I don’t know about where you are, but September 1st hit here and Mother Nature was all IT’S METEOROLOGIC FALL, BITCHES!! Hoodie for the Starbucks run yesterday and a sweater vest today for my weekly therapy trip to the farmers market. I so love summer, but I do love these cool mornings, too. It was especially nice not to heat bonk at the farmers market like I did last week.

Mind you, it’s going to be back up in the 90s this coming week, but I’m pretending I didn’t see that.

This week the farmers market had grapes! I don’t remember seeing those before, and I got a nice bunch of crazy sweet green grapes to snack on. Downside – the googles tell me that they should be stored in the fridge. As someone with a terrible case of “out of sight, out of mind” – I’m going to try REALLY hard to not forget they exist.

So, yesterday the office closed down at 2 – it’s a nice little thing they do before a holiday weekend, and I appreciate it. Except when I end up getting out near two hours after that. As a result, I feel we need to establish some new rules when it comes to working.

#1 – My developer and I will no longer be working Fridays before holiday weekends, because we get stuck late far too often. (This one is admittedly highly specific and we probably won’t actually do it.)
# 2 – If your status on Teams/Skype/Slack status is “Available” – you cannot be farther away from your laptop than an emergency Starbucks run. End of story. If you are more than 15 minutes from your laptop, for the love of all that is good and holy, just put your status as Away.

My developer and I spent a LOT of time yesterday waiting on someone who was not in fact there. Had we known, we could have pulled someone else in earlier and actually left on time. Yes, I was super pissed when I found out that our time had been wasted like that.

I handled this in a totally mature manner and once I logged off, yelled to my brother “WANNA GO GET MEXICAN FOOD AND DAY DRINK?” Several patio margaritas later, I came home and slept for 12 hours. Gawd, I love margaritas and sunshine. And long weekends, even if I didn’t get off work on time.

Big exciting Labor Day plans are to try out the Ben’s Chili Bowl half smokes that you can get at the grocery store now!! The only place I usually can get them is at the ballpark, so this is a very exciting turn of events. (Yes, I do need to get out more, LOL.)

You have a lovely weekend and if you have to work, I hope your customers aren’t dicks. Be Covid safe, too. I want all y’all around.