Mike's Journal

Things were way busy yesterday and today. We had our usual plan of which parent was going to do what, and unfortunately that went out the window after lunch on Sunday, when Dana was on her way to pick up Kayla from overnight Girl Scout camp. Unfortunately just as she was getting ready to leave, she stuck something in her eye and scratched her cornea.
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Today’s main event was the new Tiger Cub picnic. Well, that and coding, but the coding is a constant currently. I spent the morning in front of the computer, making progress on things and worrying about progress management, as usual.
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Today featured a few bits of scouting and lots of work. When the kids were all up, I took Kayla out to run a few errands: getting her camp medical form filled out, picking up a few things at the grocery store, kicking off an international wire transfer from our new bank (who seem perfectly content to believe that the checks I deposit are good).
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Today started at 3:30 in the morning – not the nicest hour to be awake and working, but the big project is in serious deathmarch mode. At this point I just want to hold that one together, launch at the end of the month, and not have everything else come crashing down.
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After my usual morning of getting organized, I took a break from the computer and headed out to do some bank shopping. It seems as if Integra might be a good fit, so I’m going to investigate a bit more and then likely move our accounts.
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It was mostly another long day of work for me. I think that’s how the next two weeks are going to be; this is going to be our largest product launch ever, and the number of loose ends is staggering. Things are coming together, but it’s not going to be the easiest launch in the world.
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Started my day off with a few hours work on the Cub Scout pack site. It’s coming along. By the time I was done with that, Dana was headed out to a scrapbooking event. Fortunately the kids amused themselves pretty well today. I had planned to take them out this afternoon but it was so brutally hot that I decided an outside event was off.
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Today started off with another round of early email. By the time that was done and management tasks were lined up for the day, it was time to take our youngest off to camp. From there, I stopped at the hardware store and picked up a few things, and then visited our bank.
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Long long day today: up about 4:30 to pound code on a couple of projects. I moved on from that to project management around 8AM, and then did a small amount of schoolwork before it was time to take Lindsey to her day camp. Then I took care of the grocery shopping for the week.
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I was up a bit earlier this morning, but still couldn’t seem to get on top of things before it was time to run Lindsey out to her day camp in mid-morning. I dropped her off at the Y and then picked up a few things from Lowe’s that the house needed. There are times that I get tired of being owned by a house.
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