...in my life, that is.
Most of the "hanging out there, gonna break any day now" checks from clients came in yesterday and today (with the exception of one client, who is about 75 days out now on the oldest invoice). As a result, I've been busily paying bills, dumping some funds into my 2007 IRA, my 2008 HSA, 4Q 2007 Estimated taxes. Nice to be not so worried about money for the moment.
I'm also working on a paper for the 2008 Power Quality conference, in Las Vegas. It's probably due this week; I spent yesterday scanning 20-30 pictures from the archives (taken in the days before digital cameras, when every site visit would involve a trip down to CVS to get the photos developed, then scan them in for the report). I also dug through 1700 reports from the past 4-5 years for the ones that I am going to use for my paper (not so hard really, I was able to do some searches that narrowed it down to maybe 12 sites that I needed to look at. So, I'm about to sit down to write. Any minute now. Really.
In other news, we're getting ready for our balloon club winter dinner, and I made the tactical error of sending out an email soliciting photos for a "little slide show to run during cocktail hour". One of our members has sent me about 20 emails with 10-20 photos attached per email. When I (finally) sent a note back telling him I think we've got it covered (please stop!), he sent back his own calculations: I sent you 267 photos. Put that on a slide show, 5 sec. per photo. =22 min. 25 sec. I do not have the heart to tell him that I have photos from other club members (plus we are interspersing in trivia and 2007 news items and stuff in there), and might actually leave the slides up there for 10-15 seconds - so I doubt I will use every photo he sent.
Balloonists and Cross-dressers (two tribes I have some experience with) - never saw a photo-op they did not like.
So, not really blogging about much at the moment. Too busy getting things done!
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