Tech Council Meeting Day

So today is Wednesday, another drop-off routine first thing and it went similar to yesterday actually. Except that it was lightly drizzling this morning. That was a bit odd. But it wasn't cold at all. It was like Maui rainforest rain and it felt humid out. So we get there early like yesterday, we see familiar faces in line, Brooklyn and Johnnie walk in, I'm out. And I'm off finishing what's left of my Tech Council materials. What I did forget was that Business Continuity was moved to today and I totally missed it. I must have been missed because right after the meeting I got a call from Eloisa. She was calling to check in on me. I didn't feel like she was doing so to actually check in that I was working... I mean I do have that Tech Council Meeting today but she said it was to check in if I was doing okay. I believe her actually. And she told me Barbara pinged her about me not having responded to a couple of her emails from late last week requesting status on a couple of things. I didn't respond because I thought I would just bring it up today at Tech Council. But as Eloisa said.. we should all know Barbara by now. That was after I said you'd think I would have earned a little bit of trust after 8 years. Of course I also realize that Barbara is in the middle of a very difficult time and I totally understand that she's trying to immerse herself with work too. Anyway I did appreciate the call from Eloisa and I knew I'd see her again in a couple of hours. In the meantime I felt oddly relaxed. It felt like my body was doing it's fat burning thing... where I feel hot flashes every now and again. Or maybe it was just the humidity LOL. Anyway somehow I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was going to have a good meeting and that I was going to provide great value. As it was the meeting went fine. And I thought I covered Barbara's stuff, Eloisa's stuff, showed everyone something new with the Proof-of-Concept quizzes I'm trying to implement and I even went beyond an hour for the first time in a while. And afterwards, I participated in a couple of meetings that solved tricky issues. Yep, I had a very productive work day and I thought I created a heck of a lot of value. The great part about Tech Council Meeting day is that once it's over, I can breathe out for the rest of the week. Oh wait... one more task to do that's due tomorrow. The FCC Telehealth Grant folks need some more documentation. Could it be that we are actually going to get that grant? That's for over $200K! We get that boy and THEN I can really pat myself on the back since I put the numbers together. I sure hope so...

With all the good stuff going on at work I felt like I deserved to reward myself. Enter Dexter who called earlier in the week so he could pick up the Maui Built shirt Lisa got for him at his request. We first made plans to meet up on Friday but he called Monday to move it to Wednesday. Tonight. And he wanted to grab dinner too. And so I suggested Galbi King the Korean BBQ down the block. That would make for a PERFECT reward for me! Dexter came by after 5:30 and the good part was that they have rice, they have teriyaki chicken, and they have those rice wrappers that Johnnie loves so much. He's covered! We walked on over there and I AM glad that indoor dining is back for this place. Dexter wasted no time getting the meat. See the pic of the teriyaki chicken I intended for Johnnie to eat. Alas, his pickiness kicked in and he wouldn't eat it. I swear it tastes just like Panda Express but he still wouldn't eat it. He did finish off most of the rice wrappers so it wasn't like he didn't eat anything. This after he didn't eat the banana bread I packed for his lunch too. Is he going to eat ANYTHING?! I am really starting to get frustrated with his pickiness. But what am I supposed to do... Anyway the rest of the meat was left for Dexter and I and I know he wasn't complaining. He was even talking about getting another order of meat LOL. It was a great dinner obviously and I was glad we walked so we could continue to walk some of it off afterwards too. It was nice to catch up with Dexter as well. We were supposed to go to the Dodgers game with Yadira but it was the night Lisa came home from Maui and there was no way we could pull that off. It would have been nice to catch up then. Oh well, we caught up now. Dexter is being told his job may be relocated to Florida. smh. That is why I want to retire early and not have to worry about those kind of things. I remember the last time Dexter was looking for a job. It was the same spring I was when i got laid off by USC. He ended up at Disney, I ended up at QueensCare. And here we were 8 years later. Still we have to be grateful we are able to have the dinner we did tonight. Able to catch up and we're healthy and doing relatively well. And I'm grateful Johnnie had a good day at school and despite not eating as much as I thought he would, he said he got full. And knocked off to sleep like he had had a full day. I did too. I knocked off to sleep early myself. We're all good.