Busy work week
Nov. 10th, 2023 05:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukeThis week was busy, mostly with work. Monday, I was at coworker's (C) cleaning the last of the chickpea seed, but also was trying to coordinate rides to get a fleet vehicle back during the work trip later that week. Other coworker (B) was being very unhelpful, so finally I texted them directly and asked if they could pick me up from the farm because it would spare another coworker an extra 2 hour drive at 8:30pm on return. They picked me up and took me home, so the car stayed on site for two days. I also used the shopvac to clean it out and left a box of stuff at my coworker's.
Tuesday, I worked from home and packed for work trip and then took Mara to her vet appointment. It was for vaccines mostly and I also asked about her gross toe, the scabby skin spots and if there was anything I could give her for extra long traveling (thanksgiving, 6 hour drive, will do 3 hours, break, 3 hours). She got all the vaccines (yay!), I need to change her rabies tag out. Vet looked at her gross toe and confirmed there wasn't much to be done with it except continuing to trim off the weird bits until it finally broke properly. Scabby skin spots looked like a skin infection, so she has another round of antibiotics. Travel got gabipentin doses to be given about an hour before we start our journey.
I left early Wednesday morning, taking my truck to C's and leaving it there and picking up the fleet car. Drove to campus. There was some wild construction happening in various places so it took a little longer than expected. I had left plenty of time so got there with an hour and a half to spare before sessions started. It was good because I took 20 minutes to find parking, dropped books at the library and had time to eat some snacks before sessions started. I took my knitting sweater project and made a ton of progress on it. Conference sessions were interesting but mostly not note taking sorts of things. We went out to the networking session that night, which was supposed to be at place A but somehow said location (reliable, affiliated with campus), canceled the reservation so we all were packed in the bar of a hotel nearby. It was not super fun to be honest. But my stratey of finding the other techs and just hovering with them and chatting worked very well. I had to remind our team leader that she had said something about rounding folks up for dinner plans and so finally finally we did that.
Had dinner nearby at a place with one (1) gluten free option which was a beet salad. Ew. So I risked it and ate a chicken sandwich off the bun. Pretty mediocre to be honest. Went to the hotel finally, which was actually decent. It's a new place that just opened up and while the rooms were pretty small, they were nice. Other than being unable to change the thermostat, which meant I slept horribly because I like to sleep in the cold, and this was set to 72. We set out heat to 58 at night at home.
Rolled out of bed in the morning when coworkers who were also staying there texted about breakfast plans and managed to shower off the sweat, dress and pack up in 20 minutes. We went to a place that had gluten free bagels (!) and I got a bagel sandwich and some yogurt. Absolutely delicious. Then back to the conference for more sessions and more knitting.
Since I was leaving with C, I had lunch with them and E and they had a planning meeting about some things for next week since it was easier to do in person since they were both right there. I knitted and watched videos on my phone and played Pokemon Go while they planned things. We hit the road around 2:30 and I drove the first part of the drive since C had to answer emails and calls. We got to C's, I hopped in my truck and instantly cursed my past self for forgetting to change the headlight of my truck that had gone out on Monday. I drove to a gas station that had good lighting, and since I had changed the other headlight about a month ago, I had another light in my truck. Thank god it was the easy side to replace. I popped the hood and changed it in about two minutes flat. Drove home. Got home around 7 where my dog was apparently distressed that I was missing and promptly drank an entire bowl of water.
This morning I dragged myself out of bed and went back to C's for the seed field meeting which honestly went very well and was an excellent work event. I got a ton of seed cleaned and so did the other folks. I'm very tired now and just going to eat some random stuff out of the fridge and watch videos on my computer.
Tuesday, I worked from home and packed for work trip and then took Mara to her vet appointment. It was for vaccines mostly and I also asked about her gross toe, the scabby skin spots and if there was anything I could give her for extra long traveling (thanksgiving, 6 hour drive, will do 3 hours, break, 3 hours). She got all the vaccines (yay!), I need to change her rabies tag out. Vet looked at her gross toe and confirmed there wasn't much to be done with it except continuing to trim off the weird bits until it finally broke properly. Scabby skin spots looked like a skin infection, so she has another round of antibiotics. Travel got gabipentin doses to be given about an hour before we start our journey.
I left early Wednesday morning, taking my truck to C's and leaving it there and picking up the fleet car. Drove to campus. There was some wild construction happening in various places so it took a little longer than expected. I had left plenty of time so got there with an hour and a half to spare before sessions started. It was good because I took 20 minutes to find parking, dropped books at the library and had time to eat some snacks before sessions started. I took my knitting sweater project and made a ton of progress on it. Conference sessions were interesting but mostly not note taking sorts of things. We went out to the networking session that night, which was supposed to be at place A but somehow said location (reliable, affiliated with campus), canceled the reservation so we all were packed in the bar of a hotel nearby. It was not super fun to be honest. But my stratey of finding the other techs and just hovering with them and chatting worked very well. I had to remind our team leader that she had said something about rounding folks up for dinner plans and so finally finally we did that.
Had dinner nearby at a place with one (1) gluten free option which was a beet salad. Ew. So I risked it and ate a chicken sandwich off the bun. Pretty mediocre to be honest. Went to the hotel finally, which was actually decent. It's a new place that just opened up and while the rooms were pretty small, they were nice. Other than being unable to change the thermostat, which meant I slept horribly because I like to sleep in the cold, and this was set to 72. We set out heat to 58 at night at home.
Rolled out of bed in the morning when coworkers who were also staying there texted about breakfast plans and managed to shower off the sweat, dress and pack up in 20 minutes. We went to a place that had gluten free bagels (!) and I got a bagel sandwich and some yogurt. Absolutely delicious. Then back to the conference for more sessions and more knitting.
Since I was leaving with C, I had lunch with them and E and they had a planning meeting about some things for next week since it was easier to do in person since they were both right there. I knitted and watched videos on my phone and played Pokemon Go while they planned things. We hit the road around 2:30 and I drove the first part of the drive since C had to answer emails and calls. We got to C's, I hopped in my truck and instantly cursed my past self for forgetting to change the headlight of my truck that had gone out on Monday. I drove to a gas station that had good lighting, and since I had changed the other headlight about a month ago, I had another light in my truck. Thank god it was the easy side to replace. I popped the hood and changed it in about two minutes flat. Drove home. Got home around 7 where my dog was apparently distressed that I was missing and promptly drank an entire bowl of water.
This morning I dragged myself out of bed and went back to C's for the seed field meeting which honestly went very well and was an excellent work event. I got a ton of seed cleaned and so did the other folks. I'm very tired now and just going to eat some random stuff out of the fridge and watch videos on my computer.
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Date: 2023-11-11 02:21 am (UTC)Hurrah for random food and videos!
Excellent planning to bring your knitting, too.