Reverend Ken's Blog: #1505, Tuesday, September 8: Luxurious lack of deadline pressure

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

#1505, Tuesday, September 8: Luxurious lack of deadline pressure

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Post 1505, Day 251 of 2015
- 1,712 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I had a very pleasant weekend, mainly because I took it very easy. My playing was limited to Saturday night and Sunday. The rest of the time, I did a few chores, but mostly lolled in bed, luxuriating in a little time without pressure.

Of course, what pressure there is in my life is self-generated these days.

Sure, I have one rare and unusual off-hours work action I need to take care of.

It will be only the third time in four years that has happened. I can deal with it, and not even think about it (that's what alarm clocks are for, and mine is set).

I accept the 'deadlines' of my music moonlighting with joy. I'm glad there's a time when the playing starts, and look forward to it. In the last five years, I have only been late to a gig once, and that was a misunderstanding about the start time, in which I was dead wrong. But I wasn't very late.

My job at the VA doesn't generally include deadlines. After all, there is no product cycle, no profit-dependence. With no remembered exceptions, specific task deadlines are, by private-sector standards, very generous. When missed, people fall all over themselves to help bring the task back into compliance.

That lack of deadline pressure and accompanying stress is one reason I love this job, maybe the biggest. With less than five months to go (five years slid by so quickly!) before hanging up my career as an employee, I can only marvel at the way I am ending on a high note of personal job satisfaction, in a job I might actually keep even after I don't need it.

Not that that is going to happen. No point in making the perfect last job last past its (my) expiration date.

I don't know how all this managed to work out for me. Positive thinking? Maybe. Cosmic cyclical behavior, swinging-pendulum style? Also, maybe. Impossible to tell, and I can't think of anything I would rather do less than wonder about it.

I think it is enough to be grateful for it, and I am.

Food and Diet Section

Today's Weight: 206.4 lbs

Previous Weight (9/5): 205.6 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain: + 0.8 lbs

Diet Comment

The long weekend was a diet disaster. The only reason my weight isn't three pounds higher was a careful day Monday.

Food Log

Breakfast
Protein shake with almond-coconut milk, kefir, kale, extra-large organic egg, whey powder (36g protein), hemp seeds, hemp protein (7g protein), raw organic cacao powder, chia gel, moringa leaf powder, cinnamon, celery and stevia-inulin blend.

Lunch