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The busiest two weeks are over
Feb. 27th, 2023 08:07 am Last week was pretty rough. Conference preparation went well and we went into it as prepared as we could be but conferences are stressful, full of silly occurrences and there's always too many people. About four people total wore masks including me, and then there was a few hotel staff who also were wearing masks. I've been happy with my N95s and I managed to not be the person checking growers in, but getting their nametags so I was partially facing away from them. Not that it would have made a difference given how small the area of our check in tables were. Oh well.
And then this morning, got the email that someone on our team and a speaker tested positive so *shrugs* I'll test this week but I'm probably good. It's almost as if no one wearing masks is bad actually.
After the conference each day, I went home, walked Mara and then took a rest in my bed for as long as I could. It wasn't super restful because after evening walks is Mara's borking hour, the time when she borks at nothing really. So it was loud.
The two evening seed lectures went well, I taught for one of them about legume seed production and it went well. Right before the second one, my coworker who had only helped with Wed of the conference was like, "are you okay, because I'm exhausted" and at the time I was shoveling frozen mac and cheese into my face and that was really bringing me back.
Thursday morning was the snow/ice/rain storm but the plows were sort of out that morning and I bet that the roads would be better earlier in the morning, so I left before 7am and drove to the hotel. Went in various sections in 4 wheel drive and going 35, mainly backroads that were mostly snowy still. Worst section was actually the main highways because it had turned to slick slush between the lanes, so I flipped it to 4wheel for merging and sharper turns. I got to the hotel no problem with only an extra 10 minutes due to slow driving. I think the morning commute got rained on but I missed it and by the time I left at 4 that afternoon, it was all good.
I took Friday off and sat and spun yarn pretty much the whole day. It was awesome.
Saturday, I ran for groceries and as a reward for doing that, allowed myself the rest of the morning to make fig newtons. They turned out a little odd, too much moisture in the dough but very delicious as always. I had sidejob work requests piling up over the past two weeks, so that afternoon, I buckled down and got three of them done. I'll keep working on those this week and should make a dent in the remaining ones.
Sunday I went to the last Whale home game. It was a super fun game, the crowd was really excited and some of the discord folks came to the game and met me in the stands for a bit. There was also an autograph line afterwards and I got some things signed. It was Shannon Turner's last home game before she retires (she's played for the whale for 8 years since the beginning of the league and has been captain for like six of those) and even when the team was doing terrible, she was still cheerful and having a good time and it was so great, so I told her that and she hugged me. So that was nice.
Hopefully a more relaxing week this week, seems like it so far. We had an inch of snow Saturday and we are due for 5-8 inches tonight into tomorrow so I'm prepared to go nowhere.
And then this morning, got the email that someone on our team and a speaker tested positive so *shrugs* I'll test this week but I'm probably good. It's almost as if no one wearing masks is bad actually.
After the conference each day, I went home, walked Mara and then took a rest in my bed for as long as I could. It wasn't super restful because after evening walks is Mara's borking hour, the time when she borks at nothing really. So it was loud.
The two evening seed lectures went well, I taught for one of them about legume seed production and it went well. Right before the second one, my coworker who had only helped with Wed of the conference was like, "are you okay, because I'm exhausted" and at the time I was shoveling frozen mac and cheese into my face and that was really bringing me back.
Thursday morning was the snow/ice/rain storm but the plows were sort of out that morning and I bet that the roads would be better earlier in the morning, so I left before 7am and drove to the hotel. Went in various sections in 4 wheel drive and going 35, mainly backroads that were mostly snowy still. Worst section was actually the main highways because it had turned to slick slush between the lanes, so I flipped it to 4wheel for merging and sharper turns. I got to the hotel no problem with only an extra 10 minutes due to slow driving. I think the morning commute got rained on but I missed it and by the time I left at 4 that afternoon, it was all good.
I took Friday off and sat and spun yarn pretty much the whole day. It was awesome.
Saturday, I ran for groceries and as a reward for doing that, allowed myself the rest of the morning to make fig newtons. They turned out a little odd, too much moisture in the dough but very delicious as always. I had sidejob work requests piling up over the past two weeks, so that afternoon, I buckled down and got three of them done. I'll keep working on those this week and should make a dent in the remaining ones.
Sunday I went to the last Whale home game. It was a super fun game, the crowd was really excited and some of the discord folks came to the game and met me in the stands for a bit. There was also an autograph line afterwards and I got some things signed. It was Shannon Turner's last home game before she retires (she's played for the whale for 8 years since the beginning of the league and has been captain for like six of those) and even when the team was doing terrible, she was still cheerful and having a good time and it was so great, so I told her that and she hugged me. So that was nice.
Hopefully a more relaxing week this week, seems like it so far. We had an inch of snow Saturday and we are due for 5-8 inches tonight into tomorrow so I'm prepared to go nowhere.
