random thoughts – Day 1,938 – (Monday) – flashback monday

Flashback Monday.

This morning began at the home office desk, like it would have on a work from home day. There were emails needing attention, the auto insurance policy renewal needing a premium payment, bills needing online payments, and information to review concerning the bank stock transition and shares payout and health coverage and other things that are easier to read and deal with on a laptop than on the tiny screen of a cell phone. 

Just like a once upon a time regular work day, there were crossed wires and missing information. The insurance agent sent the link to make the premium payment on the insurance company portal but not the policy number which is the first nugget of info requested on the portal. The healthcare task had a portal sign-up requirement that was a hellscape loop of required info fields and error messages. There were problems downloading files from emails. Online statements and bills needed to be hunted down and made me really miss paper statements.

The headache and swearing set in about as quickly as it would have on a Monday workday, too. The whole thing felt like a flashback, and not in a soft-focus, nostalgic film way and more of a horror movie, what in the actual hell kind of way.

Unlike any of the work days of the past nine years, I somehow managed to forget about breakfast and lunch. It was early afternoon before I thought about food. It felt like a benefit of this temporarily disrupted and unemployed life now focused on annual insurance renewals and unusual events like selling a house and buying another one and packing things. Once housing is dealt with, the full throttle and unusual activity of searching for a job can begin.