June 7th, 2012, ???, NS, JotD, AAD 7
Later rise, as I won't be doing my morning exercise routine, but a bike ride in the evening instead. A decent ride in, with a small decision made as to how/where I would drive. Experimenting with this to see if my experience of the ride is different - I'm not so concerned with the duration, but the experiential quality.
It looks to be another full day, which is good.
"Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is uniquely your own." - Bruce Lee
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A decent day at work, when all is said and done. Another shift in priorities requiring a shift in resources. This is a dance we need to do constantly, and one I've never been particularly adept at. I'm improving, but still have a struggle with feeling as if I'm always getting the short end in these situations. I'm at the boundary for my resource allocation, and there is very little slack - these additional requests and priority shifts tend to drag at my resources, or so it seems. In saying this, one can see that I'm certainly posessive, if not identified, with the resources and the work. A better way of handling this today was to let go of that possesiveness, and communicate out the impact - ensure that since the priorities had changed, so should the expectations on other projects. For now, this seemed to have worked, but people have short memories and I can expect to deal with this again next week, when the original delivery date passes.
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Head out from work directly to a bike ride with my friend D. Catching up on her situation(s) and things in general. A solid ride of about 14 miles at a reasonable pace, n the occasional downpour. One event of note: as we rode out, we were accosted by a screaming furball of terror: apparently a fisher cat had a kill or babies it was protecting. At first, what was happening didn't register: is that a large ferret, or a small bear? What is that noise? Pretty funny in retrospect.
Home to dinner and practice, then to bed, earlier than the past few nights.
