My dad and my sister Julia drove up from California for Thanksgiving. They set about doing most of the work to prepare dinner while I chilled out and played host and tried to catch up on rest. Michael and his girlfriend drove up from Tacoma to join us for the evening. I had planned to drop by ATC for dessert but was far too tired and just went to bed early.

Adam rang up this morning to tell me that he’s made a deal with the factory in China, which will now get going on the first production run of Martianwear light-up furry dancing leggings. Yay!

After spending most of this week doing a terrible job getting enough rest, I finally feel like I’m recovered from last week’s party – just in time for tonight’s Heden mixer. Hmmm. Sometime this afternoon I had better make room for a nap.

I can’t seem to get enough time free in my work day to actually write code. My entire development schedule for the next eight months is increasingly hung up on a piece of new compiler functionality that nobody else on my team has the background to implement. There is something wrong with this picture. Maybe I should start turning my phone off for one afternoon a week.

It doesn’t really help that I’ve been distracted most thoroughly by a certain young woman who will be returning to the Southern Hemisphere in a week…