Stop the madness

An article by Don Quixote

What an insane week this has been. My life is pretty hectic on the whole, but this past week has just been nuts. I spent WAY too many hours at the newspaper and I’m feeling the effects. This past week some big wigs from CCI Denmark were at the paper to help us trouble shoot all the various issues of why their front end system doesn’t work the way we want it too from a web and archive stand point.

Since I’m the web guy for the paper, that means me. So I spent 5 hours on Tuesday, 6 on Wednesday and 12 on Thursday and Friday sitting in a room with IT folks, newspaper big wigs, and techs from across the big blue water. My head hurt come Friday afternoon.

I had originally planned to head over to game night with Mark, Brian and company. I had planned to go solo on this game night as Bobby and Jon were busy and Michelle had a huge test she had to take by midnight (which works out well since I would only bug Michelle every 20 minutes and that was the least she needed. I honestly was torn, I love to game and jump at every chance I get, but man was I just beat. So when Michelle got the email that her test had been pushed back another day, that was all the motivation I needed and I stayed home.

This weekend doesn’t look too promising either. The elections are a few days away and that means big business for the paper. In addition to all that fun stuff, our book club, Off the Shelf is getting ready for its new book and a new promotion for the Polar Express, so that’ll be sucking up all my time this weekend.

The boys also had their last soccer game this morning. Both their teams tied and they all got medals, so everyone was happy.

Afterwards I headed back over to Kara & the boy’s and built to desks that I had purchased for the boys for their room. They turned out really neat and there were smiles all the way around.

I’m hoping to post a game night review later today or tomorrow when I get a moment to catch my breath.

Until then, I’ll see you online.