Wednesday, July 17
Jul. 17th, 2024 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
That I didn't have to do anything pressing today, because I didn't feel like doing ANYTHING in this heat.
Besides the animal care chores, I mostly stayed inside and read.
I had a good phone call with my Sweetie. Today was the last day of being at the battery facility, and he said they toured the physical buildings. They walked ALL DAY LONG. He wondered why they couldn't have broken that tour up over the other days, so they would maybe have meetings in the morning, and tour part of the facility in the afternoon.
It really does sound like he learned a lot about the process (mostly automated) and the uses for these cells, and his takeaway impression of the building of the facility in Sweden was that the people working on it, the inventors (I guess?) needed more input from practical builders in the building of the infrastructure. He said the whole place (which isn't complete) seemed chaotic and badly organized, and they could really have used someone practical to make it all make more sense.
Yet, he seems to think this project in Canada will be a good one to work on, even if there's a lot of "two steps forward, one step back" because the contract is built to keep adding costs as they accrue, not a fixed bid, so the company won't lose money on the deal if it's a bit of a shit show.
He is in a hotel for tonight, not the one in the Old Town of Stockholm, but one the company put him in. Apparently two other guys from his group are staying to look around, but he's not sure how much they will see of each other as each one of them had different things they wanted to see (the one guy really wants to see the ABBA museaum, which is not on my Sweetie's list).
Anyhow, I will be excited to talk to him tomorrow to find out where he went as a sight seer.
I went to see River later in the day. R asked if I wanted a lesson today, but I declined on the basis that it's too hot to do anything useful.
Poor River has a couple of raised welts on his flank from the flies. I saw them yesterday, and did my best to coat them with zinc cream to act as a physical barrier, and lots of repellent, but they are still there today. I did the same cream application today after we were done, and I hope it helps.
We did very low energy things today again, though it was cooler when I went out. We focused on things like his turn on hindquarters, turn on the forehand, and just walking with me with purpose at Liberty. I did ride him, but at a walk. Again just working on making nice turns and backing up lighter.
I came home and let everyone out into their pastures for a while.
That's about it. Too hot to do any work, too hot to go for a walk, too hot for pretty much anything.
That I didn't have to do anything pressing today, because I didn't feel like doing ANYTHING in this heat.
Besides the animal care chores, I mostly stayed inside and read.
I had a good phone call with my Sweetie. Today was the last day of being at the battery facility, and he said they toured the physical buildings. They walked ALL DAY LONG. He wondered why they couldn't have broken that tour up over the other days, so they would maybe have meetings in the morning, and tour part of the facility in the afternoon.
It really does sound like he learned a lot about the process (mostly automated) and the uses for these cells, and his takeaway impression of the building of the facility in Sweden was that the people working on it, the inventors (I guess?) needed more input from practical builders in the building of the infrastructure. He said the whole place (which isn't complete) seemed chaotic and badly organized, and they could really have used someone practical to make it all make more sense.
Yet, he seems to think this project in Canada will be a good one to work on, even if there's a lot of "two steps forward, one step back" because the contract is built to keep adding costs as they accrue, not a fixed bid, so the company won't lose money on the deal if it's a bit of a shit show.
He is in a hotel for tonight, not the one in the Old Town of Stockholm, but one the company put him in. Apparently two other guys from his group are staying to look around, but he's not sure how much they will see of each other as each one of them had different things they wanted to see (the one guy really wants to see the ABBA museaum, which is not on my Sweetie's list).
Anyhow, I will be excited to talk to him tomorrow to find out where he went as a sight seer.
I went to see River later in the day. R asked if I wanted a lesson today, but I declined on the basis that it's too hot to do anything useful.
Poor River has a couple of raised welts on his flank from the flies. I saw them yesterday, and did my best to coat them with zinc cream to act as a physical barrier, and lots of repellent, but they are still there today. I did the same cream application today after we were done, and I hope it helps.
We did very low energy things today again, though it was cooler when I went out. We focused on things like his turn on hindquarters, turn on the forehand, and just walking with me with purpose at Liberty. I did ride him, but at a walk. Again just working on making nice turns and backing up lighter.
I came home and let everyone out into their pastures for a while.
That's about it. Too hot to do any work, too hot to go for a walk, too hot for pretty much anything.
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Date: 2024-07-19 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-07-19 05:22 am (UTC)Pretty much everyone likes him. I don't know how he does it. Big, tough tradesmen like him, office people like him, kids and old ladies and pretty much everyone. That's why he's good at his job. His job is to go back and forth between the trades people and management; making sure that whatever they need on each side happens. It can cover a variety of duties within that general framework.
He's also not one of "those guys" who has issues with women in the workplace, people of different races or backgrounds, LGBTQ folks, etc. so he can be trusted to work with just about anyone and let them feel comfortable around him. He isn't just suppressing negative feelings towards people who are different, he genuinely is fine with just about anyone, and there's a difference.
Then he writes progress reports, and tells everyone where they're at.
People always talk to me later after they meet him, and say "your husband is such a NICE person".
SOME people like me and my strong personality and my weirdness, and they say "your wife is hilarious", or after they get to know me after a year or so (some people are just really unsure of me) they might finally come around to saying something about how nice I am.
Quite a number of people just don't like me, and I guess that's just how it is being a person of stronger personality.
My husband's public persona is that he just kind of lets people be themselves, and he doesn't express his own views much. Just later when we talk would he say anything. Even people he actively dislikes probably go home thinking "what a nice guy".
He is patient. He just seems to roll along with things at work, though it is often tiring and frustrating for him. I think it's all the same to him, he gets paid anyhow.
He certainly gets frustrated, and there are times when I know he expresses those feelings to the right people in the right way, but it's very rarely that he gets REALLY upset.
He likes fixing things for people, fixing situations and making things run smoothly. Of course it is hard for him when there are situations that resist fixing, especially if it's for stupid reasons like people not doing their job.
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Date: 2024-07-19 06:12 am (UTC)I think I could go either way. I've been told before times that I'm the nice one that everyone gets along with but over the last few years I've also been told I'm the one that's hard to get along with. So I think I could go either way with who I married. Either the person that can get along with everyone and make me look more hardlined or the person that is harder to get along and I look sweet and soft. Guess it depends on what I'm going to need in life and what he will do and how we balance each other