Laura, did your place get through Isaias okay?

Yes, I think I may have had more rain here in NY than DH did in Florida. He still did all the prep because it won't be the last storm.

Phew, Judah Emanuel was born sometimes this morning.

Hooray!

Sophia, I am so sorry for your loss.

I'd so rather read my news (even if I too often end up doomscrolling the news, which is basically the equivalent...). But I'm not much one for that kind of background noise, either.

Agreed.

I just spent a week with my parents and they watch local and national news on two stations in the early evening and local at noon-ish and 10-ish. Sooo much repetition. I think my mom tends to have FOX on in the background when she's quilting. At one point when she was out I showed my dad some of Sarah Cooper's videos to give him context for the Tic Toc thing. He enjoyed those and vented a little about my mom's politics.

Tangentially, MO got added to the Chicago naughty list while I was on my way there so I am now on day one of my two week quarantine.

Welcome to your quarantine! May it be uneventful.

Oh! Happy birthday, Fred Pete!

aurelia, may it pass quickly and without sickness.

I have 1/1s with all 3 of my direct reports Friday which I don't usually since I'm both going on vacation next week and I'm moving into a new role and they won't be reporting to me soon. And we're telling the team Friday so I wanted to make sure to check in with them right away.

Oh! And I just realized I could cancel a meeting because we actually had the discussion today!

I had an 8:00 am meeting and a meeting that lasted UNTIL 8:00 pm in one day last week. This amount of work is seriously going to become undoable if I can't stop having meetings. I know some jobs are really mostly about having meetings, but I can neither build courses nor answer people's questions with these endless meetings! And for some reason it is harder to hang back and just do work on a zoom meeting than in an in person, which is weird. I think it is the lack of two monitors, so I have to minimize zoom to work during a meeting.

Hooray canceled meeting!

Hope your quarantine is simple and easy, aurelia

Wow, Cashmere, that is a lot of disruption to the schedule, for sure. Hope everyone is ok!

{{{Amy}}} I'm so sorry. Constant rage-crying really takes it out of you. That should not be your lot.

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday Fred Pete!

I'm sorry about your friend, Sophia.

I have very few meetings, like only one standing one each week and we are not on video, so it's not even seeing people - and STILL when I am tasked with setting up a call to deal with something I opt to try and get it resolved/dealt with via emails.