I check in today to let the world know I’m still here, existing.

The weekend was what it was; sticking around the house except to do a pretty big grocery run and on Sunday to pick up a new blu-ray player I ordered online from Target, because when you’re stuck in the house, the ability to watch movies at will is essential, dammit (and because the old one has been on it’s last legs for a while – they don’t make ’em like they used to).

Sunday afternoon, as the lovely spouse and I finished off our screening of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (the verdict? good cast, good look, exceptionally lazy storytelling), I could tell I was sliding into one of the less-than-optimal periods of quarantine; my nerves were frayed and I was definitely far from comfortable (my friend Sunnie Larsen shared a bit of social media wisdom the other day about how a lot of us are on a three day cycle, where we’re mostly functional for a few days, then crash hard, in interesting and unpleasant ways – this is definitely true for me).

This carried into Monday, of course, and was exasperated by the fact that work stuff was hellish; I may not have been my best self in terms of passive aggressive emails, but to be fair, in my defense, I was provoked by all kinds of other people changing standards mid-stream, and was diplomatic and not vulgar or profane, at least not to anyone else. I pissed off a few people temporarily, but gave my boss a laugh; I’m not worried.

In any case, Monday sucked. Hard.

Tuesday was a little better for me; I got through the workday without incident, but a variety of conditions had the women of the house take their turn at the bottom of the curve, each with different presentation, and all very different from my experience. It sucks for all of us. We lifted spirits somewhat by saying screw cooking, let’s support local small businesses, and ordered take-out from Luther Burger, which was darned tasty.

Today looks relatively quiet – we’re in that 48 hour window between package due dates and review boards, so I don’t expect much anyway. In fact, other than the pre-review board Thursday afternoon, I don’t have much in the way of work on the calendar; just keep the data interchange tubes flowing (or rather, trust my guys to do it, which I do).

In any case, that’s the picture from here; same as it ever was.