Usually, I try not to work in the office on Fridays.\u00a0 Fridays are usually\u00a0a light day with few people in the office.\u00a0 It’s a day\u00a0made for remote access.\u00a0 Not today.\u00a0 There was a meeting that I felt I needed to put in face time on and all of my minions are out.\u00a0 OK, I’ll saddle up and head out to the office today.\u00a0 I can always come home at lunch and remote access this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Rich and I had to then decide who was driving which vehicle to work.\u00a0 We stopped short of rockpaperscissors to decide.\u00a0 Rich took the Honda and I drove the truck.\u00a0 Our rule is:\u00a0 Whoever drives the furthest gets the Honda.\u00a0 That was not me today.\u00a0 Besides, driving the truck is kind of cool.\u00a0 It reminds me of when I first learned to drive and I always got stuck with the truck.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sascha was not happy about my leaving.\u00a0 She tried to stay outside again, but I forced her into the house.\u00a0 She came in and headed straight for under the bed!\u00a0 I let her stay there until I got all of my stuff together.\u00a0 After pouring the coffee into travel mugs, it was time to dig a dog out from under a bed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I had to lie flat and almost crawl under the bed myself to reach her.\u00a0 It was a missed photo op. \u00a0I got\u00a0hold of a\u00a0foot and started pulling.\u00a0 Pretty soon, there was a whole dog lying on the carpet.\u00a0 She was not happy even more.\u00a0 She was dead weight.\u00a0 I got her downstairs and into her crate with some minor issues.<\/p>\n
Now to the important part.\u00a0 From the title, you can tell this isn’t about Sascha.\u00a0 It’s about Rick.\u00a0 I kissed Rich good-bye and went out to the truck.\u00a0 Without thinking, I jumped in, started up, and shut the garage door.\u00a0 I pulled out onto the street and realized I was almost at a full recline in the seat!\u00a0 What the heck is going on here?<\/p>\n
I’m driving through the neighborhood to reach the main highway holding the steering wheel to sit up straight.\u00a0 I can’t figure out how to change the seat position!\u00a0 I find the back-to-front lever and can move the seat back a little bit.\u00a0 I’m having to drive supporting myself instead of having a comfy back rest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I get out of the hood and up to the first light.\u00a0 Finally, I realize the side lever lets me adjust the back to move it up and provide me with support.\u00a0 I’m no longer hanging on to the steering wheel for support.\u00a0 I arrange all of the levers for the comfort level I needed to enjoy my drive into the office on a Friday.<\/p>\n
So what exactly was Rick doing to have the seat in such a contorted shape?\u00a0 I know he’s tall, but he doesn’t seem to change the Honda this much.\u00a0 I thought about all those guys\u00a0who look\u00a0like they are driving from the back seat when I’m driving around town.\u00a0 It looks uncomfortable and I know they can’t see out the front window.\u00a0 They always have to lift up to look!\u00a0 Is this my son?\u00a0 Is he driving around in cool mode?\u00a0 Needless to say, we will have a discussion tonight!<\/p>\n
So I get to work and find out that one of my minions actually showed up!\u00a0 I didn’t expect him at all.\u00a0 I didn’t have to come in after all!\u00a0 Now it is starting to snow and I’m rethinking lunch with Rich so I can get home before the rest of the crazies hit the road.\u00a0 Chicago does not drive well in the snow.<\/p>\n
So if anything funny comes up from my discussion with Rick, I’ll let you know.\u00a0 But I definitely feel like I’ve done my exercises for the day.<\/p>\n
P.S.\u00a0 Diane:\u00a0 We are not an independent test lab, so there is no more testing on the shoelace issue.\u00a0 We will continue to pass on the good news and have others try it though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Usually, I try not to work in the office on Fridays.\u00a0 Fridays are usually\u00a0a light day with few people in the office.\u00a0 It’s a day\u00a0made for remote access.\u00a0 Not today.\u00a0 There was a meeting that I felt I needed to put in face time on and all of my minions are out.\u00a0 OK, I’ll saddle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}