Monday

It is with a tired self that I sit on this train and head back into the city this brisk Monday morning. I think it's accurate to say that I'm not really cut out for working from home. I fall into a rut way too fast. I should have gotten plenty of riding in and still be well rested. Yet somehow last week I rode less than normal and slept less than normal.

As I mentioned in yesterday's post a lot of it has to do with my getting used to being on-call. I need to work less and not be so hyper-proactive trying to make sure it all went well. They'll call me. I also have to make sure I get up early and get my riding in, at least while it's not too cold yet. Plus I drew a crap week so that is what it is.

No worries now. It's Monday morning which brings us to a new week. I'm ready to rock it. This coming weekend is the Jorba bike festival up at Waterloo where I'll be a volunteer. Right now I'm tabbed as a "floater" during setup and a Reserve Rider during the day. That means I help where needed when we setup, then when it's ride time I help lead/sweep/organize any extra rides that may be necessary due to a large turnout.

For now I go back to the box factory though.

Ready for the Offic

Never thought I would say this but I'm so ready to go back to the office tomorrow. I'm not a WFH kinda guy, I just don't do it well. The week started off poorly with me being up until 1:30 then I just stayed up longer and slept later each day.

Like I said to Nat, I used to be able to get up and ride 40 miles and come home in time for the family to wake up. Friday and Saturday they woke me up. It's going to be a stretch waking up at 5:45 tomorrow and getting out the door in time. It's also going to be a shock to Julia when she wakes up and daddy isn't here. Ditto for Nat who will have to get up when Julia does.

On one hand, I played it wrong by staying up too late every night and watching the install logs roll in. This was my first week so I'm still getting my groove on. On top of this, I worked far too many hours during the day then ended up working another 2-4 at night, and thus the cycle goes. I should have let them call or email when something was wrong. Instead I was overly proactive, to my own detriment.

Next time I should have a better groove down but this was a good learning experience. One thing that kinda sucked was that I missed the race today because of this. I just so happened to get the weekend when there was a huge rollout that everyone was hoping would go out when someone else was on-call. Well I got it, so I was on a conference call most of yesterday morning and tied to the house all of yesterday.

As of this morning they weren't sure it was going to stick, and a rollback is the absolute nightmare scenario. So I was still on the clock as of this morning, and couldn't make the race today. No big deal I guess, life goes on.

I ended up on the road today, and got 4 flats. This on top of 2 Friday and 1 Thursday. I have a tire/tube problem of some sort right now. More on that tomorrow.

Slim Pickings

I'm working from home all week so the blog components will be a bit scarce until I'm back on the train. Today was my first day of support and I got 2 calls out of 4 installs, which is a pretty bad rate. That doesn't bode well for Friday where we have about 25 installs.

We had the big fantasy draft tonight and it started at 8:00. It was impossible for me to say what time would be best but Terren decided to go with 8:00 instead of 8:30 and it was for the best. As the last guy was making his pick in the last round, I got an email about a support problem. If we had started at 8:30 it would have been lights out for me. Thankfully it worked out.

I had the first pick and took LT. I think I have a pretty solid team but I always think that. There are question marks up and down the NFL these days so fantasy is tougher than ever. A lot of my fantasy mojo this year rests on Larry Johnson coming back healthy, which is always iffy. I have him in the 2 imprtant leagues - the Facebook league doesn't count for squat really.

I couldn't name half the guys on my team right now. Just drawing a blank. Tomorrow I'm sleeping in and enjoying the morning a little. Tomorrow night will be more hectic than tonight was. I hate to admit it but I like the on-call stuff. It's different, which is always good.