So much to blog, So little time.

Man, oh man, oh man. (Big sigh)

Ever feel like there is just not enough time to go around? I've been living in that vortex for the last couple weeks. Inexorably pulling me down the drain with it.

We have all three major components of T's site back up - Forums (wonderful to be able to communicate with our NDISB family again), Store (thank goodness), and Gallery (last, and still possibly working out some bugs). All this while both of us have been working; I've flown home from Texas and back these last two weekends (can't be online while in transit); partially clearing out the garage to accommodate the installation of new garage doors; Easter celebrations (which I missed while traveling) and family assistance (we went over to Liz and Thom's on Friday night to help assemble a co-sleeper and install a child safety seat in Liz's car, for which they fed us a wonderful tri-tip taco dinner).

I was fortunate that my "work" week the last two weeks was short due to scheduling accomodations for Infiniti. Last week, I only trained three days, and the week prior, four days. All of those days that I wasn't "working", I was on the computer, frantically trying to make Theresa's site come back to life. We're finally starting to make some progress. There are still a ton of things to do, but the "big rocks" are in place. Now we can start filling in the gaps with the smaller ones. (I still can't believe we managed to pull this off! Trust me... it's not perfect. We lost a ton of data (possibly some of which might still be recoverable), and I'm still not really confident of my webmastering abilities. I knew this was going to be on-the-job training, but I didn't know I'd be thrown in the briar patch like this). (PS: If you snuck over here from NDISB, please don't tell the others that I don't really know what I'm doing! Thanks!)

Meantime, on one of those flights I lost my PDA. But it wasn't just a PDA. It was also a portable navigation device, which I use to get around the country while doing these programs. I've got a claim in with the airline (dufus that I am, I think I left it in a seatback pocket), but I hold not much hope of it being returned. The BMW X5 I'm driving right now has a nav system, so I'm able to get around, but I don't really care for the system's interface, and it lacks some of the features that my portable nav had. The end of the month I'll be starting another program, and that vehicle won't have a nav, so I'll need to buy something by then. (And for those of you that think a portable nav system is a nicety, just try finding your way to three locations a day, in varying and unfamiliar parts of the country, on road systems that are constantly changing due to construction. We'll see how long you last without one!)

And driving around the South, I've been writing notes on an envelope of things to blog about, but that's for another post - LOL. As it is, as I was waiting for my flight out of San Diego yesterday, I realized that I didn't have a hotel reservation for last night. With everything that I'd been doing last week, I had forgotten to book hotels for this week. So I pulled out my laptop, which has my old PDA's nav system database in it and looked up a hotel near where I worked this morning. I called them up and made a reservation for the night. In my haste (and travel induced haze, I'm sure), I copied the wrong address into my new PDA, (which was really another PDA that I had given to Theresa to use, but she never did, so I reclaimed it this weekend) so when I landed last night at 11:00 PM (because my delayed flight out of San Diego missed my connection in Phoenix to Dallas) (which is why you never, ever book the last flight out for business), I ended up driving to three different Hampton Inns to find the right one. I ended up checking in after midnight and collapsed.

But I only had to work one session this morning, and that gave me the afternoon off, which I took with GLEE! I had started watching a movie (another blog topic) yesterday, so I finished it this afternoon. Then I checked in to make sure that the gallery hadn't gone up in flames yet (sparks and a little smoke, but no backdraft) and I kicked back and watched 24. I'm actually thankful that they do things early in this time zone, 'cause it came on at 8, which allowed me to blog after it was over. But it's a quarter to eleven now, and I still need to make hotel reservations for the rest of this week. I think I'll hold off on next weeks' reservations until tomorrow night. But then I've got to take just one more look into the forums and... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz