A full day today for Frankly Speaking. At the risk of seeming incredibly vain, I thought I would share my first full work day of 2009 with you, my faithful readers.
- 4:30 AM - Alarm goes off; roll out of bed; shower; put on a suit for LPD Chaplain duty
- 5:00 AM - Leave for office to retrieve stuff for Chaplain's Lineup
- 5:20 AM - Arrive at office; get stuff; leave
- 5:30 AM - Purchase pies at Meijer; one apple, one Dutch apple, one peach, and one cherry
- 5:50 AM - Arrive at Lansing Police Department North Precinct and begin cutting pies; make contact with command staff
- 6:00 AM - Lineup
- 6:10 AM - Chaplain's Lineup; introduce chaplaincy program; show Dave Ramsey video; Dave Ramsey video doesn't work; invite officers to attend Financial Peace University; serve pie
- 6:30 AM - Leave for home; call daughter on the way to make sure she's up; she announces 2-hour delay for Grand Ledge High School
- 6:45 AM - Arrive home and check News Channel 6 to confirm school delay; watch thirty minutes of lions eating stuff on Discovery Channel; leave house
- 7:30 AM - Arrive at Fitness USA and begin working out (interval training on the treadmill); run into "Tiny", the youth pastor from Trinity Methodist, who helped coach Jonah's football team
- 8:30 AM - Finish workout; shower (amazing water pressure); head for home
- 8:45 AM - Make sure kids are up (again) and cook breakfast for them (very atypical for me)
- 9:30 AM - Take Jonah to Beagle; Abby and Caleb to Grand Ledge High School
- 9:45 AM - Head to South Lansing Christian Church for work
- 10:15 AM - Arrive at office; visit with Micki, Sue, Wally, Chad and Tim
- 10:45 AM - SEEK time; Reading from Hebrews 11-13; journal; pray; journal some more
- 10:55 AM - Drop in visitor; set SEEK time aside
- 11:45 AM - Good visit; back to SEEK time
- 12:15 PM - Prep for Staff Meeting
- 12:20 PM - Drop-in visitor; prep-time set aside
- 12:47 PM - Back to prep time; scurrying to get ready for staff meeting
- 1:00 PM - Waiting on staff to arrive for 1 PM Staff Meeting; (I've set a bad example for timeliness and I didn't communicate to the rest of the staff my newly minted resolve to be punctual)
- 1:20 PM - Staff meeting begins (finally)
- 2:30 PM - Leave for LPD afternoon lineup
- 3:10 PM - Chaplain's Lineup; repeat spiel from 6:00 AM, pie inclusive
- 3:30 PM - Leave to return to office
- 4:00 PM - Meet with parishioner; pray for his troubled marriage
- 5:00 PM - Reply to emails
- 5:05 PM - Check the news: Drudge, LSJ, Fark
- 5:35 PM - Pack up computer
- 5:41 PM - Leave for home; listen to podcast of Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me on the way
- 5:50 PM - Check the mail; no check from Indiana house yet; stress about bills
- 6:30 - Enter nutrition and exercise for today on gyminee .com
- 6:51 PM - Supper with the family (Hamburger Helper and green beans)
- 7:45 PM - Leave for Chaplain's Lineup
- 8:10 PM - Chaplain's Lineup; repeat spiel from 6:00 AM and 3:00 PM; more pie
- 8:30 PM - Leave for home; stop at QD to get snacks for Abby and Caleb; show Abby a parking meter 'cause she says she's never seen one before
- 9:00 PM - Arrive at home
- 9:45 PM - Wii bowling with the Franklies - I won; Wii tennis with Frankette - won that, too
- 10:46 PM - Finish writing this post; worry that it is incredibly vain; post it anyway; go to bed
A full day today for Frankly Speaking. At the risk of seeming incredibly vain, I thought I would share my first full work day of 2009 with you, my faithful readers.
To our defense, we normally get a call over the intercom that staff meeting is going to begin. The men would have been on time had we had that call. . . or known that we were going actually start on time.
ReplyDeleteLions eating stuff?? Obviously, you were not watching FSN Detroit....
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post Frank. I thought it was interesting. By the way, did the Dave Ramsey video work in the other two meetings?
ReplyDeleteBruce
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Bruce...nope. Dan...that's why we call them the "lie downs."
ReplyDeleteAgain, sorry about the 5:30am time slot.
ReplyDeleteLet start having the staff meeting at 7:30am and I will be on time.
Seriously...quit worrying about it. You're the best, and we were all a little scatter brained over the holidays. And, no, I am not going to have a 7:30 Monday morning meeting. Ever. For anything. I hope.
ReplyDeleteIs this a way to feel useful? Who really cares about your day when everyone else is just a busy being productive. Sounds like you spin your wheels. Maybe try taking a little more time for prayer.
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly what I was trying to say. Thanks for the insightful observation.
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