random truths – Day 1,060 (Friday) – chocolate comfort

The morning was spent out of the office. There were visits to two of our New Hampshire branches and then a photo shoot on location at a customer’s site. I always forget how much I like being out of the office and talking to the branch teams and being on location photo shoots until I’m out there doing it. Bonus elements today included light traffic, arriving at each location with enough time to relax for a second before jumping into action. 

Back at the office, we're in the season where we enjoy the regular base layer of busy topped with a bonus level of extra crazy busy. When I started in April 2016, there were references to some mythical, magical time called “when it gets slow,” but I swear I still haven't seen a slow time that lasted longer than about 30 minutes, which is how long we get for lunch. "When it gets slow" reminds me of being a kid and my parents would tell us kids that “someday” we’ll do this or that thing, but not today.

 

Chocolate comfort.

We’ve been armpits deep in projects for various 2022 year-end reports (seems like more than usual) and the floodgates have opened with requests from multiple departments for new projects, some of which seem to have arrived from out of the blue and with due dates on a near collision course with projects that we already knew about and had on the work list. It’s kind of overwhelming with a spark of exhilarating, but it will pass, just like it always does.

And now it’s the weekend, with two full days free from thinking about work, which is easier to do during the day. Waking up during the night while dreaming about work and not being able to get back to sleep  is a different story, but it will pass, just like it always eventually does. I hope.

In the meantime, while waiting for the pace to settle down a bit, it’s Valentine candy season. Solace was sought tonight in a delicious box of gifted hand-crafted candies. Making chocolate disappear is my superpower. One of them. Hooray for chocolate comfort items in busy times.