Ok, I want to go back to sleep. My brain is just not waking up. Mistook the time of my first meeting. I've been doing the slow burn because no one was here for my 9am meeting, which is actually scheduled for 9:30. Alrighty then.

Since I got up so early yesterday, I slept from 8pm until about 630 this morning. Walked to a coffee shop and have been sitting here with my sandwich and chai for half an hour. Quite nice. But I still don't want to go to work. Grr.

Thanks, Kate. Most of the negatives you describe already apply to us, living in Texas. The real political pain was leaving Washington state to return to Texas.

What about the restaurants? Is there a wide variety of cuisines, or just kind of Americana?

I have a friend in OKC that sings and might have info on choruses, I will reach out.

His mom just started chemo and he is the one taking her to and from treatment and all that

That's hard. You get short notice of changes to the schedule, weird things happen to change the expected time of treatment, you're suddenly told "We didn't get the drugs here, but if you can get across town in twenty minutes they can fit you in, but be aware that if she doesn't get the treatment today we may have to start over on the schedule, and that won't be for three months."

Yes, Connie, exactly. Luckily the team I work with on this project is great (even though I fuss about them). They are all rallying to fill in the gaps as needed. The team has been hit hard recently. One task manager just lost his father after a stroke, another lost his brother and nephew in an auto accident, and before that, we lost a team member to cancer. A world of suck, but it also means that everyone understands and will go above and beyond to help.

Most of the negatives you describe already apply to us, living in Texas.

I figured that was probably the case. For restaurants, I'd certainly say Americana makes up the majority, but there are lots of others too. I've had Greek, Vietnamese, Indian, and Chinese food in OKC, and of course, plenty of Mexican food too. I suspect that's another thing that may be changing for the better as the city tries to draw more Millennials to live there.

Oh crud, I'm really nauseous all of a sudden. Stress? too much coffee? or am I getting sick?

If it's whatever hit me yesterday, Burrell, it shouldn't last too long. Could certainly be stress, of course. I haven't figured out what may have caused mine - could be a bug or something I ate, but what it felt like is morning sickness (which it couldn't be (unless menopause can cause that?)). I feel pretty confident it was not a contagion that could spread through this series of tubes, in any case. Anyway, hope yours goes away swiftly and completely.

So here I am, trying to figure out how to do a key element of my new job. It's ridiculous that I don't know how to do this. I've had no training at all. All I have is an outdated, badly written manual. My boss doesn't answer me when I really need her (and probably doesn't know how anyway). She hasn't answered an email in two days. I have to go bother my coworkers to find out how to do my job. And I find that a new process was put into place just in the last month for handling this, so the manual is even more outdated, and no one bothered to inform us. Or maybe they did, in some meeting while I was on vacation, but still, they couldn't send around an email? This annoys me. Seems like our company should be more efficient, than the "throw them in the deep end and see if they swim" method of training employees.