March 25,2025,Tuesday afternoon,4:05pm,pacific standard time,office in Costa Mesa, California,USA. My supervisor is in town. Our branch is on the radar because of poor referral volume and census decline. These things happen. I have confidence we will bounce back. But senior leadership is nervous so I have to accept extra scrutiny. . I don’t mind the attention but I feel tired. I need to get some rest. Tomorrow there are two off site meetings and a dinner with the physicians. I look forward to all of them. It will be good to get out and be social.

March 24, 2025, Monday evening, 6:56pm,pacific standard time, apartment in Dana Point, California, USA. I have begun laying out the road map to get this branch turned around. This has reduced my anxiety level greatly. There are four key areas to focus on; conversion rate, live discharge percentage, volume from key accounts and lack of large accounts. Now that I know where the problem lies I can go about fixing it. I feel much better. We will see where we are in one year. Either it is turned around and I move up. Or it stays stagnant and I move one. Regardless I don’t need to be in this position last that time.

March 23,2025, Sunday afternoon, 3:38pm,pacific standard time, hardware store, Laguna Niguel, California,USA. Last night I went to bed around seven. I must have been really tired. I heard knocking around 7:45pm but was too groggy to answer the door. Turns out it was my daughter. She wanted to get her purse out of my car. I felt bad I didn’t answer but she said it was alright. They had enough money to buy dinner without a credit card. This morning I walked Blue Lantern then worked out at home. My car needs lots of repairs and I didn’t feel like driving to the gym. After that I did laundry and watched basketball. Around noon I picked my daughter up. We grabbed a bagel and some drinks. On the way back she asked if we could walk on the beach like yesterday. I am proud of her. She is focused on getting in shape to wear her dress for the school dance in May. When we got back to Aliso Viejo she said she was fine alone (her mom is out having tea with a friend.) she wanted to workout in the living room. So I came to the hardware store on my way home. I need to replace the outside mat in front of my laundry area on the patio. The current one is looking pretty shot.

March 22, 2025, Saturday afternoon, 4:28,pacific standard time,jiffy lube, Aliso Viejo,California, USA. Woke up early for walk and workout.. at 9am I headed up to Aliso to meet my daughter and her aunt for coffee and a walk on the beach. Afterwards her and I went to the Irvine spectrum and did some shopping. I was going to head home but needed to get my car serviced first. I recently passed 100,000 miles and need to treat it right so it will last longer once I pay it off in October. They have already talked to me about filters, spark plugs and brakes. I am going to hold off on the spark plugs and brakes. I can get them fixed with the air conditioner.

March 21,2025,Friday night,8:53pm,pacific standard time, apartment in Dana Point, California, USA. After work today I drove to Aliso Viejo. I took the dog for a walk then played Hues and Cues with my daughter, her mom and a friend/“aunt.” We had a good time. My daughter broke up with her boyfriend this week. She seems alright but is probably is feeling down. Tomorrow for coffee and tea we will try a new place that recently opened. Other than that no big plans. I need rest and to get my car serviced. Those are my two objectives this weekend.

March 20,2025,Thursday night,8:11pm,pacific standard time, apartment in Dana Point, California, USA. Second day in a row getting to work before 7:30am. Big difference in traffic congestion leaving at 7am compared to 7:15am. It probably saves me ten to fifteen minutes of drive time leaving slightly earlier. I stayed late today and took the 405 south to pick my daughter up and take her to music. I hit a little traffic but it was fine. I avoided a toll and had time to kill before 7pm anyway. And I tried something new. that is always good.

March 19,2025,Wednesday evening,6:04,pacific standard time,parking lot,school of rock,San Juan Capistrano,California,USA. I woke up at 3:30am this morning. Same as yesterday. It was a little harder because I waffled between getting up at 3:30 or 4:30. 3:30 is more challenging but gives me more time in the morning and allows me to beat traffic. I just need to mentally prepare for the earlier wake-up. I have been slogging through the day. Once my daughter is done with music lessons I am going to drop her off, get fuel for the car then head straight to bed.

March 18,2025,Tuesday evening,7:05pm,pacific standard time, apartment in Dana Point, California, USA. Today was social worker appreciation day. We had the social workers come to the office and treated them to lunch. The staff did a nice job decorating. Afterwards the three social workers received gifts and treat baskets. They seemed to enjoy the attention and we had great conversations. All in all a day well spent.

March 17,2025, Monday afternoon,4:45pm,pacific standard time,office in Costa Mesa, California,USA. Started the day with meetings then went out marketing the rest of the morning. After that I sat in meetings with the president of sales. I hit the wall about three hours ago. We are going to head to dinner. It is dark and overcast with the threat of rain. I can’t say I want to go out tonight but I always appreciate going after the fact.

March 16,2025, Sunday morning, 8:54am, pacific standard time,office park,Laguna Niguel,California,USA. NCAA tournament selection Sunday has always been one of my favorite days of the year. Before my daughter was born I would plan to take the first week of the tournament off. I was so excited to watch basketball during the day I didn’t want to be distracted by work. Today is a beautiful, crisp spring morning. Many memories of happy times are filling space in my mind. I have already worked out and grabbed coffee. I am going to head to target and take care of shopping needs before I lose momentum.