I tried to go to a funder meeting and had to turn around and go home. The weather was too dicey and it was an hour drive.
Now I have to go out there for a doctor’s appointment. But it stopped snowing so conditions will likely be better. Doesn’t mean I want to leave my warm house, though.
I’m in constant stress at work right now. I’m getting a sudden intense pressure to start winning more grants. I’ve been stressed about our funding situation for at least a year, and suddenly everyone else is, too. I’ve been losing sleep over this. Very hard to fall asleep at night. Especially with the new CPAP. I’m trying to get shit organized and I’m having constant medical issues requiring attention.
And this morning our CEO starts going on about how we haven’t won any federal grants lately. Yeah, federal grants are ultra competitive. Well that’s not good enough because this other local organization got grants. Okay, well I already asked to take a federal grants training for winning federal grants so I don’t know what else you want from me. Clearly we’ve already decided to make this a priority. She wants me to reach out to the federal agencies and ask them about the grants we submitted. As if they would award the grants but not let us know about it.
I’m not sure what to do because I am doing my absolute best and it’s apparently not good enough. She wants a miracle instead of making the hard decisions and letting people go. We cannot sustain this level of staffing. It’s completely unrealistic to dump that on development. I’m so frustrated and anxious.
Went to the dentist today because part of a molar fell off. Haha! That’s always fun. Dentist says it’s my choice. A filling or a crown. No, no, it’s up to you, he says.
Ugh!! Just tell me what to do. I’m leaning filling.
If the tooth is a weak-ass POS that’ll keep shedding chunks, then crown it ASAP before it breaks again. If there was some external reason the tooth lost a hunk, then yes, fill it cheaply and easily & move on.
If the dentist can’t tell you which, fill it. If it fails again later, replace the dentist. And have the new person crown the tooth.
@LSLGuy
You are correct.
I am also an experienced dental consumer. Been dentisting since I was 3 or 4 years old due to a serious car accident, consequences of tetracycline exposure and basic genetics.
Dentist should be able to discuss the pros and cons for this situation based on his exam.
Crowns are expensive and time consuming but if a tooth is starting to fall apart the dentist should have some professional advice to give regarding the options.
Well, I finally done did the scary thing! In the spirit of the Eisenhower recording in 1958, “my voice is coming to you from a satellite circling in outer space”, my post is coming to you from the Windows 11 laptop that has been sitting dormant in its box since January. I thought I’d better fire it up before the warramty expired. The whole experience wasn’t nearly as horrific as I’d feared. The USB-Ethernet adapter worked right out of the box so Windows was even able to do its cursed updates during the install.
I’m having some trouble with the file recovery stuff. It’s recovered some movies but nowhere near all of them. Looks like I’ll have to do multiple passes on multiple folders or spend real money on a paid file recovery app.
Holy La Nina, Batman! The frequent light snowfalls are now turning into frequent heavy snowfalls! We’re now getting snowfall warnings. I’ve already got my money’s worth out of Snowplow Guy and winter hasn’t even officially begun. I fear that he’s going to take it out on his customers next season. Snowplow Guy is like an insurance company – you may appear to get outsize benefits, but you always pay for it in the long run.
We got a weird little power point presentation at the team meeting today. Our department is the only one with remote work options. When I was the only one asking for autonomy, it wasn’t as big a deal, but now the other two people in our department (new employees) want that, too. People in other departments have been complaining about our flexible schedules apparently. This is how I’ve been working for years.
The executive leadership has its nose bent out of joint that we don’t use the VPN as often as other departments. That’s because we tend not to use it when doing work. I bought an ultra-wide screen monitor for work but it doesn’t work with the dated work-issued laptop. So I tend to just use my own PC.
So the boss asked us to use the VPN but then backtracked and said not to use it if we don’t need it. She was really nice about it, I think she’s on our side here. But somehow we’ve been given vague instructions to “be accountable.” I don’t know what that means, because I’m already doing my job. I’ve been doing my job for ten years.
At any rate, they’re threatening five-days in office and I don’t know how I can live my life if that happens. I have a number of chronic medical issues and a child with special needs. There’s no week in my life that’s untouched by multiple appointments or a teacher in-service day or something. I think if that happened, I might have to leave. Then I guess I’d have to look for something part-time.
The context is that we’re losing federal and state funding and everyone in development is now expected to perform miracles. So I guess the price of maintaining the remote schedule is performing miracles.
There is much wisdom in what you say. A large part of this is just obsession over loss. However, some of it really does have to be recovered, for example, a subfolder containing my complete collection of all Hitchcock movies.