Cats and Coffee

A year ago I was defending meetings to plan meetings (I still think they're great), annoyed by lack of sleep, enjoying Psych at the circus, and finding respect for Angela Raynor!

Today started with Morning Prayer at St Margaret's, then I popped into Smith's to FINALLY get the packaging materials to send off my steamless steam mop for repair/replacement.

In the office, I really got into the zone with the Power BI report to rule them all. I added in the graphs for all the Risks and Issues across the portfolio, and worked out how to actually show the top 5 of each (rather than the top 6, which we had before). I'd also discussed adding in trend data with senior colleagues but I can't work out how to do that. Power BI shows dynamic data not historic, so I can work out how to show how many risks were updated in the month of June versus how many in July, but not how many went from 'increasing' to 'decreasing'. I'm sure it's possible but it's back to the Power BI Team for help on that.

What I did manage to do was get the Values & Aims pages working properly. Not only are all the projects now linked to at least one value and one aim, but I've worked out how to show a 0 instead of 'blank' where there isn't any data. And I worked out how to link to the drillthrough page. I think it's looking much better. My LM had some words of praise, which were much appreciated. Of course, I have yet to create a whole report from scratch - what I'm doing is copying an existing report and editing - but, as with Power Apps/Dynamics, I am mostly self-taught.

Because it was Thursday we went to the chippy, but we decided to try a new one. The estimated delivery was 7.30-7.45pm, which I realised after placing the order meant possibly missing the start of an online church meeting. Thankfully, they came at 7.15pm, so we were able to eat in a civilised manner. Then I made coffee and came at husband with his insulin but the poor man hadn't finished eating. A sensible voice in my head was saying 'leave him alone!' but the bossy voice was saying 'do it now!'. And somehow that won. I just... One day I'll learn to always listen to the sensible voice because I do sometimes! Of course, nobody knows I did because nobody gets annoyed by me doing the right thing.

The meeting itself started late, too, so I had even less excuse for rushing :( But it was a useful meeting to discuss hiring a youth worker, which is a role we really, really need.

And this morning I made a start on Kiara's character sheet. I'm making some decisions about her story and how to present it, and I'm looking forward to getting to know her better.