Warm again, possibility of rain. Although yesterday was very nice indeed. Still around 70F at midnight, it was warm all day. Not very Christmas-y but really nice. I wouldn’t mind another couple of days like that.
I got very little done yesterday and have fallen even farther behind. Some kid drama (D1 involved in her SECOND road rage incident, this time over a stolen parking space) and general work avoidance, and reading too much.
Today I have a doctor’s appointment, one pickup, and a whole sh!teton of stuff to do. D1 took a shift on Tuesday night, so W and D2 will head to the BOL today, or possibly tonight, and we’ll follow later. It does give me a bit more time to find and wrap presents, but it wasn’t how I expected to spend Christmas break.
We all know the truth about plans though.
Add practice de-escalating and some defensive driving lessons for D1 to the list. I did a hotwash of the incident with her last night, and we’ll be doing some training soon. I’d already decided to do some more advanced driving stuff with her, now that she is past thinking about ‘right foot’ ‘left foot’ ‘turn’ as she drives, but it’s clear she’s a magnet for trouble and needs some training sooner rather than later. Silly me, I thought it would be easier with girls.
Do the best you can with what you’ve got, wherever you are. And stack.
nick
I hope D1 is OK.
Good luck with the extra training, Nick! I would not have had road rage avoidance on my radar for a new driver. I suppose it is an indictment of the decline in manners of society in general.
My late father taught me to drive, and he was big on defensive driving and courtesy to other road users. I must have retained something of his lessons. In more than 35 years, and probably upwards of a million km, I have had one accident which was my fault. Fortunately, that was minor and long ago. It taught me an important lesson about stopping distances.
The Dems are going to run Gavin Newsom for President.
Gavin had his own set of kneepads in Willie Brown’s desk drawer in San Francisco City Hall, right next to Kamala’s.
Plus, the infrastructure for the sex robots will need a lot of electricity.
But… but… Solar! Wind! Batteries! What do they need any of that dirty nukular energy for???
Include in the lesson the quote (suitably modified) from Frank Borman: “A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.”
We’re spending 3 nights on the Strip at the Bellagio. Family in town and MrsAtoz got a nice discount on the rooms. I’m meh about the Bellagio, but it’s MrsAtoz’s fav this time of year due to the Christmas decorations. The Twins are meh also and are staying home with the doggos.
I gots First World problems.
A skilled operations guy, whether IT operations or warehouse operations or event planning operations, make it look like his job can be done by an intern because problems are anticipated. Work-arounds are planned. He has a list of contacts who can get things moving outside of the usual approval process or who can come in on a moment’s notice.
He will then be “downsized” by a new vice president or a cost-cutting consultant.
Things will then go awry.