Land of the Fat Dumb and Lazy in Trichotomy

Money matters

I finally heard from the education group at work, and that they got approval for a headcount. The manager said she would ping me when the opening is posted, so I am cautiously optimistic about moving teams. I found out that the tech lead in the group is someone I knew in maps (but not very well), so hopefully it will be a good change.

My current team is in the middle of an implementation sprint though, so it may be tricky to get everything wrapped up. But at least I am not indispensable there.

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Third time's a charm

We had postponed our New Year’s Eve party because of Omicron wave, so we rescheduled it to Independence Day weekend. And then on the day of, La Professeure tested positive, so we have to postpone it again.

We figured it’s bound to happen some time. I am still amazed that she did not catch it from me when I did. Right now she’s still in the middle of it (it’s been 2 days since she tested positive, 3 days since symptoms started), so going by my schedule, she’ll be back to something like 80% in the next couple of days.

The real challenge is getting rid of all this food we were preparing for 2 dozen people. Some are/can be frozen and some can be donated to food pantries, but the ones we’ve already started cooking - like the pot of potato salad mount and chopped up fruit for - will be tricky to get rid of.

On the bright side, we’ll now both have super immunity when she recovers.

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The best-laid plans

We visited la Professeure’s brother in Virginia last week. Her parents were there too; it was a family reunion since we didn’t see them on Christmas because of covid. We went to a cat cafe there. It’s bigger than the one we have, but it doesn’t have big TVs showing cat channels.

We went around the neighbourhood for a walk - brother-in-law just started renting a house - and discovered that my parents-in-law’s mobility is much worse than before. She’d had another cancer surgery and he’d broken his back during the pandemic. So neither have been active for a while. We were worried about the trip they had planned with us to the Elbe river. The river cruise company would accommodate mobility issues, but I worry they would overestimate their abilities. Luckily my brother-in-law stepped up and asked them not to go, and they’d agreed.

The downside is that La Professeure and I are not going either, since they are postponing the trip until they go through rehab. I was really looking forward to visiting Prague and seeing the Petrof piano factory, so I booked another trip, along the Danube, that happens to incude a Prague stay on my birthday. Now I just hope that the factory has space to accommodate visitors while we are there.

I was planning to make the Danube visit our 10 year anniversary trip (part of our Honeymoon was on the Danube), but I am now pushing up the celebration schedule.

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