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Dog Walking
I did two 60 minute walks and a 10 minute potty break today. I put a new Gator Hardshell tire on my bike yesterday and did a minor tuneup, so I could use it for work. I rode it 4.3 miles to the first walk on Pratt in Chicago with Grover and Cookie. (Love the names, and they're adorable little things.) On the way back home, a job popped up in Skokie that looked like I could get to it. I snarfed it and changed course westward. That ride was about 6 miles, where I got Wrigley out for my first hour-long walk. Biking home from there was 3.7 miles. I took the car to my evening walk, but that was the second 60-minute with Blu. So that's about 14 miles by bike and 7 by foot today. This job is good exercise.
Things took longer than planned with Blu. The Wag! app has an interface that leads to me keep tapping "end walk" before putting the keys back in the lockbox. I did it again. Since this would have been the third time getting support from Wag! on this issue (and last time I said "It won't happen again!"), I was embarrassed. I was pretty sure I remembered a couple of the numbers, and it was one of the old 3-tumbler boxes instead of the newer 4-digit ones. So I started brute-force cracking it. I was wrong about remembering the numbers apparently (funny how memory works), but it only took me a little over 300 attempts to get it open.
Then, on the way home, support contacted me to ask whether I'd put Blu in his kennel. I hadn't; was I supposed to, I asked? He was loose when I got there, and there were no notes about doing that. Turns out that this was a cover for Blu's usual walker, and when it's a cover, the notes from the owner don't transfer over. So totally not my fault. I drove twenty minutes back to put Blu away, and was thanked profusely by support.
I'm still processing how I feel about that. Did I do it because I want to be a good employee and look good? Because I was scared of being seen negatively by the company if I didn't? I guess some of both. It wasn't my fault, but I suppose you could argue that it's my responsibility. Anyway, I finally got home at 9:30 from a walk that ostensibly ended at 8:00. Still, I had a fun time walking around the edge of a forest preserve with Blu, who's a younger, very excitable bully breed dog.
*yawns* So tired. But I made $50 today!
Things took longer than planned with Blu. The Wag! app has an interface that leads to me keep tapping "end walk" before putting the keys back in the lockbox. I did it again. Since this would have been the third time getting support from Wag! on this issue (and last time I said "It won't happen again!"), I was embarrassed. I was pretty sure I remembered a couple of the numbers, and it was one of the old 3-tumbler boxes instead of the newer 4-digit ones. So I started brute-force cracking it. I was wrong about remembering the numbers apparently (funny how memory works), but it only took me a little over 300 attempts to get it open.
Then, on the way home, support contacted me to ask whether I'd put Blu in his kennel. I hadn't; was I supposed to, I asked? He was loose when I got there, and there were no notes about doing that. Turns out that this was a cover for Blu's usual walker, and when it's a cover, the notes from the owner don't transfer over. So totally not my fault. I drove twenty minutes back to put Blu away, and was thanked profusely by support.
I'm still processing how I feel about that. Did I do it because I want to be a good employee and look good? Because I was scared of being seen negatively by the company if I didn't? I guess some of both. It wasn't my fault, but I suppose you could argue that it's my responsibility. Anyway, I finally got home at 9:30 from a walk that ostensibly ended at 8:00. Still, I had a fun time walking around the edge of a forest preserve with Blu, who's a younger, very excitable bully breed dog.
*yawns* So tired. But I made $50 today!