Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
I worked every day but one from home this week. I tend to log in very early (6 am) and check to see if there are any emails from the EMEA (Europe Middle East Africa) region that I could quickly reply to while it is still during their workday. This only takes a few minutes usually but can take up to 30 depending on the email subject. Since the wife has been driving the kids to school, there is little need for me to shower or get dresses so after breakfast and sitting back down in front of the computer I tend not to think about anything other than work for a while. Then I realize that it is getting to be lunchtime and I am still wearing the same clothing that I slept in, that I have not brushed my hair, and that I have not brushed my teeth. I try to take care of this during my lunch hour but one day I did not get to the shower part until after 5 pm. I think if I am going to make this work from home thing work I am going to need to be more disciplined about getting ready like I would for a normal work day (though I would stick with more comfortable clothing). Even now at the time that I started this blog entry (3 pm) I have yet to shave or shower (though I did manage to brush my teeth).
The wife had a women’s thing to go to at 2 today so the kids and I killed time by having an afternoon snack of chocolate ice cream and playing Uno. The daughter won both games that we played (much to the son’s dismay). The wife arrived home around 4 but she has a date tonight with one of her oldest girlfriends to see the movie, “Remember Me”. This looks like a true chick flick so I am glad that I am not invited. This means though that the kids and I will be alone again tonight. Since it is a weekend, the kids usually head to the son’s room around 8, pull out the trundle bed and put a movie on his laptop to fall asleep to. This will probably leave me with a lot of alone time depending on how soon the wife returns to me.
Since this is the last season of Lost, the wife and I decided (ok, I decide and she agreed) that we would rewatch the first 5 seasons to get back up to speed. The son decided he would like to watch with us and although he watched through his fingers at times and we had to pause every 5 minutes or so to explain why this or that scene was important, he only made it 10 shows before it got the best of him. He was losing sleep and seeing things in the dark of his room at night. The wife and I plodded on and burned through the first season (which has the best cliff hanger of any show I have ever seen, I still remember where I was and what my reaction to it was the first time I saw it). The son then decided that he wanted to play catch up and that he could handle it now. He is about 7 shows behind us and we make sure we are close when he is watching as he has a ton of questions and we aren’t there to pause the show and explain. This is borderline too much for him (from a concerned parent’s point of view) but the show does get better (i.e. less scary, more of a mystery) as the seasons wear on. We just need to get him through the first season.
Well I had better spend some time with the wife while she is here.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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