A rare, good day

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I will be so relieved when this weekend - or at least tomorrow of it - is over. I don't much like Irish Fest (crowds, noise, unwanted contact and interaction) but the kids are Irish dancers so we go. They performed with their school tonight on the main stage; I was smart and remembered to bring earplugs to protect my hearing from those big-ass, bassy speakers.

The dance instructor is pregnant and stressed and distracted, and it showed in the performance of several of the dancers, but I know what to watch for. I'm sure that to the average audience member it looked fine. Coming onstage for the finale, Katies shoe slipped on the stage and she fell "right onto the one part of her body ideal for absorbing the shock", as I teased her afterward.

Satuday morning.

I am writing this from one of the ballrooms at the Westin. I had hoped to drop Michelle and the kids off and go home to catch up on all my deadlines, but Michelle had an anxiety attack and so here I am. Both she and Katie are fighting allergies and feel like crap all over, and like any mother-daugher pair, they play off each other mercilessly until I just want to strangle them both. I really serve no purpose during a feis except to be a presence. I understand it, I guess, even if I don't have much appreciation for it.

Costuming

I managed to get enough plates spinning at once that I can go into the first weekend of KCRF without being overburdened with guilt. Everyone I owed costumes to has at least one set, and all will have all their pieces by next weekend. At least I hope so - I was kind of counting on today to get a large portion of that work done. I guess I should have known better, though I was mentally steeling myself for it last night.

Day Job

We lost our largest - effectively only - website customer, a loss of about 4500/month in revenue. Thanks to good management on the part of MoneyGuy, we can sustain that for several months and it frees up time for us to work on 'white-labeling' our finance portal for independent sale beyond the customer we initially built it for.

Without the constant niggling from website customer, the work is proceeding apace, as they say. I'm enjoying a little more freedom to put more work into the project than I might otherwise, experimenting with techniques and learning things I might not otherwise have time for. No complaints from me on that score.

I sometimes greatly hate my job, but I like what I do for my job, I like to code. I take great satisfaction in learning new stuff.