Author: Sinclair

Journal – 010725

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I haven’t done a journal entry for a very long time. About a year, I believe. I stopped doing online journaling for a few reasons that I mentioned in previous entries. Since moving to Blueskies, I am thinking of starting it up again. This year, I will be studying once more to expand my career. I have been a manager for almost two years, and I want to step it up to the next level. There are things I need to do to make my team more successful and give them more opportunity to move up in the company. I feel most of them want better pay for doing the most minimum of work possible. No company will give you a nice pay increase by doing less than average work.

For me I want to become a better manager, this will require some studying. I need to make myself more valuable to the company so I will get a higher pay adjustment this year. My focus it to get the whole team to a profesional level. I have only one team member that is consistantly at this level. I am working with another memeber and he is almost there. I just need to constanly push him to get there.

The biggest hurtle accross the board is time management. Team members morning routines consist of the first hour getting coffee, breakfast and thumbing through social media for the first hour. To make up for lost productivity they cram everything in at the end of the day. The quility of work is terible and it shows. I need to change this habit. If they want to spend an hour doing this, it will have to be before they clock into work. Get a cup of coffee and start work, sure, it takes a few minutes and shouldn’t effect you work output. No need to rush it at the end of the day. Slow starts is just part of the issue. I should make an article for habits that efffect your productivity. Most of these are things I have done myself and after reflection I corrected them and improved. For the company I work for, I started from entry level at the company and promoted up year after year to where I am at today. Everyone in the company starts out at entry level, even the CEO.

It’s almost time to get into work . I wrote more than I thought I was. Going forward you will see more updated to this blog.

☁️ 42°F – 40°F 🥱 | Seattle

Tonga Twist

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The Players:

  • 3 oz Pineapple Juice
  • 3 oz Grapefruit Juice
  • 0.5 oz Amarena Cherry Syrup
  • 4 oz Club Soda
  • Pineapple & Mint
  • Amarena Cherry

The Scene:

Place all the ingredients in a tall glass with ice and mix with a straw. Put a couple of Toschi Amarena cherries to garnish.

Journal – 010224

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I had a typical Thursday. I washed clothes and cleaned up the house. I’m not sure if I will continue to journal write online. I could use the time to author articles or work on a podcast I always dreamt about doing. Still thinking about it. My online journals are boring. The daily things I do is pretty much what most people do. I have a paper journal I already write in. I don’t see a value of continuing to write my daily interactions with the world around me. Focusing on specific things may be where I will go from here. 

☁️ 53°F – 41°F 🙂 | Seattle

Journal – 310124

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Got home and my camping bunk bed for the kids had arrived. We set it up in the living room to check it out. It’s a Disc-O-Bed XL Cot Bunk Bed. It was the perfect size for me and roomy for the kids. This will be great for our upcoming camping trips. I need to put the tent up this Sunday and place everything inside to make sure everything works together. Hopefully, this gives us more room inside the tent.

🌧️ 52°F – 39°F 😐 | Seattle 

Journal – 300124

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Nothing much happened today. Work was the usual meetings and resolving agents’ issues. I made some discounted steaks I got from the market. They were nice and tender. I reduced the consumption of meat because of the cost. Inflation puts meat just a bit too high. I noticed the market has reduced the selection due to the lack of purchasing. Since I go shopping right when the store opens, I can find discounted meats that weren’t sold the other day that are reduced by 50 to 80 % off of the original price. This is cheaper than before inflation occurred. The downside is that you need to cook the meat within 3 days of purchase or freeze it. 

☁️ 56°F – 49°F 🙂 | Seattle 

Journal – 290124

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Interesting day at work. Half the agents called in sick, and I hosted an interview. I know a lot of people that are sick right now. I am not sure what is going through, but it hopefully peaked yesterday and is on the way down. The interview went pretty badly. I understand that resumes are padded. But this guy said things that were not true at all. I worked on a project that I was on for 11 years. He was there for 3 months and indicated that he automated the work so effectively that they laid everyone off and used his automation. I didn’t tell him he was full of it, and the project is still going, and it is a continual project that will last for decades to come until they stop leasing equipment. He didn’t know anything on his resume. Incredibly vague on what he did or how he would resolve issues.

⛅ 59°F – 51°F 😐 | Seattle 

Journal – 280124

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I got up early with my son and went shopping for food and some items. It is really nice to go shopping before anyone is up. It saves so much time and we can talk about things without feeling rushed or yelling over the crowds of people. We headed to the mall for our walk and window shopping. The mall is decorated with Dragons for Chinese New Year. It looked good. I went home and watched tv and fell asleep with a cat on my lap again. The purring just puts me to sleep. I played games with my son and spent most of the day on the couch. I just relaxed for the rest of the day.

🌦️ 54°F – 48°F 🙂 | Seattle 

Journal – 270124

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I enjoyed a lazy Saturday with my son watching cartoons and video games. I even took a nap on the couch with a cat in my lap. In the afternoon me and my wife cleared out the bedroom to clean everything in the bedroom. The room looks great. She just needs to go through all her clothes and pull items out that she no longer needs. I ordered pizza for dinner. I purchased a thin crust pizza and found out that I am not a fan of it. I never had it and had to give it a try. We played Cheese Touch board game before bedtime.

🌧️ 49°F – 48°F 🙂 | Seattle 

Journal – 260124

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Another day full of meetings. Glad this week is over. We lost two agents, and a lot of changes are underway. I need to get out and do something that is not in front of a computer or desk. I treated the kids to McDonald for dinner and watched a Pokémon movie that I haven’t seen before. It came out in 2019. It was rather good.
After the kids went to bed, I watched the first episode of Masters of the Air. Well done. I can’t wait to continue watching the series.

🌧️ 45°F – 43°F 🙂 | Seattle 

Journal – 250124

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Another hectic day at work. The director asked a lot of us in a brief period of time. I got most of the things done but will need to finish up tomorrow morning. I am not stressed at all, just tired of the last minute this needs to be done now bs we had to do. It pulled me away from 2 crucial items I needed to do today.

I was happy to clock out and play Mario Cart with my son for the rest of the day.

🌧️ 50°F – 43°F 😐 | Seattle