A nuthin' day and a productive evening.

Some days, when I work from home, I can get more work done than I can at the office. Yesterday was not one of those days. The project I'm on now is reasonably complex but not well thought out - I'm making up solutions where the problems haven't been well defined so progress is, to say the least, slow. It's not unlike a puzzle where each solution provides clues looking forward, and helps to clarify the next problem.

And I hate puzzles.

In other news, though, I got the lawn mowed last night. I had planned to pull out the tiller and start on the garden beds, but the damn thing, full of stale fuel and apathy, wouldn't start. The areas to be tilled had finally dried enough to get into, and overnight and into this morning it rained. I think God or Nature or whoever doesn't want us to have a garden...or for me to reseed the area under the maple tree.

I did eventually get it started after draining the old gasoline, cleaning the spark plug and adding fresh fuel, but by that time it was nearly full dark.  I hope that once it stops raining later this morning, it stays not-raining the rest of the day into tomorrow. If that happens, I'll be able to till in the morning.

That's the idea anyway.

This morning, after only five minutes in the office, I got to be witness to a loud-ish, angry pissing match between CFO and DG. I'd stepped in to DG's office just to update the morning before starting work and CFO barged in and proceeded to have it out with DG over accounts receivable and customer handling. Nothing for me to do but move to the back of the bus and watch the carnage. Not a good way for a HSP to start the morning.

The day will get bettter, I'm hopeful. There are a few tasks I can do - unrelated to the current project but valuable nonetheless - that I can Get Done and scratch off the list so I have at least a few wins for the day.

A nuthin' day and a productive evening.

Some days, when I work from home, I can get more work done than I can at the office. Yesterday was not one of those days. The project I'm on now is reasonably complex but not well thought out - I'm making up solutions where the problems haven't been well defined so progress is, to say the least, slow. It's not unlike a puzzle where each solution provides clues looking forward, and helps to clarify the next problem.

And I hate puzzles.

In other news, though, I got the lawn mowed last night. I had planned to pull out the tiller and start on the garden beds, but the damn thing, full of stale fuel and apathy, wouldn't start. The areas to be tilled had finally dried enough to get into, and overnight and into this morning it rained. I think God or Nature or whoever doesn't want us to have a garden...or for me to reseed the area under the maple tree.

I did eventually get it started after draining the old gasoline, cleaning the spark plug and adding fresh fuel, but by that time it was nearly full dark.  I hope that once it stops raining later this morning, it stays not-raining the rest of the day into tomorrow. If that happens, I'll be able to till in the morning.

That's the idea anyway.

This morning, after only five minutes in the office, I got to be witness to a loud-ish, angry pissing match between CFO and DG. I'd stepped in to DG's office just to update the morning before starting work and CFO barged in and proceeded to have it out with DG over accounts receivable and customer handling. Nothing for me to do but move to the back of the bus and watch the carnage. Not a good way for a HSP to start the morning.

The day will get bettter, I'm hopeful. There are a few tasks I can do - unrelated to the current project but valuable nonetheless - that I can Get Done and scratch off the list so I have at least a few wins for the day.