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Being sick is no fun
Jun. 11th, 2024 09:38 pmGrandson #2 has hand foot and mouth disease - which apparently is 'common' but I've never heard of it before. It's NOT related to the thing animals get, btw. Anyway, he's miserable, his parents are miserable and now we're miserable because we won't see them on Father's Day :( I feel especially sorry for toddlers when they're sick. Younger babies will mostly just sleep it off and older children can receive comfort from words as well as cuddles - but he's at that in between stage. There's no long-term danger but there's equally nothing that will clear it up - they just have to let it take its course.
Work was really bitty today, and then some of the bits got moved. I'm attending an internal conference over the next two days but I've now got a number of meetings from today butting in. But they do not interfere with two sessions I really want to go to because I want to see the colleagues who are leading them, so that's something!
Regular readers will know that I write a LOT of minutes. There isn't a week goes by without me writing/editing/actioning the notes from one meeting or another. They have been a major feature of all my roles for the last 23.5 years. When I write them, I give them a heading of the date of the next meeting and a reference number that goes into the agenda for the next meeting, because they are one of the papers presented at the NEXT meeting. I have always done this. Today, LM's LM came over to me and said they'd spotted that the date in the header was not the date of the meeting the notes recorded. So, I explained why. 'Oh, that's really weird, isn't it? It's a bit confusing, really.'. WTF?! You have attended this meeting for YEARS. I have written the minutes for longer than that and I've always put the date of the next meeting in the header. And you've only just noticed? And I'm not going to change that practice now because you think it's 'weird'.
I thought I was going to get an early night but it's going to be about the usual time. Still, better than a late night!
Work was really bitty today, and then some of the bits got moved. I'm attending an internal conference over the next two days but I've now got a number of meetings from today butting in. But they do not interfere with two sessions I really want to go to because I want to see the colleagues who are leading them, so that's something!
Regular readers will know that I write a LOT of minutes. There isn't a week goes by without me writing/editing/actioning the notes from one meeting or another. They have been a major feature of all my roles for the last 23.5 years. When I write them, I give them a heading of the date of the next meeting and a reference number that goes into the agenda for the next meeting, because they are one of the papers presented at the NEXT meeting. I have always done this. Today, LM's LM came over to me and said they'd spotted that the date in the header was not the date of the meeting the notes recorded. So, I explained why. 'Oh, that's really weird, isn't it? It's a bit confusing, really.'. WTF?! You have attended this meeting for YEARS. I have written the minutes for longer than that and I've always put the date of the next meeting in the header. And you've only just noticed? And I'm not going to change that practice now because you think it's 'weird'.
I thought I was going to get an early night but it's going to be about the usual time. Still, better than a late night!
