Tuesday stuff
2 March 2021 18:41![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
m_d_hI started work early, but then I took an hour to do my weightlifting routine in the basement. Body is feeling back to normal, normal GI tract and BMs. Cooked dinner for T, then back to the work laptop for a bit, but now I'm done with work until tomorrow.
Dax's surgery is Thursday morning. I'll try to take him on a hike tomorrow morning, and then give him a bath so he's clean for the surgery and recovery period. He'll have multiple incisions and will need to wear a cone for a while. I tried one last time to see whether T would join me in delaying the surgery, but no dice. I think if the vet recommends, and one owner agrees, then you go ahead and do it. It's not the cost, I'm just not sure it is worth it for Dax's quality of life at his age. The benign growths aren't bothering him. But they could continue to grow until they do bother him, so, the recommendation is to have them out now.
T has a virtual meeting tonight from 6:30-8:30, so I pledged to have dinner ready by 6:00. But I pressed him into service to help and barely had it ready at 5:59. Cooking takes me longer than it should, because of my poor dexterity. But the meal turned out great.
No alcohol with dinner the past two nights. We don't have any wine in the house currently. We keep talking about not drinking during the work week but then we want to either celebrate something, or have a date night, or somebody had a stressful day. We also get a monthly wine shipment of six half-bottles, so we tend to drink more often after that arrives.
Both Dax and Astrid have been more snuggly lately, perhaps because I've been more snuggly also and have increased their snuggle expectations. Also, February was colder than normal here. But as I wrote the other day, they are my only source of snuggles for now, so I'm making the most of it. Not the same as snuggling with a sexy man who I either love or have a crush on, but beggars can't be choosers.
Dax seems to miss socializing with other dogs the way he did when we'd take him to day care. I guess we're better off with him getting this surgery during Quarantine when we're home to nurse him. Back in the olden times T and I would be negotiating over who could work from home on which days.
My employer is not speculating at all about when we'll return to the office, what steps we'll take as we phase back to normal, or what the new normal will look like. There's a lot of curiosity about -- now that we've proven we can do our jobs from home, can't we continue to do our jobs remotely? Can't some of us move away and continue doing our jobs remotely? Can't we hire people who don't live around here and let them work remotely? For much of last year, I felt like it was impossible to do my job remotely, but that has changed, I eventually figured it out. They finally sent me a printer, but I don't see when I'll ever use it. I did use it to print out an income tax form that I couldn't file electronically, and mailed that to the IRS on Friday.
If most of my staff worked remotely, it wouldn't do me much good to work downtown. My boss is old fashioned and he'd definitely go to the office every day, and he'd probably lean on the workgroup supervisors to do the same. But now that I have a home gym I'd want to work from home a couple days per week.
Sounds like B is coming to the house Friday so he can tour homes for sale here in Maryland on Saturday -- I'd sort of expected that? I'll have a discussion with T on Friday morning once we see how Dax is doing -- I have no problem staying at the house for a weekend while Dax is recovering, instead of dumping that duty on T. Could be nice to see B and hang out with both of them Friday evening. Socializing!
Otherwise, if we're really going to vaccinate everybody by the end of May, I think I'm going to hang tight until then instead of gambling on things like professional haircuts or hookups. Less than three more months of Quarantine? I can do that. Especially with the days getting longer and warmer, spending more time outside. Ramping up the running mileage again. Gotta get myself in post-Quarantine shape, like people always want to get themselves in bathing suit shape :-)
Dax's surgery is Thursday morning. I'll try to take him on a hike tomorrow morning, and then give him a bath so he's clean for the surgery and recovery period. He'll have multiple incisions and will need to wear a cone for a while. I tried one last time to see whether T would join me in delaying the surgery, but no dice. I think if the vet recommends, and one owner agrees, then you go ahead and do it. It's not the cost, I'm just not sure it is worth it for Dax's quality of life at his age. The benign growths aren't bothering him. But they could continue to grow until they do bother him, so, the recommendation is to have them out now.
T has a virtual meeting tonight from 6:30-8:30, so I pledged to have dinner ready by 6:00. But I pressed him into service to help and barely had it ready at 5:59. Cooking takes me longer than it should, because of my poor dexterity. But the meal turned out great.
No alcohol with dinner the past two nights. We don't have any wine in the house currently. We keep talking about not drinking during the work week but then we want to either celebrate something, or have a date night, or somebody had a stressful day. We also get a monthly wine shipment of six half-bottles, so we tend to drink more often after that arrives.
Both Dax and Astrid have been more snuggly lately, perhaps because I've been more snuggly also and have increased their snuggle expectations. Also, February was colder than normal here. But as I wrote the other day, they are my only source of snuggles for now, so I'm making the most of it. Not the same as snuggling with a sexy man who I either love or have a crush on, but beggars can't be choosers.
Dax seems to miss socializing with other dogs the way he did when we'd take him to day care. I guess we're better off with him getting this surgery during Quarantine when we're home to nurse him. Back in the olden times T and I would be negotiating over who could work from home on which days.
My employer is not speculating at all about when we'll return to the office, what steps we'll take as we phase back to normal, or what the new normal will look like. There's a lot of curiosity about -- now that we've proven we can do our jobs from home, can't we continue to do our jobs remotely? Can't some of us move away and continue doing our jobs remotely? Can't we hire people who don't live around here and let them work remotely? For much of last year, I felt like it was impossible to do my job remotely, but that has changed, I eventually figured it out. They finally sent me a printer, but I don't see when I'll ever use it. I did use it to print out an income tax form that I couldn't file electronically, and mailed that to the IRS on Friday.
If most of my staff worked remotely, it wouldn't do me much good to work downtown. My boss is old fashioned and he'd definitely go to the office every day, and he'd probably lean on the workgroup supervisors to do the same. But now that I have a home gym I'd want to work from home a couple days per week.
Sounds like B is coming to the house Friday so he can tour homes for sale here in Maryland on Saturday -- I'd sort of expected that? I'll have a discussion with T on Friday morning once we see how Dax is doing -- I have no problem staying at the house for a weekend while Dax is recovering, instead of dumping that duty on T. Could be nice to see B and hang out with both of them Friday evening. Socializing!
Otherwise, if we're really going to vaccinate everybody by the end of May, I think I'm going to hang tight until then instead of gambling on things like professional haircuts or hookups. Less than three more months of Quarantine? I can do that. Especially with the days getting longer and warmer, spending more time outside. Ramping up the running mileage again. Gotta get myself in post-Quarantine shape, like people always want to get themselves in bathing suit shape :-)