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Month: April 2026

  • Day 092 of 2026 – April 2nd

    Not all that much going on today. Got up this morning and had a 7:30AM conference call. One of the challenges in working remote from another timezone with an East Coast company. This happens every other week and I am used to it.

    Spent the morning working on various projects at work. It was pretty busy, but not as busy as yesterday. I had:

    • 18 Cause of Loss Determination Requests
    • 6 Direct tags for quote/invoice and resolution review
    • 12 Pricing requests
    • 15 New Technician Support Requests
    • 24 Total Technician Support Requests closed.
    • 4 Technician Support Phone calls.

    I finished off the day with some problem emails, but that is sort of expected when you are trying to maintain high standards of inspection and findings. For many tradespeople do not take correction or coaching well at all. Anyways, another day done. I will have probably need to have a conversation with my manager about two technicians (probably only if they complain – but I may give him a heads-up, I will see how I feel about it in the AM).

    I did take my lunch/swimming break today around 11:15 or so and went down to the Rec Center. I had one of the best swims I have had in a long time. First. I was able to complete an 1800 yard freestyle (crawl) swim. I haven’t done that in over 3 years. Second, I was able to break my personal record an the 1650 yard portion of that. And finally I crossed another Swim.Com challenge for April off the ‘To Complete” list. I did my 3,000 yard swim today. So yesterday I completed the 1,000 and the 2,000 yards. Today I also completed the 1 hour challenge on Swim.Com and also wrapped up April Swim Month on Garmin. That makes me happy. I have April Swim Week left to do on Garmin, but that doesn’t start until next week and is much shorted than what I have already done. For Swim.Com my next major stepping stone and goal is the 5K swim.

    This evening is a rest period, and now we are sitting down watching some TV, watching Climber be crazy, and watching Res nap. I think that will be it for today and I will see you tomorrow.

    Day 092 of 2026 – April 2nd

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  • Day 091 of 2026 – April 1st

    Day 091 of 2026 – April 1st

    I set today’s feature image to a photo provided by NASA of the Artemis II liftoff from Florida. Best of luck to all of the astronauts aboard the ship, and may your journey be eventful, but not dangerously eventful. For many of us we remember the first steps on the moon, I think this is the first step in the path to return 50 years later, with greater technology and maybe pick up where we left off.

    Anyways, today ended up being a busy day at work. Not sure why, maybe it was a full moon. But, logged in around 6:45AM, took lunch from 12-1pm, and then I finally finished what I could do around 7:00pm (I did take a break to go walk the dogs and for dinner.) My stats:

    • 7 Commercial pricing requests
    • 27 Tech support and coaching requests
      • All 9 that came in today were addressed
    • 2 tech support from the past are still in progress
    • 22 Cause of Loss Determinations completed
    • 5 inbound calls for tech support (from techs)
    • 8 separate requests for file reviews from our resolutions team
    • And my standard task of enrolling new technicians to Alpine Intel University

    I think that just about wraps up the work tasks for the day.

    I made it to the pool for lunch and was able to get a lane, had to share at first but then the person I was sharing with snagged another open lane. It was a good workout today. I managed to do 2075 yards according to my watch, but looking at my stats/interval I can see where it missed a length and this should probably have been 2100 yards. Regardless, I accomplished what I wanted to do as my average workout should be a minimum of 2000 yards. By the end of April I am trying to go to 3000 yards per workout. Slow progress is a good thing.

    Came back and finished out my day. Took the dogs for their evening walk, fed them, and then us. We had Chicken Tenders and some really good potato salad. And now I am sitting here, writing my daily blog, and watching Res and Climber nap. Climber won’t stay this way long, she is really good at getting in trouble. I need to get some time to run her around a bit.

    Photo of Climber Napping
    Photo of Res Napping

    And with that, I say goodnight. See you tomorrow.

    Day 091 of 2026 – April 1st

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