School finally reopened today! (On a 3-hour delay which means each class is about 15 minutes long, but at least A is OUT OF THE HOUSE.)

I thought it was my router or whatever but I finally got enough cell service to open the Xfinity app and got a notification that’s there’s network damage in the area, whatever that means. Well, relieved some of my guilt over not being able to do any work.

The cell service is Verizon and we’ve just always had pretty poor coverage here for whatever reason

Anyway, I had already downloaded the library book I’ve been listening to and occasionally can get through on Slack enough to cancel everything I planned to do today, so all good. Picking up A’s snow days, sort of

Got myself all packed up to go into the office tomorrow, called into a Zoom on my phone planning on bailing on the rest of the day, and the outage is fixed. Argh.

I deviated from my diet and had a whopping hot roast beef and melted munster sandwich.

That'll be both lunch and dinner but it was goooood.

I made one of my irregular trips to the office today because some folks on the team were in town; how does anyone get work done in an office anymore? I was there for 3 hours and couldn’t get anything done because people! Kept interrupting me! Sure, yay seeing some coworkers, but that was the only good part.

IO(work)N: the 2025 bonus will be on Friday’s paycheck, whoo!

I was there for 3 hours and couldn’t get anything done because people! Kept interrupting me! Sure, yay seeing some coworkers, but that was the only good part.

To be fair, seeing you in person is a significant work perk.

IO(work)N: the 2025 bonus will be on Friday’s paycheck, whoo!

Yay!

I had a full-body coughing fit yesterday that I'm still sore from this morning - blargh. OTOH I feel much better today so I guess it worked to expel whatever demon virus I was possessed by.

I've found, annoyingly, that going into the office part-time makes it near impossible for me to be productive on WFH days. When I was at home full time I was able to engage Work Brain at my desk, but now that I've adjusted to being in-office most days it's much harder to convince myself that home office is a Work Brain Place.

I really find it hard to imagine going into an office again.

Oh, god, me too. Even before covid, and when I was living in the same place as my office, I only had to go in one morning a week. How did I ever cope with being stuck there every day?

I'm in the office two days a week and I am gradually sliding into WFH being less worky as Work Brain doesn't want to engage. OTOH it's an office wide schedule, so in-office days tend to get filled up with meetings (even though they are still mostly Zoom meetings as a lot of people are remote), so there is a certain amount of Can't Actually Do Work that happens then. Quite a lot of Why Shouldn't I Slack Off pretty much whenever possible, really.