Despite the early hour in CA even

Yesterday I almost had a therapy appointment at nine, but it turned out she’d double-booked. Upside was that I had a much more relaxed morning schedule than planned, since I’d had to shove in something at 11:30 that stomped all over my normal lunch arrangements on Thursdays. The 11:30 was D doing an excellent job convincing R&R that the query-time computation system was legit more complicated than they expected. I had to drop out briefly for the last forecast eval dash meeting with K, which was shorter than usual because it turned out all the forecasting stakeholders had last-minute conflicts. After lunch I lurked in the research meeting and heard A give his presentation about ICD codes and syndromic identification, then we had team leads and decided most of the remaining open items for the API key registration system. I had my first 1:1 with G, which I think will go a long way to help keep him engaged and everybody’s brain weasels at bay.

P and I packed up dinner and met A at what will soon be their new house in Sqhill. It’s gorgeous, a little tight in the hallways of the oldest parts, but has a sizable dry basement which will hold all the books they can’t find room for in the rest of the house. We did a detailed walk of the intensively-developed gardens, then picked up dinner for A and ate in the park. It was really good to see her, and I’m glad they’re moving back to town so we can see more of both of them.

We finished up way past my bedtime, but we snuck in a crossword before I passed out. Forgot my evening meds, so I was up for an hour at 3:30. Boo. Distressing dreams then, but I don’t remember the details; afterwards I dreamt of a board game franchise based on a (dreamworld) TV show in which Xena and Gabrielle had guest-starred for a couple of later seasons. Not bad.