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       Stardate: 20200812.2338 
       Location: Game Room / New Office
       Input Device: AlphaSmart dana.wireless
       Audio: Conference Call banter
       Visual: Makeshift office in game room, vendor controlling remote server
       Emotional State: tired, surviving, skating on the edge of burnout.
       
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       It looks like I spoke too soon in my last entry.  This week has been crazy
       as well and I have not been able to fully decompress.  Today, my day 
       started at 4AM, ended at 1PM, slept for a bit, and then started again at 
       10PM and finishing at 7AM.  We have an application going live at work 
       and it needs to be implemented after hours.  At least I have most of 
       Thursday to rest and have Friday off to rest even more at the beach!
       Yay, long weekend!
       
       Man, I hate these long stretches of work and funny schedules.  It totally
       throws me off these days.  All of my bandwidth goes towards work and
       anything left goes to the family.  Not much time for myself, which I wrote 
       about previously.  I think that when I was younger, I was able to handle
       these types of schedules and bounce back much better than I do these 
       days.  Boring routine is better for me.
       
       This past weekend I evicted my son from the game room and migrated 
       his gaming rig to his bedroom.  Since I will be working from home now
       on a more permanent basis, I need to set up my own work area.  I did
       share my office with my wife since I was only working from home once
       a week, but now that things have changed, I cannot share the office with
       her.  It is just too distracting and she is on the phone all of the time 
       since she works in sales.  It gets really bad when we are both on the 
       phone at the same time.  I really need my own work environment with a 
       door so I decided to take over the game room.  
       
       My son was excited to have his computer in his room.  I was able to use 
       one of those powerline ethernet adapters instead of running a new line 
       to his room.  The speed is good enough.
       
       Since this COVID-19 thing started, I have been moving computers around,
       setting up and tearing down work spaces, searching for parts and cables, 
       cleaning work areas, etc.  It has been a bit much for me and I hope things
       will settle down soon so I can get back to computing. 
       
       By the time all is said and done with this work day, I'm gonna have to
       flush all the coffee out of my system and actually sleep.  I've been running
       on coffee for way too long and body is hating me.  Sometimes that's what
       you gotta do to survive the work.  I love coffee but don't like it when I 
       get to this point where my gut is screaming at me and I gotta shave my
       tongue.  It's just not enoyable anymore. 
       
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