Tag: work
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Pushing through
I’ve felt that I was slowing down or running out of steam and so I’m looking forward to Christmas break but today I got a push at work as Mark asked me to help with replacing the old ignition servers and ignition database server at Big Cottonwood. In four years I’ve never done any work…
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Deliberate Sacrifices
I had a good day at work today, making good progress on my current main project and taking care of two other small items that had come up in the last few days. The deliberate sacrifices are that tonight Laura and I went to a family party in Midway, at David and Becca’s house, which…
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Deadline passed
I needed to have a database schema ready for presentation this morning and it has been a struggle to have time to work on it with all the other does I’ve been battling at work but I felt good about the meeting today and had things clear enough to present to the clients while coming…
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Crunch time
Today was a deadline for a number of tasks, most significantly it was the day I had to do the training in the programmers meeting (like I did last year). I was able to manage everything so once again, I’m not faced with another imminent chance where I have to get up in from if…
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Still easing in
I’ve gotten pretty good at relaxing in the evenings mostly not on my phone (lots of reading) but I’m also feeling like I will be best served by not simply converting to reading in place of mobile games/Facebook/Twitter/YouTube. I want to make sure I’m also doing other things like working in the yard as the…
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Just keep moving
Today felt like I couldn’t get any traction. I was actually comparably productive relative to other days but it just felt like I was treading water. I did manage to get the bathroom basically cleaned and I got a Fitbit from Mom (she had a spare she was trying to get rid of) which was…
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Back to normal?
Today finally felt like a normal day. (For me, the kids had no school today.) I went to work and actually was able to consistently get things done rather than feeling exhausted or unfortunately for stretches. Hopefully I can have more normal days and have this tired funk behind me.
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Winter weather
I’m very grateful today for the flexibility I have at this job to work where and when I choose. Today it showed me to work from home until the morning commute was clear before coming to the office and then come home early before the snow storm to finish my workday at home. I was…
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Healing insights
I look back and see that for much of my young adult life I was a withered and sickly little tree. Then as I felt I was beginning to get a handle on adult life I was smitten with the effects of bipolar as with the East wind. While still learning to balance in that…
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Unexpected blessings
One of the small disappointments about this job was that the salary was somewhat smaller than I had hoped. Today on the first day I got an unexpected $5000 bonus in the form of the most generous HSA matching program I’ve ever seen. Suddenly the salary is much more in line with what I needed…