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Yesterday was another busy day. Get up, walk the dogs, do a little work, then go into work, and work work work. I managed to avoid my many colleagues long enough to have lunch with an old friend, Andy.

Andy is - well I can't call him a fellow triathlete, as he's like, Mr Triathlete, competing in several each year, while my goal is to make one each year, and finish. He's short and very fit, and often finishes in the top 20 overall. He doesn't brag though, so he's way cool to hang out with.

We hadn't caught up in over 3 months, so we had a lot of news to share. It was really great talking to him. I am going to have to make a point to talk to him more often.

After lunch it was back to the grind. A project that I did not work on, but tried to help after it was delivered, and looked terrible (suggestions of stylesheets and templates to give every screen the same look and feel). However, the foundations were still a mess. Even though I brought this up, what I suggested didn't seem to get implemented, so I think my boss somehow blames me for this. There was a meeting scheduled late in the day that I thought he was going to attend with the offending developer, as he is delivery manager and this was, well, not a good delivery. However, he invited me, then ducked out and didn't plan on attending the meeting. Luckily the meeting was moved, and I got out in reasonable time to....

Get home.
Check email really quickly to make sure a response I was waiting on had not arrived (it had not)
Cleaned upstairs a little more
Brought things down
Drove to pick up Frances from ballet
came home
made dinner
ate dinner
picked up walt from trumpet
got home
changed clothes
painted until after 9
got rut to bed
learned more about iphone programming
read
slept

And now it's time to do it again!

Nancy was complaining that there was no time to travel this summer. I am disappointed too, but how could she not realize that sending the kids to camp, swim team and dive team, and enrolling them into a new homeschool thing, while volunteering to manage the dive team and teach in the homeschool thing....could allow us any time to travel. There are holes we dig ourselves into, and sometimes we can't get out very easily. This is one of those holes. I really want to be understanding and caring and think she walks on water and can do no wrong and blah blah blah but...when she says these things, it's all I can do to hold my tongue. I managed to last night. I said there were always weekends for travel, and changed the subject as fast as I could.