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Second day in a row I slept passed 7am. I'm on a roll. Not gonna lie, it's kind of nice. It also helps that the sky is dark and there's no light coming into the bedroom. Still very gloomy out. It stopped snowing early in the day but it left a good 2-3 inches on the ground. Enough to be annoying. It was down to ice by midday. Supposed to start in again this afternoon. Luckily I have nowhere to be today. 

I only went out once yesterday and that was to the fancy grocery store. Got some stuff we've been craving that is only sold there. That was it though. I did slide a little bit coming back into the neighborhood where the snow plows hadn't made it yet. Switched my truck to 4 auto for the first time. 

We spent over 4 hours watching movies. We watched Matrix IV the other day and B wanted to watch the original trilogy + animatrix to really understand the story. Fair. We have spent the last couple of days doing just that. Yesterday we watched Revolutions and re-watched Resurrections. The last one made more sense to B after being fully caught up and fresh in their mind. But man oh man, there's four hours of my life. Plus breaks for bathroom and food, so really five hours of my day. I can't do that the same way B can. I was getting antsy. But they're happy and that's all that matters.

Unrelated to anything, I want to say my peace about something. I have been reading a lot of posts, articles, memes, etc all talking about how frustrated people are with having to go back into an office. They make jokes like "well Brian can't function without his daily control" and they don't realize just how close to the truth they are with comments like that. You know why companies are making you go back to the office? Middle management. Plain and simple. Middle managers serve no purpose other than keeping the flock under observation. That's it man. Sorry to break it to you. You're right, Brian in Project Management has no other purpose than to be a shepherd. So yeah, to protect their jobs, it's middle management sowing the seeds of "we have to watch them; they're not working; they're time stealing!" nonsense to old white people in charge who don't understand remote work in the first place. Why has my company never needed to have an office or daily let me watch you work meetings? Because we don't fear stupid shit like time theft nor do we have useless middle management. We don't have people whose only job is to be a warden. We don't give people power without real responsibility. Hence, no need to any of that bullshit. I feel for anyone going back into an office. Productivity will crash, resignations will increase, management will scratch their heads, and it all could have been avoided by firing useless layers of managers. My two cents. Take it or leave it.

Going to do some self care today. Manicure. Face mask. That kind of day.