April 29, 2002
Monday

Mom wanted me to come over on this most recent weekend to fix her computer. I had planned to do it, but eventually canceled -- citing the project for work which had to get done. Never mind that I didn't actually start working on it until Sunday evening/Monday morning. I really had planned to do some work on it during the day.

After I canceled for coming over on the weekend, I made plans to come over Sunday night and working from Orlando on Monday. The original reason for canceling that was because I had a hair appointment scheduled for this morning and my piano lesson in the evening.

Funny thing about the hair appointment: I've already canceled it twice already. Something just keeps coming up. And this morning? I canceled it again.

It happened that just as I was walking out the door, and just after I told the folks at work that I was talking a super-early lunch, that we found out about it. "Who is on the (so-in-so) issue? (Sushi), can you take it?"

Sure. I canceled my appointment and rescheduled. It would turn out that I would also be canceling my piano lesson, lunch, dinner and watching Angel. That damn issue went until three in the morning. On the bright side though, I got a ton of kudos and a lot of upper management exposure. Yea me!

We live our lives learning and growing. And sometimes our particular collection of experiences, and disposition of personality, predispose us to be good at unexpected things. Those are thrilling moments -- the ones that sound like "did I really do that?"

Especially given that I had just turned in my too much talked about report, and was happy with it, Monday was a great day. It's something I really needed because it is too easy for me to get depressed or feel insecure with this job. I could go into it more now, but I've already talked about it a little bit. And it's probably something that deserves a whole
entry.

A funny thing that happens when you spend an extended time staring into a monitor -- especially if it is an intense focus. If you go outside, the trees and the sky look new. Colors are vibrant. And the air feels distinct -- substantial. It makes it hard to go back inside.