I'm up. Doggos are fed. Run is done. Showered. I'm wearing pants. And a shirt with a collar. And I'll be digging my boots out of the closet. All so I can go spend my morning in a mask sitting in a meeting room refreshing my project management skills. I don't have enough hours in the day for this kind of time waste. #sigh #morecoffee

Thursday! We've almost made it through the week. We can do this* *with enough coffee, positive outcomes not guaranteed #morecoffee

ok ok I'm up. Let the day begin. The new mattress is amazing. I actually slept better than the SO and we bought it for the SO. Physical is this morning and my face looks like someone punched me in both eyes because I need more sleep and less water retention. Oh hell I forgot to wish the SO a happy birthday. Let's go see if I can dig myself out of this one.... #trouble #morecoffee

I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure this out today so I'm going to share and you can ignore me...I *think* you have to use the fully mobilized skin friction to calculate the downdrag force on a drilled shaft, even for the service limit state condition where we do not necessarily consider the skin friction to fully mobilize. Thanks for listening. My brain hurts. If I'm wrong, you can tell me. I can take it. #morecoffee

☕ Today feels like I'll be taking a long ride on the struggle bus. Good morning CoSo #morecoffee

*whine* I'm not ready to go back to work. I need a weekend to recover from my weekend. A lot of good things are happening this week though...SO's 50th birthday, new mattress, new running shoes, physical. Weight loss is at 9 lbs. I'm going to start adding in some core exercises and see if the SO objects (I'm not allowed to lift more then 5 lbs or do any activity that stresses my neck). For now, I'm going to try to wake up and engage and hook a TENS unit up to my back. #morecoffee

Ok here we go....we got this. I WILL get this design submittal finished this week. I am nothing else if not pigheadedly stubborn. Let the coffee flow and may the phone stay silent. Having a day off in the week just means doing the same amount of work in four days instead of five. Also...June...already. Where has this year gone? I have so much I still need to do this year and I'm running out of time. #morecoffee

So far this morning I managed to install a Windows update without breaking anything and I spilled coffee all over my desk (which is way easier to clean up than the wine I spilled all over my desk and wall on Friday). It seems like it might be a one step forward one step back kind of day. This cup of coffee doesn't count. I have to start over now. #morecoffee

Big boomy storms!! I won't know the damage to the garden until the sun comes up. I passed kidney stone #6 of the year this morning so that feels better. It'll be a good day to binge #StrangerThings and knock out 15 hours of work. Only one of the two submittals can go out the door today. The owner changed the design for the second submittal on Wednesday. I still need to get it *almost* finished. #ItNeverEnds #morecoffee

Two more days to wrap up the submittals for this work week and then I can go back to posting about the important things like how big my spaghetti squash are getting, I'm finally getting my first produce out of the #garden, my flowers are all in bloom, and my zinnias in my wishing well planter have spouted. This weekend is also round 2 of gutters and we've decided to build another garden bed for fall planting. My SO does not stop moving. Eight pounds down on the diet. #morecoffee

Today may be overwhelmingly noisy on an emotional spectrum as people try to come to terms with what happened yesterday. There will be anger. There will be grief. There will be resignation. There will be sadness. It's ok to disconnect. Today, I am thankful that I can bury my head in my work and think about boring things like lateral earth pressures and axial resistance calcs #morecoffee

Tuesday is the day we take the statistical evaluations that we ran on Monday and we supersede them with better data that we've had all along. Ahhh the hoops we jump through to comply with process requirements. Maybe this afternoon we can do actual calculations. #morecoffee

Holy moly....how is it Thursday already? I have so much work that still needs to get done this week. I'm going to have to schedule myself some all day meetings so people leave me alone long enough for me to get something done :/ #morecoffee #stopcallingme

My brain is focused on everything but work today, but that doesn't change the submittal deadlines. #morecoffee

The SO couldn't sleep so the entire house woke up at 4 am. SO went to work. I spent an hour prepping pork carnitas and got that into the slow cooker. Going to be a long day of tortuously good smells. Doggo 2 hit Doggo 1 in the eye with her happy tail so there's a trip to the vet somewhere in our schedule today *sigh* And why are there already six meetings on my calendar today? Meetings should be banned on Fridays. #thisisnotok #morecoffee

Doggo and I compromised this morning and breakfast was moved from 6 am to 530 am. I could really use a nap outside under the pergola today. #nothappening #morecoffee

Today is one of those days where I accidentally roll over at 4:55 am and the doggo immediately jumps up because breakfast, and then we have an hour long discussion about what time breakfast is served and neither of us go back to sleep until it is finally served. She is currently snoring. #MoreCoffee

First meeting of the day is done only three more to go. Already had someone resign. I should have stayed in bed. #Friday #MoreCoffee