Mashed potatoes were had, and they were quite tasty.

I am not built to work ten-hour days. I am built for maybe five-hour days. Someone fix it. Dinner tonight is goat cheese on sourdough toast with preserves and I need to be in bed in, oh, 20 min.

Also, we are a month behind on everything because my bosses believed that a mediocre white dude could do what he claimed. He was also creepy as hell (stared at my 19 yo coworker all the time, touched me unnecessarily and inappropriately twice). It’s a tiring week. In better news, my bosses seem to have… listened to me? And adjusted their expectations around my productivity to allow me to actually train and supervise and (most importantly) QC my two coworkers?

Gold star, Steph!!

Jen, wishing you effective treatments both mental and physical.

I have eaten my toast so I fall down go sleep now. Just wanted to pop in for a minute to say hi.

Dinner tonight is goat cheese on sourdough toast with preserves

That sounds pretty yummy to me. I hope you have achieved renewing sleep.

Agree the toast sounds yummy!! Sorry about the creepy coworker but hope the new boss attitude helps/continues!

Thankfully found friend who can take dog, though hopefully he gets along with her dog who he has not met. Haven’t heard frpm dogsitter guy alll day, after he responded to my last text of "are we still on for dogsitting" late last night with "yes!" bit then didn't respond at all since. i requested on venmo that he send the money back i sent him—need it to pay the new sitter! ugh.

That's a relief about the dog, sorry about the stress.

I've arranged for Skinner to go stay with a friend for 4 days, well 5 nights and 4 days. He is staying with our friend who we lived with for some time after we sold the house but hadn't found this place yet so Skinner is well acquainted with the house and yard. Kevin is Jamaican and has opinions about dogs living in the house, but he makes an exception because he loves me and tolerates Skinner.

Since Brendon doesn't come in here I can share my weekend details!! As you know, my anniversary is on St. Patrick's Day (34 years!), so we like to go to different places and check out the variety of celebrations. This year it is New Orleans! (be jealous of the smonster hugs) I haven't told DH where we are going, just that we are flying out at 7:30 AM on Friday and arriving home at midnight on Monday. Unfortunately the forecast calls for rain pretty much the entire time, but warm and raining isn't really unfamiliar to us. eta: I did spoil him and upgrade the seats so he won't be miserable for the flight duration.

Yay, that sounds like so much fun, Laura! Happy early Anniversary to you.

Just got off of the call with my doctor about Wegovy, so we'll see what happens with insurance. She didn't think insurance would be an issue. Supply, on the other hand... we'll see.

I had a productive morning yesterday, especially once I remembered that I could use ChtGPT to do scutwork like weeding out dupes, and arranging testimonials in alpha order by name, and then putting them in Excel-pastable format. Now all the random Word docs with random testimonials are organized into a database!

It's no great shakes at creativity, but it is a damn fine assistant sometimes. I'd say it got the project about 90% done. I'd be happy with a live human who got something that far along for me. It sucked at pulling out useful keywords from the testimonials, so I did that, but it took no time once everything was organized.

It's going to be 75 today! I should go work on the porch. Hmmm...

If it's organizing a database, wouldn't creativity be one of the last things you'd want?

Yeah, that's my point -- I don't like it for most of what I do, which requires creativity, originality, and, you know, human contact, but it does great with projects where that doesn't matter -- like organizing a testimonials database. Oh, and I had it draft a job description for me a while back, because that stuff is mind numbingly boring to the point of avoidance for me. It's helpful with some things that, historically, I'd have procrastinated doing forever, because I find them so boring.

Started the Ozempic today. We shall see.

Earworm update for no reason: most of the morning I had "I'm Just Ken", which was pretty nice, but now it's some classical piece that I do not know well enough to identify, just to hum, which is fine except I keep getting distracted trying to remember what it is

Dang it, I think our dryer just died (full of wet towels, too). Unless there's some fix-it trick I don't know (and there might well be, because I know absolutely nothing about the inner workings of the dryer), I'm going to need to haul those heavy wet towels to the laundromat to dry them.

It's a pretty old dryer, so I guess I'm just annoyed with the inevitability of entropy. How dare something mechanical wear out and stop working!