I had so much to say!

I was going to talk about building models of the Eiffel Tower and how the new Zelda game reawakened my love for RPG and how very amusing I'm still finding the Kindle (although I'm not longer allowed to mindlessly surf for inexpensive new books--not since I saw the grand total for the first such session).

I was going to go on and on about the craziness of freelance clients (not to mention the ones at the office) and my random satisfactions and dissatisfactions with the Corral Crew (not the least of which was being asked to give up my entire evening yesterday for the bonding experience of a group outing to a baseball game).

I wanted to celebrate a bit because I finally got my certification finished and moan and groan because the newest Must-Have Knowledge isn't covered by either of the exams I took, so now I have to start studying for two more exams.

I wanted to talk about my most recent MoPT adventure, wherein the machine refused to ticket me and the onboard inspector confirmed that during one recent weekend, as many as 50% of the available ticketing machines were out of order.

(Apparently the official procedure is for you to board the train, get off at the next stop, buy a ticket there if there's a working machine, then wait about 15 minutes to board the next train.

Should there be no working machine, you're supposed to repeat the procedure for the next stop.

A rough calculation shows that it would take six weeks to cross the city by this method--and up to six months if it's late in the evening and the trains are only running every 30 minutes and completely inactive from 1am-5am.)

I had complaints and compliments and all kinds of stuff but it's all old news now.

Also, there's no way I'm typin' all of that out.

Suffice to say I'm still me.

Still working a fair number of freelance hours--less than I should be more more than I want to, considering the number of hobbies and leisure amusements I'd rather spend my time on. New clients still coming every so often--have a meeting with one next week that could turn out to be a pretty big account. It's Vela's client, but one big enough for her to bring both Gidget and me in on if she pulls it off. (And she might land this one.)

Running interference for Gidget--she's been helping with one of my freelance accounts and, I'm shocked to have to say, making quite a few mistakes. (There's a reason everyone isn't good at what I do. You really do have to pay attention every, single second.)

Thinking about putting together a presentation for next month's conference sessions--they want me to and I said I would and and people expect it. I hate doing it, because showing slides and screen presentations really just distracts people from what you're saying but you can't expect to keep the attention of the television generation for more than 5 minutes if you're not showing pictures.

Have to put together another presentation for another session to be given during new owner training a week or two after that. Bleah. This comes directly under the heading of "things I do not do" but I'm sick of arguing with people about whether or not I'm allowed to spend my time on the work that needs to get done.

A couple of weeks after that, another conference in California but luckily I'm not presenting at this one. I'll be assuming my usual role as a back-seat heckler and I don't need advance prep to do that.

I just sent off for my last two COBRA reimbursements--another $800 or so for my "freelance emergency balance" savings account. I have three checks I need to deposit--but I've forgotten the account number for my brand new(ish) savings account and can't deposit them until I get actually get in to a bank during business hours, something I've been completely unable to achieve in the last two weeks. (Remember the goal--to have six months of living expenses in savings before I take the plunge.)

That, in a nutshell, is me these days.

It would all have been very amusing if I'd blogged it as I went I think.