Today I

• Up for my final practice with my SDCC 8.  2 x 1k.  First with start, second as second half.  First was a bit rough, as we'd not practiced a settle in the warm up and didn't settle well. There was a light mist falling.
• After practice, de-rigged.
• Had a very disappointing chat with the new HR woman. Once more, my logic fails to persuade anyone to take any action.  Her advice is that I have to make people think my idea is good for them.  I pointed out It's pretty hard to use soft power and influence from over here. It's left me feeling really unsupported.  I'd like to try to learn from this.  I'm realizing I'm failing at persuading up the organization and across.  I don't know how to be better, but I realize it'll hold me back in my career. I need to figure it out.  I think I need to ask for help, and I need to accept I don't have all the answers.
• Went to the marin county clerk today.  Never thought I'd do that again.
• Had conf call with various PFC folks about protocol and costs.  Looks like we target a May start.
• Johann's screener qualified him for a referral to a developmental specialist.  There's also some resource available here, they say.  I don't know what to think.  He seems to be doing most of the normal things, but he's just on track if he were half his literal age. We'll wait to see what is said.
• Took him to the park with Kelly.  Chime bars, down the slide with Kel holding his hands, big slide with daddy, some climbing on the toddlertown, some swings, and cheese stick.
• For dinner, the boy wanted mostly milk.  I tried to give him his paella, but he was uninterested.  He wanted biscuit and chicken chunks. And more milk.
• He did some more pushing of his walker cart, and played in the spare room, with his usual requests to see the framed pictures on the ground. He played with the box for his blinds.  He snuggled with Midori and Kelly briefly.  He also thought it funny to bite my nose. That hurt.
• Watched a documentary on hospice in a prison.  It was so touching, how the other inmates took care of the subject.  There was a lot of redemption and compassion.  Made me want to find a way to serve our prison population here.
• Kel and I are packing for San Diego.  We fly tomorrow.