My boss was going to the coast with his wife this weekend, so he didn't come in on Thursday or Friday. One of the things he did on Wednesday was have a meeting about his upcoming financial situation (fiscal year stuff for the bureaucracy we work for). He walked into my office on his way out for the day and told me it went well. Yesterday he kept getting emails about where one of the people in the lab could apply for grants, so I kept forwarding them to the person in question.
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
IAN is a great group to join, and a good place to learn to write diaries. Drop one of us a PM to be added to the Itzl Alert Network anytime! We all share the publishing duties, and we welcome everyone who reads IAN to write diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news!
That particular person sent me a paper that he said was ready to submit (written by someone else, but he is in theory supposed to check them - especially if he wants to be listed as senior author). I checked the grammar, the formatting and the references and got it submitted - and then he wanted it back to fix some mistakes. Someday he will learn that it is much easier to do things right the first time. Maybe. I thought I had already taught him that pissing the help off is a bad idea.
On the home front, more babysitting. My firstborn had to go in to work Saturday morning, due to issues involving changes in their computerized systems - and, she being one of the senior employees at this point, has to learn the stuff so she can help train the juniors. She brought home a plain doughnut for me and fancy ones for each kid - she's known for most of her life that the plainer a sweet is, the better I'm probably going to like it.
I think my mother is going to be here today. The last time we spoke, she was telling me she was thinking of stopping on her way home from visiting my siblings and spending the night on my daughter's couch and finishing the drive on Monday. We'll see.
And, thanks to information from Kit RMP, I will actually be starting to dance again by the end of the month. I really enjoyed contra dancing when I was doing it 30-some-odd years ago. Not this weekend - for various reasons, the week I've had exhausted me, and not next, because there won't be one on Saturday, but the 30th.... I've told my daughter I'll want to use the car to get there, and she's old enough to want to spend most of her Saturday evenings at home.