How Is Thursday Busy??

It's another one of those really cold mornings that turns into a warm afternoon kind of day. As in it was in the 80s by mid-day. But you wouldn't know it by how the day started out. Actually the day started with a funny moment when I was in line with Johnnie waiting for the gate to open. Out of nowhere Fisher Rozensweig comes up from behind to hug me real tight. His mom was apologetic about her child seemingly bear-hugging a stranger. But then again that wasn't the first time it had happened to me. And minutes after that Bailey, Brooklyn's sister does the same thing and gives me a hug too. Who says I'm not a huggy person? LOL>LOL. If I'm not, why are all these kids hugging me? Anyway from there it was on to back-to-back-to-back meetings until lunchtime. But I didn't care. The meeting with my IS Team was pretty light-hearted and got done in 25 minutes. My one-on-one with my boss Dennis ended in 10 mins because he wasn't feeling well from getting the COVID booster shot. And then the EHR meeting was only attended by Lainie for a bit before Melina joined us. Turns out her child was having seizures and needed to come home as needed. I could definitely understand when I compare to John-John Lisa's brother. Anyway all meetings got done by 11:30, I took Claire out for a walk to romp around the new grass outside the apartment and then I enjoyed the sun myself by cooking up my Italian sausage in the barbecue area. Felt more like a summer day than anything actually and I kept up with the feeling of gratitude that I get to be there then even cooking up my lunch. Couldn't do that before the pandemic obviously. Couldn't chill and watch and episode of "Y-the Last Man" after lunch either. In fact I knocked off for about 20 minutes. Hey an afternoon powernap is always good.

I had one more meeting at the end of the day. And it was really at the very end of the day too. It was about addressing employee burn-out. I laughed at that. I was feeling burned out so I have to go to a meeting about burn-out. LOL LOL. How do I address burn-out? By being flexible and making sure my team gets to take care of non-work stuff when they have to. I give them only one rule: No surprises. OK 2 rules: And cover each other. As a team we will not only survive, we will thrive. Individually, we can not make it. And so far it has been working. I think the EHR team has been far more productive than they were. The other 2 teams have been steady. Everyone is doing their jobs. And that is all you can ask. For Everyone to do their best. I yanked myself out of that meeting the second it was over at 4:55. Gotta pick up Johnnie after all. He declared that he wanted chicken noodle soup with penne for dinner. OK then. No Panda Express at least. And so we stopped at Ralphs to get chicken soup and some shrimp for me. Gotta make my dinner too.  And we proceeded to have a nice meal. His was different since I also bought him some chicken wings/drumsticks. And he ate 3 of them. Used to be we would buy that at Pavilions Marina del Rey back in the day I remember. He wanted to clean the house too but in the end he got too caught up with designs on a new story book. I love that his creative juices are flowing. I got caught up too. for some reason last night I ended up watching a couple of hours of a seminar on retail traders and why they lose money. And today I got caught up in the frenzy and the media hype of a meme cryptocurrency Shiba Inu. As in I picked up over 1 million tokens! Hey it only cost me $100. But can you imagine if that thing goes to a penny?? My $100 turns into $10,000! What about a dime?? It turns into $100,000! Ok Ok, I need to pump the brakes i know. Heck I get double or triple my money and I'll be happy. In the meantime, JOhnnie hand-off went by pretty quietly if very late. As in Lisa didn't come until about 8:15. I didn't care. Didn't even call her at all. I was fully prepared to keep Johnnie and Claire for the night. That's what you do is that you give Lisa's negative energy nowhere to go. And it will dissipate. Everything is you pushed out. And tonight, I'm pushing out nothing but positive. Still all very good.