Oh, and if I do miss something my reaction is “OMG, I’m so sorry that I didn’t cancel that.”
It is NOT “Well I sent an email to the team that I’d be out so you should have known.”
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I didn’t sleep well last nice and my tum tumz is sore. Wah. 
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Had three fans installed this morning, one of them has a bad receiver, so I have to return that and call the electrician again.
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In our department, here is the expectation when you go on PTO.
Everyone has a backup. When you plan PTO, first off, mark your calendar as Out of Office. If you have any projects due when you’re out, let your backup know so they can complete the project in your absence. If you’re lead any meetings, either cancel/reschedule the meeting or have your backup lead the meeting. If you’re a key participant of the meeting, have your backup attend the meeting in your absence. Just sending out an email that says “Heeeeey I’ll be on PTO these dates” and expecting other people to figure things out just wouldn’t fly here.
So the electrician thought it was a faulty receiver (remote controlled fans), but we weren’t 100% sure. Since he’d already installed the fan, I took the receiver to Menard’s and told customer service what I knew. And she basically said if she opened up a new fan box to give me the receiver, she’d just toss it all. So why don’t I just go get a new fan and take the whole thing home? Very nice.
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left this AM on a work trip. spouse at the time said the home internet wasn’t working. we do the usual attempts at fixing as I leave to the airport. many hours later and…no change. spouse super annoyed
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You move quickly.
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I think I caught a bug yesterday. At one point, I got super light headed and nauseous.
The thought of food is not appealing to me right now. Wah. 
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Motivation: zero.
A month ago I really wanted to prioritize project A, but I was told it wasn’t urgent, and what I really needed to get done was project B. Great. I was about 60% done with B when I was told there’s a fire drill on project C, drop everything, mission critical! Jeez. Got that one about 75% done, oh no, another fire drill! Please give 110% on project D, are you kidding me??? And you’ll never believe this, last night I was told to drop everything, because project A is suddenly urgent. FFS, I’m not doing a goddamn thing this morning.
The core of the problem is we have a new CFO, a new VP, and a new chief analytics officer. All of them are trying to make a name for themselves, so they are trying to make things happen very quickly. The problem is they all want something from me, so it’s basically four people asking for things, but just me trying to actually do anything. It’s bad.
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And I hope you are keeping your own notes and a copy of the paper trail.
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Perhaps the greatest documentary of all time.
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I’m getting a bit of that as well. Literally put together a slide back Q2 that said “here is the list of things my team can do” but I think you want all this other stuff, and if you want to make those a priority for 2024, I need additional resources.
Here I am at the end of the year being asked why C isn’t done yet. “um, you told me that A&B were the priorities and said just get through doing C manually for a while.” That is where we are. Cuz no resources.
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My cough was trying to come back yesterday. But I took some Sudafed during the day to dry up the postnasal drip, and last night before bed I took a shot of Vick’s Formula 44. So far so good today. 
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I set up the coffeemaker this morning and turned it on without putting the carafe under the spout. The reservoir caught most, but not all, the fresh brewed coffee. Sigh… 
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Both the dog and I can post here. She wants me to go outside and play and I DON’T WANT TO.
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As long as we’re annoying each other I might as well give her a bath. Who’s annoyed now?
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My son was like 20 when he discovered it and asked if id heard of it. I lwt him know whats up
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Rule #1 - dont complain about the tech!
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My wife insists on hanging the oven mitt on a little suction cup hook on the front of the oven. Since the oven is under the cooktop, if you drop stuff off the cooktop it has a good chance of ending up inside the mitt. Each time you use the mitt, you have to shake it out and then hope there’s not something gross still in there.
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I bet your dog is annoyed by this too.
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