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arthur_p_dent) wrote2025-02-23 09:49 pm
arthur_p_dent) wrote2025-02-23 09:49 pm
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This past week...
It's been a fairly busy week, and I'm simply worn out now. More so because today I spent nearly the entire day on my feet - I think between 8am-8pm the total amount of time I spent seated was less than one hour. Yes, I did get a lot done in preparation for the week, but it also left me feeling almost like the weekend didn't really exist.
The week actually started ok since Monday was a holiday. Most of my things got done on Sunday, so I was able to spend a lot of the day just relaxing at home. But then it was back to work, and coming back after a long weekend is always a pain. Wednesday I ended up traveling to one of the US plants to meet with their production manager and look into some challenges with a new monitoring system he installed. I needed to see it in action on the shop floor and to see how the operators interacted with it, and the plan was to figure out how I could update our main system so that both would work together seamlessly. I expected to need an hour - I had his answer in three minutes. What he wanted was impossible. His monitoring system was written to work specifically with one other system in the organization, which functions entirely differently than ours. No amount of data updates or workarounds would help - total incompatibility. I'd say the day was a waste, but had I not gone I never would have been able to see the disconnects, and I could have ended up doing weeks of work for nothing.
Thursday I had an appointment with my new dentist, and since I was a new patient I was there for a couple hours in total. Paperwork, a cleaning, x-rays, the examination, and a consultation - very thorough. That, combined with Wednesday's travels, threw me off my schedule for a lot of things. Trying to get caught up forced me to put off some things, including running, which I didn't do all week long. I did get a couple runs in over the weekend though, so that's good.
Friday I got out for lunch with my good friend, at a local Mexican restaurant known for their variety of tacos. I wasn't feeling all that taco-y though, and their burger special of the month caught my eye. Honestly, it was among the best burgers I've had in the city in a long time, and I'll definitely get one there again. However, curling that night was a much less enjoyable experience. My opponents were the friends that I won against a few weeks back, but this time around it was a much different story. They were simply on, pretty much the entire game, and even when we made fantastic shots they always had the immediate answer. Sometimes it goes that way, but it still doesn't feel all that good when it does.
Saturday there was a group of my curling friends participating in a tournament, and I was able to get out and watch their first match. That was a nice break in the week, and about the first amount of relaxation I had in quite a while. The tournament was at a private country club, I had a very nice lunch while I was there, and I got to watch my friends play from a great vantage point. In a few weeks three of them plus myself will be playing as a team in another tournament, which I'm really looking forward to.
And now, since that was a much longer post than I thought it would be, and since another Monday morning will be here sooner than I want it to be, I'll wrap it up for this week. I hope you're all doing well, and have a wonderful week to come. =]
The week actually started ok since Monday was a holiday. Most of my things got done on Sunday, so I was able to spend a lot of the day just relaxing at home. But then it was back to work, and coming back after a long weekend is always a pain. Wednesday I ended up traveling to one of the US plants to meet with their production manager and look into some challenges with a new monitoring system he installed. I needed to see it in action on the shop floor and to see how the operators interacted with it, and the plan was to figure out how I could update our main system so that both would work together seamlessly. I expected to need an hour - I had his answer in three minutes. What he wanted was impossible. His monitoring system was written to work specifically with one other system in the organization, which functions entirely differently than ours. No amount of data updates or workarounds would help - total incompatibility. I'd say the day was a waste, but had I not gone I never would have been able to see the disconnects, and I could have ended up doing weeks of work for nothing.
Thursday I had an appointment with my new dentist, and since I was a new patient I was there for a couple hours in total. Paperwork, a cleaning, x-rays, the examination, and a consultation - very thorough. That, combined with Wednesday's travels, threw me off my schedule for a lot of things. Trying to get caught up forced me to put off some things, including running, which I didn't do all week long. I did get a couple runs in over the weekend though, so that's good.
Friday I got out for lunch with my good friend, at a local Mexican restaurant known for their variety of tacos. I wasn't feeling all that taco-y though, and their burger special of the month caught my eye. Honestly, it was among the best burgers I've had in the city in a long time, and I'll definitely get one there again. However, curling that night was a much less enjoyable experience. My opponents were the friends that I won against a few weeks back, but this time around it was a much different story. They were simply on, pretty much the entire game, and even when we made fantastic shots they always had the immediate answer. Sometimes it goes that way, but it still doesn't feel all that good when it does.
Saturday there was a group of my curling friends participating in a tournament, and I was able to get out and watch their first match. That was a nice break in the week, and about the first amount of relaxation I had in quite a while. The tournament was at a private country club, I had a very nice lunch while I was there, and I got to watch my friends play from a great vantage point. In a few weeks three of them plus myself will be playing as a team in another tournament, which I'm really looking forward to.
And now, since that was a much longer post than I thought it would be, and since another Monday morning will be here sooner than I want it to be, I'll wrap it up for this week. I hope you're all doing well, and have a wonderful week to come. =]