Okay, so I forgot to blog for the ENTIRE WEEKEND, and managed to snooze through Monday as well. I think I can use the excuse that I was busy guest-blogging for Henry The Thirst on Sunday, but that leaves the guilt of Saturday and Monday for me to deal with. Ah well.

Doing Henry’s guest blog was a lot of fun. I got a bit stuck in the pirate talk for a while, and spent most of Sunday afternoon saying “Arrrr!”. The whole weekend was fairly nice, we did a few fun things.

Yesterday (Monday) was less fun. The day started with me spending two solid hours sitting in a traffic jam on I-285. A flatbed truck carrying a very, very large bulldozer overturned on the highway and managed to block all six eastbound lanes at one of the highway’s busiest points. I came to a halt about two miles from the accident, with no exits available. After a while we all just turned our engines off and got out to stretch, get a bit of air, and speculate about why we were all gathered together, so to speak. I read a magazine, sorted out how to turn off an infernal beeping device in my car that has been driving me completely nuts, climbed a guard rail to try to get a better view (no luck), and generally was bored to the ragged edge of sanity. I finally arrived at the office around 11AM, worked right through lunch out of guilt, and spent the whole afternoon revising, re-revising, un-re-revising, and then re-re-revising a project proposal that is so large, it stretches the very limits of how much information I can keep straight in my head. Everything else has been put on hold, because if I push one more spec into my head on one side, something vital will pop out the other side!

I then went to help friend Jerry relabel and redocument the patchbays and wiring in his recording studio. I designed and spec’d the system over four years ago using a piece of software I haven’t used much since, so a bit of fumbling ensued. Since then Jerry has moved around some equipment and changed a few things, but fortunately my documentation of the original project had been faithfully updated throughout, and I really had to do little other than neaten it up, fix a couple of minor inconsistencies, and print labels. We finished around 9:30 at night.

I won’t go into the rest of my bad day, suffice to say it didn’t get nicer from there, and today’s not starting out any better. I think the best thing I can do today, as crazy as it seems, is try to concentrate on all this work I’ve got to get done, and not give myself time to think too much.