An odd ripple effect of self-care.

So one of the behaviours I am attempting to extinct in myself is losing my temper. I mean, sometimes you gotta yell at your kids, right, sure, but I always want to make sure that  I am in control of when I do that, and sometimes I'm not. So I'm off to fix that.

But.. as I work to decrease the number of times I have a dad-tantrum, I find that I am, generally, grumpier. My peaks of anger have decreased, but my baseline is higher.  I mean, it could also be that I'm _exhausted_, which is a reasonable other variable that explain this.  But work shall continue.

Self care improving

BUSY-NESS ALSO INCREASING...

But I'm looking forward to a period of relative calm over the next few weeks.... ok, next few days... hours....

A minor thing I learned from my work

1) When supervising problematic staff, it's really hard to remember and recognize that they are improving, and to re-assess them fairly as they progress from sucking, to not sucking as much, to sucking very little, to sucking not at all.