Monday, March 30, 2020
Yesterday, I did write my journal entry in the morning and I am doing so again today. I did not, however, finish any of my uncompleted journal entries. I did write a few sentences for the oldest date, but it is still not even half finished yet. I did edit another of my client videos, and I am uploading the new video into a shared file for her review and simultaneously uploading her third completed video to her YouTube channel to schedule for tomorrow. My Internet is currently working overtime.
I have decent Internet, but anytime I upload or download videos there is not enough bandwidth left over to do any other activities online. Stealing all the bandwidth would not be so bad if it did not take so long for the videos to upload. YouTube and Google drive are telling me it will take two hours to finish both tasks. I have noticed it takes about six times the video length to upload a video to YouTube; a two-minute video requires 12 minutes and a 10-minute video requires an hour. Both the videos I am dealing with right now are a combined 22 minutes. Nobody in my house will be watching Netflix or surfing the Internet for a while.
Oddly enough, everyone is here at my house on a Monday morning. My seven-year-old, Mika, will probably be home every day until the school year restarts in the Fall. My significant other, Donald, went to work as usual because his job is considered essential services; however, he was unable to work today. Donald was going to work on the Army base today and they have restricted the base to mission essential personnel only. Donald will be able to get on base, but his employer will need to get him proper paperwork to get through the gate. Donald told his boss he would happily come back home instead of them sending him to a different job site, and they could get the paperwork ready for him to go to work tomorrow.
My older daughter, Megan, is only working one of her three jobs because the other two were closed due to infection concerns, and that third job is providing health care for me. This morning the news was showing a field hospital set up by the Army in New York City and we were commenting on the personal space we saw as the camera panned along the aisle. Megan stood at the foot of my bed and told me she was going to use personal space to transfer me into my wheelchair. (If only telekinesis was a real power.)
Megan decided she was going to take a vacation from most of her responsibilities until April 1st after her second job was ordered closed the week before the governor of Colorado issued a state-wide stay-at-home order. I know Megan has cleaned and unpacked a little more at her house, but she usually stays a few hours at my house after providing my morning care and plays a video game. Fortunately, Megan’s game does not require Internet access, so Mika is usually the only one who is affected by the lack of Internet bandwidth. This morning I have Mika doing some math worksheets and then she will read.
I like having my family home even if I feel a little guilty about tying up the Internet for two hours. Okay, I only feel guilty because Donald is home. Megan and Mika are my children and moms are the top of that food chain. Donald, however, is my equal and compromise is required. If I did not need to upload these videos today, I would have pushed the task back until tomorrow. Today work trumps recreational Internet use.
I like having my family home even when we are doing our own, individual tasks. I like looking at Mika playing with her toys while I work. I like hearing the tapping of the keyboard as Megan plays her video game. I like hearing the airbrush upstairs as Donald paints a tank or plane. Even when we do not interact, I feel close to them just because they are here.
My piece of advice to you is to learn to love your family’s mere presence as much as your interaction with them. Although, I really want Donald to work tomorrow because I will be tying up the Internet again all day.
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.
Yesterday, I did write my journal entry in the morning and I am doing so again today. I did not, however, finish any of my uncompleted journal entries. I did write a few sentences for the oldest date, but it is still not even half finished yet. I did edit another of my client videos, and I am uploading the new video into a shared file for her review and simultaneously uploading her third completed video to her YouTube channel to schedule for tomorrow. My Internet is currently working overtime.
I have decent Internet, but anytime I upload or download videos there is not enough bandwidth left over to do any other activities online. Stealing all the bandwidth would not be so bad if it did not take so long for the videos to upload. YouTube and Google drive are telling me it will take two hours to finish both tasks. I have noticed it takes about six times the video length to upload a video to YouTube; a two-minute video requires 12 minutes and a 10-minute video requires an hour. Both the videos I am dealing with right now are a combined 22 minutes. Nobody in my house will be watching Netflix or surfing the Internet for a while.
Oddly enough, everyone is here at my house on a Monday morning. My seven-year-old, Mika, will probably be home every day until the school year restarts in the Fall. My significant other, Donald, went to work as usual because his job is considered essential services; however, he was unable to work today. Donald was going to work on the Army base today and they have restricted the base to mission essential personnel only. Donald will be able to get on base, but his employer will need to get him proper paperwork to get through the gate. Donald told his boss he would happily come back home instead of them sending him to a different job site, and they could get the paperwork ready for him to go to work tomorrow.
My older daughter, Megan, is only working one of her three jobs because the other two were closed due to infection concerns, and that third job is providing health care for me. This morning the news was showing a field hospital set up by the Army in New York City and we were commenting on the personal space we saw as the camera panned along the aisle. Megan stood at the foot of my bed and told me she was going to use personal space to transfer me into my wheelchair. (If only telekinesis was a real power.)
Megan decided she was going to take a vacation from most of her responsibilities until April 1st after her second job was ordered closed the week before the governor of Colorado issued a state-wide stay-at-home order. I know Megan has cleaned and unpacked a little more at her house, but she usually stays a few hours at my house after providing my morning care and plays a video game. Fortunately, Megan’s game does not require Internet access, so Mika is usually the only one who is affected by the lack of Internet bandwidth. This morning I have Mika doing some math worksheets and then she will read.
I like having my family home even if I feel a little guilty about tying up the Internet for two hours. Okay, I only feel guilty because Donald is home. Megan and Mika are my children and moms are the top of that food chain. Donald, however, is my equal and compromise is required. If I did not need to upload these videos today, I would have pushed the task back until tomorrow. Today work trumps recreational Internet use.
I like having my family home even when we are doing our own, individual tasks. I like looking at Mika playing with her toys while I work. I like hearing the tapping of the keyboard as Megan plays her video game. I like hearing the airbrush upstairs as Donald paints a tank or plane. Even when we do not interact, I feel close to them just because they are here.
My piece of advice to you is to learn to love your family’s mere presence as much as your interaction with them. Although, I really want Donald to work tomorrow because I will be tying up the Internet again all day.
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.