Monday, March 21
Yesterday was my first day back at the gym after about a month-long hiatus. The alarm went off at 6:15, and Chris got up and made breakfast for the kids. Pancakes, yesterday. By 7:15, the kids were fed and on the bus, the dog was fed and walked, the chickens were released to forage, and we were packed and off to work out. Oh, and Chris set the tangy sourdough out to pre-ferment. Baking the artisan breads has been tons of fun, but one thinks differently about it when it takes three days to make one loaf.
The gym felt good. My endurance was down after a month, and I had to resort to a couple of walking intervals on my 5K run. I know it will come back, but it was tough to pick up again. I weighed in at 147, still holding a good 30 pounds less than this time last year, and 12 pounds from my goal weight of 135. Maybe towards summer I can get there. It's been a really slow weight loss, which is sometimes frustrating, but on the whole has been more successful than some of the faster approaches I've taken.
Then it was in to the office. I'm forming up a group to work on a unified approach to IT service delivery and support for our units with a presence in NYC. Not counting the medical school, and with incomplete data, it looks like ~100 FTE in 7 locations. I'll know more after this first informative census completes. I made good progress on identifying which groups will be involved. The duck lab is still on the fence, since technically they're out on LI and not in NYC. I say, why not include the ducks! I'm very pro-duck.
We had our weekly management team meeting. Looks like some first steps towards changing our charge-back and billing models will be coming on July 1. I need to check with RDV and see who he's got working the commo and service changes, but it will be big for NUBB, port fees, and public ports. Kinda exciting.
In lieu of lunch, I went to the mall and got a new bra. I needed something in a lighter color for spring fabrics, and the recent weight loss program has not been good for the bust line.
Then I started working on our managed firewall RFP. And, Cisco finally coughed up a sales droid to come see us on Friday. I swear, it's like they don't want our money and we're talking a 1.5M project. Juniper was ready to put someone on a plane before we hung up. FortiNet, SonicWall, CheckPoint and their VAR. But CIsco? Seriously. Show some hunger.
That was the day...then home, checking in on my mother who is hellaciously sick right now, and on with evening chores. I made dinner (tillapia, jasmine rice, and steamed broccoli). The kids love fish. Chris went to Trumansburg Community Chorus. I helped Maddy with her geometry homework. They've got some new fangled way to find the area of regular polygons. Luckily, my formulae still work (thank you, Sister Jerolynn Mary) so she may get in trouble for using A=1/2bh for a triangle, or A=s2 for a square, but life will go on. Maddy rotated laundry for me (we're still running behind), and I did two loads of dishes, collected the eggs (only 7 yesterday), put the chickens in the coop for the night, and squared away my gym clothes for the next day. I tucked Paul in, Maddy took herself to bed, and I poured myself a wee little drink. I think the evening cocktail is the next most likely space from which to harvest calories. I proofed the bread in the brotform, but it got to late to bake so it went back into the fridge after another 4 or 5 hours of ferment time.
Chris got home, and we continued on through Season 1 of Torchwood, getting through Random Shoes last night. It's a nice little stand alone episode, I think. I like that everything works out OK in the end, even for the dead guy. I like a happy ending.
And with that, it was off to bed.
The gym felt good. My endurance was down after a month, and I had to resort to a couple of walking intervals on my 5K run. I know it will come back, but it was tough to pick up again. I weighed in at 147, still holding a good 30 pounds less than this time last year, and 12 pounds from my goal weight of 135. Maybe towards summer I can get there. It's been a really slow weight loss, which is sometimes frustrating, but on the whole has been more successful than some of the faster approaches I've taken.
Then it was in to the office. I'm forming up a group to work on a unified approach to IT service delivery and support for our units with a presence in NYC. Not counting the medical school, and with incomplete data, it looks like ~100 FTE in 7 locations. I'll know more after this first informative census completes. I made good progress on identifying which groups will be involved. The duck lab is still on the fence, since technically they're out on LI and not in NYC. I say, why not include the ducks! I'm very pro-duck.
We had our weekly management team meeting. Looks like some first steps towards changing our charge-back and billing models will be coming on July 1. I need to check with RDV and see who he's got working the commo and service changes, but it will be big for NUBB, port fees, and public ports. Kinda exciting.
In lieu of lunch, I went to the mall and got a new bra. I needed something in a lighter color for spring fabrics, and the recent weight loss program has not been good for the bust line.
Then I started working on our managed firewall RFP. And, Cisco finally coughed up a sales droid to come see us on Friday. I swear, it's like they don't want our money and we're talking a 1.5M project. Juniper was ready to put someone on a plane before we hung up. FortiNet, SonicWall, CheckPoint and their VAR. But CIsco? Seriously. Show some hunger.
That was the day...then home, checking in on my mother who is hellaciously sick right now, and on with evening chores. I made dinner (tillapia, jasmine rice, and steamed broccoli). The kids love fish. Chris went to Trumansburg Community Chorus. I helped Maddy with her geometry homework. They've got some new fangled way to find the area of regular polygons. Luckily, my formulae still work (thank you, Sister Jerolynn Mary) so she may get in trouble for using A=1/2bh for a triangle, or A=s2 for a square, but life will go on. Maddy rotated laundry for me (we're still running behind), and I did two loads of dishes, collected the eggs (only 7 yesterday), put the chickens in the coop for the night, and squared away my gym clothes for the next day. I tucked Paul in, Maddy took herself to bed, and I poured myself a wee little drink. I think the evening cocktail is the next most likely space from which to harvest calories. I proofed the bread in the brotform, but it got to late to bake so it went back into the fridge after another 4 or 5 hours of ferment time.
Chris got home, and we continued on through Season 1 of Torchwood, getting through Random Shoes last night. It's a nice little stand alone episode, I think. I like that everything works out OK in the end, even for the dead guy. I like a happy ending.
And with that, it was off to bed.