A Very Quiet Friday

So is Thursdays now my new chill day and Friday no longer the TANK DAY? After all how can it be a tank day when I'm still working at 4 PM? Actually Friday started like usual... which is get up really early and while still half-awake, get a tee time in for next Sunday AND generate a day pass for Johnnie, since you know - Lisa just won't be bothered to learn how to do the thing. I would definitely now put her in that bucket of healthcare folks that are technically challenged... kind of like some of the providers at QueensCare. That isn't a bad thing, and in fact it would probably serve me well to remember that about some of our QueensCare providers. That they are like Lisa I mean. But I digress... all i wanted to say was that I got up way too early like I usually do on a Friday and plopped right back to bed and when I woke up it was almost 8 AM. I wouldn't call that late really but I did want to see what was happening with the stock market today. That was when the idea of somehow being able to predict the stock market because you knew what it was going to do popped in my head. Like remote viewing the stock market. Has THAT been done I wonder? And if so, has anyone ever did it successfully? Clearly if I had that as a successful gig I wouldn't be telling anyone LOL. People would simply think I was a loon, even a rich loon at that.  Still the idea captured my interest and so there will be more to come on that to be sure. Honestly this morning I simply wanted to chill, have a nice breakfast. Take a shower even LOL. It had been a busy earlier in the week but now after the Tech Council Meeting I could allow myself to cruise. Even though I still had one thing left on my to-do for the week and that was to get up to speed on the upcoming NACHCH FOM/IT talk on cybersecurity.

There was something about thinking about that talk that made me super anxious. And it couldn't possibly be the talk itself. After all, all I'm doing is recycling the talk I did for CCALAC. Been there done that as it were. But here I am actually feeling a little bit panicky about it. Maybe it's because I thought I procrastinated about it so much I missed all kinds of deadlines (turns out I didn't and we have a meeting about it on Monday anyway). Sept 27 is the deadline to finalize sign on as a speaker. I can still back out. Do I want to? I'm thinking it's going to really put a crapper into the dropping-Johnnie-off routine but then again I have always pinch hit for Lisa when she has to go to the doctor or something. Isn't it about time she pinch hit for me for once? I time-travelled to a Friday 3 years ago when we were still working at the FRB (see pic posted) I went to the park to chill during that particular day. Did that on many a Friday. <Note: this was a period of time I did NOT need to time travel to. It was weeks before I ended up moving out of the Maplewood house so you can bet I was not in the best emotional state... smile on my face notwithstanding> Anyway these days all I have to do is step out of the house. But I never made it out today. Not even to do my steps. I stayed in pretty much the entire day actually. That is not only hard to do, it is rare. Even on a rainy day. After all, it IS a nice day out. Not even for lunch. I did a Trader Joe's Cuban chicken bowl for lunch augmented by the pork I barbecued yesterday. And then for dinner I made myself spaghetti bolognese a la Arnel. As I said I actually found myself to be busy in the afternoon, knocking off a meeting with Spectrum <they sure got me... giving me tix to the Rams game last Sunday, now I really had to meet with them at least LOL... but it really wasn't so bad> And then afterwards I actually did some work and I did more than I expected even. By the time I looked up it was already 5 PM. And then I let myself get sucked in to a mystery/thriller Chapelwaite which turned out to be an adaption of a Stephen King story Jerusalem's Lot. Great. Supernatural shit and scary to boot. Why was I watching this? Fortunately, only the first 3 episodes were free and I ended up getting to tired to watch anymore. And so it was this really did end up being a quiet Friday. Not a TANK DAY. But a quiet one at least.