i can’t remember a time i’ve been as stressed…

Oct 17, 2020

If it’s true that stress causes all sorts of health problems, I’ll be lucky to be alive by Sunday afternoon.

Today was the first day of a 3-day live, virtual event with my favorite brother as the host. I won’t go into all the things I have to manage, but I will tell you a couple things I’ve learned…

There are abstract people and there are detail people.

  • Abstract people have big ideas and most times listen (and take advice from) other abstract people. They are unorganized and often procrastinate — and they delegate projects to detail people (sometimes with unrealistic deadlines).
  • Detail people are the ones that do everything they can to make those abstract visions reality. They typically know what it takes ‘behind the scenes’ to make abstract things work — and it’s always more involved than the abstracts think.

I’m no expert and I have no clue if someone before me made up these “people types.” Basically, it’s just BS because of the way I feel right this second. But I can tell you this FO SHO — I’m a detail person.

This, my friends, is the time I’ve spent on “live chat” talking to people — while doing a bajillion other things and trying to keep 2 big dogs in check:

time flies when you're having fun

Again, if I’m alive after this 3 day event, I’ll count it all as successful.

The dogs were so happy to hear Perry pull in the drive tonight they were waiting and whining at the garage door. As you can tell by this photo — I was waiting right there too. (I might’ve even whined a little bit myself — I knew he had McDonalds.)

gimme mcd's!

TIL (Today I Learned): Horses identify photographs of their current keepers, and even of former keepers whom they had not seen in six months, at a rate much better than chance. Horses correctly identified their current keeper and ignored the stranger’s face about 75 percent of the time. Read more about this cool fact…

Daily new COVID-19 cases (7 day moving average):
Indiana-23.6 (tiny bit down); Jackson Co – 32.3 (up…OUCH); Florida 12.6 (up); Nevada – 18.2 (up)

Dr. Eric Fish, president and chief executive officer of Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, said the hospital has seen a “three to four times increase” in the number of patients with COVID-19.