[0 weeks] Yearning for the trivial

[flexagon]

Friday did get painful, but the time passed and I finally get to resign. I've written up a short document for my manager, with my preferred succession plan and various end date options etc, and updated my own document of email drafts to send. I hope he lets me announce right away, but understand he'll likely want to think through some options of his own regarding the succession plan so that we can announce that to folks at the same time. So that will be anti-climactic. Honestly, having teams that I care about is such a pain.

Money is also a pain: but I confirmed that last Friday's paycheck did all the right things regarding retirement accounts, and filled out the form to quit the union. I got my tax refund, too, and it actually scared me since I thought it might be a stock sale for an unexpected amount. Nope, just the IRS.

And I continue, ironically, to not want all this big stuff happening! Not in my life, not in the federal government, just... not. I would really like to be embracing the trivial, like finding a version of my 10-year-old favorite Athleta hoodie on eBay but lined with plush on the inside, OMG. So cheap, but feels so luxe. I'd forgotten, if I ever knew, that this variant even existed in that long-ago year when the hoodies were perfect for me. So in the spirit of more little things:

• This week's fun little web game was https://bracket.city which has a new puzzle up daily.


• Started to get better at hand-to-hand on Monday, again; we found a progression that works.


• I downloaded all my Kindle books, on whatever the last day was when Amazon allowed it, and I'm not sure I needed to bother since I only read in the Kindle app anyway but it totally reminded me of interesting books I'd forgotten were in there.


• I wanted to fix the rattling bathroom fan, and I was worried I was procrastinating on my workout so I set a timer for five lousy minutes and told myself I was only allowed to investigate for that long. The rattle turned out to be coming from the cover, so I had it quiet well before the timer went off by just stuffing two cotton balls between that and the ceiling. Kind of gratifying and horrifying all at once. We'd been putting up with the rattle for quite a while.

I have more Thoughts but I am Falling Asleep, so you can't have them yet.

Comments

[elbren]

yay! congratulations!
i know you've been easing into it, and it's not your Last Day or anything, but a milestone worth celebrating!

[triesticity]

Ooh thanks for sharing the link to bracket.city, I hadn't seen/heard of that one before and it's really fun! Not that I need *another* daily game, but ...

[flexagon]

What are your other daily games? I always do Connections, and have added bracket.city. I love doing the NYT daily crossword puzzle but I've let that lapse (for now) with recent work madness...

(I've been working steadily on a little game called Lok Digital that has a daily puzzle, but you can only attack them after working through the game's "main campaign" of training puzzles and I'm not there yet. Also not sure I will continue once I am. It's... odd. Like a word search but for an alien language.)

[triesticity]

Wordle, Connections, usually Strands, Spelling Bee, NYT mini, usually the big NYT one but sometimes I let those build up for a few days. LinkedIn Games, sometimes. This word-guessing one, sometimes: https://hryanjones.com/guess-my-word/ Oh, and K recently introduced me to Tradle - https://games.oec.world/en/tradle/ - which is challenging for me but educational.

[tactilemuse]

I love your timer idea and I always tell myself to start implementing that as I get stuck in freeze mode or waiting mode so often.

Here's to resignation and to an ease out of the space in the most beneficial way for yourself and those you lead!