Hard choices...
Jun. 11th, 2002 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI got a call this morning, from client T in Houston. They'd like to have me come down and do some things, including maybe work a meeting, starting next Monday, preferably for two weeks.
Huntur's 1st birthday will be celebrated (unofficially) on the 23rd. If I go for one week, then I have a better than fighting chance to be here in Pagosa on that day, regardless of whether I fly or drive.
I decided that, unless I stop and make my stand here, and just flat out do with it takes to be here on the 23rd, then I may as well not pay lip service to the importance of being there for birthdays, etc. Understand, I never have gone out of my way to be absent at milestone events, but over the course of my life, I've allowed business to sway me to miss birthdays, etc., and in retrospect, I think the swaying was all too easy.
So, when I called back, and told them the lay of the land, I was told things were up in the air. It'd be more cost-effective to have me come for two weeks, and the urgency of their requirements has gone down (a meeting got postponed). I am promised an answer tomorrow morning.
This led to the second issue: that of whether I fly or drive.
Flying is preferable, especially since there is a direct flight via American Airlines from Durango to Houston (Bush International, I think; it'd be too perfect for the flight to go to Hobby). But if I fly, the amount of stuff I can carry is limited. If I drive, I can also bring back a passenger (to wit: Lee). In that regard, I had a rather strained AIM "conversation" with her on the subject of leaving Texas and coming to Colorado.
As I understand it, she is not against the idea, but it never seems to be the right time. As some of my decisions hinge on her decisions, I consequently have allowed some things to hang in limbo for a while. Too long a while, methinks. For my part, I shall have to declare whether to "fish or cut bait" if client T calls tomorrow to say "Come on down!"
* * * I am currently on page 74 of 100 of "The Boilerplate Shuffle," as I have begun to call it. I think I have translated a total of about a dozen new, original sentences. As for the rest, I am shuffling boilerplate around like a madman, and then reviewing it and making changes in some of the details (the horsepower of the engine in this iteration is x, whereas it was y last time... incredibly stultifying work).
I am thus one page away from my stated goal for the day, which was to get to page 75. Of course, if I can go beyond page 75 (and maybe finish the job), I will be one happy camper. I still have two days to deliver the document.
Cheers...
Huntur's 1st birthday will be celebrated (unofficially) on the 23rd. If I go for one week, then I have a better than fighting chance to be here in Pagosa on that day, regardless of whether I fly or drive.
I decided that, unless I stop and make my stand here, and just flat out do with it takes to be here on the 23rd, then I may as well not pay lip service to the importance of being there for birthdays, etc. Understand, I never have gone out of my way to be absent at milestone events, but over the course of my life, I've allowed business to sway me to miss birthdays, etc., and in retrospect, I think the swaying was all too easy.
So, when I called back, and told them the lay of the land, I was told things were up in the air. It'd be more cost-effective to have me come for two weeks, and the urgency of their requirements has gone down (a meeting got postponed). I am promised an answer tomorrow morning.
This led to the second issue: that of whether I fly or drive.
Flying is preferable, especially since there is a direct flight via American Airlines from Durango to Houston (Bush International, I think; it'd be too perfect for the flight to go to Hobby). But if I fly, the amount of stuff I can carry is limited. If I drive, I can also bring back a passenger (to wit: Lee). In that regard, I had a rather strained AIM "conversation" with her on the subject of leaving Texas and coming to Colorado.
As I understand it, she is not against the idea, but it never seems to be the right time. As some of my decisions hinge on her decisions, I consequently have allowed some things to hang in limbo for a while. Too long a while, methinks. For my part, I shall have to declare whether to "fish or cut bait" if client T calls tomorrow to say "Come on down!"
I am thus one page away from my stated goal for the day, which was to get to page 75. Of course, if I can go beyond page 75 (and maybe finish the job), I will be one happy camper. I still have two days to deliver the document.
Cheers...
