Mike's Journal

Today started out at 4AM when I couldn’t sleep. I’m not having the pain levels that I did at the end of last year, but the aching and tingling is still enough to keep me awake when I’m not exhausted. So, rather than lie in bed, I’d just as soon get up and get to work.
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I started out the morning by looking over the open issues for the application that was supposed to have a test deployment tomorrow. Just as well I did; the client had quietly moved the due date to today. Fortunately, things were close and it didn’t take me too long to do the last bits of cleanup and get it off to the web.
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The day started off with a small flurry of code changes, mostly to fix things I’d messed up when I was working in an overtired state last night. Kids woke up, as kids do, and we moved on into schoolwork mode.
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Today started off early but not crushingly so – I managed to sleep until 5:30 and the kids were later than usual as well. By the time the whole crew was awake, it was time for Dana to take Thomas off to his athletics class at the Y, and Lindsey tagged along. So it was just the older two for classes in the morning, which I interspersed with catching up on some desk work….

I’d only been in bed about four hours when Lindsey woke up at 3AM. And she was wide awake – the result of having fallen asleep on the couch in front of the TV. So, just like old days with Adam, it was downstairs to get her some breakfast and let her watch cartoons, while I propped my eyes open and started in on work.
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Today started out at 4AM with a very chipper Lindsey. That’s what happens when she falls asleep early. We had breakfast together and then she played for a bit while I dug into email. Later on, when the rest of the crew was awake, we had some schoolwork.
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Monday and tax return day (for a bunch of business returns) – a double hit of fun. I spent the first four hours of the day dealing with tax stuff, but at least Dana volunteered to do the post office run so I didn’t have to. Instead, I worked with kids on their school stuff until about lunchtime.
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A no-school day, of course, but I was up early anyhow because my back was unhappy. So it was that I was writing code before 5 in the morning. I just kept going right through lunch, interspersing code with a bunch of bookkeeping and desk cleanup, and got a lot done – though of course there’s always more to do.
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It snowed about 4 inches overnight, and the kids were all happy to see it. Me, not so much; I’m pretty well over snow these days. I didn’t have to go out in it very much, at least, since we had no running around at all to do today.
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We ended the week with a regular school day. Kids all seems to be doing fine in their respective classes, though it’s starting to feel like time to shake things up and introduce some new mateiral. Not sure what though.
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