Two blogs in two days...

I know it's hardly setting the world on fire, but I haven't blogged this consistently since I started this thing. Actually, thinking back to why I started the blog makes me wonder if there wasn't something subconscious going on.

I started this blog when I was moving from California. I thought it might be easier to give everyone the blog address and just post messages here letting everyone know how the move and the home-hunting was going. Once I moved in, I had a lot less to blog about.

Not that there is so much more excitement in my life right now... Well, I suppose there might be, but writing this is also a form of procrastination, I should probably be going to bed instead of sending out thoughts to the ether.

Anyway, today wasn't a very good day, as far as days go. Really Friday was a bad day, but I didn't realize that Friday was a bad day until today, making today the bad day instead. It isn't the day itself that is bad, so much as the news it brings, or the results of the news.

In this case, I came in this morning and found that the work I had done on Friday wasn't saved. I don't know if I accidently forget to save it, or if there was some glitch that caused it not to save, or what, but the result was the same, I had to redo the work. Luckily doing it a second time was easier and faster, but it was still annoying to do something twice. So that was information that would have made Friday a bad day, and instead made today a bad day.

The other bit of information was that the big contract that my company was hoping for, and for which I put in a ton of effort, didn't happen. The announcement was sent out on Friday after I left work. Since I didn't check my email after I left work on Friday, the news was waiting for me when I got in this morning.

Neither outcome was particularly devastating, but they both came as a blow to the psyche. The one two punch definitely left a hollow feeling in me for most of the day.

One of the real ironies is that I am procrastinating going to bed, by writing what a psychic blow today has been. But, I have always found that when I get this hollow feeling in my gut, the best and often only solution is sleep. Whatever pain or difficulty caused the feelings remains the next day, but the hollow feeling goes away, letting me work through it.

Anyway, I should at least brush my teeth...