Tuesday Update

It’s been a long few days and as Kate points out my Twitters lack any real content (it’s true–except for the one about maple syrup), here goes;

* Spent Thursday and Friday in NY/NJ.  I didn’t plan on being there for two days, but the day before I left I decided it made sense to be there an extra day.  Glad I did.  The customer meetings were very worth it.  Why?  Really challenging project that has the potential to make a huge difference to the customer.  Awesome.  Interesting tension: I hate being away from the family, but I love big challenging projects.

* A friend of mine called Thursday night.  Her sister had just died.  It was about 10 weeks from diagnosis until she passed. Unbelievable.  Just sad.  She was 41.  Carpe diem.

* Yesterday was Mother’s Day. It was awesome, the first one I can say I enjoyed in a lot of years.

* The Critter (who yes I assure you is of the two legged human variety) had his first shots yesterday.  Well, the first since the barrage of poking and proding he suffered immediately after delivery.  It was pathetic.  He’s holding up, but it’s clear he didn’t feel great.  Yuck.

* It having been a while since my last check up, I took the opportunity to get a physical yesterday myself.  No hernia, blood pressure fine, a bit heavier than I would like. In other words, all stuff that I knew.
Cholesterol and other genetic risk related tests come back tomorrow.  They’re usually fine, so I’ll be interested to see if anything has changed.

* Up early this morning on the new elliptical in an effort to stave of an early death of my own.  The Schwinn I bought isn’t quite the cheapest (and it was on sale), but its close.  And it’s pretty decent.  I’m surprised.  And grateful because I hate gyms.  (I didn’t always.)