This has been a weird, discombobulated week.
First of all, it was a 4-day week thanks to President’s Day — definitely NOT a complaint, but you know how it is with short weeks, right? I’m never quite sure what day it is. I almost forgot about our dinner plans with friends last night, because I didn’t realize it was Thursday.
And I’ve been participating in the first week of a two-week TIM — Technical Interchange Meeting — with some Russians. For some reason, they never get badged to come onsite at JSC, so the meetings are held in an off-site conference facility. I’ve spent a total of about 5 hours in my office in 4 days, and that always makes me feel out of sorts. (Which is totally strange, since I’m not a fan of the weeks where I’m ONLY in my office. I guess some sort of mix of time at my desk and time in other locations would be the ideal.) The meetings have been VERY useful though and I have gotten a ton of good information.
Then, Jose was sick and stayed home on Tuesday. Despite his best efforts, he gave the bug to me and although I don’t seem to have gotten it to the same degree, I ended up staying home yesterday morning just to get some extra sleep.
On top of that, our dryer, which has been producing heat intermittently since December, finally stopped producing heat for good, meaning we finally had to call a repairman. We had one guy look at it in December, but 1) the repairman seemed unfamiliar with the brand of machine, 2) his company tried to charge us a ~125% markup on the cost of the part it needed, and 3) it mysteriously started working again after he looked at it. I tried a different company this time around which turned out to be the right call. The guy was more familiar with the machine and they charged us a reasonable amount for a replacement gas valve. The downside is that he ended up coming to the house 3 times (in 4 days) before the fix was complete, which meant a lot of tradeoff between me working from home and Jose working from home so that somebody could let the repairman in.
Jose ended up bearing the brunt of it because I needed to be at the afore-mentioned meetings and he was flexible this week. He is awesome like that.
Anyway.
Hooray for the weekend!
