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Post Birthday Updates

A few days ago I had a birthday, which I enjoyed.  Birthday's for me have been kind of low key for many years now, but they don't make me sad or anything like that.  Unrelated to the birthday, this week has been a stressful one at work with many things seeming to unravel.  I almost started today feeling very overwhelmed and out of control, but somehow I switched from that point of view to being upbeat about solving problems and getting things taken care of.  How very positive of me.


This weekend is the annual Mixed International bonpsiel at the curling club, which should be a bit of fun.  My mom, sister, and Athena are headed back to New Orleans to work, which is great.  I was tempted to go, but just couldn't bring myself to do it.  Because of that, though, Samantha the dog will be staying with me through next week and I'm looking forward to it.
Recently I made some purchases I am happy with: a paper shredder and a robot.

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Unstressful Coincidence

Things have worked out well, timing-wise.  Curling has started right about the same time as all this stress at work.  If you haven't tried curling you might not think it looks very physical, but really it is.  For me, at least, it's a great way to work off stress.  It helps to have a good curling night like tonight was, of course.


Actually, most of the work stress items are now back to managable states.  My trip to Texas went well and was nicely productive.  We're working through some process issues still, but that seems to be on track.  Well, thinking about it more, there is still a lot up in the air.  It just feels like everything is better right now, so I'll enjoy that and not go any further into it.

I still need a haircut, still need to mow the lawn, and should pick up a new Michigan sweatshirt tomorrow if possible.  Maybe I'll play around with screen printing again.

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Wow, stressful week so far for BenPositive.  Everything will work out, but it seems like a lot is in the air right now.  I like to go onsite to customers, though, so finding out today that I need to be near Houston Monday is not so bad.  But rarely does anyone go onsite to customers because everything is going perfectly well.


Actually, though, once I got over feeling sick about it somehow things became more upbeat.  I'll go and we'll fix whatever is happening, and everything will be fine.  Then I'll come back and all our development processes here with be worked out.

The best news, though, is that curling starts tomorrow.  The first match up will be tough, both because it's been a while now since I've been on the ice and also because we play a pretty good team right away, but it will be fun regardless.  I think the next 22 hours will be an odd mix of extra stress about performing well and stress relief from getting ready to do something I enjoy so much.

I still need a haircut, need to mow the lawn before it snows again, and have enjoyed writing this evening.

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The End Was The Beginning

Well, some things at work didn't go so well today.  My positive hope, though, is to turn a negative into a positive.  We'll see if we can't implement some great software development practices in the process of cleaning up things that may or may not have needed cleaning up in the first place.


Another positive thing is more meetings means more free lunches.

Cheese and crackers.

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When Normal is Not

Today was a delightful, if abnormal, day.  It's hard to know what an abnormal day is, though, because I don't have any real normal days.


Things started out extra early, because every now and then I try to be a morning person.  I'll try again tomorrow and see if it will last.  I really don't like getting up before it's light out, though.

At work much of the time was spent setting up a remote training, with the goal of being able to work with a small group of teachers and go through effectively integrating mobile technology and our software into existing classroom activities and plans.  The setup worked reasonably well, except our office internet isn't so great to Vonage sometimes isn't so great.  Also, it's hard to do a workshop like that and not really see what everyone else is doing.  You don't really get a sense of how well people are following you.  Fortunately, I was just around for extra help.

While that was going on, I worked through an unrelated development problem on another project.  And work bought us Chinese food for lunch.

After work I went over to Mr. C's parents' house to help out a bit.  I go over there every now and then for various bits of computer and other technology assistance.  It had been a while, so it was nice to see them.  C's dad was particularly happy, and thought it typical ben, that I would have gotten in to curling.

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