I bought a cordless hair clipper set from Amazon and tried my hand at home haircutting. He won’t be down with it forever, but for now, the homegrown undercut will be cheaper and more convenient than schlepping to the salon.
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: February 2020
The kalanchoes seem to like the west-facing kitchen window: for the first time in the years I’ve had these, all three colors are in bloom at once.
Outside, I can see some daffodil greens peeking up in the early spring border. Spring is on the way… eventually.
Status: Eerily Quiet
Power outage on a bright but overcast Sunday morning. Right in the middle of doing laundry. I can hear the neighbor’s generator humming, so it’s not just us.
Update: Power returned in 90 minutes. No word from Edison as to the cause. Amazing how we grow accustomed to the low hum of appliances in our homes.
Status: Snow Day Number Two
Today was Connor’s second snow day of second grade. I decided to work from home and let him enjoy a day off instead of taking him to all-day child care, which worked out nicely for everyone.
Not Working Through My Lunch Today
I’ve developed a new habit that I need to break: eating at my desk and working through my lunch.
Used to be that I had something booked for every day of the week over my lunch hour: WW (the program formerly known Weight Watchers) on Tuesdays, lunch out with co-workers on Wednesdays, two fitness classes a week, and one day for either walking outside or blogging at a coffee shop or other non-desk location.
Since I’ve started taking Krav Maga twice a week, I don’t take the kickboxing class on Mondays anymore — two butt-kickings a day is one too many. I still do WW on Tuesdays (unless I have a looming deadline) and Girls’ Lunch on Wednesdays (unless my cohort N is out of the office), and sometimes there’s a fitness class on Thursday or Friday I’ll want to take… but not always.
I’ve also been heads-down on a major project at work for the past… well, several months, anyway. I’m learning more about DAX and Power BI the more I develop and the further I get into the project, and I’m enjoying it overall… but there are more than the usual quota of roadblocks in this project, it seems. Ambiguous requirements, changing requirements, interpersonal issues, and other various unexpected roadblocks have really prolonged this release. All of us on the project are ready for it to be over… and it still has a few phases planned for after we get the current release submitted for QA testing.