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Monday, Monday…
It has taken way longer to be able to start this post than I expected, because I have some Definitely Not Genius colleagues – and, unfortunately, one of them works for me. *sigh* In happy work-related news, though, I got a surprise “thank you” for my efforts on a recent document that was submitted to our customer! It required more than the usual amount of editing/formatting: I didn’t think twice about it at the time (just doin’ my job, yadda yadda), but that team nominated me for one of our program’s quarterly awards…which come with $100 bonuses, which I received this morning…and which I have already converted to an Amazon gift card and spent. 
A little recognition and some unexpected 
are always nice!
I’m ambivalent about bats: I don’t particulary like them, but I don’t mind them. In my late teens/early 20s I was part of a group of friends who always hung out together (ingeniously, we called ourselves The Group), and one of us had a bunch of bats on her family’s property. Whenever we’d hang out around her pool at night, we’d always be dive-bombed by several bats. Slightly disconcerting and scary at the time, but a fond memory now (and my only experience with them).
I am so glad I have no plans/meetings this evening. For the past week or so I’ve been feeling randomly…not bad, exactly, but kind of sinus-y and sometimes a touch congested (i.e., blowing my nose more than usual). No cause that I can figure out so far, but today is one of the randomly sinus-y days. I’m looking forward to logging off work soon and then doing a mess o’ nothing. I actually thought about dinner early and have already preheated the oven (!), and am planning on chicken cordon bleu for dinner; I’ll nuke some frozen corn as a side. I just have to decide what I feel like watching.
I’m a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI): my local chapter is starting a “Women in Leadership” community of interest (COI), and there’s a kickoff happy hour tomorrow. I’ve been meaning to start attending PMI events, and the COI could be interesting, so last week I registered for the happy hour. But I also have long-standing plans to go hear some live jazz in DC tomorrow night: I’ve had a ticket for the 7pm set for three months, and when I decided to go to the happy hour I also bought a ticket for the 9pm set. Tomorrow I’ll decide whether I’m actually up for the PMI event – they tend to not be as good/interesting as they seem, but I could use some professional networking – and therefore which set I’ll go to (there are pros and cons to each). I already cancelled tomorrow’s personal training session, and I’ll also be skipping a volunteer-related Zoom meeting. When did Tuesday evenings get so busy?! 
I used to not care for jazz guitar at all, but my appreciation of it has definitely increased over the past 14 years (since I started singing/listening to [more] jazz). In fact, these days I think I’d rather listen to jazz guitar than jazz saxophone.
McD’s has a senior menu?! I had no idea! I honestly don’t even recall seeing senior menus at other places I go; just kids’ menus (and not everywhere even has those). I have no compunction about ordering off the kids’ menu when it strikes my fancy to do so: in addition to smaller portions the food is often “simpler,” which usually appeals to me. Most times, though, there’s an appetizer that will do the trick…or an entree that will reheat nicely.
As MetalMouse beat me to, online sources seem to favor “colony” but there are several votes for both “cauldron” and “flock.”
That said, henceforth I shall refer to a “Lugosi” of bats! 
Welcome back! 
Yaaaay! 
My recently widowed 82-year-old aunt has, on top of some dementia and limited mobility due to bone-on-bone knees, really terrible vision. Understandably, she gets angry – and, frankly, a little mean – when she gets confused/frustrated. I feel like the other issues wouldn’t overwhelm her nearly as quickly/easily if she could just see. (My cousins have taken her to various eye docs, but she’s had lifelong issues with the medical establishment and nothing can be done that she’ll allow.) At least her hearing is still good.
That was so smart of someone!
The first time I worked as an election officer was in November 2020: because of COVID the county didn’t give out stickers that election, and I swear that was the only reason some folks voted in person! They were not happy! LOL!
Keepin’ a few appendages crossed for ya… 