Niro and Lisa Bonet. Real uplifting choice huh? Hey that is how I'm choosing to ease into my Friday ok?