Current Mood: Content
Current Location: San Diego, CA
So today started out in a kind of lousy way. First, I woke up late so I had to rush to get ready for work. It's never good when you start to stress about the day from the moment you wake up. I sped all the way to work, hoping the entire time that I wouldn't get pulled over and thankfully I didn't. What I did run into though was traffic. It was the traffic entering the base. For some reason the gate was backed up for a quarter of a mile. With 8 minutes to get to work, it took 5 of them to just get through that line. Luckily I got a really close parking spot and I made it into the office right on time. So here I am thinking that the day just might get better from this point on...wrong. It turns out that I forgot to do something pretty important. Let me start from the beginning...
Yesterday afternoon as my division officer was leaving he informed me that we were supposed to have a couple visitors come into our office that night to use some of our systems. He wanted to me inform the person that was going to be relieving me that these guys were coming and that everything had been prepared for their arrival. Guess what I forgot to do...tell my relief everything about this. Now in my defense when my relief came I was dealing with another urgent issue and so by the time I had finished putting out this fire, I had completely forgotten about the visitors. Of course being busy is no excuse because we have a log book that we're supposed to write all information so that we have a written record to help us in our turnover in case we get so busy we forget something. I had forgotten to do that too. This is exactly what I complain about other people doing to me, information doesn't get passed on to me and isn't written in our log and I get caught on the receiving end of a crap storm. This time I was the person that I hate, only the crap storm still ended up on my plate. Epic fail on my part.
So naturally this morning when I got in my division officer wanted to know why my relief hadn't known about the visitors and why they were working out of another office and not ours where we had set up for them. Well, I had no response other than I had completely forgotten. So I was given a written counseling to reprimand me for my failure. It isn't a huge deal because this written counseling doesn't go into my permanent record, however I hold myself to a higher standard than this so I was upset with myself for not paying attention to detail in a matter that probably had broader effects than I know of.
After this things started to turn around. The rest of the day was fairly uneventful which allowed me to work on planning our move to our new house. The weather cooperated with me today and I was able to go to on a run. I hadn't run in 5 days so I knew that I would be hurting a little bit. But damn, I didn't think I was going to hurt as bad as I did. My lungs were on fire by the end of my little 3 miles. Then I looked at my time...21 minutes! On a run that was half up hill. Well damn, no wonder my lungs were on fire! I was running faster than I normally do. So I was pleased with my efforts, despite the burning I felt.
My mom arrived this evening so that was nice to come home to. Plus, Natalie was still awake which is rare. It was a perfect way to end my up and down day. My wife, daughter, and mom all here with smiling faces as soon as I walked in the door. I couldn't have asked for anything else.
Tomorrow is my last day of work for this week and I already can't wait for the day to be over. Four days off with my family, and my birthday. It's going to be a good weekend.
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