A week in the life of Krazy boy
Spent last weekend in Dallas so this blog post is a
week behind. Sheetrock was put up in the basement
last Monday and every morning for a few hours
additional work (putty'ing, smoothing and then
sanding) was done with it finished on Friday morning
- Yeah! Unfortunately none of the guys who did the
walls ever cleaned up any part of their messes (very
annoying). So first thing this morning, with the help
of Uncle Brian, Aunt Terri & Tim (later Lizzy) we
cleaned up the basement, then put up primer and then
painted one coat on the wall and did ~30 2x2' tiles
in the garage. It was a gorgeous and productive day!
(but that's just the basement - I'm going back late
tonight to do coat #2)
One of the better friends I've made here in NE drove off to Virginia this morning. We got a lot of fun time in this week and I hosted a goodbye party for him last night with food, games and then cheering him on in a 11pm hockey game (the highlight of which was him pursuing the puck, the defender and him flying into the wall, Dennis turning and in one motion launching the puck 30' into the air and goal net while the ref blows his whistle and gives him 5 mins in penalty box for checking even though the defender hit the wall on his own accord). Dennis will return in June, but means that our band, Frash, may be on hiatus for a bit.
In work I had my annual review (actually, it was to my surprise since I continued to have phone problems and had no up-to-date calendar - got new phone and fixed the software problem (as of yesterday!)). While it was probably mostly positive, it was easy to focus on the criticisms. Because I don't see patients, it becomes easy for others who do to think that I have lots of free time at work and add more to my workload. It got a bit over the top this winter with this combined with being sick too often. I also was asked to chair a university committee and our first meeting was this week. I didn't know anyone on the committee, and only being here a year, I knew very little about the system we were being asked to provide new regulations/designs for. I wasn't overly worried as a couple higher-ups were to start this meeting, give us our charge and provide early leadership... neither of them showed up! I did a decent job on the fly, but it was very frustrating since I was asking more questions than I was able to answer and probably did little to establish confidence in the committee's goals. (and while I was determined to say no to jobs like this, this one will apply directly to my research in getting data for my local database plus give me some needed cool points with the university).
Kansas just won - what an exciting and krazy game! Gonna use this energy to do some more painting. Still feel like I have a ways to go on the basement, but it's nice to see the transformation in action. One step at a time...
In good news, my grandfather had his gallbladder taken out last week (right after Easter) and is doing much better. Yeah!
I'm skipping over a lot of other important events from this past week including some major ups and downs, but I'm off to paint!
One of the better friends I've made here in NE drove off to Virginia this morning. We got a lot of fun time in this week and I hosted a goodbye party for him last night with food, games and then cheering him on in a 11pm hockey game (the highlight of which was him pursuing the puck, the defender and him flying into the wall, Dennis turning and in one motion launching the puck 30' into the air and goal net while the ref blows his whistle and gives him 5 mins in penalty box for checking even though the defender hit the wall on his own accord). Dennis will return in June, but means that our band, Frash, may be on hiatus for a bit.
In work I had my annual review (actually, it was to my surprise since I continued to have phone problems and had no up-to-date calendar - got new phone and fixed the software problem (as of yesterday!)). While it was probably mostly positive, it was easy to focus on the criticisms. Because I don't see patients, it becomes easy for others who do to think that I have lots of free time at work and add more to my workload. It got a bit over the top this winter with this combined with being sick too often. I also was asked to chair a university committee and our first meeting was this week. I didn't know anyone on the committee, and only being here a year, I knew very little about the system we were being asked to provide new regulations/designs for. I wasn't overly worried as a couple higher-ups were to start this meeting, give us our charge and provide early leadership... neither of them showed up! I did a decent job on the fly, but it was very frustrating since I was asking more questions than I was able to answer and probably did little to establish confidence in the committee's goals. (and while I was determined to say no to jobs like this, this one will apply directly to my research in getting data for my local database plus give me some needed cool points with the university).
Kansas just won - what an exciting and krazy game! Gonna use this energy to do some more painting. Still feel like I have a ways to go on the basement, but it's nice to see the transformation in action. One step at a time...
In good news, my grandfather had his gallbladder taken out last week (right after Easter) and is doing much better. Yeah!
I'm skipping over a lot of other important events from this past week including some major ups and downs, but I'm off to paint!
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