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I'm finally back to a pretty standard DLU (Daily Lunch Update), with nothing of all that much note to share, which is just as well . . . except, I suppose, that too many things about work this morning have been stressing me out, which I had been pointedly attempting to avoid. It didn't help that we had a meeting between two departments over Zoom in which one particular person came in with some real shitbag energy that remained consistent throughout the meeting. I was clearly not the only one feeling it either, as I noticed another person on the call lean back and raise their arms a little, in clearly barely contained exasperation.
I was ready for that call to end when it did. It also didn't help that I couldn't get my fucking headset to work properly, and when I had the sound from other people coming through my computer speaker, they still couldn't hear me, and when I was asked a question I just had to type an answer in the chat. Jesus Christ. Part of the problem is the issue I seem to have with only two USB ports in the laptop while I work from home, but an evident need for three; the fucking headset only seems to want to work when both charged
and the dongle is in a USB port. I may have finally figure out a solution by plugging the charger into the USB port in the back of this TV screen I am using as an external monitor.
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In other news, I'm starting to get around to having my one-week postponed (but still overlapping my actual birthday) Birth Week confirmed with activities rescheduled. I think at this point the only people I need to get anything fully confirmed with are Dad and Gabriel. Unfortunately Jennifer won't be able to do anything during the actual week next week, so we'll meet on the 14th so we can still do the Kitsap Live Steamers train ride as originally planned; they're only doing it on the second and fourth Saturday of every month. She had originally said she could get together to do something else on Saturday the 7th but then she forgot she had weekend plans for Mother's Day. Fucking Mother's Day! Ruining my Birth Week plans! Okay, okay, Mother's Day is just as important as my Birth Week. For most people, rightly so, much more important. I'm not being that serious, relax.
Wait a minute! Dad just confirmed via text while I was writing this. So I'm basically all set now for every day and person except for Gabriel.
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As for how I'm actually feeling . . . quite a bit better, actually. I'm not even feeling as physically tired as I was yesterday, which itself had been an improvement; the only real lingering thing is a sort of taste/scent of vague "sickness" I sense through my nose when I breathe, which is weird. I'm not even really congested anymore. I did take the car yesterday evening and drove first to the library to return a DVD and also pick up both a DVD and another book; then I drove by the office to swap out paperwork, the stacker of receivers and invoices shockingly
not as thick as I thought it would be. Either somebody helped me out with that last week without telling me, which seems unlikely, or a miracle happened and the volume is just lower than normal right now, thanks to invoices matching our system costs more consistently. These things only happen for about a month at a time, and by the time our June promotion month rolls around I'll probably get higher volume again. But it's lucky to get a bit of a reprieve for the moment.
I came back home and wound up convincing Shobhit to watch the very weird but entertaining new Marvel show on Disney+,
Moon Knight, with me. He even went for seeing a second episode, after which it was time for me to go to bed.
Shobhit's back at work today. His first shift since Saturday the 16th, ten days ago.
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[posted 12:51 pm]
