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Just tired
I haven't at all kept up with this. Or my diary. Every day is just a never ending to-do list, and trying to record anything is just one more thing.
Hurricane Ida trashed the lower level of the house. We're fine, we didn't lose anything we couldn't afford to lose. There's a whole dramatic story there, but I'm too tired to write it.
We're in the middle of contractor hell now. We're moving forward, but it's an endless one-step-forward, two-steps-back game.
The contractor who has spent the entire summer trying to jump through the hoops to replace our dying air conditioner (unrelated to Ida) fired us today. Gave us most of our money back and quit. The combo of Jersey City regulations and the weird custom set-up broke him. Now we have to find a new contractor and switch the permits.
ARR's back to school went fine. There's just a bunch of PTA stuff to deal with.
I have concerns about gaps between the product team and the C-suite at my current employer.
I'm trying to self-publish a novella, with a goal date of Nov 6. It's effectively an exercise in setting up a small business. If it were not a holiday themed novella, I'd push the whole thing out two months, but it's now or wait a year. You know what I really want to do after a day of media planning and setting up marketing automation? Come home to do media planning and set up marketing automation, only with a much smaller budget and crappier tools and it's my own money to lose. Whee.
Tired. It'll be fine, it'll all be fine, progress is being made on all fronts. But tired.
Hurricane Ida trashed the lower level of the house. We're fine, we didn't lose anything we couldn't afford to lose. There's a whole dramatic story there, but I'm too tired to write it.
We're in the middle of contractor hell now. We're moving forward, but it's an endless one-step-forward, two-steps-back game.
The contractor who has spent the entire summer trying to jump through the hoops to replace our dying air conditioner (unrelated to Ida) fired us today. Gave us most of our money back and quit. The combo of Jersey City regulations and the weird custom set-up broke him. Now we have to find a new contractor and switch the permits.
ARR's back to school went fine. There's just a bunch of PTA stuff to deal with.
I have concerns about gaps between the product team and the C-suite at my current employer.
I'm trying to self-publish a novella, with a goal date of Nov 6. It's effectively an exercise in setting up a small business. If it were not a holiday themed novella, I'd push the whole thing out two months, but it's now or wait a year. You know what I really want to do after a day of media planning and setting up marketing automation? Come home to do media planning and set up marketing automation, only with a much smaller budget and crappier tools and it's my own money to lose. Whee.
Tired. It'll be fine, it'll all be fine, progress is being made on all fronts. But tired.
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Our landlord has decided that instead of using the roofing contractor, he’s going to use his brother-in-law. I’m sure this will go well.
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Also, The Last Graduate came out, though perhaps you already know. Might be a picker-upper.
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Can't wait to read your novella! And may all your life craziness at least transmogrify into inspiration for future stories.