Good morning everyone.
Happy belated birthday, Nettie!
Even though Polar pooed, I did take him to the vet because I was right about him having a bit of infection. He is on antibiotics for 14 days and they want me to give him his Rymadil twice a day since it’s an anti-inflammatory.
Thanks for the compliment about Polar, boofae. He really is a pretty dog, especially when he’s been raked and brushed. It’s not apparent in the picture, but one of his eyes is blue on the top half. He’s got personality for days and he’s definitely made my life interesting over the last 11 or 12 years.
Yesterday was definitely another crazy workday, and I became annoyed and pretty grumpy for a hot minute because of some purchase card bull****. The PMO audits our credit card accounts and came back at me for missing documentation. The problem was the forms they are asking me to provide are baloney and we were told three months ago during training these forms were not required for this vendor. We are REQUIRED to use this particular vendor for our postage so there IS no alternate source. It’s boiling down to providing almost 10 different forms for documentation, sometimes more. I DO NOT HAVE TIME. If I am using the required source that has ALREADY been determined to be NDAA compliant, all that should be required for documentation is the purchase request/fund certification, the invoice, and proof of payment. Not price reasonableness determination, not alternate vendor source, not the something or other I can’t remember the name of, not the NDAA letter signed by the vendor, not a screen shot of my comments WHICH ARE ALREADY IN THE BANK RECORDS WHEN I RECONCILE THE DAMN PURCHASE THAT THEY SEE WHILE AUDITING THE PURCHASE and not the other BS forms. PANT: PANT. I hate purchasing with a passion. Teams in PMO should do it, their job series make them the experts. And frankly, when the guidance and requirements change every damn month because they don’t know what the hell they’re doing, we’ll never be right anyway. They are inconsistent in the guidance they send out and in fact, their “training” has become total ****shows, causing senior leadership to have many meetings, but nothing has actually been done. Ugh. They can’t hire the replacement for my old position soon enough, I am so ready to turn in my purchase card. I just don’t have the time to even keep up with it because of all the other stuff I need to deal with.
It’s my RDO, but I do have to go upstairs and validate my timecard. I forgot to do that last night when I logged off. I plan to take care of some little chores around the house.
We were going to have Zoe come over for the weekend but decided that since Polar is pretty tender, it would be best to let him heal up some. He wouldn’t bite her, but sometimes dogs that hurt might snap. He’s never snapped, but I don’t want to take any chances. It’s best to let him heal properly. Honestly, Zoe is pretty good about leaving Polar alone. She gives him gentle pats on the back, but she might touch the shaved part which is tender. I am more worried about Adam anyway. He’s INTENSELY curious about Polar and likes to try and grab the fur. Polar becomes a little wall-eyed when that happens and moves away, but again, he hurts and I am not taking chances. We don’t intentionally let Adam grab Polar, but that boy is fast and doesn’t give up on an objective.
We got some good rain yesterday. Both in the morning, and later in the evening. It was so nice! Today is supposed to be partly cloudy with temps in the high 60s, but the weekend is supposed to be bright and sunny with temps near 80.
There weren’t a huge number of people there and everyone tended to be in small groups with a bit of space in between so clearly we’re not quite comfortable with the moshpit yet! Still, felt good to be out and doing something we’ve all missed for 18 months or more.
I have Doggio’s address and can be bribed to share it! 