You will all be pleased to know that I threw some BS bullet points into what I think is the correct place for my 2025 performance appraisal. They tell us to do this, and then say only the individual goals, the company wide EBIT improvement will be determined later. And that is 66% of everyone's goals, so I can't help but feel like none of it matters.

My boss is back from vacation today - he shows up as "active" on Slack at least but I have not heard from him yet...

At any rate, this time last year we were getting summoned to emergency last minute company wide meetings to announce sweeping layoffs, and that hasn't happened today, so that's promising.

Y'all. Existential crisis. We decided to make 2025 a 53 week year and now I have to deal with having back-to back odd numbered weeks and that is apparently harder for me than I expected it to be. Send chocolate, maybe St Bernards with brandy.

We decided to make 2025 a 53 week year and now I have to deal with having back-to back odd numbered weeks

Absolutely not. Go home sick, you've earned it.

Okay, there’s significant cartilage damage and for sure a labral tear with a paralabral cyst full of synovial fluid. Next step is to get in with an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in hip preservation (ie, arthroscopic repair rather than full joint replacement).

Dag, Tep! That's a fucked up hip. So you been doing cancer care all year with a crippled hip? That sounds very painful.

Monday morning and I'm finally back to Pilates. Between Thanksgiving break, two weeks off after skin cancer stitches and and two weeks off for Xmas break, I've done exactly one full week of Pilates since before Turkey time.

So, of course, on this grey, cold, rainy, early morning, back-from-holiday, Monday session they do a freakin' assessment first thing! That means pushups, which are not any part of Pilates. Boo!

We decided to make 2025 a 53 week year

Wait, like, for all of us?

::sending note from invisible friend in the box to HR People for Sick Time::

No JenP, the scope was extremely limited. Google Calendar had a 52 week year, for example. And retail calendars don't even rollover for a few more weeks. So messy. I'd like to go back to just having the winter solstice through spring solstice being off calendar time, personally. Make September the 7th month again.

Excel considers the week beginning 12/28 to be 2025 Week 53, but our internal financial reporting considers it to be 2026 Week 1 so... [[flips table]]

::sending note from invisible friend in the box to HR People for Sick Time::

Heh.

I am in the doctor's office for my final (I think?) check-up for the broken ankle. It's been three months, and it's mostly better. Still have a bit of a limp, because it's still slightly hurty on the bend part of my stride, but that'll get better. The pain in the rest of the foot is all but gone now. They offered PT if I wanted it, which I may see about... but also feels unnecessary if I just give it more time. I'm waffling.

Crossword tournament question - are folks attending as competitors or non?

What's the average difficulty on a NYT day-of-the-week scale? (I downloaded the sample puzzle but I don't have access to a working printer right now...)