Too damned hot!
Jul. 31st, 2024 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosa_heartlilyThe air was so hot on the way home tonight and it's only got warmer since. Especially in this room, which gets stuffy at the best of times. Except in winter when it gets freezing cold. Go figure... My feet were so hot and swollen by the time I got home that I couldn't get my slippers on!
Made some really good progress with my talk on Ruth. Tomorrow, I pick hymns! I was waxing lyrical about Ruth to my chat buddy yesterday - when they came online today they greeted me with 'Morning ruth_fan' :D Have I mentioned how much I love my chat buddy?
Found myself in the middle of what could be an awkward situation at work. Party A has set up a group to prioritise BAU work on one of our major systems, which is also impacted by a lot of our projects, so they're doing a VERY high-level report on the portfolio. Party B sees the portfolio as their domain - which, yeah, it is - but they aren't involved in the group. Now, if they present on the portfolio, they could end up taking over the meeting, which I'm guessing is part of the reason they aren't involved. It only needs a light touch - really! But what's missing from the whole thing is a fully resourced timeline, which Party B has. And Party C was getting involved today, including questioning why I'm facilitating the group. Well a) it's a potential source of projects, so it gives me a heads up and b) it keeps me visible.
As for the rest, that's for parties A and B to sort out and then they can tell me what they need me to do.
For some reason, someone (the department boss...?) bought us all pizza for dinner. It was very nice.
I also read through the training slides and had another go at the first practice exam again. Even checking back with the slides I didn't get all the answers. They really make these things either ridiculously easy or twist the language so that the right answer sounds completely wrong. I'll have a go with the other paper tomorrow. There's also stuff online that I'll take a look at tomorrow.
I made a good start on my monthly report but didn't get to the end - and two of the people I need to get updates from are off, one on leave and one with Covid. *sigh* I'll finish my bits and then see if I can get the info elsewhere.
Finished the evening with an episode of Umbrella Academy. Have I mentioned how much I love Five? At least part of the reason is Delores <3
Made some really good progress with my talk on Ruth. Tomorrow, I pick hymns! I was waxing lyrical about Ruth to my chat buddy yesterday - when they came online today they greeted me with 'Morning ruth_fan' :D Have I mentioned how much I love my chat buddy?
Found myself in the middle of what could be an awkward situation at work. Party A has set up a group to prioritise BAU work on one of our major systems, which is also impacted by a lot of our projects, so they're doing a VERY high-level report on the portfolio. Party B sees the portfolio as their domain - which, yeah, it is - but they aren't involved in the group. Now, if they present on the portfolio, they could end up taking over the meeting, which I'm guessing is part of the reason they aren't involved. It only needs a light touch - really! But what's missing from the whole thing is a fully resourced timeline, which Party B has. And Party C was getting involved today, including questioning why I'm facilitating the group. Well a) it's a potential source of projects, so it gives me a heads up and b) it keeps me visible.
As for the rest, that's for parties A and B to sort out and then they can tell me what they need me to do.
For some reason, someone (the department boss...?) bought us all pizza for dinner. It was very nice.
I also read through the training slides and had another go at the first practice exam again. Even checking back with the slides I didn't get all the answers. They really make these things either ridiculously easy or twist the language so that the right answer sounds completely wrong. I'll have a go with the other paper tomorrow. There's also stuff online that I'll take a look at tomorrow.
I made a good start on my monthly report but didn't get to the end - and two of the people I need to get updates from are off, one on leave and one with Covid. *sigh* I'll finish my bits and then see if I can get the info elsewhere.
Finished the evening with an episode of Umbrella Academy. Have I mentioned how much I love Five? At least part of the reason is Delores <3
