Office Happenings – The big upheaval for the Ward household is my returning to the office. This required some shifting of household chores and more careful planning of who needs which car. Of course, they warn us that my team should bring in all of our monitors and docks because it’s not likely we will have those when we get to the office. This is what happens when you make everyone return to the office quickly rather than orderly. In some kind of way, it’s the inverse of when my team was sent out on telework five years ago.

Anywhoo, we get to the office to find that we can’t even get into our assigned offices as we have not been granted access. WTF? It wasn’t until more than a half hour that we were able to get into our offices. The good news? We have actual offices, as well as docks and monitors. The bad? These aren’t our “final” offices, so we can’t lock the doors. Which, considering how things have gone walksies with everyone scrounging for stuff, means all my stuff gets schlepped to the office and back.

I miss my standing desk, my monitors, my bathroom, and mostly, I miss working with The Wife.

Tile Happenings – Mom is having to redo the bathrooms in her house. She also likes and trusts The Wife’s decor style / choices. So, after work, the three of us traipsed down to a local tile store to pick out the necessary floor, wall, and shower stall floor tiles. This could have been a long drawn-out process, but Mom managed to make selections fairly quickly. Of course, it would have helped if we knew how much she needed, but that information was not brought along. I also drove Mom’s Kia Carnival. This is a serious contender for second vehicle if/when The Wife and I start looking.