I had quite a bit of trouble falling asleep last night as I tossed and turned, and it felt like I kept getting ant bites, but we haven’t had any bugs. Once I did finally fall asleep, it was only a couple of hours before I woke up feeling wide awake again, but fortunately I was able to fall right back to sleep.
Work was really quiet as I rehearsed my conversation with the superintendent. I brought leftover donuts and a kolache for lunch, but then fought gnats until all the food was gone. Toby came to my office and basically said that Harry was on his back to get stuff moved out of my office, so I doubly had to find time to talk to him. I had a FedEx truck show up without a lift gate and had to unload a pallet of Chromebooks by hand. I basically saved my conversation until the last couple hours of work.
I went into the front office and was a little worried that he might not be there. Everyone else was long gone, and the locks had been changed to keep everyone else out. Harry heard my footsteps and slowly turned around to see me in his doorway, and he seemed a little spooked. I assumed he might be expecting the conversation about my office, but instead I started by talking about my expectations versus reality regarding my position. I shared my thoughts about what it would take to keep someone in that position, and he kind of just did the finance dance and tried to explain budgeting. I was no stranger to the concept, so the conversation ran a bit longer than it really needed to. My hope was to put him at a little bit of ease, but also to make my concerns into his concerns in order to stimulate some results.
As I started to leave, I finally brought up the office situation and expressed our need for a place to work and also store inventory. He seemed to be caught between work and his wife, and I wasn’t intimidated by either. We ended up walking through her office where she was still working, and then through mine.
I finally got home late, and went to my parents’ house to help clean up some leftovers. They still had so much random food from even before having family over, so I finished what I could. Then Dad got out a new telescope to briefly look at Venus, which basically looked like a micro-crescent moon with no resolution. High resolution photos from space telescopes have spoiled me.
Eaddie and Summer were in bed when I got to their house. Eaddie got a new fan because her old one kept tripping the breaker. The new one has way brighter lights, so I think she’s happy. Summer fell asleep pretty quickly, leaving me to finish my nightly chores before bed.
Relax man, you’re two tents!