“Remoted – Hybrid” – Day 965 (Monday) – done day

This day. Oy. It started with a headache that blasted in around 8:30 a.m. Apparently, my cranium is such a great host that it hung around all day. And night. Work itself wasn’t so bad, it just felt long and filled with small annoyances, hunger, and fatigue from multiple awakenings overnight to let Win outside.

There was the Monday mad dash out of the office to tend to Winston, who now has a weird puffiness to one side of his face. I had class, so there wasn’t time to dote on him or even to call the vet. The 30-minute pit stop included letting him out, setting up his food, looking at his funny puffy spot, coaxing him back outside, putting him into a fresh diaper. It was nuked frozen gnocchi with cheese, practically inhaled,  for me. 

Then it was back out the door for what turned out to be a white-knuckle drive to Finnish language class. The peaceful, winding country roads were a story of what a difference a week and a time change make. It was fully dark. Shoulders were tense. Hands were in a death grip on the steering wheel. Jaw was clenched so tight it’s surprising it didn’t shatter, along with all my teeth. This is what happens when I drive, and this is why I’m not such a big fan of it. 

Restarting.
Not an entertaining experience.

Back home after class, Winston was adorable and playful and seems unaware of the puffy spot on his mouth. He even let me touch it. It’s soft and movable. He didn’t react, except to tap his feet in the gimme a cookie dance, his favorite choreography in the repertoire.

At 9:15, it was finally time to relax. that's when the tinnitus kicked in extra shrill and loud. And of course, it’s been a few weeks since having to reset the cable box, so tonight was the night it was a blank black screen. The restart happened, and there was the wait for it to cycle through the welcome screen and the blue screen while it set up "my entertainment experience." It was another tiny annoyance in a day of many annoyances. I wasn't amused.

Thank goodness for bedtime and that the moderately annoying day is done. Tomorrow is a fresh day. with luck, Winston will wake me up in time to see the lunar eclipse. And it's only 4.5 months until the next time change to screw things up again.