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I know I haven’t blogged for a time. I’m currently on a break from a training session in downtown Denver. It’s pretty laid back, so I’ll post quickly, then grab a quick bite for lunch, then back at it.

It’s been crazy cold for a day or so. A few inches of snow (4? 6? I don’t know exactly), and last night it got down to 2 degrees in Broomfield, 5 below 0 at the airport. So warming up the car has been fun… as in it takes halfway to my destination before it’s really warm.

I was up late last night… after a busy day, I was working on a quick turnaround freelance project until 1:30am before I gave up and went to bed. Put an hour into it this morning before coming downtown, but couldn’t get it done. It had to be delivered to the client today… or, I should say, I was contracting with another company who needed to deliver to the client today. I feel bad that I couldn’t complete it, and this will probably jeopardize my chances of getting work from this company in the future, but I can only do what I can do. My instinct is to take it personally and get really worked up about screwing the thing up, but I am trying to just let it go, knowing I did what I could. Even the lost future work isn’t that huge of a deal in the big picture… but it sucks when my whole business is built on reputation to not complete something like that, well done and on time. This time is was neither.

So as a result of staying up late, I was up until almost 2, then Sam woke up after a zombie dream at 4:45 – which means I got just under 3 hours sleep, then another hour after that until I got up. That leaves me with no energy, and tonight’s show at Forza will probably happen primarily on autopilot. Ugh.

Saturday will be busy, catching up on some church stuff, maybe getting a Christmas tree, stuff like that. But Sunday… oh, Sunday, how I relish the thought of sleeping all day. Or at least until the early football game. I still will probably bust out some code for the big project Dan and I are working on, but nothing too crazy. It will be a mellow day I hope.

That’s all. There’s a chicken burrito at the place next door calling my name, then back to teaching CSS … which feels really weird to be teaching after what felt like a massive failure on that project, but enough wallowing.

I’ll blog properly very soon. I promise.