TGIF

We made it to yet another Friday!  Things are still calm here.  However, when I woke up this morning I kept hearing my phone chirping that new mail from work had arrived.  It was buzzing but when I went to look I found that all was under control and that I wasn’t walking into a storm.  My colleague had taken some of the work load which is kind of a surprise when were on-call.  Normally no one takes anything and your stuck with all of it for the week.  I lend a hand now and then so I suppose it’s karma catching up with me. 

In fact that’s kind of how I kept semi busy this morning.  I helped out another team where I could.  Some things I knew would wind up coming at me and just headed them off and others well they would have went another direction.  However, I know and still remember what it’s like to be working the front lines where your bombed with all sorts of requests and I like to help out where and when I can.  That is when I feel like it.  Normally that mostly only happens when I am on call but every now and then I will see something that I decide to take.  Sometimes it results in a storm and I wish I had never helped and other times it’s just simple and easy. 

Speaking of simple it was a great decision I made to grab the trash barrel this morning first thing.  It sure was cold out.  However, that wind is blowing.  Lots of my neighbors will be chasing their trash barrels or find them knocked over.  That hard plastic cracks when it hits the ground with force.  I know because it’s happened to mine.  One time we had rain & wind I found my trash in the middle of the street.  That was not fun at all. 

Just an average day here.  Waiting on an Amazon delivery.  I don’t think there strike affects my part of the world but hey you never know.  Those poor drivers bust their asses and it sounds like they have a very poor work environment.  Sounds like they are bullied by the algorithm.  I just know it’s a job I couldn’t and wouldn’t do.  So my hats off to every delivery driver, you go!

Well time to run off to a dumb meeting at work.  Then up for lunch with the cats and hopefully the rest of the day is calm and passes by quickly.  I am eager to relax and not be in work mode.  Hope your weekend is the best. 

Take care and stay warm!