Payroll preperation was the cause. In my job there aren’t many priorities higher than that, not too many deadlines that are more important. We take care of our employees and that means that we get paid on time. Those deadlines are solid – miss them by 3 seconds and folks get paid on Monday instead of Friday and that’s a major failure mode.
So it was about 01:15 on Thursday AM when I hit the “send” button and wrapped it up, and about 01:16 when my brain unfocused from payroll processing enough to go, “Oh, crap!” For the 15th time in over ten years of daily posts on this site, there was no daily post. “C’est la vie,” as the sophisticated French say, or “Shit happens!” as the somewhat more vulgar Americans would say.
A quick check shows it had been about 1586 days since the last time that happened, back on April 10, 2020. Oddly, while I do get anal about my “atta boy!” posts showing how many days in a row I’ve posted, and I didn’t get one of course on Thursday and am now starting over, I did get one at random from WordPress saying that (coincidentally!) someone looked at something on the site that day and it was the 100,000th “view” of one of my website pages.
Cool! If just a bit odd that it happened to occur on the day I broke that 1,586 day posting streak. Weird little Universe we got going here, but anyone watching politics for the past few years probably had noticed that.
Perspective is important. Not just the relative priority of keeping my little daily posting streak going vs getting everyone in the company paid on time, I was thinking more globally or cosmically as in the terrible news we got on Friday and everything going on with COVID and politics in the big, bad world and more personally the pain levels from my teeth and knee. (Both are getting better, but are very annoying.)
On so many different levels of our existance and life experiences, the common thread is that we’re going to get knocked down (or trip on a treadmill) and the only real option is to laugh, get up, and start over. Here’s to Day Three of the current streak.