“Remoted – Hybrid” – Day 897 (Wednesday) – office music

It was an office day with the usual things – team meeting, tasks, reviews, rearrangements and removal of words in projects. On the unusual side of the scales, a break was the taken – the kind that involved leaving the building. Hopefully, that will become a regular thig again.

The rippling canal water.

At 1:00, the sun was shining, it was 80-ish degrees, and there was a breeze. I went outside for a walk, and the breeze blew my hair from my face like in a shampoo commercial or an old MTV music video. Except when a corner was turned and the breeze blessed me with a face full of hair. The breeze made ripples on the water in the canal that looked like textured glass. 

In just under 20 minutes, 1.09 miles were completed. With the dust shaken off, the cobwebs cleared from the cranium, and a sense of accomplishment at taking a break and reaching the one-mile goal, it was back to work.

After work, a small group of us went out for drinks and supper. While a song by Wham played, we talked about how this morning one colleague asked us for an album to listen to, and someone said, “The Outfield!” another English band from the 1980s. When it was suggested, the colleague sang the opening line, “Josie’s on a vacation far away,” from their popular song “Your Love.” It turns out she has a nice voice. While describing the song from the morning story to a couple people at the table who didn’t know it right away, it began to play on the restaurant’s music system. There was pointing upward to the ceiling speakers and a couple of us said, “THAT song.” It was kind of spooky in a weird coincidence way, or maybe the robots and AI connected things really are listening to everything and the robot uprising isn’t far away.